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In that same department. among the mununies. there is what is in many respects the most strikâ€" ing of the exhibits in the department ~â€"-the body of a man who belongs to the Stone Age. It lies in an accur- ate representation of the peculiarly shaped grave in which it was found, and it has been in consequence someâ€" what irreverently nicknamed by the habitues of the Museum "the man in the pie-dish.” 'A RELIC OF 50,000 E. C. The particular interest in that lorpseâ€"Which men. women, and even children look upon without the least thought onsuggestion of the fear or horror usually inseparable from death â€"-is that it is unquestionably the oldest exhibit in the Museum; and Icicntists have been rather struck by the fact that the authorities of the great institution have not,’ so to Bay, taken the bull by the horns, and boldly labelled that exhibit as dating‘i lrom 50,000 0. Thus, with one single stroke of the pen, =Bishop Usâ€" her’s Biblical chronology is multiâ€". plied by about nine, and it may be that an even higher number Would be required to satisfy the requirements of the age of that particular speci- men. How long has the earth been a planet capable of supporting not only n'uman but all forms of life? In an address Lord Kelvin once de- livered on the subject, he gathered :ogether the opinions of Various =cientific men, which cannot but be if interest to every thinking being. Darwin, in his “Origin of Species,” stated that “In all probability a far longer period than 300,000,000 years has elapsed;” while later on, in the lame book, he wrote: ‘fI-Ie who can read Sir Charles Lyell’s grand work an the "Principles of Geology,’ which the future historian will recognise as having produced a revolution in naâ€" tural science, yet does not admit now incomprehensibly vast have been ihe past periods of time, may at once close this volume.” WHEN THE SUN DIES. Lord Kelvin himselfâ€"then Professor William Thomsonâ€"over forty years Lgo, made an the length of time during which the sun has been burning at its present rate, and in that connection he wrote: “It seems, on the whole, most probable that the sun has not illuminated the 000 years, and almost certain that he has not done so for 500,000,000 years. As for the future, we may say with equal certainty that the inâ€" habitants of the earth cannot con- tinue to enjoy the light and heat esâ€" sential to their life for many million years longer, unless new sources, now unknown to us, are prepared in the great storehouse of creation.” It is a remarkable evidence of the acute perception of Lord Kelvin’s mind, as of ,the rare prevision of his intellect, that the last wordsâ€""unâ€" less new sources, now unknown to us, are prepared in the great storehouse of creation”â€"should have been added to that remarkable sentence. As an example of the very extraor- dinary range of time. given to the age of the earth, consider the followâ€" ing statement from Professor‘Juke’s “Students’ Manual of Geology." He wrote: “Mr. Darwin estimates the time required for the denudation of the rocks of the Weald of Kent, or the erosion of space between the North and South Downs, at three hundred million of years. It may be possible, perhaps, mate is a hundred times too great, attempt to calculatel earth for 100,000,“ TU ASK THE 1. U. F. JOHN J". BURNS CURED BY DODD’S KIDNEY PILLS. He Had Chronic Inflammation of the Kidneysâ€"Says His Brother Foresters can Tell all About it. 'Darnley, 1’. E. I., Aug. 29â€" >(SDCCiiLl)â€"John J. Burns, a promin- ent member of the I. O. F. here, those cure of Clhronic'InflamInation 1301' the Loins and Kidneys caused a Lysensation some time ago,’ reports }that he is still in splendid health. ‘l"Yes," says Mr. Burns, “my cure is gentirely satisfactory. I have had no ltrouble since I used Dodd’s Kidney ,Pills. They dro‘ve away the disease ;from which I suffered for eight g years. j “No, I’ll never forget Dodd’s Kidâ€" iney Pills. The doctor could not ghelp me. I got so bad I could iscarcely walk, sit or sleep. I was galiout to give up entirely when an {advertisement led me to try Do-dd’s iKidney Pills. Now I am in good health. Dodd’s Kidney Pills saved my life.” If any one (1011th Mr. Burns’ story he simply refers them to his brother Foresters. They all know how he suffered and that Dodd’s Kidney Pills cured him. ally be asked, on which calculations of this magnitude are made? Among the most important are the consider- ,ation of the underground heat which 'is constantly being conducted out of the earthâ€"in other words, ,the coolâ€" in-g of the earth, the speed at which the earth rotates on its axis, as well .as physical properties of rocks at jh-igh temperatures. 1, The loss of heat by conduction was :Lord Kelvin’s first argument for lim- éiting the age of the earth. He found ; that if the earth had been losing heat {in the past “with any approach to 1luniformity for 20,000 million years. lthe amount of heat lost out of the gearth would have been about as much fas would heat, by 100 deg. C., a lquantity of ordinary surface rock of I100 times the earth’s bulk. This lwould be more than enough to melt ta mass of surface rock equal in bulk No hypothesis §to the whole earth. las to chemical action, internal fluidâ€" jity, effects of pressure at great depth Ior possible character of substances in lth’e interior of the earth, possessing lthe smallest vestige of probability, lcan justify the supposition that the 'earth’s upper crust has remained inearly ash; is, while from the Whole [or from any part, of the earth so {great a quantity of heat has been Elost.” ' j EARTH ONCE RED-HOT. By considering the cooling of the {earth, and by tracing backwards the fprocess of cooling, Lord Kelvin came lto "a definite estimate of the greatâ€" lest and least number of million years ,which can possibly have passed since Ethe surface 01' the earth was everyâ€" fwhere redâ€"hot." This estimate he T “We are very ignorant as to the effects of high temperatures in alterâ€" !ing the conductivities and specific lheats and melting temperatures of lrocks, and as to their latent heat of .‘fusion. We must, therefore, allow 1Ver wide limits in such an estimate 7:15 I have attempted to make; but I lthink we may, with much probability isay that, the consolidation cannot :havc taken place less than twenty jmillion years ago, or we should now ;have more underground heat than we lactually have; nor more than t£00 {million years ago, or we should now lhave less underground heat than we ,‘actually have.”â€"-London Answers. ! â€"â€"â€"â€"+-â€"â€"â€"~ i IRISH CATTLE HUNT. w iWild Herd had Become a. Nuis- l , ance to Farmers. Such a hunt as would have delightâ€" an es of Chalk-hills, k vn s theEEd the heart r g no‘ a ;doughtiestv heroes has just concluded :within three miles of the centre of that the esti_.Belfast city, a herd of wild cattle of Fenimore Cooper’s being exterminated on' the slopes of and that the real time elapsed didzCave Hill, which frowns majestically not'exceed' three million years; but on the other hand, it is‘just,as liker that the time which actually elapsed since the first commencement of the erosion, till it was nearly as comâ€" plete as it now is, was really a bun- dred times greater than his estimate, or thirty thousand millions of years. 86,000,000YEARS OF LIFE. over Belfast Lough. v Some years ago Mr. Stof‘ford. Mcâ€" Lean, a farmer, put some polled cat- tle on the hill, and a..young b-ull re.- verted to savagery and induced some 'members of the herd to follow his load. In the course of time they. rmultiplied, and the younger memâ€" ’bers were wilder than the old. They -broke hedges and fences, and foraged Professor Phillips, in a lecture to the University of Cambridge, consid- ered the rate of erosion between the; , lfor their depreciations. *lowed claim for fences broken and ranges of the North and South Down to be rather one inch 21, year. than Darwin's estimate of one inch in a hundred years, so that on mere geol- ogical grounds he reduced the times to about a. hundredth. Calculating however, the actual thickness of all the known geological strata of life on the earth’s surface may proâ€" bably date back to between 38 and 96 million years. Within the last ten years, Profesâ€" sor Sollus, of Oxford, working on new principles applied to the stratiâ€" fied rocks, reduced this time very considerably, for he wrote: “So far as I can at present see, the lapse of time since the beginning of the Cam- brian system is probably less than 17,000,000 years, even when comput- ed on an assumption of uniformity, which to me seems contradicted by the most salient facts of geology.” STARTLING FIGURES. -. What are the data, it will natur- l anywhere and everywhere. Mr. McLean was held responsible Claim folâ€" lhayricks demolished, until the farmer ‘in despair, invited everyone to join land for all to their work. ‘ 9 Men climbed the hill armed land a sprinkling of modern iThey warily stalked their prey, but lthe animals were Quick, leaping lbedges and ditches in a 'manner iwhich no hunter 3 or two ltheir small shot whistled \off the anri~ ‘mals’ hides like bail on the pave- :ment. i’ The hunt on the first night was a |,failure, but the men came better preâ€" gpared and, as a result, most of the animals have been accounted for, fund there is not likely to be another such hunt in Ireland for some time to come. lexpressed in the £01”ng words: f Take Hall's Family Pills for consti- ! Would gin a grand hunt and put a stop once,l l with i thelevery class of weapon to be found in! earth, he came to the conclusion that i the diStI‘iCt. PiSt01S. 01d blundel'lJUSâ€"l Ics, fowlingâ€"p-ieces, sticks and knives! rifles. 5 could equal. One} men got within range, but! The satisfaction of having the washing 'done early in the day. and well done, belongs to every luser of Sunlight Soap. V103 EMPEROR OF JAPAN. Is Descended From a Long Line of Imperial Ancestors . Mutusuhito, who is now fortyâ€"three years of age. succeeded his father when he was only fifteen, and under his influence Japan has earned herself a place among the great Powers of the world. His Majesty claims to be the hundred and twentyâ€"first ruler of his line in unbroken descent from Jim- mu Tenno, the “Son of Heaven," who founded the dynasty 660 B. C. Two years after his accession the Emperor married Princess Haruko, daughter of Prince Ichijo, a noble of the highest rank. The Empress is of Japan, chldless and the Crown Prince, the Emperor Emperor’s eldest son, is the child of a second wife, for, according to Jaâ€" panese law, inferior wives are allowâ€" able. The Crown Prince married nearly four years ago, and is the faâ€" ther of a heir presumptive to the crown. The Emperor of Japan is distinctly a strong man, as may be seen by the wonderful progress his country has made under his rule. Yet his education was more elegant than practical. He was trained in the making of poetry, the mastery of court etiquette, the arrangement of flowers according to Japanese meâ€" thods and in Chinese classic lore. __.____+_____ UNDERSTO CD THE CASE. Eminent Specialistâ€"Yes, madame, your husband is suffering from temâ€" porary aberration, due to overw0rk It‘s quite a common occurrence. Wifeâ€"Yes; he insists that he’s a millionaire. . Eminent Specialistâ€"And wants to pay me a couple of hundred dollars for my advice. We’ll have to humor him you know. ' Deafness Cannot Be Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach the (liscused'portion of the car. There in only one way to cure deafness, and thth is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed con- dition of the mucous lining of the Eus- tachian Tube. When this tube is in- flamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is cn~ tircly closed, Deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its norm- al condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caus- ed by Catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by cat- arrh) that cannot be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. Semi for circulars, free. F. J. CHENEY &. CO.. Toledo, H. Sold by all Druggists, 75c. ‘ pation. _ Piet Cronje, the exâ€"Boer commandâ€" ant, has been nm-‘ried, and we under- stand that the second Mrs. Cronje objects to her husband being deâ€" scribed as a hero of a hundred enâ€" gagenients. WW I was Cured of Acute Bronchitis by MINARD’S JINJllIENT. J. M. CAMPBELL. Bay of Islands. 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I A few pieces of hoof-pairings which horseshoers pare off the hoof before shoeing horses will make palms thrive lluxuriantly. Simply poke the parâ€" ings well down in the soil at any ftime of the year. Horseshoers give faway the parings for the asking. :Ubard’: Llnlmut flue: Distemper. ‘Most of the black hair used in wig-I and “switches” comes from the com "wrwa * . .‘N Events of Italy and Spain, while the Pmbably the? largest cargo or. gold ifair and red hair comes mainly from specie ever Shmped across the Atlan'itho heads of Russian, Swedish, Gon- tic has been unloaded from the Kaisâ€"x lei- Wilhelm u. at Cherbourg. The constituting an instalment of the Panama Canal indemnity from the United States, was 42,592,648 .fl'S‘., or a little over $8,518,500. Thel lmoncy had been kept. on board in an armored.store-room, before which an armed sailor was on guard night and day. The door was closed by three locks, the keys being in the posses- sion of three ship's officers respecâ€" tively. 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