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AN AMUSING THEORY.

This is an age of theories, and quite as
many are amusing as serious. When in
1858 Darwin and Wallace placed before
the scientific world the conclusions of their
researches into the origin and species of
animals and plants, man was confirmed in
the belief he had heretofore INDUCED in
without speculation, that he is the highest
form of living development upon the earth,
and the nearest approach to perfection.
While wide differences of opinion had
grown up as to the nature of species, and
the origin of man, there was most com.
forting belief, that in no respect was he
equaled by any other animal. The emf
nent anthropologist Quatrefages, taking
ground between the theologians and the
philosophers, denied that man is an animal,
except go far as the body is concerned, be-
cause he is the only organized and living
being that mas the abstract sentiment of
good and evil, and that consequently in
him alone exists moral sense. Darwin's
ideas concerning the history of the genesis
Of man had stormy reception, and the
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sCHURZ AND JULIAN.

Carl Schurz has been the object of some
bitter personal assaults and some caustic
criticisms upon his course in the Cabinet.
The latest was by George W. Julian, in
prominent magazine. This has brought
Schurz out of his silence and impersonal-
ity at last, and he replies in letter that
literally burns up the Hoosier politician.
One extractfrom thereby will toshow
the spirit of the communication, in which
spade is not spoken of as a pitchfork
" You seek to show that the Interior De-
partment has constantly been under the
influence of the railway corporations. The
statements upon which you rely to SUBJ
stantiate that charge, with regard to my
administration of that department, l pro-
nounce essentially false, and I will now
briefly review those among them which
can pretend to any Importance" He then
proceeds to refute Julian's statements one
by one and to show the unsubstantial char.
acter of every charge made. The New
York Herald, which cannot be said to be
especially friendly to Mr.. Schurz, says con.
corning the attacks which have eliminated
in Julians article, that the former was JUS
titled in his silent contempt for such &C.
cusations. The ex-Secretary concludes his
letter with this singing sentence CAL
most all the other practices which you now
complain of as abuses existed when you
were the Chairman of the committee whose
principal duty it was to investigate them
and to provide remedy. You failed to do
so. And now you do not blush to pursue,
with wanton and malignant falsehoods,
men whose Office it became at later time
AN Office sometimes performed with great
execute the laws which, in great
part at least, through your neglect of duty,
have now become what they are.
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evolution theory with its doctrine of in
cessant change, and variation, and
perpetual modification, and the survival of
those individual forms best adapted to their
surroundings, shocked the orthodoxy Of the
day, and it assaulted the doctrine that in
their early stages the germs Of man and of
animalcul@ are indistinguishable, with
vigor born of attachment to older and
venerated conceptions of mans origin,
which were interviewer with religion and
tradition.
What then shall he said of the newest
doctrine evolved from geological research,
that in his structural features man is IN
ferior to certain quadrupeds? Heretofore
all were agreed on one point, at least, and
that was mans physical superiority /; but
now come the new theorists and propose to
rob us of that consolation. They depart
from all other theories and with grim
sort of humor designate prominent points
of inferiority, drawing their conclusions
from geological basis, and without refer.
ence to cherished theories as to the origin
of our species. Thus, we are told that our
teeth are of low mammalian type, as shown
by dental formula, and by the presence of
cusps upon their crowns-a popularity of
the lower mammals, and entirely lost in the
horse, the elephant, and many other brutes.
But they go still further to awaken disgust
within uS against ourselves, and point out
inferiority in our limbs, since they are
little modified, preserving even the full
number of five digits, and therefore, In
respect of these members, man stands
very low-lower than the cow, or the pig.
But the most interesting point of the new
doctrine is that which declares the human
face to be "the most remarkable of all the
induces of mans inferiority." They argue
in this WISE In the mammalian embryo
the face is formed under the fore brain or
cerebral hemispheres, and in our faces the
fetal disposition is permanently retained,
with changes which, even when greatest,
are still inconsiderable; in quadrupeds,
however, the facial region acquires prom.
inent development, leading to the special
ization of the jaws and surrounding parts,
which brings the face to condition much
higher than that of the foetus-hence, rea-
son these scientific humorists, the project
ing snout is higher structure than the
retreating human face. All which is very
adroit and very amusing, but will scarcely
disturb our estimates of ourselves, when
we reflect upon the many examples that
teach us the order, in the universe, of or.
ganized and living beings, the phenomena
common to them all, and their subsection
to laws equally common-and in the mean
time the scientists may amuse themselves
with these fanciful theories, if in them
they find pleasure.
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TRANSFERS OF REAL ESTATE.

MONDAY. March 10, 1888.
January 16th-John B. Devillers to William Sales;
$500 e. of S. E. Sec 8, 7. N, R. E.
TUESDAY, March %, 1888.
March 13th-A. c. Freeman to c. Heisen; quit
claim-N. 60 H. Of w. lot 4, and ], Sixteenth and
Seventeenth streets, city.
February l9th-Eii Mayo to c. Heisen-Same as
last preceding.
March goth Jerome Madden to H and B. U.
lot 3, and X, Fourth aud Fifth streets, city.
WEDNESDAY, March 81, 1888
March 2lst-Julia B. Pockman TO A c. freeman !;
grant-Und. Ia of n. E. Sec. 10, I. N, r. E.
March 2lst-henry Budd to Joseph Hopley $500
w 25 it. Of E. 50 It. and S. it. Of W. 20 It of lot
s. L and NJ, Front and Second streets, city.
THURSDAY, March %, 1888.
March 22d-John 7. Carey TO Daniel Dennson !;
grant-E. ] Of lots and 2, block IS, Gait.
January 19th-Charles Crocker to Daniel DENIM
son 1926 Same as last preceding.
March l7th-D. and H. w. Decker 10 James W.
Hanford 50, 7O0-E. of lot 4, and P, Seventeenth
and Eighteenth streets, city.
March 22d-E. X. Alsip to B. o. Smith grant
E. lot 1, and lots and 3, and Q, Twentyfourth
and Twenty.ffth streets, city.
March 22d-M. H. Featherstone to E. K. Alsip I;
grant-Same az last preceding.
FRIDAY, March %, 1888
February 12-Charles W. Porter to Joseph Wood
ward $40 acres Of land in T. n, R. 8 E.
March. CIV. c. Oliver and wife to Loyal E.
Smith e. 250-S. SIT feet of lots and 6, @ and r,
and Eighth streets, city.
March IL John " .Slaven 70 Lillian yesta Man.
nix s6O0-E OF let and W. I Of lot 4. Z. and Q,
aud Eighteenth streets CITY.
March 20-William 81 Lyon to William A. Curtis:
yrant-Undivided half Of w. 40 feet OF lot 5. | and
], Front aad second streets, city.
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THE QUESTION OF DIVORCE.

Social subjects are again attracting much
attention at the East, and not the least
prominent among them is the question of
divorce and the increasing facility with
which it may be obtained. 1t is shown
that in 1878, AIS divorces were granted in
Maine in New Hampshire, PAL in Yer
mont, 1877 in Massachusetts, 600 in Con-
necticut, 40l and in Rhode Island, 1866
total of Q, ll3, larger ratio in proportion
to the population than ia France in the
days of the revolution. On the basis of
population by the present census, there
was one divorce to every 1857 inhabitants
in Maine in New Hampshire, one to l 439;
in Vermont, one to l,6S7 in Massachu-
sets, one to 2, 81; in Connecticut, one to
1858, and in Rhode Island, one to l, l41.
The condition of things is worse to-day
than it was in 1868, 1869 and 1870, said
DR.. Dix, in recent lecture on the subject
in New York. The statistics show that as
early as 1860 there was one divorce to
every 81 marriages, under statute specify
ing five causes to 1876 the number of
causes had been enlarged to nine, and the
ratio of divorce to marriage as l is to 81.
In Vermont the ratio then was as ! is to
IA, Rhode Island, to u; Connecticut
to IL. The greater number of divorces,
indeed nearly all, are between Protestants
or non.religionists. In the New England
States alone 1000 families are discovered
by divorce annually. DIR. Dix finds pro-
portionate relation between the increase of
divorces and the increase of unchastity and
immortality, and the crimes known as
loathsome. But it does not follow neces-
sarily that the latter are mainly the direct
result of the former, and positive conclu-
sion to that effect, and to which DIR. Dix
more than half inclines, is indefeEsible. In
France, where the prevailing religion,
Catholic, is most severe regarding divorces,
it is fact that immortality and the crimes
DR.. Dix alludes to are far more prevalent
than in America, where the facilities for
divorce are 30 numerous. And it was true
also of those medieval times when divorce
was difficult, and the Church exer.
cised such absolute jurisdiction over
the Divine Institution of marriage. He
also loses sight Of the fact that the increase
of divorces is to be accounted for, in part
at least, by the increase of population,
though we are compelled to confess that the
increase of the former has been proportion
ately more rapid than the latter. But
the most interesting feature of the debate
relative to the increased facilities for
divorce is found in the claim of the church
that the great and only remedy is in aban-
doning the theory that marriage is civil |
contract. But the .oracles Of the church,
ike DR.. Dix, are much mistaken when
they sssert that the teaching of the law is,
therefore, that marriage is but a partner
ship, to be terminated at the pleasure of |
the parties. That implication cannot be
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-03-24
A BUSINESS MANS SOBER AND TRUTH
Full MEASUREMENT.

Now that the heat and excitement of
the legislative session have abated, and the
political and industrial field is cleared of
partisan mists, the thoughtful and consid-
crate citizen may review the situation in
the light of cool reason, and estimate at
its true value the work of the late Legisla.
: ture, and in that connection examine into
the mistaken assaults that are still kept up
, in certain quarters against material indus
tries. That such review is being made by
the people, we believe. We have faith in
the final and sober judgment of the pub
lie. 1t cannot be that the aggregate bust.
ness wisdom and good sense of the country
will long be blinded to the truth as to the
causes for the present depression in this
State. As an evidence that the rejecting
men OF the day are directing their atten.
tion to the reasons for CALIFORNIA; evident
retrogression, we are just now in receipt of
letter from gentleman who has many
years been careful reader of the Califor.
MIA newspapers, and close observer of
public events and of their causes and ef
fects. The writer is one whose vision is
not obscured by partisan prejudices, or who
reaches conclusions hastily. His observa.
ton extends over the whole country, and
his experience in the business world has
not been narrow. The character of the let.
ter, its representative authorship, its candid
and fearless statement of facts, and its in
cisive criticisms, induce US to give it edi.
torial prominence by free quotation. The
writer says, in the course OF the commune
cation
: 1.-THE session Of the Legislature having
closed, it is painful to the candid mind to
witness the sickly and labored partisan
effort of the San Francisco Examiner TO
give the record of that body such render
ing as will inure to the benefit of the DEM
ocratic party. The standard by which
that journal estimates and judges that
record evidently is the measurement of
hostility manifested by the Legislature
toward the capital of the country, particu-
larry that part of the active capital of the
State which is held in corporate relation.
"fhe measurement of the hostility 70
this capital is sought to be made the stand
ard of merit, With the resources of
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TIE MILK WAR.

For unblushing effrontery the milk deal
ers of New York are entitled to the
premium. Whenever they raise the price
to consumers they lower the rate they pay
to producers. So long have they enjoyed
this privilege of adjusting the balances
that they have become outrageously impu-
dent, and insist upon " cinching" the
dairymen to point beyond endurance, and
the latter have rebelled, and have shut off
the milk supply largely of New York and
Brooklyn. The greed of the dealers is re-
markable. We know of no similar instance
of such cool effrontery. Milk can be de-
livered in either OF the great cities for six
and seven cents quart, with good profit
to the dealer, but they insist upon the
farmer furnishing it at three cents. The
Orange and Sussex dairymen refuse to COM
ply, and are turning their milk into the
hog troughs. They can stand up longer
under the strike than the dealers pos.
sibly can, and in the meantime the SYM
pathies of the people are with the pro-
ducers and against the milk dealers.
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CROP PRosPEcTs.-A correspondent at
Lower Lake says under date of Goth inst. ::
The drought here still prevails. The grass
crop is about as good as it will be, rain or
no rain, and is about half the average
growth. Grain sown on both summer fal.
low and ground plowed this year, is look
ing well owing to the cool nights and heavy
dews, and will stand the drought for two
weeks longer without serious injury, but if
the drought should continue up to harvest
time, there will be very little grain and
light crop of hay. The prospects for the
fruit crop is excellent. Grape culture is
becoming of considerable interest in this
portion Of LAKE county. There has been
many Thousand vines planted this year, and
what effect the drought will have on them
remains to be seen.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-03-24
M1srAKrNa THE PURPOSE.

In some way people will have to be edu.
Gated up to the idea that the Civil Service
Reform Commission is not body created
to award offices to friends--or at all. 1t is
said the Commissioners are beset by a
great host of would.be Government SER
wants, who urge them to aid them in se-
curing Offices. The Commission is to fix
the standard of qualifications, and to ex-
anime and provide for the examination of
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A GEORGIA paper actually gravely discusses the
question whether the negro at the South shall be
allowed to read newspapers. Whereupon the
Charleston Neios with commendable sense Of pro-
priety and right, replies To-day Southern jour-
nalists, prompted alike BY patriotism and sel-inter
est, desire nothing so much as to see the colored
population transferred into thinking and read
ing constituency"
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THEY ARE SURPRISED.

As an example of the lack of care exer-
cised by the tariff tinkerers, it has been
discovered. that olive and salad oils have
been entirely omitted in the new tariff
schedules. The duty was 81 per cent Isl
per gallon) when in bottles. They will now
come in under the basket schedule, and
pay but 20 per cent. Against this we do
not protest, but the tariff-patchers never
intended this reduction, and are astounded
at the discovery now that they have made
it. The consumers will benefit by the
blunder, and that is something.
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Mr.. Gladstone, during his stay in the
South" writes correspondent who re.
Gently returned from Cannes, "has been
struck with the prosperity of the tillers of
the soil and the good effects Of peasant
ownership. These results Of the proprie-
tary regime have been brought home TO
him more forcibly during his present visit
TO France than they ever were before He
finds in them comforting justification of
his Irish policy
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THE Utica Herald (Rep.) says: 1t depends upon
President Arthur whether the Republicans will
meet in national convention harmonious solid, de-
termined and hopeful party, intent upon single
object, or gathering OF tumultuous, antagonizing
and mutually distrustful factions, anxious only to
infiict defeat aud discontinue upon each other.
There are but two ways in which we can look upon
that national convention. 1t will either be gather
ing OF Republicans intent upon the permanent sue
cess OF the whole party, gathering of Republic
can factions intent upon the temporary triumph Of
one faction over another"
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THE Honolulu Saturday Press has but little ire
spect for the King. In its latest issue it demon
mates Kalakaua the patron saint Of the lcentious
hula, the official printed programme, "wreaks with
obscenity too gross for publicity. The very idea
conveyed let alone such huas enacted, is enough to
stagger the belief that monarch, aping the grand
eur and enlightment Of Europe should cater to the
basest of animal passions, and foster such in the
small handful remaining of his subjects"
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THE San Francisco Chronicle is busying itself just
now with series of articles directed against the
chief railway lines of California There is nothing
new in them nothing, with all the misstatements
and misrepresentation and bilngsgate character
izing them, that is not easily answerabe, and thst
has not been answered over and over again. More
than that, the people the routes of travel where
unjust discrimination is charged clearly understand
the matter and are not to be deceived by cunningy
devised diagrams and selected comparisons Of rates.
The whole series a growl at rates between COM
petitive points being less than to intermediate
nninra
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SALNI MORSE proposes to make another attempt to
produce the Passion Play /" in New York. We can
not see why he should not have permission Its pro-
duction in San Francisco did not shock religious
sensibilities as feared. To refuse Morse is but
to advertise his spectacle and make him a martyr.
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THE Cleveland Herald permits some one, in an in
terview, to assert that American audiences the
most boorish in the wsrid When the reader re-
fleets how often an evenings enjoyment at the play
or the concert. has been marred by the whisperer,
the fellow who tells the other fellow about the play,
the dresscircle critic the parquet gossip thegreat
hat of the fashionable LADY, the late conner, the fire.
quent "goer," the restless man, the shufier, the
stupid starer the opera-glass fend who directs it
everywhere but toward the stage; the people who
act as if the play was for them alone; the people
who don't care to hear, and who will not permit
Others the people who will insist upon triple and
quadruple encores-and score of others-he viii
be strongly inclined to agree with the Heralds
man.
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WE invite attention to very interesting article
appearing in this issue on the railroad transporta
ton question 1t is from the Chicago Times, and
is cool, clear and thoughtful essay.
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The Philharmonic Society of Washing
ton City will take charge Of the musical
portion of the exercises on the occasion of
the reinterment of John Howard Paynes
body, and will render, with large chorus,
" Home, Sweet Home"
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applicants for positions in the civil service.
but are not to usurp the privileges of the
appointing power. Commissioner Eaton is
reported ~ saying that he did not see how
it would be possible for the Board to begin
its real work before next fall. 1t is neces-
sary that the Commissioners shall become
thoroughly acquainted with the civil SER
vice as it is, we presume, before it can en-.
ter uponlthe main work before it.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-07-14
"A Family Of Six Persons Killed.

CINCINNATI, o., July 8.
A horrible fatal accident occurred on the
Cincinnati, Hamilton &, Dayton Railroad
at Winton Place crossing, just north OF
Spring Grove Cemetery, at 9:15 tonight,
whereby six persons were instantly killed.
The Thunderbolt Express, coming SOUTH,
on the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio
Railroad, due here at $50, and a half hour
behind time, running fast to make up
struck huckster wagon in which were a
family of 6 persons and driver Every one
except VIM. Bertsch, the driver, was killed.
Bertsch escaped with serious, though not
fatal injuries. The wagon was broken to
splfnters. The family were that of buck
ster, Mr.. Henry Kracke, and they were
going to their farm, seven miles from
Winton Place. The names of the killed are:
Henry Kracke, his wife and four children;
John, aged nineteen; Annie, sixteen; Mag
gle, thirteen; and Lizzie, seven. Inc
bodies of the victims were thrown III rag
merits on the grass by the roadside, Where
they were picked up by the light OF lanterns
and brought to the city. Mrs. Kracke's heau
was severed from her body and all .ne
victims of the disaster were horribly Inuti
lated. The engine was SO besmeared VIII
blodd that it was sprinkled with hour HO'
covar the stains.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-07-14
4 Volcano in Eruption in Central
America.

PANAMA, July 3.
From the Star and Herald: The
volcano of Ometphe, Lake Mica
rag1a, is in eruption. When the crater
first broke forth people fed to churches
feeling the whole island would be de-
strdyed. The valley of the Atrato, in the.
State of Cauca continues the center OF vol
canic activity. At Rio Sucio, forty miles
froln the Atlantic, the earth opened in
malIy places, throwing out very fine sand
in d heated state, whilst subterranean
noise was heard, resembling that,
made by boiling water. At Turbo on
the gulf of Uruaba, the earth opened and
water issued, flooding the streets to depth
Of Two feet. Many houses were shaken
down. The small villages of Bujuies and
Nic1rio were completely engulfed. The
mouth of the river Leon, which empties into
the Atlantic, is completely closed up, and
all over the district the movement of earth
is 50 continuous the inhabitants are emf
grating. A slight earthquake was felt at
Monapos, on the river Magdalena, in the
State of Bolivia, followed by sharper one,
when shocks were also felt at San Salvador
and Guavaquil.