The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-05-27
SorrNCE 1ND sTMPLE srMON.

months in the house of correction. 
 SCIENCE AND SIMPLE SIMON.
 Some Science has been sadly needed
 to show that the odor of the drinking
 water of New Haven is the odor of re-
 spectabillty, and, as is usual in such
 emergencies, the Science is forthcom- ing. It will please the people of this
 community to know that they have
 been drinking the Dinobryon. The Din
 obryon is a fine being, well fitted to
 move in the very midst of New Haven
 Society, where it does move. It is bi-
 fiagellum, attached by posterior con-
 tractile ligament within the individual
 cells or loricae of a compound branch ing polythecium built up by successive
 terminal gemmation of zooids People
 who can get all this for next to nothing ought to be satisfied, but if they are
 not they can perhaps find satisfaction
 in thinking that what the Dinobryon
 does not do for, them the Uroglena
 does. The Uroglena animal is even more wonderful than the Dinobryon We cannot stop to describe it as mi
 nutely as we have described the Dino-
 bryon, because we don't know as much
 about it, but in the shape in which we
 get it in the water it can be briefly and l accurately described as stink. Of course the Dinobryon and the Uroglena
 are mot intended to render the water
 unfit for drinking purposes" If they defeat the purpose of the creator of all things and do render the water unfit for drinking purposes they make a mistake, for which they alone can be held re- sponsible.
 So much for Science. Now for Simple simon. These are the days when great changes are taking place in the opin
 ions of men and women concerning many famous historical characters. Nero was not such a bad fellow as he has been thought to be. There was no William Tell. Napoleon wouldn't have amounted to much had it not been for Barras, and Josephine didn't amount to much anyway, And so forth and so on. It is about time to take new view of Simple Simon. We believe that the 1 place where he lived and moved and | made his impress on the world has | never been specified We are confident | that that place was New Haven, and l we hope at some future meeting of the | Historical Society to read a paper which | will contain ample and incontrovertible l support of this confidence. There is not space enough in these columns to | state the facts on which this confidence | that the first clue to it was found in the large number of descendants of Simple Simon who inhablt these parts and furnish sure pointers to the seien- tific eye and mind. With them to start from the back track to the original an- cestor was not especially difficult. In following that track and coming to the end of it we discovered much that Is interesting and some that is important. It became plain, for instance, that Sin "a front name, as commonly un- does not accurately describe him. He was a simple man. man without fold" if you please, but he was by no means what we call sim pleton. One of the chief events in his career on which the popular notion of him is based is his fishing experiment..
 Simple Simon went a-flshing
 For to catch a whale.
 And all the water that he had
 Was in his mothers pail.
 This has always been taken to mean that Simple Simon was chump who had not the making of a college pro- lessor in him, or even of a. heretcal preacher. But we think his mental quality has been greatly and carelessly We have discovered hat the Simon family lived near Lake Whitney and got their water from here. In fishing in pail of that wa CT for a whale what was lacking in 2 Simple Slmon's mental process? Any e hing more than is sometimes lacking t n the mental processes of great and ' wen scientific reasoners? He smelt 4 he water in the pail and he judged from t of the fishy smell that he ought to [ ret whale out of 1t. Will anybody say hat he was not justified In such req q oning? It was entirely logical. Of ly curse he omitted an important factor W n not considering the amount of wa CT he had before him, but that was z ot a greater error than has been made y many close and logical reasoners 'or instance, 1t was formerly thought y some very famous reasoners that