The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-03
Total Smiths in union service
from the state of Pennsyl-

Vania ............ 5nE
q There are. enough of the above FOR for
I'VE full regiments, all properly Differed!
Imagine these all brigaded together. and
me CONFUSION that would be aroused when
John SMITH name would be called when
Those enterprising Colorado folk who
aug up the remains of a fossil man be-
neYed 70 be 10000 years old did very well,
says the Chicago TImes-Herald, but if
they had been more familiar with scjen
tllc facts, they would not have put their
ngures thus low. As things go, 10000
years is long way back but if the con-
lectures of some of our learned paleon-
tologists be just, 10000 years is but a snan
OF the history of the human family There
Is evidence TO believe that man. armed
with stone spears, hunted or was hunted
by the rinocerous tichorhinus and the
elephas primegenius, and was bitten to
death by the ferocious fossil dog fisb
Draper holds that the European man Who
witnessed the last glacial epoch upturn-
ed ms race to the sickly sun at least
10O'OOO years ago, and there are not Lack
lng scientists TO maintain that the an
uqultX OF the race is 10000 600 years
FOR, says Jolly, what are the 1000
years which have elapsed since the foi1p
dation of 1nebes with its hundred pates7
what are the 5000 or at most 5000 wears
admitted by archaeologists as the age of
and Ra-em-ke? OF what account even
are the SiXty-SiX centuries attributed n
the great pyramid of Sakkara? All these
u us.1si surprising them to be accurate and
established by proof, are nothing in com
parison to the geological ages during
whlch European man left the traces of his
daWning industry, and even his own re-
mains, which we find in the diluvium of
the caves and valleys perhaps even in
the plelocene and meiocene strata of the
tertiary beds One hundred and fifty
thousand years, what youth! A mere in
rant FOSSIL. The Colorado diggers have
found no archaeological wonder. They
nave discovered the new man"
The rain falling on the rocks. saws
I4OnRnanS MARaZinn folxe
crack and crevice, carrying with II into
the assures surface material which has
been degraded by the weather, and thus
anordlng matrix sufficient to start the
growth of vegetation, and afterward 70
maintain the plants. The fibres and roots
OF these plants, bushes and trees thus
brought into life, growing and expanding
act as wedges to split up the surface Of
the rock and to commence the process of
wearing away. From this quality of de-
structlon a large class of plants derive
the name OF SaXifrageS, or rock-break ers
from their roots penetrating into the mi
mute assures in search of water, and so
assisting in the process of disintegration
In winter the water collected in the hoi
lows and crevices becomes frozen. and ex-
panding as it changes into ice acts like
charge of blasting material inbreaking
up the rocks. The pieces thus detached
become further disintegrated by frost and
weather, and being rolled over and over
and rubbed against each other as thew are
carried away down the mountain torrents
are ground gradually smaller and smaller
till from fragments of rocks they become
boulders, then pebbles, and finally sand.
As the mountain stream merges into the
river. the pebbles and coarse sand con-
tinue to be ROLLED along the bottom of
the channel, while the argillaceous parti-
Giles and salts become mingled with the
water, and flow on with it either in sus-
pension or solution. While this disinte-
grating process is going on inland the
rocks and cliffs on the coast exposed 10
the sea are suffering degradation by a
similar process, and are also being worn
away by the incessant action of the waves
of the ocean beating on them, and attack
ing them not only with the impact of the
water, but also with the fragments broken
off, which, dashed against the face from
which they have been eroded, are now used
as implements of destruction.