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81ft «ti “During the period when the wonderful cats were so plentiful in North America there were numerous dogs and dogelike beasts also, all of which have since become extinct. The biggest species was as large as a good-sized bear. In that part of the country which .is now called Colorado and “During this same epoch there were nu- merous other species of cats, all of them since extinct, which varied in size all the way from that of a household pussy of to- day to the huge saber-toothed tiger. Not a few of them were astonishingly fierce and correspondingly destructive. The teeth they have left behind tell the story of the way they lived, describing, as well as words could do it, their extreme ferocity. They attained the climax of their type in the saber-toothed tigers, bigger than either the lion or the tiger of to-day, which had canines a foot in length and shaped like curved knives with saw-like edges. They roamed the continent in the time of the gigantic sloths, such as the megatheria, and doubtless did much to exterminate the lat- ‘ ter helpless and vegefiable-eating beasts. They were plentiful in Texas, where the remains of a good many have been dug up. “Unfortunately for them, the specializa- tion of function was carried so far in their case as to be the means of their destruc- tion. Not only were these exaggerated teeth useless for biting purposes, but they could not be used to cut unless the ani- mal’s jaws were CIOStAl. Besides, they were so in the way as to prevent the beast from biting large pieces of flesh, thus interfering with its feeding. There is rea- son to believe that sometimes these saber- teeth get caught in the canines in the lower jaw in such a manner as to hold the mouth wide open and prevent it from being shut again, thus causing starvation. One magnificent skull was found in South Am- erica not long ago which had the teeth thus caught, showing that the owner must have perished from this cause. It is inter- esting to consider the fact that these saber- toothed tigers (like the cave bears, which were twice as heavy as grizzlies and prob- ably quite as ferocious) were contemporary with human beings on the earth, and the latter were obliged to fight them. Their bones are found in considerable numbers in the caves of Southern France, which were the residences of primeval men and women in the ancient stone age, 100,000 years and more ago. People in those times must have regarded all other creatures as being roughly divided into two classesâ€"those which they could eat and those which could eat them. The saber-toothed tiger belonged to both classes, the issue of the conflict in each case determining which should gobble the other. \Vith none but the most primi- tive weapons a man must have had but a poor chance in conflict with such a terrible beast, but probably he depended for over- coming it upon stratagem, being acquainted with some sort of traps and snares. The carvings on bone left behind by these ancient folk frequently represent the chase of the mammoth, showing that they did not hesitate to tackle even so enormous a creature. V- v __ wv~vuu~n “Our knowledge of one of these species is due to a very fortunate chance. Some years ago an exploring party was sent into the John Day River Valley in Oregon for the purpose of looking for fossils. That is a famous region for such treasures, water having out big slices out of hills which were formed originally by detritus deposit- ed during myriads of years. It happened that the attention of one member of the expedition was attracted by something that looked like a skull, half projecting from the summit of the pinnacle of a. crag. It was, in fact,a skull,and the shiningof thegreat teeth ‘ was what caught his eye. He climbed up ‘ the cliff and fetched it down with much difficulty and danger to life and limb. It was the cranium of a once formidable pog- onodon. “For example, there was ‘gomphodus,’ which was as big as the largest panther and had two teeth in its upper jaw resembling daggers, each five inches in length. As weapons for penetrating flesh they are un- rivalled among carnivorous animals, recent or extinct. They are rather like the teeth of some hugh flesh-eating dinosaurs, the ‘terrible reptiles’ of the mesozoic epoch, which had cutting teeth which nothing could resist. Doubtless this creature was inconceivably bloodthirsty. Quite as fierce, however, and even more formidable by reason of its greater size was the contem- porary ‘pogonodon,’ which was as large as the biggest jaguar. There were two species a of this animal which held the field in Ore- gon during the period I speak of against all rivals. It was undoubtedly a great destroy- er of life among the herbivorous beasts. un..-r..t.._1-.au_ -1: .- .. . “Thus it is very fortunate that teeth last longer than any other objects in nature. At this day are found in a. perfect state of preservation the moiars and incisors which were used to chew with by the mighty reptiles of millions of years ago. It is from his dentition that science declares man to be carnivorous only by habit and not by na- ture. I spoke of that the other day to a young man in search of information, who replied impolitely : ‘So is a hen.’ When I asked him what he meant by that he said ; the dentition of a hen would certainly not indicate that it was carnivorous by nature, and yet it was evidently so, judging from its addiction to worms and preference for flesh in general. However, as I was going to remark, the piercing and cutting teeth of some of these cats of long ago are the most perfectly adapted instruments for cut- ting purposes that ever were seen, being unequaled by any manufactured tools for such uses. “There used to be cats in North Ameri- ca 100,000 years ago,” said a. paleontologist to a. writer for the Washington Star. “Great carnivorous creatures of the feline tribe roamed over this country then in enormous numbers. They are all extinct, and have left only their bones behind to tell the story of how they lived and What they fed u n. One often reads of the art by which 1: e naturalist is able to restore the skeleton of an animal from a single bone, and in fact a. good many mistakes have been made through overconfidence on ‘ the part of learned gentlemen in recon- structing fossils by theory from insufficient material. But there is no possibility of mistaking the testimony afforded by the teeth. They tell all about the manner of existence led by their former owner, giving accurately the habits, diet, and approxi- mateageoi the beast. A VPaleontologisu Talks of the Pierce Quadrupeds of the Stone Ageâ€"How Their Habits. Diet and Age Are Told by Modern Scientists. ZOZmfimm .umCmej-tfl. E<mU 20mm ._.I>Z doouooo <m>mm >00. EXTINCT GA’i‘S AND DOGS. cub unless the ani- m1. Besides, they as to prevent the pieces of flesh, thus HUGE BIRDS THAT ARE NOT EXTINCT. Those who have read the story of “Sin- bad, the Sailor,” will be interested to know that there is some foundation for the sup- posed-to-be fabulous stories he told of the me and its monster eggs. Ornithologists have figured that it was a. monster speci- men of the epinoris family of birds, which are known to have formerly lived in Mada.- gascar. The prize-takers agnqng the epinoris These phantom-like ships suspended in mid air have giVen rise to the weird legend 5 the “Flying Dutchman.” According to the story, which is known to be at least 400 years old, a Dutch captain, homeward bound from the East Indies, met- with long- continued bad weather, coupled with the wind blowing “dead ahead.” At the. time 1 when he was making an effort to “turn the cape” he was advised to turn back and seek shelter until the gale was over ; but this he refused to do, swearing all the time that he would “turn the cape” or beat there until the day of judgment. For this profanity, according to the tradition, he was doomed to heat against the winds forever. By the sailors in the south seas his ship is believed to have become rotton with age, the sails bleached and mildewed, and the crew of the vessel reduced to shadowy skeletons. They have not the strength to lower a. boat, but occasionally the captain is said to bail passing vessels, imploring rescue for himself and crew, or, at least, to take letters home to fatherland. Taken all in all, it is a most remarkable legend, al- most equal to that of “The Wandering Jew.” we 9-3.1; an; to a". acnnwpineric peculiarity in t‘r- xxcinity of Lin: Cape of (Rood Hope. Tnc m in than Hagan) has the extraordinary power of nne 1'“ «A retraction, similiar to that known In exist, on the boundless prairies of Kansas, Nebraska and the Da- kotas. On the great, waste of waters which surround Good Hope the phenomenon ap- pears in the shape of spectral looming, or apparent suspension in the air, of ships which are so far away that. they cannot: be seen on the surface of the water. the s v- 'V vv vvmta vAu. Joseph Bornwalski was another of the old-time dwarfs of distinction. He was born in 1739, near Chailez, Polish Russia. He was one inch less in height at birth than Hudson was, and weighed but eleven ounces. On his 21st birthday he was 2 feet '2 inches in height, and very robust. He went to England and married a woman of the regulation size, and lived to the advanc- ed nge'of 98 years. LEGEND OF THE FLYING DUTCHMAN. One of the most remarkable legends of 6L” .7 ‘ ‘ age of 31, a. time .when most human beings are supposed to have fully matured, he suddenly began to grow at a surprising rate, his growth being so rapid that in the short space of four years he shot up to the height of 3 feet 9 inches, 3. clear gain of 6% inches for each year. How or why this re- markable change was brought about was a. problem which the Royal Society of Sur- geons were never able to solve. Hudson lived to be 68 years old. w r‘rom All Parts of the \Vorlq. “Those “g Ki- Perusal \Vill Alford Amusement and t Instruction in Leisure Moments, is 'e. Exactly how insects, especially bees and of ants, find their way back after having :h flown or been taken some miles from the by home hive or ant hill, is one of the mys- teries of animated nature. A young natu- ralist, who lived fourteen miles from a large city, frequently made it a point to a test this "homing” instinct in the common to Italian bee. He would carefully color their wings with red, blue or violet ink, pack them snugly away in a box and then carry them to the very heart of the city before releasing them. With few exceptions they were at home working away unconcernedly when the experimenter returned in the evening. On one occasion, according to a pro-arranged plan. he turned six bees loose in the city at 6 o‘clock in the morning. He had previously colored the wings of each with red ink so that his con- federats and co-experimenter, a sister, who also had an entomological taste, could not possibly be mistaken as to the exact mo~ ment of their arrival. Well, they were re- leased at 6 o‘clock in the morning. The first one reached the home hive at twenty- two minutes to ‘3. Before 5 three more of them had safely arrived, but, seemingly, were much fatigued. At nightfall the fifth and sixth of the home-loving little insects had not put in an appearance. Bright and early on the following morning, however, the young scientists were OVerjoyed to find all of the red-winged honey-gatherers hum- ming merrily about their work. Experi- ments with large black ants were equally satisfactory. The same scientist tied yel- low silk about the “waists” of three large- sized specimens that lived in a hollow tree in the heart of a large woods. These were carried distances varying from one to five miles from their home, but invariably re- turned within a surprisingly short time. TVJO NOTED D\VARF‘S 0F LONG AGO. The English dwarf, Sir Geoffrey Hudâ€" son, was, doubtless, the most widely known of any human curiosity of either ancient or. modern times, Lucia Zarate alone excepted. Born of parents of the normal size, in Rut- landshirc, in 1619, at birth his height did not exceed 5 inches. He did not begin to walk until after the end of his third vear, his height at that time being 33 inches. When 7 years of age he was taken into the family of the Duke of Buckingham, having ea between the age of 3 and 7 added but four Si inches to his stature. At the age of co 30 he was only 18 inches tall when fully th equipped with his high-heeled shoes, which gi were then so fashionable. Now comes the yo most remarkable part of the story. At the .ve A Collection of Synâ€"mo >20 CZ_OCm ODDâ€"jmm >2T _<_>._.m >20 _2>2_2>._.m. CURIOS OF ALL SORTS which then plains and try. ” From All Parts of the L Dakota there were severaI kinds of (fog-like : animals about the size of foxes, which were nocturnal in their habits, having very large eyes with which to see in the night time. They had great ears also and short, sharp noses. All these things can be told from their skulls. There was a. large species of true dog in Nebraska, but comparatively ‘ little is known about it, becuuse only very incomplete remains have been discovered up to the present time. Another true dog was the ‘zelurodon,’ which had some of the characteristics of the cat. It was abundant in Nebraska, had powerful crushing teeth, and is supposed to have been the ancestor of the of hyenas to-day. Probably it was a scavenger in its habits, devouring the bodies of the antelopes and‘small camels which then browsed numero nsly on the plains and in the valleys at this coun- ') 5..-- . be water. ships suspended in touthe weird legend Bric-a-Brac Gathered THE WATCHMAN, LINDSAY, T HURSDAY, JUNE 30: mom or unit: oiae tenements does. There are also many other districts of New York, as is well known, where the overcrowding is worse than in the worst quarters of the great cities of Europe. The denizens of the block in question are rather more than one-half citizens. Those who enjoy the greatest of earthly privileges cast their votes in the Twenty-eighth Elec- tion District of the Twelfth Assembly Dis- trict. According to the last census the in- ‘ habitants of this 121991: numhemd exactly A Densely Populated Block, Second street on the south, Third street on the north, Avenue B on the West and Avenue 0 on the east are the boundaries of the most densely populated area on the surface of the earth. The most overcrowd- ed block of \Vhitechapel streets and allays covering the same space does not contain much more than half the people that this block of East Side tenements does. There are also many other districts of New York, as is Well known, where the overcrowding is worse than in the worst quarters of the great cities of Europe. mL- Jr ‘ ‘ ‘ _ 7 uccu a. uopeiess task. High into the clear blue air and the golden sunshine rise the stately columns?) crowded and jumbled and heaped together below, untouched by the gladdcning sunbeams, unfreshened by the pure, free air, lie all the squalor and wretch- cduess of an Arab mud-hut village. â€"Black- wood’s Magazine. C!" The temple, So to speak, is eaten out at the core, and little but the shell remains. But here and there a fluted Corinthian col- , umn or group of columns, with entablature I still perfect, rises in stately grace far over the wretched huts, the rich, creamy color of the limestone, and the beautiful mould- ings of the capitals contrasting with the clear blue of the cloudless sky. The best view of the whole is to be obtained from the roof of the naos, which, once beautiful and adorned with sculpture, is now all bat- tered and defaced and has been metamor- phosed into a squalid little mosque. To describe the view from that roof Were in- deed a hopeless task. High into the clear blue air and the golden sunshine rise the stately columns?) crowded and inmhlm‘l «mi _ s 7- ----.--. There rises a. huge wall seventy feet high, inclosing a. square court of which the side is ‘740 feet long. Part of the wall, having fallen into ruin, has been rebuilt from the ancient materials, but the whole of the north side, with its beautiful pilasters, re- mains perfect. As the visitors enter the court they stand still in astonishment at the extraordinary sight which meets their eyes; for here, crowded within those four high Walfs, is the native Village of 'l‘zulmor. It was natural enough for the Arabs to build :huir mud huts Within rhusc ready mam.- :‘(.a-tific:m..n.;~:, but the impression pro- (hm-"ti by such :1 village in such a place is indescrihzthly strttngc. “1 went soon after this to hear her sing in a. great hall where there was a. vast throng. She stood on the stage before the baton of her teacher, the only performer, in the same perfectly natural and unconscious manner that belongs alone to perfect genius.” , ‘V‘Her teacher was evidently accustomed to this seemingly unusual method of receiv- ‘ ing a. lesson, for he played on while she went through all these perorations, only looking up when he struck a. new chord or exercise to see if she caught up the refrain. She seldom needed correcting and one could almost see in the manner of her tutor that he realized how great and godlike a. gift had been bestowed by nature upon this young girl. So she was bound by no con ventional rules as another child might have been, but was allowed to roam about the great room at will imbibing the necessary musical discipline in an unconscious and perfectly natural manner. “It was in a. hotel a. good many years ago. Just how many I will not say, but the diva was a young girl of perhaps 16 summers. She was at the hotel with her sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Strakosch. Their rooms were opposite mine, and in one of these rooms was a piano where the woman (lestined to become the greatest living singer took her daily lesson. The weather was warm and the door of the lesson-room was frequently left ajar. There wasa long pier glass opposite the piano and between this and the instrument the black-eyed queen kept up a constant 3 pacing to and fro. She was dressed in some dull material, making a strong con- trast for her dark bright face and luminms beautiful eyes. She sang as she went the coventional ‘ah,’ now running it in cadences down to those rich, clear, bell-like notes for which she has always been a marvel to art- ists, and again tripping lightly from these to the highest note. and ending in a soft bird-like thrill, at the same time bal- ancing herself on a chair, pulling at her long braids of raven hair and looking at the reflection in the great mirror before her, in a. dreamy, unconscious sort 0t way. How Patti Took Her Lessons in Private and Sung in Public. A Chicago woman tells the following stor_y of her interview with Patti : stood. lac-coming to skeletons wn’i'cl‘i have :6 been found in guano beds) within a. fraction of twelve feet high, and laid eggs, speci- mens of which are now in existence, which were as large as a two-gallon jug and had a holding capacity as great as 143 good-sized hen’s eggs I The giant moa, which did not i become extinct. until after Captain Cook’s . visit to New Zealand, was larger in point of weight and bulk at least, than Sinbad’s roe. The moa was but nine feet high, but he weighed over~ a thousand pounds, It was so clumsy that Cook’s sailors had no difficul- ty in killing several of them with the hand ‘ spikes which were used about the ship. The great auk, and other species of bird now extinct, was not so remarkable for its size as for the fabulous sum of money now asked and given for specimens of its eggs. In the year 1889 an egg of the great auk sold in London for $1,225. MINUTE WONDERS OF NATURE. Human hair varies in thickness from the 250th to the 600th part of an inch. The fiber of the very coarsest wool is only the 500th part of an inch in diameter, while in some species of the sheep it takes 1,500 of their hairs laid side by side to cover an inch on the rule. The silk worm’s web is only the 5,300th part of an inch in thick- ness, and some of the spiders spin a. web so minute that it would take 60,000 of them to form a. rope an inch in diameter! A pound’s weight of spider’s web of this size would reach around the world and then leave enough to reach from Vancouver to Halifax. A single grain of musk has been known to perfume a. room for twenty years. At the lowest computation that grain of musk must have been divided into 320,- 000,000,000 particles, each of them capable of affecting the olfactory organs. The hu- man skin is perforated by at'least 1,000 holes in the space of each square inch. For the sake of argument, say there is ex- actly 1,000 of these little drain ditches to a. square inch of skin surface. Now esti- mate the skin surface of the average-sized man at sixteen square feet and we find that T he has 2,304,000 pores. ‘4’fl H‘Hrn‘rn A 5.4.1“â€" _ IT CAME NATURAL TO HER TO SING. The Temple of Baal of 1,200,000,000 corpses. The immense cemetery of all mankind, seen at one View, is the real measure of .the victims destroyed by war from the histoncal Hence, seated on the ruins of slee s in the midst of the vast dea. , in the midst: of this most of 1,200,000,000 corpses. 7|" LA :__-_., It is day, and the sun sheds its light and heat upon the world. The country is green, the cities full of life, and the villages sur- rounded with laborers. Millions of men are living, acting, and producing. Life unfolds its joyous and divine radiance on the surface of the globe. The nations of the extreme Orient (the Chinese and their neighbors) form a. second human consolidation, and shed about the same quantity of blood. Gengis Khan and Tamerlane marked their routes with pyra- mids of severed heads. Barbarous nations also are engaged in combats, seldom kill- ing fewer than four to five million beings in n century. The total number destroyed every century in political, religious or in- ternational wars is at least forty millions. General statistics prove that, since the Trojan war 3,000 years ago, not a. single year has elapsed in which some war has not killed its proportionate number. During the thirty centuries which have. elapsed since the beginning of Asiatic and European history, a loss of 40,000,000 a century makes the total number destroyed by war to be 1,200,000,000, a. number very nearly representing the total population of the globe at the present day. n‘___-i_r. I ._. ______ J .. -ku v‘. JU’U1U,UUU 1! reached in the civilized countries of Europe and in the United States. Commencing with the Trojan war, the case has been the same in all ages of his- tory. Certain remarkable battles, fought J hand to hand with knife or club, have had the memorable honor of leaving as many as two hundred thousand men dead on the field ; as examples we cite the defeat of the Cimbrians and the Teutons by Marius. and the last exploits of Attila. Eeighteen to twenty million men are killed every cen- tury in Europe by the enlightened institu- tion of war, If these men, averaging thirty years of age, should join hands they would form a line 4,500 leagues long, cross- ing all Europe and Asia. Twelve hundred millions. ‘ How many men are destroyed by war in a century? Official reports and documents enable us to calculate the number of sol. 1 diers who have been killed or have died during modern wars. we know that dur- ing the unaccountable Franco-German war of 1870-71, 250,000 men were slain on the two sides ; that during the useless Crimean war of 1854-55, 785,000 were slain : that during the short Italian war of 1859, 63,- 000 men fell on the field of battle or died in hospitals ; that the game of chess between Prussia and Austria in 1866 deprived 46,- 000 individuals of life ; that in the United States the strife between the North and South caused the death of 450,000 men in 1860-64; we know also that the wars of the first empire poured out the blood of five ; million Europeans, and that France has ta- ken up arms twenty times since 1815. On adding the number of victims of war dur- ing the last century a total of 19,840,900 is Can human folly, regarded from some special point of view, he considered a sub- ject for scientific observation 2' We do not ‘ hesitate to answer in the affirmative, al- though up to the present time it has never been classified, and although it forms a. whole too vast and too complex to belong to any special genus or deetrmined cate- gory. Its magnitude and universality have doubtless kept it outside ofpositive studies, properly so called. Even now we donot pre- tend to treat the immense subject in its full extent, but simply wish to examine one of its most interesting and serious phases, the military system of the fourteen hundred million human beings who people this planet. The Human ._.<<mr<m ICZDmmD 221502 wm_zmw I><m wmmz qurmU. The old Phoenicians are believed to have been the first to use a. syllabic form of ideo- gruphic writing, which was the germ of an alphabet. The Egyptiansdmproved upon it with their phonetic alphabet, which denoted both fivllabic and alphabetical sounds by means of objects ; thus, “Ahom” being an eagle, the figure of an eagle stood for the A, and so on. This is what may be called an ideographic alphabet, and it seems to have been in use as long ago as 700 B. C. 'he Human Sacrifice in Thirty Centuriesâ€" As Great as the Population of the Earth Nowâ€"-The Cost of Fightingâ€"A Suggested Improvement on Armies. I The growth of the hair and beard after ‘death have been too often proven to b. doubted, but the most remarkable case on record is probably that of a man named Haskell, who in the year 1868 died in Northfield, Minn. During his life he had worn only a heavy black mustache, but a few years ago, when his friends removed his body to another cemetery, the coffin broke open and the face and head were found to be covered with a growth of bushy black hair over two feet in length. Such cases as this seem to encourage the idea that the hair has a. life of its own apart from the bod y. â€"-Globe-Democrat. WAR’S MATHEMATICS. 2,261 citizens and L271“ aliens, makmg a total of 3,532 human beings, which is equal to the population of many a. town covering. a. square mile and boasting of a. Mayor, an Postmaster, Coroner and many other func- 1 tionaries. There are no such inequalities of rank in the class which inhabits this block. They are all ordinary East Side tenement-house people, and the only ones Who are any better off than the others are the saloonkeepers and the storekeepers.â€" New York Wold. The Phoenicians Were First Growth of Hair After Death, .ueu‘ routes With pyra- is. Barbarous nations combats, seldom kill- to five million beings , L I ‘ ‘ 7 a. new life and fait ' spirit. and, taking fr age, she degairged o esh cour- n her way. At tHab magenta the the clouds and liahtml _ --.u-v Lyoy; open book, which she now Then he told her of his sic travelling for her health, I who passed away in the pr manhood, of a fortune ‘ Wrong-doing of others. A look out; on tho “Hun “A The door was instantly opened to her timid summons; an old man with white hair and a. kindly face invited her to enter. His gentle inquiries drew out all the bit- terness and disappointment in the heart of the world-weary woman as she told him of 66 ‘it here, my child,” said her host, and he seated her in that, restful nl\6;- 17â€" A' ”Vt-.-“ VJ mu: niiuluw OI ulittle, unpretentious house. Some win- dows are like indexes to that which is withinâ€"the souls of those who occupy the house beautiful, or the house distressing, as the case may be. This one held a. table on which was a. vase containing a tiny bunch of wild flowers, an open book that some one had been reading, and a cozy arm. chair from which the occupant had just arisen. The little canvasser must seek shelter from the rain, and something in that smiling window seemed to invite her to rest here. 1M That Cheered a \Vay-“Vorn Pilgrim at the End of a. Day’s Journey. She was a canvasser, a tired little wo- man. Things had gone wrong with her that day, and she had almbst lost faith in God and humanity and in herself. \Valk- ing about from early morning till late even- ing, always bearing the same burden, that cruel sense of humiliation and the feeling that she was not wanted in any of the houses where she sought admittance. She had acquired this knowledge from watching the changed expression on faces that re- ceived her with a. smile and dismissed her With a frown. She had taken but one or- der to-day and now it was beginning.r to rain. \Vzilking hastily along the wet street, her spirits sinking lower at each Slip. her i attention was attracted by the window of 1 .1 liitln _._..... That may answer 'as advice to future ministers of war when men, having finally reached the age of reason, shall refuse to fight. But for centuries ministers and gen- erals can rest; upon their laurels.â€"Ca.mille Flammarion, in New York Sun. n an. Inn“ their staff officers would conduct the strate- gy at their risk and peril. The victory would belong, as heretofore, to him who by his skill should succeed in checkmating his adversary and in destroying the greatest number of combatants. That improvement on ordinary armies would have the advan- tage of leaving the husbandman in his field, the workman in his factory. and the student to studies, and would promote public pros- pers‘i‘ty and happiness. 5 I892. - -v- â€"_- .uua LIILU I Can the armies of the world be abolished? It is impossible. A mechanic has calculated the cost of making wooden soldiers of natural size and ‘good condition. As, after all, the victims of to-day are only an affair of number, money, and strategem, he has decided that all the armies could be reproduced for 6,000,000,000 francs, or $200,000,000 a year (soldiers in fir, under officers in oak, officers in rosewood, captains in mahogany, colonels in cedar, and generals in ivory), and that they could be drilled by steam power, the artillery being included in the calculation. The leaders of the two nations at war and their staff officers would conduct the strate- gy at their risk and peril. The viMm-w A great amount of money is necessary in order to kill in proper manner, for each man slain costs about $7,000. The increas- ing and multiplying taxes of all nations are never sufficient topny for the hatchery of human troops. Every year Europe spends more than a. billion, two hundred million dollars in shedding her children’s blood; and France spends four hundred thousand dollars every day. The war in AmeriCa did not cost less than sixteen billion dollars. From the Crimean war down t» flu: 1870~7l, the civilised nations of Europe and America. spent in destroying one an- other 810,000,000,0['D of the ordinary bud- get and more than $11,000,000,0UO raised expressly for the purpose, making a total of 8'21,000,000,000. The wars of the last hundred years have cost $140,000,000,000, ‘ without counting the sorrow, the loss of men, and other results. For a part only of this fabulous sum all the children might have been brought up and educated gratuitously; all lines of rail- ways might haVc been built; provision might have beem made for the attempts to realize aerial navigation; customs, town dues, and all obstacles to freedom of trade might have been suppressed; all destitution might have been removed except that caus- ed by idleness and infirmity. War is not only an unnecessary scourge, but is more injurious than all others, for it never comes alone ; sickness, ruin, and fam- ine always follow in its path. Ifthe 1,200,000,000 skeletons should rise and climb one upon another the ladder thus formed would reach the moon, coil about that body and, continuing onward, would mount into infinite space four times as far again, that is, 500,700 leagues in height. The corpses, if thrown into the channel at Calais, would form a bridge between France and England and seperate the ocean from the North Sea by a weir. If only the heads of the men slaughtered in war were taken and placed side by side, a band would be formed reaching six times around the , world. That quantity of blood weighs 18,900,- 000,000 kilograms. It is an unfailing stream, which every hour since history he- gan has unceasingly poured 680 litres of blood to dye the royal purple worn by the ocgnpants of imperial thrones. - The sword is ceaselessly drawing blood from human veins. Eighteen million cubic meters have been shed. In summer at Paris the Seine delivers ‘ to the two parts of the bridge Pont-Neuf about a. hundred cubic meters of water every second, moving with a force of 3.5000 horse power. Every hour 360,000 cubic meters of water pass under the arches of the bridge, or 8,640,000 cubic meters in a day. Imagine the river to be human blood instead of water, for if the blood shed in all wars was put into the basin be- between the qu'ays it would form such a. river, and we would have to remain stand- ing on the parapet fifty hours to see it flow away. beginning of nations down' to the year of grgge in whiqh we live. A WINDOW OF REST health, of dear chi in the prime of early fortune wrecked bv .uuu, sma ner host, and :hab restful chair by the 1 she now saw was a Bible. of his sick and feeble wife deaf childf-e‘fl b5’ the sel HOUDANS. WHITE LGHORNSy PLYMOUTH RGKS. Orders filled as recixcd. H15 stock are all prize bild as follow HIGH-CLASS POULTRY THOROUGH-BRED P‘ULTRY THE NORTH KING Is one 3f the largest, swiftest and most powerftl stea- mers on thelakes. Lighted by Elexriciry and modern throughout. Through Tickets and Baggage C'Iecks from Agents or on board. RETL’RNINGâ€" Leaves Charlutre all 11.05 P.M., except Tuesday at 9.40 m and Saturday a: 4.15 v.31. Coxxrasu‘ Rochester with early trains for all pom on New York Central and all diverging lines. CALLS at Brighton and Colbourne on Monday 'and Wednesday Mornings f-z Rochester. and Wednesday Morning 3213 Saturday Evening from Rochester. Beginning Monday§April 25th, willea‘ Cobourg at: 8 Arm, and Port Hope 10.30 11.31., on arrival of C.T.R. Trai from North, East and West. C. H. NICHOLSON, Gen. Pass. and F gt Azt, . F. GILDERSLEEVE P011 HOPI General Manager, leasror. DAILY - FOR - ROCHES Lake Ontario Steamboat NORTH KING maid F. C. TAYLOR, r Accident Insurance. The London Guarantee and Accid. surance Company 'of London, En Capital $1,290,000. Liberal policy‘; every five years, $5 per annum seq weekly compensation and $10001 event of death by accident. JOHN D. MACMtchy Gen eral Agent. Li ‘ nd Salt M1 3’ part of the Dealer in Fresh a Orders delivered to an URSpAy. JUNE w, 1 McINTYRE STEW‘ Barristers and etc., Li [Liluzleu (7o .-- ..o...-.. .. Magnificient New Steamer - C- TERI-EW- â€"‘5th door east Agent, Linday. UMSAY. for Egg for hatch- 1'11th once. D. 6. MN], had betcr apply “"1! sum ”r '1” 2h. 1‘73. xaw "re “1’1!in .‘ ”A” )1, I.“ ({In time Minn.“ Wand Won .4. "unlit; “V,““HU. Bi "War". 1! “Om-r unnk 3“”. f" Wet, the young ham 1‘; fI‘Om the corpse. Then choaked by emotion. Etc me fifty years a3 north of Irelana on. 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