The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-24

Professor Louis Agassiz, with whom l
have Iectured number of times to
standing room only, divides the earth
into three fauna, VIZ: l. The arctic. 2.
The temperate. 8. The tropical. The
arctic fauna was homogeneous, and en-
braced the northern extremities of the
several boreal continents down to the
isothernaI zero. Possibly do not make
myself quite plain, but little thought
will make this perfectly clear. The
arctic fauna embraced those animals
which, like the polar bear, prefer a
strictly meat diet during the winter, ex-
hibiting a strong repugnance to oatmeal
and adhering to their heavy jaegers the
year round.
The arctic fauna also embraces the
walrus, the penguin, and the pemmican.
The salt horse and Cincinnati quail are
also found as far north as the utmost
limit of exploration aEd human verte-
brate.
Rodentia and pachyderms do not do
yell in the arctic fauna. The season is
short. 1 would never take my
pachyderms too far north. Insectism
does well here, and some gallinaceous
birds, notably the penguin and the to-
boggan, but pachyderms and articulata
are very seldom found here.
Cincinnati has two good specimens of
the polar bear. This animal is found in
the 1treme north, subsisting mainly on
kippered herring and young explorers.
The white or polar bear can sit for hours
on a cake of ice without taking cold.
What wise arrangement of nature this
is which enables the polar bear, even
when heated and perspiring after long,
hard chase after an explorer, to seat him
self on an iceberg with impunity while
eating his explorer. This animal is also
enabled to go for days without food.
Last winter, for instance, is said to have
been a very severe one on arctic fauna.
Toward spring, it is said, thousands of
arctic animals were driven from their
usual haunts by cold and hunger, many
of them barely eking out a wretched
existence by licking the axIegrease off
the north pole.
The polar bear. however, pulled
through without great suffering and in
very fair condition. while thousands of
other arctic animals died off, owing
TO the fact that curiosity regarding the
open polar sea is apparently falling off,
and the carnivorous animals of the polar
region are now often seen to pause and
look at each other as who should say:
Don't it seem to you that it is getting
TO be d pretty long time between polar
expeditions"
About the only real merit attached to
the arctic regions. 1t seems to me, is the
fact that there is said to be absolutely
no malaria there and very few mos
quitoes, On the other hand. the trop-
ical fauna must continually grapple
with a very malarial climate, The very
sine Quinine of a climate, as it were.
The tropical fauna is represented in
the Cincinnati geological collection by a
number Of good specimens, among others
"a pair of chimpanZees, called Mr.. and
Mrs. OHoolihan. Mr. O'Roolihan is
somewhat below the medium height and
resembles the late Mr.. Crowley, of New
York. Mr.. O'Roolihan has a pale gray
eye and John Z. Calhoun whiskers.
In politics ne favorS republican form
of government with a Democratic ma
lority Socially he is rather liberal, and
would no doubt lead double life if he
had not been placed where his actions
are constantly under the public eve, as
il Were. One of the most touching pic
lures l have ever seen, think, and one
well worthy of the brush of Rem
brandt or McDougau, is that of Mrs.
O'Hoolihan on Sabbath morning fuss
ing around among Mr.. O'Hoolihan's
John {. Calhoun whiskers with a fine
comb.
Mr.. OHooiihan favors the election of
senators directly by the people. and also
urges that in this day of popular prices
for good entertainments that seats in
the senate are too high. He would favor
making them ten, twenty and thirty
cents.
Mr.. O'Hoolihan also favors the free
and unrestricted coinage of silver. to-
gether with a more rigid rule regarding
Its absorption by those who already have
some His theory is that the govern
ment should, offer a certain percentage