Morning journal and courier., 1883-11-19
Price Three Cents

that he is 8 phenomenal shot, His largest days work was between 400 aRd 500 ducks. His partner is John Leithiser, who is also a good shot, MT. Lyman Mauldin, of Port Deposit, was with them the first day. Dob- son and his partner gun entirely for market. New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washing ton and Boston markets are supplied daily. Shipments are sometimes made to Europe. The first days prices at Hsvre dc Grace to dealers or anybody else were as follows: Canvas backs, $1.50 pair; red-heads, $I to $1.25; black-hssds, 40 to 50 cents. Can- vas- backs were rather scarce. All the ducks are fat. The gunninR days until Jan. l are Mondays. Wednesdays and Fridays. After ward Saturday is included.
 The Material Life Of a Planet.
 [Richard A. Proctor, in the Contemporary Review.
 The material life of planet is beginning to be recognized as being no less real than the life of plant or of an animal. It is a different kind of life; there is neither con- sciousness such as we see in one of those forms of life, nor such systematic progress as we recognize in plant life. But it is life, all the same. It has had a beginning, like ali things which exist; and like them all 1t must have an end. The lifetime of world like our earth may be truly said to be a lifetime of cooling. Beginning in the glowing vapor- ous condition which we see in the sun and stars, an orb in space passes grad ually to the 
 thence, with progress depending chiefly on it's size (slower for the large masses and quicker for the smaller ones, it passes stead fly onward toward inertness and death. Re- garding the state in which we find the earth to be as the stage of planets mid Hfe-viz., that in which the conditions are such that maltitudinous forms of life can exist upon ita surface, we may call that stage death in which these conditions have entirely disappeared. Now, among the conditions necessary for the support of life in general are some which are unfavorable to individual life. Among these may be specially noted the action of those subterranean forceS by which the earth's sur face is continually modelled and remodeled It has been remarked with great justice, by Sir John Herschel, that since the continents of the earth were formed forces have been at work which would long since have suffced to have destroyed every trace of land and to have left the surface of our globe one vast limttless ocean. But against these forces counteracting forces have been at work, con- stantly disturbing the earth's crust, and, by keeping 1t irregular, leaving room for ocean in the Impressions and leaving the higher parts as continents and islands above the oceans surface. If these disturbing forces ceased to work, the work of disintegrating,
 wearing away, and washing off the land would go on unresisted. In periods of time such aa to us seem long no very great effect would be produced; but such periods as belong to the | past Of our earth, even to that comparatively short part of the past during which she has been the abode of life, would suffice to pro- duce effects utterly inconsistent with the ex- | istence of life on land. Only by the action | of her vulcenian energies can the earth main | tain her position as an abode of life. She is, | then, man1festing her fitness to support life 1 in those very throes by which, too often,
 many lives are lost. The upheavals and down. einkings, the rushing of ocean in great waves over islands and S0RDOrtS. bY which tens of l thousands of human beings, and still greater | numbers of animals, lose their lives, are part of the evidence which the earth gives that
 within her frame there still remains enough of vitality for the support of life during hundreds of thousands of years yet to come.