The Osceola times., 1883-12-29
A FEW THOUGHTS on TIE STRANGE
ACCIDENTS OF NATURE, OR
VICE VERSA,
THE ETERNAL WISDOM AND FITNESS
MANIFEST IN ALL THE WoRxs
OF CREATION.

happened to be just twenty.four
thousand miles around It, and that =
great electric light, like the sun hap.
pened to be placed at such an exact
distance from II that it makes its un.
varying rounds in just twenty.four
hours, and that this circuit should
divide our time into days and night;
and that man happened to be just SO
constituted he required all the alter
nate light for labor, and al the other
alternate for rest and sleep: Strange
the earths components happened to
be such that it couldn't yield its fruits
without just such sun at just such
distance from it; strange the com.
ponents of the earth and Of all flesh
that moves upon its face happened
to be so constituted that . continual
supply Of water was just as essential
As the sun, that that also happened
to be so universally and abundantly
supplied; strange that the face Of the
earth happened to be 80 shaped that
this profuss distribution BY the ever
faithful and returning clouds coacen-
tratcs into rivulets and mighty rivers
20 important to commerce, trade and
thousands Of other indispensibles for
mans bcn,6ts Strange, that the larg-
est and grandest Of all rivers, des.
tined for the greatest Of al CONNER
cial thoroughfares, happened to be
the most restless, fretful, turbulent
sand and silt bearing rivers Of the
worid' whereas, if they had happen.
ed to have been clear, sluggish
streams, as all casual observers think
they ought to have been, the vast
amount Of animal and vegetable de-
caying matter that falls and is thrown
into them, would have bred such a
pestilcntial malarial stencil Is would
have made them Rivers Of Death in.
stead of Rivers OF Life, and the val.
lcys untenable. StTsagse that acci.
dent happened to foresee that by
creating a great variety Of sniGsls
and fowls the earth could feed and
sustain ten times the number it could
il all had like craws or maws, requir-
ing the same sort Of food; strange
the machinery or makeup Of each
and every species happened to be 30
peculiarly and strikingly adapted to
its peculiar necessities? E. G. Con-
slider the squirrel, that happened to
have craw, or NAV, requiring nuts
and buds; no other animal is so Pc
culiarly aud perfectly fitted up for
ascending or descending the forest
trees As he is; consider that peculiar
swivel in the hind leg, that it stands
just As straight and flat behind him
when descending as it does forward
when ascending. No other animal
can fall as far, and on as hard sur
face with such impunity. The mole
is so constituted thai be must live
and find his food in the earth; see
his peculiar and powerful Propellers,
SO wonderfully adapted to his mode
of existence. Consider the ponder
GUS ELEPHANT If this wonderful
monster had happened to have been
ornamcnted with . head and neck
like . horse or giraffe. his life would
have been in constant jeopardy; the
lions, tigers and other beasts Of prey
could have leaPsd on bis hind parts
and feasted at their leisure; then tha
hies in his native jungle would have
worried his life out by inches; but
fortunately for him, he happened to
be provided with that formidable
probosis, 30 strikingly fitted to his
iordship's requirements. Though il
is his nostrils, he can snuff up buck
et-full of sand, or mud, and discharge
it upon the flies with such force as te
scatter them to the winds. Then il
is SO exquisitely mechanical he car
wind a watch or knock down noun
tain,- Gf it happened not to be toe
large). So 1t is with all the animal
kingdom, this same striking sdapts'
ton is given them all. Every vari'
ety of fowls show these same beiit.
ting gifts. All water fowls have
their paddles attached 10 their feet
and their downy waterproof coats
Examine the fishing fowls: see thei'
long, slim legs for wading. their long
straight bills or beaks for thrusting