The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-12-18

is very suggestive. The
objection to this view, how
5 found in the language of the
american nations. This would again
lead to the examination of the evil
dence of the antiquity of man upon
this continent, for unless we can
prove an antiquity sufficiently remote
to allow time for the strange diversity
of tongues to have occurred, our per
pleXity will be great.
The latest theory of malaria is that
the principal source of the fever and
exhaustion is to be sought in the
slowly but cumulatively poisonous
influence of the relatively large
amount of carbonic acid in the atmos-
phere of malarIous districts, generated
by vegetable decay, by evaporation of
soil moisture laden with it, or by up
turning of earth saturated with that
compound. Recent measurements of
the carbonic acid in the soil, as COM
pared with the amount present in
normal atmosphere, have shown that
their relative proportions are as 250 to
one.
Mr.. w. Mattieu Williams calls at
tention to the danger attending the
habitual use of cup of tea when
fatigued from brain work, thus enab-
ling man TO continue at work. In.
reply to an assertion that fatigue dis
appears like magic after drinking d
cup af tea" he says "that which actu-
ally disappears is the sensation of ia
tigue, which may be deadened by any
one of multitude Of other drugs be-
sides the alkalo'd of tea" He adds,
This sense of fatigue is the natural
safety valve of the whole vital ma
chinery, especially Of its prime mover,
the BRAIN
The comparative prospect of longev-
itY of some eighty specified classes of
workers, according to statistics col
lected by DR.. Ord, was given at re-
cent conference at the London health
exhibition. Ii one thousand be taken
as the average standard number of
deaths among all. classes taken to-
gether for a given period, then the
number of clergymen who died during
the period is only FIVE hundred and
fifty-siX, or barely more than half of
the average; that of gardeners, whose
occupation is nearly as favorable to a
long life, is five hundred and fifty
nine; that of agricultural laborers
six hundred and fifty-three, OF farm
ers, six hundred and seventy-fve ;
and that of medical men 1,125. The
highest death rate, thato persons cd
gagged in hotels, is 2,205 that of inn
keepers is 1921, and of brewers, 1861
"Of all solar problems" said Prof
G. A. Young in his annual address as
president of the American association
for the advancement of science, 1.-THE
one which excites the deepest and
most general interest is that relating
to the solar heat, its maintenance aid
its duration. For my own part, find
no fault with the solution proposed by
Helmholtz, who accounts for it main.
| ly by the slow contraction of the solar
sphere. The only objection of much
force is that it apparently limits the
past duration of the solar system to q
period not much exceeding some
twenty millions of years; and many OF
our geologic friends protest against Sc
scanty an allowance. The same thee
ry would give us, perhaps, half g:
much time for our remaining life
time; but this is no objection, since !
perceive no reason to doubt the fna
cessation of the suns activity, and tn,
consequent death of the system."