HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Expositor, 1869-11-05, Page 4Is a Man a Feeble Animal.
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Gr.ANCING the other day over the
Duke of Argyll's essay on "Primeval
Man," it struck us, as it hal often
struck ns 'before, that a l tL ie to lunch
is made' nowadays of man's `'eeblebess as
a Mere animal. .We do not believe the
ever was one. and the duke's argument
that if he was o>: e, he weuld have got
stronger, and not weaakei•, is n answer -
THE S AFORTH EXPOSITOR.
ill any true sense of til`Pat [Lira. Cz1.tt-
not be counted, iA- Losse will tig'it a
ho. Se bob 110 does not tttaV'k hits per-
Si- tentIV
er.-Si-tently becvu e he is' at horse'; and
the only' aani;l,al believed . to n)aake
war on human principles, that is, in
cortl'tivaation and fur territory the dog
of Constalitinopieo and Alexandria,
leaves oft' the- tiibihlel►t his adversary
quits the spra=t( cI->>lriuiou hehaat in-
vaded;
let.;;
able buthis feebleness dote riot clic- We rather' doubt if van's weakness
prove the theory, of iii :atnirnal origin iS an animal is a sou i.1 iLt urn('
grate so e�aticluSively as civilized wri ;Ir,t tl5t de!ve1(prntnt, and we -d() not
tars, who kilo v they could not got thei' see tlhatt it i:3 needed. I t, is far e i' wl•.
living if . turned naked in the fields, and more s,ttisfaetor to fight the battle
have a tendency to assume. upon higher ground, an(1 (gall for evi-
The Duke of Argyll says, that no (lr•o e to explain.npi'n any materialist
animal save man ever e�iiploys an in- theory the unique position of man as
snrulnent to realize any objec=t,' I-ut the only -being with aaccuinula.tive in-
i3 not the case. The only anima,' with telli�•ence. _ Where .and when, if he
fa hand, so -to speak, the elephant, will ever wa.s animal, Girl he tart company
.break of al brunch o swish hianself' [vial nig kind'? as,i1 i', a`:knowledgtd
with when` annoyod by insects,. The b all observes es drat t he has parted coin -
idea, 1
idea, again, tha-tt in his eatrly . tti.ug s poly ; and why is there no tiai.ce Of tin
_ YY
man mast have been liable to a1s5nl It by other. animal who has Made similar aid-
inueh bigger antro as than any now 111 vanee if tiot`ui dc�g► e ,, then at least ill
existence `m(ty be -true, hut .if :true, is kind -7 The arils au•gtunent against the
not germane to the speculation, T= e developennent theory is not the impassi
imaginative horrors of that satiation bility of the develo )einem of as mind
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would not strike fan anim tl, and the the aad,mittr•d exi:;teilc•e of a chasm he-
n asttodon is no hi -ger in proportion r,ween the lowest savage and the highest
to man than 'the• elephant in pi opor- brute which even the imagination inaation i.
g is
tion to tholittle monkeys wha , ilevei unable to cross.
theless, live in the.jungle with him o►-
ery comfortably. A New Cure for consumption.
Then iris at•g'letl that the extreme
length of the period of .c;)hildhood Tn a paper published in the Bulletin
man must.have'greatty enfeebled him
in the •struggle, and no doubt the length I gr.'s, adverts to the therarpeutic effects
of that period is of the most cur -
and
arsenic ,in pnlmunairy comt)laint'i,
ions of many .distinctions between man atnd espetally on the Virtue it seems to
sad alt other mammals. He is not the possess of stopping spitting of_ blood, a
longest lived- of them, but -he takes, quality he has remarked se' eral times,
much the longest time t. grow-. But in and of which he quotes two instances.
practice, we imagine, conceiving as fax
The first is that of aa. stone -mason, a man
as one can the position of t'�e human. of herculean' frame, and thirty six years
being—without intellect, . the :effect of of age-. Being passionately fond. of
that source of weakness would Only be fishing and shooting, he had frequently
this,-thiac the female's whole voile in c:rn'ht cold i1 pursuit of • these plea.-
a natural -state waulcl_ ...be the care of wires, and in'the Bend became cousum p-
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her porins, a necessity not iml,owed on rive, `. He consulted Dr. Ulersoy in
any other ariinral, and accompanied ap Mav, 1867, when he had already been
parently by this peculia=rity, that u1 st1ffeiiug ,for upwards of a� year from a
man almost alone—not quite alone—i5 bad ebugu; accompanied with blood
the'female.dec .decidedly the inferior of the stainecl e3, rpectorattioils. At times he
male in-: strength and cuuraage.e had spit p1re blood in rather large
Suppose our friends `of a. the worr►en's quantities. Frani the, beginning he
rights movement will allow that, even had been treated with ecd-lived oil,
though they may think the inc;ylial t = iron, bark, and lastly, with .perchloride
durable; but at all events, that is fousd
to be the fact 10 all extremely. savage
muses,- with the possible, and nilly possi-
bite, exception of a single clan. t It
would almost seem, therefore, as if this
`l he Harvest in Europe.
13y mail from Europe we take the
following resume of the harvest prof-
pects prevailing at the great food sup-
ply centres, on the 1st of October as
repotted ed in Palle -
The accounts of the hat vest in Ger-
many are very unequal, varying in dif-
ferent districts from good to far below
the aver ge yield, Un the v hole, the,
grain harvest of middle • Germany- was
nt below the avar►age; t' at of the South-
ern States was far. better. Frani Aus-
tria. we hear that the yield of corn is
considerably smaller than iu the last
two years ; the same in true of Rot ma-
r' ia. The Russian harvest is said to
have been good, and the crops have no-
where fast
so completely .as ir� some
places last year. The fodder is every
where poor, with the 'exception of a
fear .nlountaainotas districts. There has
been very . little clover, and both the
hay and surrogate have been Much in-
jured by the unfavorable weather. O
e.
the ether hand there has beena good
dna! of straw. 1otli potatoes and beets
pave suffered from the heat and drought
of July and tne rain of August. The
disease has also appeared with more "o
less virulence in sone paa'ts Tlie hopes
entertained for the potato harvest are
not therefol•e high ; but it is said that
the beet is improving. The - hops are
said to be its. -a very poor condition,
partly on a acc=ount of. the weather and
partly from the insects and the disease,
which have appeared in many gardens. J
de Therapeutique, Dr. Giersoy, of Lan -
of iron, in order to stop haaernophthisis,
which had become alarmingly frequent.
This treatment'haavirl ' led to no favor-
able result,, Dr. Clersory at length daily
(administered 6 nilligm ►. of arseniate of
kind of weakness had been met by a, soda for twenty dap consecntively ,
t provision which counteracted it at the then intel•1•upted it to give cod-liver oil
'cost of a certain diminution of the de for the following sixteen days, and so
fensive .power, the female being corn- on alternately for three -months, the
paratively useless in combat, a diuhinu- patient taking at the same, time infus-
tion, However, true of at least one oth-
er species Which has lived—the stag.
Thos similar weakness -at the other ex-
tremity of life is not .peculiar to Oran,
and would make but little diffei ence in
the struggle, being equivalent, in fact,
at the worst to a universal deduction
from natural longevity. The human
race would diel 4t: fifty ir.stea 1 of seventy
and . Weald even then be among the
longestli =fed of the mare, tied iaa,. :The
want of cicthea or Qat' fi'ting food, which
seems to4the civilized wi iter so dreadful
d
is apparently no reason for xtinc�tiori. •
ot a young man of twenty-nine, who for
An immensely large section of hunette 'the last two years hal been spitting
ity. probably y a clew' half, does riot b ood, and was: in a very bad - state. ° In.
wear clothes in any -way a conducive this ca=e also arseniate of soda, has hith=
either to health or pr'otction. The erto produced excellent effects, but it
waist c{oth (;f, he Indian. pe `s int is not is uncertain. whether the cure will oe
axsstined fiom motives of cadency,, nor . quit" complete:"
of hygiene ; the naked castes, fa q u i rs A Diamond of Eight Ounces.
muhunts, &., i o not suffer in -haaltlh
anc4 the negro who wears .nothing. is
supptsecl by many observers to be ex-
ceptionally long lived. Two races at
least, the Tasinani4rts and the Fu ?,gia1is,
fate severe cold without clothes, and it
must not be forgotten that in ti ojpii ai
climates cold seems to strike as severely
as in the temperate zone.. " The fall in
the thermometer is c:omnaraatively as
'great'and the suffering aO acute. The
•guestionof food is more puzzl'irg, but
is not quite " insuperable. Half the
dif3'i'culty woli'd disappear 'if man < ha`l
ions of quassia and wine of Jesuit's
bark. Atte end of the first week all
spitting'of blood ceased, and by degrees
all the digestive functions got into or-
der again,, tl.e appetite r9turned, dys-
phoea disappeared, but there still re
nlained general weakness and the
cough. The same alternate treatment
as above was resumed, with a slight
variation for four months more, at the
end of which a complete cure was ob-
tanned, and no relapse has bean observ-
ed since. The other ii,stance was that
,A PRECIOUS STONE AS BIG AS A LEMON.
The discovery of a diamond:weighing
three-quarters e -f a pound, and worth at
a moderate estimate twenty millions of
money, would be an event calculated to'
leave a mark -even on this ago of sen-
sations: We only regret that we can-
not •quite annorai•ce toat it
is a fact. " A stone, however, assumed
to be lir cious and defined - in ssuccesive
telt •a
rat as.
a diamond, g n ..ld, a topaz surd' a
. nondescript, has actually been found in
no diigaists, which as all animal' he the Ausitralianen. -s
would not have. If we stippo a him ;isour correspon 4 ent irt'evently calls"it,
remaaining in the mild climates a s' long•<, .
t+ � to a, big (� b1„ as a li =ge lemon, it weighs
as- he could,"he wo'ald have 6 h, and between sever and eight: ounce in the
the -flesh ot small animalsand birds, scale and it might =" °
:, ahs rile people say..
and berries 'and fruit and Some leaves, he anything fur all that could be told.
and may be credited with instinct To enable the reader to speculate on
egnal ,to that:..of the dormouse, which thepappreciate ossible marvel :ind to
bays in a stuck against bad weather, ,
l hc,nonomon at .its properworth, we
That he co-ald multiply enormously -un will d =st explain what it means,s__ or
-der su.h conditions is of course -not .pos- warder man if atitually. realized. Di
a
sible
but then, it- isnot a .'hick pope- lnonds are n eaasnred by their weight in
laat.i•'n but aL popnlatiou which sc1Hly-e cart. t i •a.- ca .rat IIeing cr •• ' . r T
,� fort. grsins. The
desires to prove. It woul.dnot. it must largeat diamond which we :i1 this
he remembered, on this Hypothesis, be countryhave any- practical knowledge
diminished by ciseaase .�ny more than of v p <i1 lrnowlecl�t,
of i.5 the famous Koh i poor, which in
anina-•• l popattaitior ; it might not be its hist:rival shape,as:shown at the ex
seriously menaced by att ick, far there hibitiou of 1851. weighed 186,-carats,1�
al'e? [Vl)I►7e T'f'n1`)i.S like Australia, 744grains Th new
o , or ,gAnsa:diarn diaa-
tivit1iotlt. wild 4nin1•i1q, which—ss we rhiond ,vould, wei Ii_ ata gab 900 cara
� tis
PI see by th'' e<•unpie of Palestine, or : ,600 grains ja at at)ont five times t i c t d•
do not m•;lt:, ly,.. "me•'ely l:e arise its the Doli i rtc,:i1• a; tutu ili'.ed la, h g n enient to 1n1r rov
1 to e
of tEte� sthsedtee' of men ; and is [v���rlcl to the see 1 ` tdV tot ' f �1 '
right
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6!GN OF THE
1OO CH COLLAR. -
H1+' undersigned begs to inform the farm-
ers and others of the County of Huron,
hat 13 has opened a first class
HARNESS & SADDLERY
IN
And being in a position to pay -cash for all
material used at his establishment. he can
and will offer superior inducements to any
other party doing business here.
COLLARS particularly, are aacknow-
�JI$
led cel b co•�• etant judges to be su-
perior to any made in the county, and from
his thorough acquaintance with the wants
of the community, he is satisfied that all who
favour him with their patronage wil have
no cause to regret doing so.
His personal supervision being given to all
woi k manufactured at his shop, places him
in a position to warrant all work, sold by
him, and his motto will be " the nimble six
pence before the slow shilling." Come along
farmers and judge for yourselves. No charge
1 for showing goods. °
Shop opposite the Post Office; Seaforth.
WPI.. H. OI, CVER,
,Seaforth, Jane 18, 1869. 189-tf.
Scarcely a quarter of the usual yield is
expected, But little fruit has been
gathered, and even what was is poor in
quality. This is particularly the case
with apples and plums.
Disestablishment in Wales.
A petition to the Prime Minister,
praying, that steps may be taken for
the disestablishment anti disendowment
ox the Established Church in Wales is
being numerously: signed in various
parts of the principality. The memo-
rialists state that of the 'present five
`bishops, one—the Bishop of St. Asph
is wholly ignorant of the Welsh tongue
and has never been able in such tongue
to discharge any 'function, priestl v oa
episco,,al, towards the souls of the
l�elsh people, and that nevertheless he
hags. received . since hisappointment
above £90,000 sterling, in addition to
patronage exceeding that vested in the,
four English bishoprics of . Cal lisle,
Hereford, Lichfield and Chichester.
The petitioners state that. .another of
their bishops is a Scotchman, and that
since the accession of the Hanoverian
family nei Welshman has ever been ad-
vanced to a --bishopric in `his native
land.
The Irish Land Question.
The land question in Ireland has re-
ceived additional complications. The
tenants of house property are commenc-
ing to agitate for fixity of tenure in their
.holdings ; and. the masses v#' farm labor-
ers have begun a movement, which, is.
st)reading with great rapidity,. for the
establishment of their rights on the soil
they till. While the tenant farmer de-
mands to be inalienably fixed on the
soil, the laborers turn his own argument
against him as•a landlord, and require
in their .turn a house built to live in
and one plantation acre of land attach-
ed thereto for each farm laborer, at the
farmer's rent, or at a fair rent. At
one -of the meetings at which the'reso-
lution to req nice this was adopted
g
man get a comfortable homestead and
one acre of land attached, 'and all secret
societies will c irappear. fom the coun-
try, and the Government can remove
the solcliei•s from Ireland If this as-
sertion is well founded, the chief cause
of dissatisfaction in Ire'and is not the
land question, as it affects tenants, but
the caw] act of those tenants towards the
laboring class employed by theta. Re-
cent'utfefnnres of members of the Im-
perial Government forbid the S11ppGSll-a
tion that they intend to propose td Par
liaament any scheme that will he genet.-
ly acceptable to the Irish- tenantry,
whose expectationsl'aand demands ha ve
unfortunately increal;ed with their. re
cognitionf'of the desi••e to do them jus-
tice. The extent of the Govern men t
measure will probably be the ('onver
cion of the customary tenant right of
Ulster into 1 law_, and :its 'extension tc
all Ireland, with some provision for
ong leases, on: a new valuation, and
their ultimate renewal. Although this
8" much lest, than demanded; yet it. is all
the legislature ought to grant, unless it
s prepared ed to decline that the, crisis
ustifies a revolutionary measure, and 7
)rivatd; right must be saa1�rifi:'ed to OT No. 20, in the 13th Concession of
is expediency. • 2 1 .. Stephen.. Term.. liberal, Title ood
Such aa-meaasiire would A l t l .good,
G O D- E R I- C H
COMMERCIAL AND MATHEMATICAL
ACADEMY!
(Established Oct. rat, 1866.)
In Connection with the London Com-
mercial
om-
merci al College.
The Course of Study
Is Comprehensive,
PRACTICAL ANI) CHEAP''.
The time necessary to complete the course
is from 4 to 6 months; but one.year is al
lowed, so that all can finish it without extra
charge.
TERMS:
For the w'^ole course, $20 in advance,
(Books & Stationery not included.) .
Please ei.cloase stamp for circular which
contains full information, and address
J. A. Me}}ELLAR,
Principal,
Goderich, Ont.
89-o100.
August 20th. 1869.
CASH
FOR
THE subscriber having RJMOVED to
the premises lately occupied by E. Hick-
son &
Co,, is now prepared topaythe high-
est
P F $
est Cash Price for any quantity of good
Fresh Eggs delivered at his shop, Main St,
Seaforth.
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DAVID D. WILSON.
Seaforth, April 22.
1 NSO t ,VENT AOT o ' 1864.
In- the Matter of WILLIAM FER-
GUSON An Insolvent:
.
N Saturday. the 5sixth day of No-
vember next, she undersigned will.
apply to the Judge of the County Court
or the County of Huron for a discharge
under' the said Act.
WILLIAM FERGUSON,
• By M,- C..CAMERO
N:
His Attorney.
Goderich 20thA1 g. A: D. 1669. 9I-2
ONTARIO HOUSE
FALL & WINTER
Very Complete, and selliugat -
p �
greatly
Reduced Prices !
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CLOTHS, . 'LANNELS,
SHAWLS and HOODS,
In great- variety.
c
3D3hroce s. (s
� JW+ t�i1��Si/
Arid . Crocketr'
EDWARD CASH.
Seaforth, Sept, 29, 1869. 52-1y_
FOR SALE.
PP y o i essrs Benson "& Meyer., Seaforth,
ive the tenant cert,ti-•tv of lenure,, and ; or to Messrs Cameron, McMichael i+'it4g
he strongest • •1. improve aid & Hoskin, Solicitors, Toronto der
%voal'th,
is holding, by sec:. ung to hien the full 1 Sept. lt)th, 1869, 92-tf•.
AGENTS WANTED.D
GENTS wanted to sell one of the Desi
. at .nc uta a sages (, his outlay, and the
t he thinned Off t11'l�ai 13V [v ll. �`�!alh' -+,
not • scale of prices, s nae2,.000,U„t}, the to receive at. the era of This tern, if he
is s:i.l t,-) he a ni.tnl tl sttte, ut if a e Australian- stone avonid lug' rill uetl 1,y decided not to accept a renewal of his
art, to at►7l)080 m tri met ,,lv •a gr e_ 11 o is rhe Jew eller at tar in pre than tive time, lease fi•c,rri his suceesdor, the remaining
atr:lnvd, t['H mast assign him the 111- that alliouhlt.— Times t' 1['(1 ` ►
Lclluo:l 1 zr,tc� Gt.. tic;- worth -.o. bis iul)1•o+eu:calits.— �lo,t�,•eul
stIUCts of l-.3 kind, among which ws,l tjbet :'
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paying iiiv€ntinns in the Province
AN) iberal discount will be given to travelling
a?eu ts. cl ii 1
at the Expositor
13 d xf ,iter ,
►.;.:::ioI t11, iJr_ �; �. .i ,•,
Bila l CL,
'Importer and mnnufaaeturer f 11 ki
HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE,
Such as
SOFAS,r 7 ]�
,LO �iNG1:7)S.
CENTRE TABLE,,
:M T`l'1 ASSES
DINING & BREAKFAST TABLES,
BUREAUS
CHAIRS, and
BEDSTEADf,
1'il Great variety.
Mr R. has great confidein,t� in offering his
goods to the public, as they are mage of
(Mod Seasoned Lumber, and by First -glass
Workmen.,
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GoF 1 MADE TOO DUI
On 'the Shortest Notice.
WOOD TURNING
Done with Neatness and Desp<teh.
Warerooms
TWO DOORS -SOUTH SHARP'S HOTEL
Main Street.
Seaforth, Jan. 6th. 1869,
GOOD NEWS
( TO
r�arm ers an Others.
TE undersigned having newly fitted out
his mill in a first class style, i,3 whar=f
he is now grinding for every
FIFTEENTH BUSHEL,
Or exchanging flour for- good. what at 4,
Ms. to the bushel.
THE RICHEST PRICE I CASH. PAID
FOR
WIIEAT.
ALFRED BREWER,
Roxburgh Milbk
reaforth. June 4th, 1869.
.
SEATTER
EXCHANGE BROkER
And dealer in Pure
DRUGS, CHEMICALS & DYE STUFFS.
The Drug Departm nt is under the sped
care of an experienced Chemist,
J3.M..PEA1t;oN.
January gist, 1869. ov-t
urniture
FuRNITUREs
Li• has -now o3- nand, the
T'0 $. i. . largest stock in 'Saforth, of ever'y des-
cription of Furniture, from the commonest to
the finest, and all at the lowest prices: Qual-
ity
ara.ofpmateriteed.al employed, and workmanship,.
'CTN'D�R��'AKIN
In all its departments, attended to in a satis
factory manner. A Hearse for hire.
T. BEL'S -
PATENT SPRINR LMATTRASS
Kept constantly on hal d, and fitted to any -
bedstead. This article is the best and cheap-
est made, as attested to by all who have us-
ed it. Warranted to give-atisfaction,
VD—Remember the plane,
d1P1:)•OS=T
K I DD 84. M'MULKN'S
Seaforth, A t ;. 5, 1869, 87-tf
FARMERS!
d.ir Get your Hnmmmades Cut Cut #
With Economy & Taste
AT
S}LA
ND :. O.:Ss.
TAI LOP S,
GEx r'
C iGb, Street.
C4-OO]J QTS
And Workmanship Guarantc'cd.
CHARGES MODERATE,
NEXT DOOR TO
Lu s en'S Drug Store.
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