The Potteries Examiner : — 1880-05-22 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

TEGENOS.—These legends are worthy of special notice in moral history, as representing the first, and at the same time one of the most striking efforts ever Maae in Christendom to inculcate a feeling of kindness and pity toward the brute creation. In Pagan antiquity, seeps had been made to raise this form of humanity ton recognised branch of ethics. The way had been prepared by numerous anecdotes growing out of simple ignorance of natural history, which all tended to diminish the chasm between men and animals by representing the latter as possessing, in a very high degree, both moral and rational qualities. Elephants, it was believed, were endowed not only with reason and benevolence, but also with reverential feelings. They worshipped the sun and moon, and in the forests of Mauritania they seers accustomed to assemble every new moon, at a certain river to perform religious rites. The hippopotamus taught men the medicinal value of bleeding, being accustomed, when affected by plethory, to bleed itself with a thorn, and afterward close the wound with slime. Pelican committed suicide to feed their young; and Lees, when they had broken the lows of their soveleign. A temple was erected at Sestos to cumniemorate the affection of an eagle which loved a young girl, and, upon her death, east itself in despair into the flames by which her body was eon:mired. NUMMHIS anecdotes are related of faithful dogs Odell refused to survive their masters, and one of these heel, it was said, boon traneformed into the deg-star. The dolphin, esTecially, became the subject of many beautiful legends, and its affection for its young, for music, and above all for little children, excited the admiration not only of the populace, but of the meet distinguished naturalists. Many philosophers ascribed to animals a rational soul, like that of man. According to the Pythagov ans, human souls transmigrated after death into animals. Actending to the Stoics and others, the souls of men „nit memos were all Le pare of the all-pervading Divine Spirit that animates the world. THE END or nee Went.e.--The following dismal picture of the end of the world ieby the noted French eeit3ntist, Camille Fla mnarion —The earth was born: the will die. She will die either of old age, when I her vital elements shall have been used up, orthroligh the extinction of the KM to whose mys her life is mepended. She might :ileo die by accident, through collision with SOHle betty Joel tAllg her on her route : but thin mei of the world is the most improbable of MI. kthe may, we repeat, die a natural death through the natuml aleorption of her vital elements. In fact, it is irolsible that the air and water are diminishing. Ike ocean, like the atm°. splicer, appears to have been formerly much more considerable than it ie in our day. The terimtrial ernA is penetnited by waters whieh combine chemically with the rocks. It is alniest certain tlett the temperature of the interior of the globe towhee that !of boding water at a depth of about am x miles, and prevents the water from amending my lower; but the absorption will continue with the cooling of the globe 'Hie oxygen. nittogen, and carbonic acid which compose our atinosple re ales appear to undergo absorption. bidelower. 'The thinker may foresee, through the miet of ars yet to COMP, the epoch, yet aeir elf, in which the earth deprived of the atmospeedy, aqueous sneer which protects her from the glacial cold of tpace by preeerving the Solar rays around her twill bcetome cldlled in the sleep of death.As Henri N iverez save c e From the summit of the mountains a winding sheet of ;now will will descend upon the high plateaus and the valleys driving before it life and rival:Wien, and masking for ever the cities and natiens that A incetson its passage." Life and human activity will lures insensibly towards the inter-tropimi zone. St. Petersburg, Berlin, London, Pais, ViellAit. Constantinople, and Rome will fall a deep in suceeesion under their eternal shroud. During many aees squab:del humanity will undertake Arctic expeditions to tind again under the ice the pelee of Paris. Lyons. Horde., and 3larseilles. The eit.%. Wag, will have chenged, and the geographical map of the earth will have been transformed. No one will live and breathe any mom except lathe ecuatorial zone op to the day when the last family, nearly dead with cold and hunger, will sit on the shore of the last sea, in the rave of the sun which will thereafter shine here below on an ambnlent tsmb resolving aimlessly around a useless light and a barren heat.  Talent is an eye-sore to tyranny. In weakness, tyranny fears it as a power; in power, it hates it as • liberty. Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy. . . .  Personaltty and invective are not only proofs of a bad argument, but of a hnd arguer; for polite. ness is perfectly compatible with wit and logic, Oils it ankhwageo thj ,triumph of both.  Some 60,000 looms are idle at Blackburn. The Dowager Lady Sitwell has died at Scar. borough.  Emigration to America from the Clyde continues to incr..,  The trial of the Colchester petitioss will take place on June 7.  Th 24 , death rate at Omthare far IL* put wetter was per 1,000. .