The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-27

fusion of life from these new peoples
1t is the true beginning of that marvel
Gus development of the powers OF man
which is continuously traced through
Greece and Rome to the dawn OF the
modern world. Broadly speaking, 1t
adopts but a single ASiatic institution
its religion. In all else, European
civilization is indigenous and original
From the miSts of the Stone Age TO the
dawn of recorded history, the Mediter-
ranean race has been distinct and dis
tinguished, and seemed to bear from
the beginning the ability and power
which have given it the empire of the
world. The fact is of curious interest
to the student of heredity, while on the
other hand it must revise the teach
ingS of many branches of science. IN
der the domination of the "Aryan Hy-
potheses," ancient history, the study OF
institutions, ethnOlogy and philology,
not to speak OF archaeology itself, have
been distorted and mistangled-all to
fit this curious obsension-this mental
image" The new doctrine will shatter
many fantastic and laboriously wrought
fancies which have come to pass cur
rent as authority.
The eliminating Point of the North
American Continent.
The joint English and American sur
veys which have for some time been
conducted in northwestern North
America, mainly for the purpose OF
determining the exact boundary line
between Alaska and the British pos
sessions, and the results obtained from
which may lead to the recognition that
the giant St. Elias is located without
the realm of American territory, call up
again the question of the eliminating
point of the North American continent.
For many years prior to 1890 Mt. st.
Elias enjoyed undisputed claim to this
distinction, its altitude at that time be-
ing rated at about 1880 feet. The
second highest summit was assumed to
be Popocatepetl, the giant Smoky
Mountain of Mexico, with approx
mately Il, 800 feet elevation. More re-
cent researches and remeasurements
have, however, developed the fact that
the Peak of Orizaba, or "Citlaltepetl,
in Mexico, exceed famous Popocatepetl
by about 600 feet, and almost stimuli
taneously it has been shown that the
height of Mt. st. Elias is only 1900
feet; so that as far as these two sum-
mits are concerned, the advantage lies
With the Mexican volcano 1t would
seem, however, that about 20 miles
northeast of St Elias, in what is indiS-
putably British territory, a second
mountain exists the crest of which is
claimed to rise fully 1000 or 1,500 feet
above that of Mt. St. Elias. If this is
thue then the claim to superiority
over all'' must rest with Mt. Logan.
The question necessarily lies between
Mt Logan and the Peak of Orizaba,
with ST. Elias as second or third in
distinction.
An Animal That Never Sleeps or
Tires.
xxv;+1 food II, olo,,Ddopca capahle of
yielding a continuous supply of energy,
it seems a strange physiological para
dox that all animals should not be able
to work increasingly. 1t is, however,
impossible, or was so regarded until
the experiments carried on by Pro-
lessor Hodge and Professor Aikens, in
the physiological laboratory of Clark
at Worcester, Mass. The
latter have found an exception to the
universal law of the animal
world that work produces fatigue and
fatigue compels rest. They have found
an animal which seems never to sleep,
nor even to cease from the most rest
less activity; and furthermore that it
is not only tireless but possessed of an
insatiate hunger as well. This extra
ordinary creature belongs to the low
est type of animal life, the protocol,
and is little more than a minute speck
of living matter-protoplasm. It differs
from the microbe chiefly in that it is
an animal, whereas bacteria are mi
croscopic vegetable organisms. 1t is
difficult for the mind to grasp it's size.
1t bears about the same relationship
to man, in point of bulk, as man does
to the earth itself. In other words,
we're a protozoan magnified to the size
Of man, the latter similarly enlarged
would be about the same size as the |
globe The type of protozoan studied |
by Professors Hodge and Aikens is |
known as a voticella, is really little |
more than a mechanism for digesting |
food Supplementing this is a motor |
mechanism beautifully adapted to re- |
covering it. Evidently it regards this |
agebcy for a food supply as a good |
thing for the animal keeps these sem |
sitive hairs, or ella, as they are called |
soing all the time, and no matter how
much plumber these little tentacles |
gather, this hungry Joe Of the micro
organic world never gets enough. 1t |
is, however, exceedingly fastidious in its
choice of eatables, and is alert TO push |
away the things it does not want All |
the while it keeps it ella flashing the |
water in which it lives, setting up
currents which will draw food particles |
within its reach. When particle is
touched by a ella. an act Of choice is
clear, for instantly it is carried toward |
he animals mouth or Whirled away. |
other ella are employed to sort the |
food, take them into the body and eject |
the excreta and debris. There is prac- |
-ically q, continuous stream of food and |
1etrituS flowing in and out of the an |
mails stomach. The vorticella is vio- !
ent in its likes and dislikeS, and ex- |
presses them in the most summary |
manner. In order to protect it from |
bacteria and other animals, the exper- /
mentors at Clark university COM /
sletely steriiized the water supplied the /
feature, and then introduced into the /
stream supply of pure yeast cul-
lures. At first the Vorticellae de-
youred this to them new food. raven /
ously filing their pouchy bodies to dis
-ention with food vacuoles of'the yeast.
In very few minutes, however, the {
whole meal was elected with volcanic
energy Not a single particle was al
owed to remain, and for several hours
sfterwari not a single individual>couid
De prevailed upon to repeat the ex-
pertinent Imagine, if you please. that
hese infnitessimal gourmands, so small
hat they are invisible to the naked
we. can indeed be seen only with the
lid of a powerful microscope, that thew
ire single eelled and look much like a
'ubher pouch with long slender hair
'eaching out from its opening or
nouth-imagine this to yourself, and
you begin to appreciate how lowly is
he origin of all emotions These ami
nalculeS were observed for spaces of
i've days together and in all this time
hey seemed never to leave off their
easeless quest for food for a moment,
sor did they seem TO show any con-
iderable relaxation either in activity
r in attention. They were always