Idaho tri-weekly world., April 21, 1875, Image 4

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srates.
Socrates was called a philosopher,
rot, in the technical sense, he was no
-, hilosopher. He fonnd philosophy te
dious, fruitless stuff—a continent of
3 liet-donds, and protested against its
I rash and waste. He said the topics
i:iat men should study were, "human
nature," "why man is here," an
' * what is the path of nobleness?"
"Know thyself," was his perpetual
- ] »junction. He never wrote a book.
J To was not a student. He was a
' i ime missionary. His method of in
u: ruction was by direct conversation,
r ..,dhis field was wherever he could
:«*-ot into easy, natural relations with
n»en. He did not look like a philoso
i her. To the Athenians he seemed
] ke a dissolute and loafing jester — an
* « nbodiedjoke. His head was pump
' T in-shaped, his eyes protruded, so that
l,o boasted he could look both ways at
, nee. He had an odd way, when he
"• »3 gaid a good thing, of holding his
vhoad quite still and rolling his huge
« yes round upon his listeners to drink
t its effect He went barefooted, with
4 slouching gate and a seedy dress.
] *nt he had thews of brass, sinews ol
M.ak. He could sit out the night over
:t warm discussion, and rising with
i he sun, proceed upon his rounds.
To discover the true relations of
- derates to the Athenians, just imag
,e him here to-day. At 11, see him
'op a counsellor who, with brief in
*i md, is just fidgeting to get punctual
ly to court, to inquire whether it is
oper to save even a friend from j..*-|
» 3 e, and to remind him that there will
1 » no eminent counsel for villains at
V, ,e last assize. At 12, he. would be
v, -opping in among the merchants up
* i Main street At 1, you would be
? ire to see him turning into a chop
\ use, and dropping into a seat by
■>, , 9 side of a friend, who is stirring the
Oessingfor a salad; he orders nothing
t himself, but falls to argujng that eat
» g is not a desirable occupât ion ; that to
• iltivate an appetite is like contract
3 .,-g an itch for the pleasure of scratch
i »g; that a man would as sensibly
• ish for an erysipelas, that he might
1 ; ive the pleasure of rubbing it down
' ith teal duck and venison, and that
if he insisted in making so much of
! is dinner, he deserved, in a future
- ate, to be set filling a colander with
i. sieve. At 2, he would visit our
; ostmaster, and expound to him the
; 'inciples of the Ins and the Outs,
tting forth the difference between
t c love of country and the love of
vie treasury of the country—in the
tter case a part being mistaken for
? e whole. At 3, be would be visit-
T g the saloon-keepers, expatiating \\\y
» \ the evils of drinking; the example
r the rising generation; the wicked
j iulterations of liquors, and the drain
?. >on the mental and physical man in
' irning night into day. At twilight,
î * would call upon our Schoolmaster,
-• • inquire whether ignorance was bliss
: * some circumstances of life, or if
- rtue ever was inculcated by words,
• ; really in any other way than by ex
ample. At 7, be would be interview*
; g Uncle Johnny G -, to learn the
*: jses and gains in the stock opera
; * >ns of the day, and if the great bo
i tnza was really all that had been rep
*< ;sented. He would advance the
: oposition that stock operators were
l amblers, and that gambling was not
s. î employment, bat the most infa
i lous idleness. At 10, he would ap
] *ar barefooted; an uninvited guest
*'.{ a supper party on the hill—the life
the company, making the table roar
* ith his mirth, till near the close,
■» hen, by some charming allegory or
3 iyth, he pushes home the great duties
« i temperance, piety and devotion to
* »ty.
At last, however, the people of Ath
% .j began to tire of him—he was be
i-raingabore. The Thirty Tyrants
ho tried him he thanked, for sending
with
k
m
4eàd>
Ôfito by bribes, had provided a means
of escape, but Socrates declined to flee
—be was about leaving for a more
fertile country. The thoughts that
urged him to lie still and await is
etod turned in his ears like the swe
ing music of flutes. He drank t e
hemlock slowly, rolling his huge eyes
on his friends the while. The®, as he
felt his limbs grow heavy, he said:
"We owe a cock to escutapius, and
died.
The good man died a martyr for the
right; but whither went his pure spir
it? He had never seen our Bible;
never heard the name of Jesus, never
read an Evangelical creed, never been
baptized, never-joined a church, never
repeated the Lord's prayer; yet this
saintly heathen must have been re
ceived up into glory.
He left no writings of any impor
tance; but Plato, one of his disciples,
caught the mantle of his fallen teach
er, and embodied the religion and phil
osophy of the great man, in books,
that for more than two thousand years,
have been the classic Bible of the lit
erary world.— Lyon County (Ne\.)
Times.
The Sea.
Hu Processes Conrtanüjr Go^oaln theOeeaa
—Protestor Huxley • Lût Lecture.
Professor Huxley lectured, Februa
ry 22, in the Foresters' Hall, in London.
He dwelt primarily upon what he be
lieved to be the importance of physic
al science as a branch not only of the
higher, but also of the elementary
education of the country, urging that
country urm- umi |
wh ile it was true that the study
Ill higher branches of natural'
ence required for its pursuit a certain j
knowledge, there was nothing unfeasi
ble in imparting to children some of
its most elementary principles. He
then launched into a most interesting
discourse on "The Sea," limiting his
attention in accordance with his addi
tional expressed design, to the fii s , n .
bution within it of certain apparently
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insignihamt and practically tnvisimt
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creatures with which he said tlie on an j
teemed to such an extent as to convert
it into a kind of "living soup.
These minute organisms he de
scribed as covering a vast portion „f
senoeu as uuvvnuj; a
the surface, when as they died they
sank slowlv to the bottom, bearing
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with them their tiny shells or skelr
tons, which soon became all that w.is
left to tell of their existence. The re
cent investigations of lier Majesty s
ship Challenger had east much light
upon the history of these creatures,
showing that within certain zones
between about fifty deg. north and 55
deg. south latitude—the organisms
thus being constantly precipitated to
the bottom of the ocean consisted al
most solely of calcareous foraminifer
ous bodies, while those iu the northern
and southern regions beyond had læen
shown to be exclusively the silicious
shells of the vegetable diatoinaca».
From the accumulation through count
less sges of these myriads of shells it
was not difficult to realize that they
were gradually, by their agglomera
tion, producing deposits of hard, solid
matter, so that the polar regions were
becoming gradually enveloped in a
stratum of silicious or flinty rock,
forming a kind of cap on the bottom
of the sea over each end of the glol>e.
So in more equatorial portions of the
sea the bottom was found to consist of
carbonate of lime, or chalk, formed in
like manner, but from the calcareous
foraminlferæ, ai.d the chalk of cliffs
which lined our coast had been shown
from microscopical research to be
nothing other than the deep sea depos
it of an ancient world, modified from
its original form by the gradual agen
cy of water and the solvent action of
the carbonic acid of the atmosphere.
Hence these tiny creatures, insignifi
cant as they might appear, were the
means of producing enormous trans
formations throughout the sur
face of the earth. Many of
the results obtained from the
Jrs- .v.*
MM.
ly in support of the
aftsmaceons and fori—- .
it* were capable of nndergoi gby^
rim» natural processes MMlce
mation as to cause the dl "PP®
of their originally orgam^roctu^,
and thus much light might
said the lecturer, on the problems pre
sented by geological formations.
The older geologists had inferred
from the absence of recognia*
ganisms in some of the earlier o
tions that no life existed in those ag ,
and it was impossible to say, wi
tainty, whether or not such was
case, but the whole «Mance of be
paleontology went to prove that the
earliest forms of life must have been
vastly simpler than the fossils met
with in the earlier strata. From re
cent researches, however, it bad at
least been found consistent to recon
cile the theories of both biologists and
geologists on these matters, and the
first gleam of this reconcilement they
owed to one who had ouly that very
morning passed away from their midst,
one who would be remembered in his
tory as the greatest geologist of Ills
day—his old friend and master, Sir
Charles Lyell. This great philosopher
Imd, in his Prin ctpfes Geology, giv
0B
el
el
cis
too
in
est
en in a charming form his interpréta
tion of these phenomena, showing the
subjection of these early rocks to tb|
action of heat, with the consequent
possibility of the modification of ^
form of their original constituents.
1011,1 o» » J
Sir Charles Lyell was a geologist of j
| liftv years agt>, anti fifty years ago thi
of|metamo r ,.hic action*
«.Jbc-n but 1-Ule «un ie. , '' I,,,,,
j urta.ned the ,dea hut U> ml 1
action. The lecturer then spoke in
touching terms of a recent visit which
he had paid to the great man whose
memory he honorml. when he had dm
cussed with him the results of the
Challenger ex|a-dit.o„.and l'»-llistemsl,
. to les feedde voice and trembling lips,
j«l>^ ,u
invUihliMinutiiiMte to him the thoughts pawing
. . r
within his trulv great mind. After a
j -
few dosing remarks <»n the advanta
geous appheatsou «'Î the study '1 nat
'"•«> P*« ».......na to the exercise and de
„f velopment of the faculties of reason
■ • > , 1
a,l( ^ observation, <\<u m i h j
} oun £t lrohssot Hu.\h\ sat ' "" 11
ami«! nrii'iimv,«! nntilriimr iiavitl!? IkTII i
amid prolonges! applause, having l»eeni
1 " 11
listened to with marked attention.—,
Iiecord-Union. j,
- - - * --—- j
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Irk was an elderly, puma-looking 1
gentleman, whose lmnnrcfi hair* ha .1 ;
frostud wW,e r, P° " ld ft K°- llm
step was tottering and feeble, a* if the |
journey toward the grave had W !
tlirniifvii morn thorns tlns.ii rosrst 1 »tit
through more thorns than roses; but
there was a something about his no
ble, trusting nature, that to us Imre
the stamp of a life-long, patient Chris
tian. He slowly bent over his cane,
stooped down and lifted the delicate
looking package, with trembling fin
gers untied the string, and as the
sawdust trickled out on the ground,
he let it fall. Then he looked up and
down the street, drew back his right
leg, and the first kick he made at the
package, he tangled up with the cane,
and went down in the dust on his
head and shoulders. The chimney hat
rolled off down the street, the cane
flew up in the air, and coming back
like a boomerang, took him square
between the eyes, lie didn't yell fire,
or murder, or thieves—no, didn't say
anything then, but he got up slowly,
walked leisurely to where his hat had
stopped, silently placed it on his head,
with two or three strokes of his fist,
took up his cane and gently beat the
ground, to knock the dust off, and
then walked sprightly away, mutter
ing something about the inscrutable
ways of Providence. He had picked
np an old April fool package.— Lyon
Co. Times.
a debt
among
0B " ***? out down, trw
Rates eaat have been «»»_ and
el has increased in consequence^ a»d
el has mere»»«« ju
each western road want, to have lU
Äc north, and started "? Fran
cis street, carpetroack » h»d- He
was evidently a farmer, an P
belonged to the granger*. At tarn
precise junction U M. ***£
agent of the St Lonie, Kansas City
and Northern line, happened to be
glancing out of his window, and aaw
too traveler and his carpeteack. He
met him balf-way between Long
Branch and the Pacific, and com
menced as follows:
"Going east, sir!"
"Yes," was the reply.
"Alii Step right up to the Union
ticket office. Great through line, sir.
Sd von in New York sixteen hour*
in advance of any other route, »'«•
est sleeping and dining cars in the
world. Chickens three turn-* a day
and lieds free from vermin. Butter on
two plates, and molasses all over the
table. Come along, air."
The innocent countrymen walked
"''"'f,* of the Hannibal j
U ^ «J
and St. Joseph ra ir , K.
|
"Yes," again.
(<) niw t V(Jlt Step right into |
oflîtv Shortest line by thirty- 1
»hr«- miles and a half to New York;!
I,,,,, V(lU .here in nine hour* ahead ofj
^ ^ Sou,, three turn« a
era daily, ('owe in. sir.
Before the astonished countryman
^ fr0|n U-vvil.lt rmrr.t
^ ^ ^ f , n<J(|( . )) .„„j , m ,. x , HVt ,Hl mani
^ in |,is welfare.
^ ...... . < f ^ ?t
^ Council Bluffs, tackled
with:
a v j
through in a jiffy. Splendid fdeejw
:iri( j cod-fish balls for breakfast, t'
....
"Going east, sir?**
**lk — h it. >•«*!" (rathef curtly.)
"I am just tin* man you want to see
Come along with me. Office 'not on
the corner.' Best and shortest route
by a long shot to any point. Put you
eejwr#,
<m
, nr- i * ti
ductors all of pious and respectable
. . . . 4
parentage, and fires kept up conatant
. . „
Come along, sir.
Iv
Tin* unfortunate man was eomplete
ly dumfounded, and Itefore he could re
* ........
4 )vor Laugblin had him bv one arm,
Mf , t , v nn , lthrr whi i r p, lnn
jelling tightly to hi* .-«.t tail, and In
wa8 „, 0 U , n n.hal a „,l S L
,J W office, where anotlar parley took
•
plaiv.
"What point are you going to?"
was askinl by three disinterested indi
viduals simultaneously.
"Doin'to Maria"
Instantly three railroad maps were
jerked out, and for full fifteen minutes
three pair of eyes inspected them
closely. Then each of said pair of
eyes looked at the other, and finally
all centered on the gentleman from the
rural districts. Then the question
was asked by three persona:
"Where is Maria?"
"Where's Maria? Why, I s'poae
she's to hum. Maria's my wife, and
lives six miles east of town, and throe
railroad maps were put up quicker
than lightning, and in less than two
minutes' time, Dunn was seated in hi«
office consulting an abominable old
pipe, Dan Mountain waa busily on«
gaged in admiring Lou Thompson's
magnificent new four-story plug hat,
and Maj. Lauglin was calmly contcm
plating the prospective arrival of the
pext street car.
The man hound for "Maria" left in
one of Fish and Hutchinson's sleighs.
The news from
ocratic makwihr Tbs
has not
i' ,$.•* f. -j(JP £, ? t^ 1
1 If enWert foe r i Mgleet«»
tkrir aewapspert from the
the? ara directed, the |» w
athto
__anti!they have aettfedtu
dared the« diMoatiaved **
4. If eubteribere remove t»
without informing the publbbm 'Stt
P*P«« »re .eat W the former ÄS
are held retpnmibte.
6. The court* have decided that
take oewepaperc from tbee**TL m
aad leaving them uncalled for, l Tjh
evidence of intentioea! fraud.
6 The postmaster who negh^a.
legal ootice of the oeglect «f »pi? 1 »
from the office the newiyuppr*^ 1
diner h*
him, it liable to the publicber fop !?
tioo price. *
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