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The Doctrine of Evolution. Longitude One Hundred and Prof. Huxley thinks it 18 Now an Bstab- ; ‘ Pret, ! discou Toward-the close. of the ‘ 1859, I} 5 Last night Prof, Hux vea di rae -the é ‘oar ae da teats Tage a the-On of Picts: 0 s q i i g 2 i BR al &F 3 i é g a es EF : on which the work was ita influence over the whole realm of thought, | six to ; The question which they bad to conmder | captain and I were conversing, the cook wat how it was that change enplace, | stewart (the carried only ; also some ‘garden trees, as | There were‘two factors which had to be | attend to both duties) came n coffee trees, in the valleys of about 5,000 | considered in determining this question, the | cabin. He was feet and more high, where there is a regular | one the state of miud to which the evidentde | had sailed with the captain for two temperature of 80° in the daytime, and | was offered, and the other, and he regretted ore in the Atlantic trade, bu’ 70° to 65° in the night. In ing | to gay, the subordinate factor, the nature of t voya the coffee tree suffers from the great heat or | the evidence itaclf. In 1859 the state of along the deck, spas, eg said: - cold. Coffee trees are most numerous in the | mind cf the biological world was absolutely “Doctor” -(the ways was called Jebel Haras and they need much water. | different to what it was at the present time. | “‘doctor” on board),—‘‘doctor, this is There is in Yemen another small tree called | and secordly, the evidence ‘of the truth or | Christmas Eve, and you. must remember to kahad, the leaves of which are chewed by | falsehood of the main priociples was absolute- | give the men a duff, with arate raisins ie g E 8 3 EE vty ] the and | to g B E = E i 8 so Bis ; eee F Pose e483 ln the rich the whole day.. They are the dear- | ly different to what it wasat thepresenttime. | m it, for dinner to-morrow.” Duff is the est leaves I ever met; small bundle of respects the state of mind, he confeased | ship-name for pudding. wet loaves, not more than about four hun- | that he looked back with astonishment at hen turning to me, he said : dred grammes weight, cost two shillings, It | the notions which they wére realy to enter- | _ ‘‘ You need not act them sbout any rigg- | bef sailed . is to them the most delicious thing ia the tain at that time. There was no stronger | ing work t-.morrow ; we will keep Christ- | nine and & f miles, ‘placing her’ half « world—no paradise without it. One kind | illustration of this than the mode of solving } mas-as well as we can * mi of it is eaid to keep off sleep, and the inhab- | the question of the past history of the | The cook stood looking at the captain for:| the compass, but, of courte, still in Pants use it when travelling in the mght or pee: Twenty-five years ago what was | & minute, then he said : 1 we have seen, when they have to watch. I could find lit- | known as catastrophe geology was at the | _ ‘* How is dat, Captain Small? Dis is the | Greenwich is then twelve hours ahead tle taste in it. These small trees of kahad | highest point of its influence, but he did not | 23d by my alm'nack, an’ I neber seed ng | time in the vicinity of 180° western hemis- coast ‘ . ; need also an abundance of water. In the up- | Suppose there was any one now who viewed | Christmas Ebe come on de 23d, sar. My | phere; therefore, as it is Fe It owes ita prosperity te its having two r plateaus there is no wild wood of any | the catastrophic doctrine except as a fossil. | burfday is the 24, and many burfday eben- | near midnight at the ship, it will be Feb. ae rainy seasons of no less th months Pind to be met. Besides many Northern | (Laughter.) On the contrary, it was uni- | in’s I ’se been roun’ about Highth and Chest- | ‘ruary 22d near noon'st Greenwioh,..- each. and consequently two in the | garden trees, grapes (not good), figs, al- | versally admitted that the key to the past | nut street sesin’ Christmas at this , ear, It rains in scene grt regularly | monds, pears, al pémegrenstee are com- | Was to be found in the present. He believ- * You ’re right, doctor,” said the captain ; | in” ship is lying becalmied Sarma igre from December | mon in Sanaa. ed there was nothing which had so tixed the | ‘this ia the 23,.but to-morrow is poing to hee P Ms = It ,rained last summer in the} | did not meet any {wild beast in all my | doctrine of evolution in the minds of scien- | be the 25th if this wind holds, and I rather the more elevated plateaus, from 6,000 to 8,000 | travels, except thousands of baboons. Of | tific men as the realization of this fact. Mr, | think that that fact will make this Christ- Khe feet high (so far as my own observation did | domestic animals there are many camels, arwin's work waa but the natural supple- | mas Eve,” not reach I must depend on reports), a few | oxen, and cows, small in the plain and | ment to Sir Charles Lyell’s “ Principles of *‘Den whar is the 24th goin’ to come in, midnight February. the 22nd, the whol times in the month of June, and from the | larger in the mountains ; but cheese is never | Geology.” The kernel of Mr. Darwin's book | Captain Small?" asked the doctor, if sur- i wish ot ew areal a aes Lod heard of. The camels sre not good, and are | lay in the assertion-that the animal species er them; while on : F cane - A 5 * . ‘ » : ; “oo “4 ek rey ay y without ex: | only used for tilling the ground, with a | ad the organic beings with which this Cl aginid the captain, ‘nowhere, | the 92nd ia jaunt about to commence. Now | cep in Sanaa and the neigh hard piece of wood instead of an iron plough, | World was peopled had all descended, each | doctor. It's a pity, but 1 thimk you are ss - (Sanaa is 6,700 feet above the sea, and the | which last is met only in large towne. “In | with its own class Secang frees commen | Hhely to bres Your Nirthtay, You've been of 180°; andvio a tow Sates te alongaide . 4 rises to 5,200 feet), The | the plains the sheep have no wool at all, on | root and a common parent, bat they had-all | sssilor a long time; and haven't you ever | the sailing ship, both in the Eastern mornings are in general clear; at about 12 | the first plateau short wool, but in the high- | been modified in the course of their descent, | heard of the place where you lose a day Hemisphere. Shae stemeatite will ow o'clock it begins to be cloudy, lightning and | er mountains the wool is quite long. Goats | and, farther, when he said-that all the ex- } ever year t” 7 be the same as the ship's i arte ae thunder follow, and nearly every day it be- | are scarce. There are.very few horses and | isting forms of life were the lineal descend- ‘Yes, sar, I hab, but I thought it was an | not moved f ‘she nad te rain about 2 until 4 o'clock. There is mules, afd only in the mountains, The | 2ots of those which had lived before the Si. | ole sailor-yarn, but I's sartain dis is de first calmed), amd shat ti granny being be- less rain in the lower parts, somewhat more | horses are of no good race; many very spi- pcg ks ape Tf that proposition was trae, year I neber had a burfday. But, anyways, February 23rd,’ ‘that of in the western valleys, very little south- | rited donkeys, especially the grey ones at | the most considerable contri- | I'll gib de hoys their plum duff to-morrow.” | is dropped from the snes ian people . iy ; was ward, and nearly none in the valleys east of | Sanaa; a few chickens and d geese | bution which had been given to the world The breeze continued brisk, and We passed eee the mountains of Yemen. and ducks, a few dogs and cate of 0 very since the time of Harvey; and if it was a of 180®"in the part of the seager comes mt deck, caither almez at elevated mountains make the climate | strange form, and many beautiful false, the rest of the book was of no conse- | middle watch, and ‘‘snre sartain,” as on coo mane Lene Sat | eae : umn, The secmmeryerclery, otek | Saco ks ec Sey eee Wh 20h, | re ae ee ee are © ’ *, more than I met only a few flowers, but plenty of | proposition was ‘orms of life our ve come on th ‘Ty wey of which tos series of platesurfrom ra three cea a Sf connected together, but this was tho : re cctieden, poop op are of Wash- officer pla ) erns ; i 4,000 to 8,500 feet above the level of the sea, | feet hi h, and man: different kinds of clo- | point which had been the most fiercely at- Now, if any young readers have hot ri ” and not reckoning the eastern side on the | ver, The indigo plant grows everywhere-| tacked in the discussions to which Mr. Dar- | stadied the subject of longitnde, they wil,| | %es” replies the ¢ “when it slope of the mountains toward the land of | wild. The women use it when they are | Wins book had given rise, The professor | find it and i i ” Hadhramaut, &c., which, if reports are true, washing. They pidk a few leaves, make a | then proceeded to deal at Jength with this | and find out about this thing. Longitude NOs Sag ae : z (I gathered the best I could), must be ‘very | Jittle blae, as much as they need, and care | part of his sqbject. The absence of any ma- | is defined by imceny, Heep, called meri- a) suppose you will celebrate it to- bare, and inhabited only by nomad Bedouin nothing more about it. It ismo market ar- | terial distinction between men and the | dians, drawn ever th a I ” surface and meeting at its poles, thus divid- | ‘yy Sie ae oage Had Rote, ‘as a a tribes, Mohammedans as well as Jews. ticle. There are matic grasses in | higher animals was a point which it took The boun line of Yemen is as follows: | Yemen. am acca ie some three or four years to settled, but | ing the surface of the globe into three birthday comes oa = mF western side, g the eastern side of the M. W. Swartra. it was admitted now on all hands the con- | hundred and sixty parts, or degrees, of " fhe this happens to be the twenty- haye.serih) thee Goiih sida, Sear-ichays — branches of the cxiand Kapton warenoabar | (sous {thces meridians : ya ; then no » from ya ranches of the animal kingdom was another course any one of these m ht ij Fig northwest to rg oy Keg bees from A Hindoo Hercules. point which had eee up by subse- have been ten at the, sale Hagges tsi ia Sent i“ —- Saada northeas Aden southeast ; — uent discoveries, notab f the arch in c longitudes ;' since the ' " : ey eines from Aden southeast to Bab el Mandab | The Wonderful Athletic Feats of Babajee 5 Again, the Sasevent en between a English, as a people, held the, highest posi- gegen tend line of southwest, so. that it forms an shlene Tuistram. table life hed been disposed of. Investiga- | tion in astronomy, navigation, and chart- pat , ow the uare of about 110 to 150 miles wide an tions which had been made in 1859 had | making, they naturally chose to : ; . es it An entertainment of a novel character was A ‘he i i : The oontey near the sea coast is flat, and | Ziven recently at the house of Mr. Morarjee = dae: pee pe sens wh to the eal Pabshevelory it Greenwich and ra it is vory hot—about 95° to 102° F—-near | Gocaldus, at Bombay, who invited a large lower aninsls and the lowee plants. , | now y recognized as the sea wont in ~ mii # sd raj Sd “ tellbers i ape chromite tos the oan vo, ede nage which had povertally contrib-. cies the a fag longitude \Ety milen wide, and is-cromed by ian | celebrated Deccan athletic, Barbajee Tul- | 11'cd, %° Change the state of mind in which | thet0nen Optime may be rand ce ‘wixty : bp-many Ey The company, which incladed ese matters were considered was the mar- 6 may be sai in again Sanereeeburge ohl. open prtveenig ap many of the leading inhabitants of the city vellous developrnent of the means of indi- | at the meridian of 180°, which ts éxactly Not sa oe southern tide, which sat in a meron at igs) int of which Tv ondiion i scp me or pe genre *Peeentiods sasalecleanl eto has very little water beyond a few wells and | ¥®r® placed several pretty little native ners thers had no conception, and it was now | this way: ‘When a navigator wishes to mal a 1. i fares a =a pict ere tha ustive late aan possible he varies a i and accurate rege the longitude his ship is in, he finds north , j taresqas dresses: of examination of the ovary of any organism, brooks at Der el Shabao, about {fifty miles | Were ee tat te Be ole of the Parsee | and even to reduce it tothe one-thousandth | bodies) the true time of day at the ship, He The slain is ‘often interrupted by low attire hed a remar kably fine effect when seen ee tel euionse to faves at Crokution tomat wick, sitewn ‘by ‘hie, cubano ter, oe thus hilis, and so the ground rises nally to | #2 conjunction with the beautifal surround- |}. with the paleontologist. Mr. Darwin | he gets his longitude in time, that is, in | ,. gir ; E g g t i of grad : . D an elevation of about 2,500 feet, where the | 9g After some pre ries in the way | has accounted to some of his critics for the | hours, minutes, and seconds, which he turns i i i of handing round for on the materials : : : : lsat : west table Suh ches mask annals | wi ch ha tenia gpa, ea une | Steen, uch ict oe th | il dere of mpd alae | ian in ere Was no : : : placing globe. plat a n BM docedl- baspeent denephion, the athlete, » tall, soldierly man, pr geological ay but by god tha eis cae page a ae under Row, let repose that time has not is from 6,000 to 7,000 fest high. The pla: | ome 27 years of age, and with a magnificent | Stptiod uy. renoarches all over the id, | then of longitude ust be equal | Yet begu®, and the “which > called tean is full of wells, cisterns, and small | development of muscle, proceeded to crash PP ial , Hees io th : ptosshont Bt ke boscintcee cura Gh Sane ce fitteen the very first day, which may be called | brooks at every thousand 6, and y | & pam of cowries between the palms of Rien, end aie te the Ameri a 1 sda be cad eae f time January the first, yea? one. “We are told in . The chiet and Sataeat towns of | his hands, Hecompletely ground them to colon af eh lecn Soestatiake ge Frere ia na weak thing 4 Wileek. fi the Bible that the ing and the morasing emen, as the capital, Sanaa, Jarim, Seta | Powder in this manner, uttering during the | # ee that the dectrin at evade | we. Sechen tecivs reared ° » “OF | were the firstday. So if the evening was Demar (which razed to ebarp, shrill ories, which were prob- | 4) = go abr aesengines lee : <— the first half of tne day,,time must begin at ar (Ww was 8 no longer 3 matter of speculation; it was | twelve hours Cae ag and so, also, there | noon 5 process town as well as walls and fortress, the day 1 | Sbly intended to express the magnitude of | 4) sisointe The fact was there is no 360th° ongitude, but 180° lett the place by — Sathositioe selec heen nen te “ng ype other rappoeten iehick “could conasel tbe cont and 180° west, cer together 360 Tais, stand upon the plateau. coooan ealed by recent di i Sarum tanto i retaih 31 0-200 fa it Jebel | What a d to be fearful blow, broke eet alich ceae called shacnet tt He mi + ‘Row, the apparent noon, or twelve o'clock ‘akum rises to a of 9,200 feet. They | the nut in pieces and scattered the milk in | 49 told that these various objects might | ® t time at any given place, is the time yield extremely white marble, of which all directions, without, strange to say, hurt- | have been developed spontaneously and cre- when the earth, by. her motion from the windows of Sanaa and neigh ing the boy in any way. The next feat was | 41.4 y. He had nothing to say weak. 46 nish, ells Shs aatiied oF that ;------mire made instead of glass. The fortified gages doipegeeeriee: adbct nse inl reap to anyone who advanced any | given place directly under the sun, and there- — towns of Amran, Sewila, Mathna, and many aN ne most the follo parts more than he should have og to say i e meridian of Greenwich comes under meridian ‘rolla P| others are upon this plateau. aren. bar ag was ae gi aaahon to the savage who said that sun set in one hour sooner than the meridian thist sieeidion ad The chief mountains I passed on my way his foe ceger elingy etween two of the west at night was recreated before | of 15° west. So, when it is twelve o'clock, ia from Aden to Sanaa and Amram, are, first, ogers ens by pressing the fingers | its rising the next day. (A ) Thus | or noon at Greenwich or any other place on es | oembecees A500 foot high + een Je- sassar Digr a 80 as Barrell in the year 1880 the doctrine evolution | the eee of longitude naught (for all bese hr a | Mashuwar, ; second, | "Pper several no longer a same tude have the same : aut fii eet oatrinar ft oear tam 7 aid ip gg apie, Bedi ea wan blnaiy sks bak of coherently and laces in ho ene kc latitade may be preety vlog thet 5 4 miles from ‘A and sbout ten miles fur- on pr chest, —w stolen, ra explataiee tes paleontol. | it ae eleven a forenoon a al tude 179° por f ; 1 on some chairs, scone, | ogy. places in longitude west, consequently, | 1:5 gest ; N feet ; Jebel four Bengal maunds, was placed + ten'o’clock forenoon in longitude 30° - day. a 9,200 feet high ; and on my way from Sanaa sie egies covered by Greek’s Dream Doctors. Sous v’elodh iareabee Anhaibede as © ceed, he te plerehre inte to Hodeide are Jebel 000 feet | * Two men then struck the and so back one hour of time | 5” rede iNew 3 high 5 Jebel sf-Siamioh,.7,000 foot and | stove some tremendous blows with heavy for every Siteuh dacress of Thus | Stt* ado, is will be fou Jebel Hares, 7,200 feat high. hammers, and, after one or two attempts, | Seti aside the imagety of the, Gresk we find that, whon Se ges acrou the Westen | Cade 179 The rivers I met on the way are only two; the block rolled off the man’s chest in two poets opiniuns, spe- | Hemisphere to 180°, we are person living first, about 120 miles from Aden, the river He next made several attempts to we find that twelve hours behind or the Sood < Bina, about 150 to 200 feet wide. and only a cocoanut with a handkerchief, His of auch importance in the or, when it but it now 2 jose, year peg ye eg pose er Waals ti ka oe common life of the Greeks that one of the it is which» apies are between Seta arim, shape aaah scoupie The second river is between Sanaa and | bell, sad then to throw the ball won the # to bring our Hodeide, about sixty-five miles from each, | >°t. sore ak oe ageing oe: fs I had to pass this river in one day more at the joint, bending » thick me than twenty times—-be El Kebla, about 100 | iron sy cewge Pegrectingend erage a8 eT oe ech to 200 feet wide, aod twe or three feet deep, | &4. company went out on the will rapid and noisy, The Bing is sweet | balcony, where the athlete cut a sugar-cane when the mer: end éliar | uch es Us Kolin. 1-auh ale a so as to throw up ® piece thereof one thou- 20 counting iffere: lpia iver ing bt Ss aun between Ho. | sand feet high. It was done thus: A man phere, hour week. 3 sod Moocs, but Lam not certain if it held out a scimitar with the edge down- ‘the mer were nob aqui Keebla, falling into the | Ward, and Babsjee strack the cane upward to the Red Sea. fwen sot able to got any intor- the edge of the sword, the piece thus ahead mation from-tbe I there. The Tm Eee near eect tyra tie , gi preter yf ng the called by the one inch I which I west Bat we y sea righ! 7