Huron Record, 1881-02-11, Page 7WOMAN GoSSIP0
Humors of Courtship and Cdd•
Matrimonial Oeremonies
Among ths People
" of Cuba,
A. Short Screed PA UllthtttlieriSed
ttnel the UnfOlintlate Results
i,:ytariligt","ca:th=1011:: way ptizsled
Tem old Dueheps of Septette*, the WO Of
whose effectss took photo the other day, had
ft passion for dress which lested to the very
end of her life, and as she held to the opiu.
ion that nothing is too good to wear and no. •
thing is teo bad to keep, cupboards road'
drawers were filled to overflowing, and the
whole attic story of her house in Park dreg,
completely duffed with dresses. The eorot
nation robes wore at the crowning of Qemen
Victoria were there of crimson velvet hued
of Telling of It with miniver, Her Grace wars wont to have
Reachiog the ShrineHy
nen of Hmen *Un-
der EtIffiesultieS—eDerivationt
of Ilitoinen's_ Names—A
River Between Them.
Fashion Notes.
Cutts are very fashffintrble.
NEW opera oloalesoare of shaded plush.
Burroo gloves aro no longer fathionable.
IT is not the correct thipg to wear tight
gloves. 4
Clime crape scarfs as accessoties for ball
toilets are in demand.,
EIITTorTIMS, loosamristed. gloves take the
precedence of all others. •
Pups of orimpedterlatau aro the proper
trimmings for 'widow's cape.
EASTERN combinations of °dada colors
grow in fashional3le feed.
This het, in Paris. is dressed less flat and
higher than it was last year.
Wm( ball coiffures are worn baudeaux•of
ribbons stet with precious donee. .
FAshiconABLE young ladies who used to
cell for 6i kide now ashlar "sixes." .
GOLD, silver and jewelled bandeaux are
worn around the head for full: dress for
Wenn muslin petticoats are the only
undergarmeets that are made fullet. thanformerly. •
ITEINLY imported French underwear of all
kin& fit the form as close as possible to be
comfortable. e
Tim favorite artificial, flowers &the :me-
son are Parma, violets, roses, chryeanthe-
memo and pinks; . •
Goovee to be fashienable mud be loose in
the hands and fingers, but actually wrinkled
around the wrists.
Wares flowers have become; things of the
past on winter bonnets, they are worn to
excess on evening toilets, • .
Vowel:mous jabots, mingled with flowers,
are worn down the front of dresses for °ere..
momote_occesione. . _
• CLOAttS of [Ain de Lyon, with shirred
yokes, are rapidly comingit vogue. Fay
bands and collars are the trimmings.
Wamet Chedda shawls, enriched on the
edges with Oriental embroidery illiminatect
with gold threads, make the most elegant
ball and opera ,wrape.
• UNDRESSED kid glovewithout buttons,
light cote* very loose an the hands, and
wniikled around he wrists, take precedence
of all othere-for evening wear. • ,
Tot large straight °leek!, with shirred'
• yokes, which are coming, in, have °Masi
sleeves formed of the fulness of the garment
and bordered with deep fur bands........
BERTHAS or rivieres .of artificial ffolVers
are made to fit the necks of dresses, n� mat-
ter what the shape may be, end ate finiehed
• on the shouldem with bouquete'or epau]ettes
of flowers.
. •
Yotrito widows wear Fanchoo,orlebe caps •
of tarlatan, with or without strings fastening
under the chignon; elderly. widows wear
large mob caps of the same material; with
Week net linmge on the crowns.
Waifs.
TartatrisON TO iitaten.
Come into the garden mud,
My darling, my life, my own ;
• Come with a 'mote and a thud,
Ere the Week bat night is flown.
For the mud �f the garden is pure,
But the mud of the street is vile, •
And our footing will be more 'sure,
• So we'll wade in the former awhile.:
• Joule calls his wifee hair -dresser her
switch tender.
"THOUGH .he sleigh me yet will I trust
in him," says the pious maiden of her. lov,
er.
Store courtship " Beebe' the Lord.
hath sent me to marry thee," said the suit-
or. "The Lord's will be done," was the
submissive reply. •
"You seein to enjoy telling film," dryly
remarked en—old lady to her little niece the
other day. "Yes,. auntie," replied the
child,. "1 think I do,-.1mt I enjoy having
you swallow them mere." ••,
THE fashionable spring boeftiet for 1881 is
to be proftmedly decorated with fiewers,
and provided in the rear with a fire -escape,
so that the wearer's friends can climb' to the
top and see the trimmings.
"1 semen," said a gentleman to his lady
love "you are very hatdsorite." "Pooh,"
said lade% "so you would say if you did
not think so.' " And so you would think,"
Answered he, "though r should not say
so."
A TROY girri who has been deaf since
childhood regained her hearing through the
mediumship of a handsome young &toter
who tackled her case. He eat down beside
her and began tolling her how geed -looking
she was.
A moor is told of a North Adams young.
man Who called on a young lady for the first
time Sunday evening. Aftenan hour or two
of elated conversation on variOuti subjects,
ethe 'Mau of the house" entered the room
wee° the young peoplel'Were 'sitting. • HO
was introduced to the young man, and; af.
ter a fee remarks Upon the weather, eto
left the room and retired for the tight. Nino
o'clock came, and the calleresaying "Good
Night," left for his home. The negternort.
ing, on passing the house, the young man
had ow:lesion to speak With the young lady,
and when about to resume his down town
journey, met "the matt of the hotter)" OW
Ingle the gate. "Well, young man; you
hold on pretty long," said the old gentle -
Man AEI the poet* young ream, without
this robe brought to her once in three
months, when she would try it on and par-
ade before the looking glass with as much
delight at her appearance as she must have
felt Olt the occasion on which it was first
doomed. .The Duke's coronet was there of
silver, mounted in gold lace and trimmed
with miniver, and hie garter robes shone
forth in splendor, ancl than came the retie of
the sentiment which belongs to all alike—
the Duke's wedding vest, of white satin,
embroidered in silver, and kept by the wife
with the same care and reverence us. Marl-
borough treasured the look of Sarah's Intir-e-
'after somany years as bright and fresh as
ever. The sale has made a great impression
in London and called up etoriee of the dead
end gone, '
An Accommodating Parson.
Recently in Texas a couple bent on mar- .
riage procured a licensee atol set out with
one or, two friends to look up a parson. They
reached the river, but alas tha would-be
bride could not cross. The only parson for
long, weary miles was jest adose the river,
while 'visions of irate parents with double.
barreled shot guns formed a very long and
troublesome proceasien through the tends of
the two lovers. The weather was cold, the
. river was up, and. what could they eo? One
of the escort suggested that he would swim
the river and see, if possible, the:parson,
who, undoubtedly, wend fix up a plan to
tie the nuptial knot. He did- sofound the
preacher, and soon had hirq down on the
river bank. The water was cold and. deep,
and he refused point black to cross over, to
the very great distress of the young couple
on the other side. Necessity is not only the
mother of inventions, but the mother of etc.
pedients. The person concluded to marry
•the couple apron the river, and they joined
hande and took their stand near the water's
edge, while the preacher, on the oppOeite
bank, in stentorian voice propounded, the
marriage service, and declared them man
and wife. „
. : Women's Nantes.
' -Annabelle is not Anna-bella, orFair. An,
,•narbut 3s.the feminine of Hannibal, mean -
,tug gift (or grace) of Bel., Arabella isnot
Ara-bellie.er beautiful altar, but theatilline
a praying woman. in WI Anglicized form
o • Orabe , it was very Much.riapre .commori
in the thirteenth ceiitury than. at .preeent.
Maurine has nothing to do with Mauritius,:
or a Moor, but Comes from ainalric—hharnet-'
reiebh-the kingdom Of heaven. Ellett it the'
feminine of Alain,Alan, orAlloe, and has to
'Possiblecennectioth with. Heil*: *which.
estriesefrooe a differentelanguagehutcLiseldene
. by about a thousand years at least; lAmyle
'not frOm ohne, but from meter eAviee, or
Avis, does not et'actiy.'mean advice, as some
;eerie to think; it comes from Ad.wise arid
means' hippy *Wept; eEliza line neeeimnec-
tion• . with Elizabeth. It is the sister ' of
Loffisit, and both are the :datighterattf Ile,
,lotee„..Whiph is Helewito hidden eWiedorn,.
There is Weed, iinotherform of 'Lima, or
rather is,
which is the feminine of
Louis, but was scarcely heard of before the
sixteenth century. The -older Ileloise for*
of ,the name Aloilsa, Aloisia, orAloyaii, was :
adopted leen medireval English, as Alesia,
—a .name which our old genealogists always
confuse with Alice. Emily ane Amelia are
'different forme of • one name. Emily in
from Renylia, the Menden an Etruscan ACM.
Amelia comes from the dcithie amote—heav,
only. • •Itegivald is not derived from Regina,
• and has. nething-to de With a queen. It is
Iteinalte—egalted purity.' , Melia; Adaie,
side, Alisa, Alix. Adeline, tere all 'hints' ef
one ninetieth° root of 'which is add—tioble.
Bet Anne was 'peter usedas identical with
Annie, or Agnes Id which last the old •
Scotch Annareie a variety), nor, as I sturdi-
ly maintain, • was Elizabeth ; ever. bynony-
mous with Isabel. '
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Marriage in QubA.: „
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A correspondent et Havana sends the fol..
•
'lowing to an -exchange : Readers; who have
or have not been wooed ate WOO, even in
Spite of the difficultiesthat often attend that
exciting ported of the lives of young men
and women An this country, will thank for-
tune that nothing more than an irate father
or•meddleisome mother or an emptypocket-.
.•beekstood in the way of matrimonial bliere•
: During dinner one day I was observing,
• . whilertalking, aescene that Was lakirg Place
near the gates of an oimosite. 'muse, and I
describe it, as it illuatretese well the
habits of the people inlovaeffairs, A well,
dreesed Young man Was speak* teem' the
outsidawith a pretty young lady who was
.steinclieg•iit one of the corners of the windoW.
The toyer was in such'it 'position that the
persons who were in the parlor of the yhung
- lady's Ileum could not see him. ' Sometimes
it happened that one of them approiehed
the. window; she then gaVenotice to tho
young mart; and he Would immottiatelystart
and stop at the corner of the kilo ;k and stay
there watehing. AS soon tie thc risk was
over; he would conie slowly' to • his Poet, in
order to continue his interrupted conversa-
tion.' What a tronbleedne way of &tutting
a lady 1 The notice l gave to ehe others of
, whet Was, going on afforded mo much infor-
mation as to the .method ef courtship.
Sometimes thissort of thing is going On at
each whitlow of the one-story howlers, and
not unfrequently two in each may be seen.
This generally odours when the suitor is not
'admitted to the house on acheffint of not
. hiving an introduction Or When the parents
et the girl disapprove theeacqultintence Of
their daughter With the miter. ' The' Method
however, itt generally °endow:led aud
avoided even by the young num, Who feer
to depreciate the character of the theol..jisat
of their affections. If they mind visit
them they take advantage of all tippeetuni.
ties of Fleeing thorn in pphlie plade, at
church or theatre Or possibly at the house of
A common triend.: The chief rest:time used is
it correspondence, in which the servants,
and sometimes, the Mende of the young
llaecittYe'reacatreas vmer6ayiateety ;13T°Inhee elotteilerlikreer;
heron put the powers of the pot to the ut-
Moot they oxbeed their erudition and ;in-
dulge in by erbolee, neetephers, and miles
to an alarm ng extent, in order to show the
vehemence of their passion and make the
most impoesible promisee. The fogoveing is
copy of one* written, evidently by a etudent,
which etrikee one ne an miming burlesque,
hut which undoubtedly wan intended to ex-
orcise a greet. cleat t
a elms : Your beautiful image had steirce•
ly denote the retina of my eye, by means of
a convergent ray, when my OM vena was
filled with hot bleed, as if I had tastedthe
nectar of the gods or the heavenly ambrosia,"
eto.
Endearments of this kind are frequent and
are often kepe up for years, and even then
do not end in marriage. It is not uncom-
mon for the lover to disappoint Its enamoredo
under frivolous pretexts, on account of nat.
tural inconstancy Or for a more golden mos.
poet, for the wealth of the Young lady is
the leading requisite. It is said, in justice
to the fair ser, thee they are very seldom
ineonstant, scarcely ever diBMi8Oh2g a lover
exceptler very powerful reasons. Cubans
generally marry rather late in life. --the men
when about thirty and tho women when
about twenty-five. This is rather singular,
considering the influence of the climate.
The reason for it is a hard one to find, and
'no satisfactory one has ever been given. It
is rather singular that one of the rujewres-
peoting maeriage is the earns in Cuba ad in
many. parte of the Uuited -States, 'partied,
arly tit New York. The bridegroom and ,
beide Mart from the church wherothe cere-
mony is performed on a trip into the coun-
try, where they stay for a week or two:
Then they rennet to the city and give notice
of the numeiage to their friends, who immed-
iately go to greet them. The greatest 'nose
eible secrecy, is, however, observed in -the
performance of the ceremony, which takes
place at the time the churches Are empty
or leave is Ottawa from the bishop
to be married at the lady's resider:cc. The
laws ot tho ohurch forbidmarriages Witii
persons of . different religious beliefs • or
among near relatives. The latter prohibi-
tion is; however, easily aerie:minted by paye
ingthe bishop a sum the amount of which
iriereases in proportion to the intimacy of
. the kindred. For legitimate marriages the
poesent of the fathers is necessary ; if these
he desicl, that of the mothers must be.secur-
cd. • 'Lastly, thee of the paternal or mater-
nal grandfather, of the tutor, and in default
of those persons, of the judge, provided the
age of the individuals to be married be over,
a certain limit, will be sufficient.; Clergy.
men and puns are not allowed to marry, but
widowers, even with children, are allowed to
become clergymen. • .
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PERSONAS:
, Amien4 Other duties' entailed on a'. noir'
Viceroy HI Ireland by his fiest drawing-toom
Is a o • rasing , 0 cheek, no only of eucli
' fair debutante, but of. every lady. piesent.
• The ex -Khedive Of Egypte Ismail Pasha,
before leaving Rothe lad month, placed a
evreetheofeflowere• _thee.tembeof_Vieteir.,
Emanuel in the Pantheon... The wreath bore
this inscription : " FrOm Ismail Pasha to the
geed K:Mg, Victor Emanuel."' .
M. de 'Iksseps counter on Italian labourers
to Ali the Panama .Canal. They laded the
Mounts Genie' and Gothard tunnels, and are
•considered the most steady.; frugal, and in-
telligent in such undertakings.
Sir Saville •Lumley, the British Minister
t Brussels,h y y
Washingtonas First Secretary h,nd. Charge
d'Affaires, seems to have an easy time at that
capital of a quite little kifigdorii.. His chief
duty seems to •be the transmission of Berne
1
Po e Bel-
gians to her Meter Queen of England. Victoria.
took a fancy to them when travelling Ger-
many, and is passioneteler fond of them,
- „
Dr.. Bithh, who 'hat ren to the highest
rank in the German • foreign office, has to
moble .birth to recoreenend 'him. Ho began
life as a dragoman to the Pities* consulate
at Constantinople, and there thoroughly
mastered the =Mould' of the eastern im-
broglio. He studied peltice with Neal
success when attached .0 the legations at
Stamboul and St. Petersburg, and, when the
last 'Thecte-Bussiati Wit, begat, ..leisraarok
summoned him to Berlin and upon him
for information On the changing phases of the'
wade question. Beide Bismarck's rule
Milt., aristocrats were permitted to enter the
ranks of the Prussian diplomatic corps. Now
there. are many commoners holding the high-
est offices. • ' • ' i
. A singular stoey as to the proceedings of
Prince Bremer* in Turkey is told by a cor-
respondent of the London Standard. in the
Turkish empire there is. a large quantity of
property belonging to the mosques, known
as " Veleeff property, . An agent Was sent
by Prince Bismarck to Turkey as long ago as
1867 to gather information respecting :the
*due of this property in the different pro-
vinces, to discover wnether it might not be
delivered from "the dead heed "and render,
ed serviceable to. the purpose of the State,
and to with:ante the income obtainable Hem
it under a rationable system of edit:Mist*
tion. The calculations based on .the facts
ollected were Atka(' out under the super-
intendence of. Herr Busch, who estimated
that in European Turkey the "Valeta"
property was worth over S260,1)00,600. •
It may Be 'noted. in connect* with the
question of Lord Itipon's retaining his present
post of Viceroy of Italia, that Lord Lawrence,
. was the last Viceroy who 'completed his: five
years' term. Lind Mayo wa,s assaesinitted at
thia end of three years; Lords Northbrook
and Lytton both retired at the end of four.
On the other hatch Lord Calming,. the firet
Viceroy, so -styled, ruled India, for no years.
. The hilt Governor•Getieral of India, Lord
William Bettie* temeined testily seven*
years at hie, post ; ittareret Hastings, the first
*Governoe-Goileral of Bengal; nearly twelve.
*His was the longest termt of office, and it is
utit Surprising that he was thug enabled to
effect more than any of his successors, having
had more time AB Well as more talent than
any one else it this list of Proconsuls. His
namesake,thet tel M
to arin stlate ,Ydueaatteinquis'i ere" reign,
nearly ten yew, and me of
ofhis
Achievements. •
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••••ror-rn ••••••t*'4,
What this country wants is a patent en,
termitic telephone answeier,
Hurley and the Homo,
•
now Tao moss elzhaTeettes Too LAW 07f
DEVOLORMOT—MVORTAVT ItIsOLTO OR
MEM lalt$01E LOOP.
- (London Times.) .,
At the meeting of the Zoological society
lest week, Among the papers read Wae. one
by Prof, Huxley on the application. of the
lawe of evolution to the arrangement of the .
vertebrate, and More particularly mammal*
The illustrettons adduced were those of the.
Winery of theheree, principally, :so far as
known, from the. work of Prof. Marsh O
the 4' Eocenei of North America."t The an-
nouncement of the paper bad drawn together
an unusually large attendance, ire it was ex..
peeted that the marshaling of thefectsinProf.
Huxley's hands would have great interest
M practically substantiating the theory of
evolution, which, though foreshadowed by
others, hook practical !shape in the work of
Darwin twenty -ono pens ago. Prof. Huxley
eNp....fr,
said : There is evidence, the Value -o whieh '
has not 'beet disputed, and witch in_ iy
judgment amounts to proof, that betwee .
the 'commencement of the tertiary eeeoh arid
tbe present time the grop of the equoice has
been represented 14 a series.g, f forma, of
which the .oldest is that whiel-f departs. least
• from the general type of structure of the,
higher tiammaliketehile the latest is that
which most widelY differs from that type.
In face, the °tidiest known equine . 'animal
lionesses four cemplete eule-equal• digits on
the fora:foot, three op the hind foot; the
ulna is complete' and distinct from the rad,
ius ; the fibula is complete and dietinet froth
the tibia; there are forty.four teeth; the
fall number of canines being present, and
the cheek -teeth having short crowns with
simple patterns and early -formed roots. Tho
latest, on the other hand, has only One cow,
plete digit on each foot, the rest being repre-
sented by rudintents ; the. ulna is reduced
and partially enoylosed with the McBee t the
fibula is still more reduced and partially en.
, cylosed with the tibia; the canine' teeth are
partially or completely suppressed in the fe,
Males 4 the firat plieeketeeth usually ramie
undeveloped, and when they appear are very
small; the other cheek -teeth . have long
crowns, with highly e noplicatel patterns
and late -formed roots. The equidre of inter,
mediate eget exhibit intermediate charac-
ters. :With respect. to :the interpretation of
these facts. two hypotheses, and ouly two,
appear to be imeginable.. The one assumes
that these • sucoessive forum of ,egoine ani.
nials 'have come into existence independently
'ot ope another: The other arteumes thate
they are the resole of the gradual Modifica-
tion undergone by the sucoessive members of
a emitinueue line of ancestry, Ad. I am not
..aivarathatnnx.zoologiat-tnaiatains,Lthe-tirete
hypotheaere I do not feel eilled upon to.dis-
. ousts it. The:adopt*. of ..the iiCeprid, how -
over, is equivalent to the acceptiume. of the
. .
eve u ion eq, far as horses aro
e
• concerned, and the absence of evidence to
- the contrary, I • shell Oppose that it is ac.
-opted. Since the .commeeeement of the
.. eoeeno etioelt, the. animals which eonstieute
ftho family of the ' equidat have •undergorte
. proesseee.of modification Of three kinds :' le'
Tleero ha., :_ehtheonettleviecesseef _deeelopment.of.
.
one pe.irt: of the .oldest form over another; 2.
Certain tiarts : have undergone- complete or
partial 'suppression .4 3. I'arts originally dis-
tinct have coaieehedeee_Einpleiyhigeke_ term
• "law" siniply • ih the sense oz. a general
Statement et feats incertained by observation, .
;I shall. speak Of theseh three. proceseee by,
which the •effitipiffis form has passed . into
alewife as the 'expression of : a three,fold: la*
or, evolution. It . is 'of, profound interest to
remark Unit this la*,:or•gerieralized state.
ineht of the nature of the ancestral evolution
. of the hoese;i8 • pieetiseiy the eeme as that
which forniulates the process of individual
develOpment in animals enerally, from the
peetott at which the broadcharactersef the
- grotto: o which• an animal belongs are duke
: eernible- onward,. -After a :•mammalian ern-.
• bryo; for example,, him taken on its general
.. mammalian characters, its further progress
toward itsepecial forte ie effected by the ex:
ocesive.grewth of one pint or relation to an.
othee, by the arrest,:or suppression of parts
already ferreted, 4ina. by 'theecoateteetice of.
•parts primarily distinct. This:coincidence
of the laws of ancestral and individual de,
-, telepment creates a !strait; coefidenee in the
c generaLvalidityhof the foriner, aud a belief
, that We Mayeafely emplciy it in reasoning
•
deductively from the known to the unknown.
The. astronomer who has deterinined theee
places of it new planet calculates its Place let
. an epoch, however remote; and, if the letv
- of evolution is to be 'depended upon, the
ea.:elegise who knows e ceethen length of the -
course of that evolution in anY given case
may with equal justice reason backeverd, to
the earlier but unknown stages. Applying
- thidtmethod to the cap of the horse, I do
. not see that thereis any reason to donbe that
the coceee equida3 were preceded hi' mete-
. .
mkt forms, which differed . from eohippus in
the.seme way as eohippus differs from ogees.
• .
And thee we are ultimately led conceive of
a Ord font orif the equine • series, which; 11
the law is of general validity, must teed :
have been provided with five. sub -equal -dig-
its On eech plantigrzicteloot, with complete,
sub -equal antebtactial. and aural bones,
With clavicles, and with, as at •present, frier-
. ty,tour teeth, the- cheek -teeth having short
crowns and simple- ridged or tuberculated pat-
terns. -IVIereover,sineeMarsheinvestigatiens
have shown that the older Rums of any giv-
en mammalian group hate less developed
. cerebral hemispheres than the. later; there
is h prinia facieeprobability that this mini,
ordial hippold had a low form of Grain.
•
Further, sum° the existing liorse has a 'da-
ft= ellatitoic placentation, the prirnary form
could not have presented a higher, and may
. have possessed a lower. 'eondition• of the
various modes by which :the fetes derives
nourishment from the parent, Such .ati
animal as this, however,. v(rinlei find no piece
' 'Many of our systems of :classification of the
mann:lathe' It •would come nearest to the
' Iffinuroiclea'and the insectiverie though the
non•preheimile pee Omelet separate it from
the former and the placentation feent tho
latter group. . A enteral elestification .is one
which 'associates together all those forms
which aro closely allied .and separates thein
from the test But, whether' in the otilinary
dense of the word." alliance " or in its purely
morphological sense, it is impossible to im-
agine a group of animals more closely allied
than eurpriniddial hippoide are with their,
descondahts. Yet, according to existing
arrangements, the ancestors Would have to
bo. placed in One order of tho class of mane-
.hteets'
melia and their deecendants in another. It
May be suggested that itmight be Mt well to
wait until the primordial hippoidie discover'
ed before discueiting the difilculties whieh
will be created by ite appeerance. But the .
truth is that that problem Already prestmg
in another ;shape. Numerous 0' lettere,"
with marked ungulate OharaeterS, are being
discovered in the older territories of the
United States and elsewhere; and no one
can study the more ancient mammals with
which we are already acquainted without
being constantly struck with the insectivor-
ous characters which they present. In fact,
there is nothing in the detention of either
primates, carnivores, or ungelatcs, erluoh is
any means of deciding whether a given fossil
skeleton, with, skull, teeth, and limbs,
ost complete, ought to be ranged with
the e nosectivores, the carnivores,
or the un u tee. In whatever order of
mammals a su meetly long eeriest of forme
has come to ligh , illustrate the three.
fold law of evolutio as elearly, though,
perhaps, not BO Ste "iftgly; as the equine
twice does. Carel res, artiodectyles, and
periosodactyles al tend, as we trace them
beek through tho ertiary eppoh, toward less
emeclified form which will fit into pope f
thirfeeogn
orders, but come closerYo
the insectivore than to any other. It would, •
however, be those inconvenient and mis—
leading to terna these ptimeirdial :forms
insectivore, the mammals so called being
themselves more or less specialiisel reoslifioas
tions at the earne common type, and only, in
a partial and limited geese, ropiesentatives •
of that type. no root of the matter appears
to me to be thet hhe paleontogical fide
which have come to light lathe course of*
the last ten or fifteen years have completely
broken down existing taxonomical commie. ,
tions,, and that the attempts to construct
fresh elassificatione, upon the old model are
necessarily futile. The Ouvieran method, -
which all modern Classifiers have followed,
has been of immense value' to leading to the
close iuvestigation and the clear statement
of the anatomical character of animals. But
its menciple, the Association into sharp
logteal eategorieis defined by such characters,
was sapped when Van Baer showed, in
• estimating the likeness and unlikeness of
animate, develoPment must be fully taken 7
into accertint, and if the importence of in-
dividuai. development necessarily follows.
If the end of all zeologicel classification is a
clear end concise expression of the 'moth •
phological resemblances and differences, of
atniinals. then all such resemblances reuse
have a taxonomic value. But . they fall
Under three heeds ::First, those of adult in- .
• dieriduals ; second, Cerise of successive stages
of embryological development or individual
evolutioie ; third, those of sueeetsite stages
of the evolution of the speoieser ancestral
eyolution. An arrangement.is natural,":
etliariwelligheellyetheitigitilicheightly se tar
as it expresees the relations of likenesies tnd .
- unlikeness enumerated wider these heads-.
Hence, in attempting to classify the mane; '
melia, we must take into aecoune not only
their edult and .embeyegenetic characters,
but their Mer holO le I 1 t' • f •
.as the • several forms represent different.
stages of evolution. ' And thus; just:as the
:persistent ,ffittagoniem of Cuvier and his
schod to the essence of Lamerkti teahhings
•-(iroperfeetennd-4objectimotbkhas-theseetaftene
were their accidents) turns out to have • .
been a eeadioeary Mistake, .so cutierte no
less • definite. repudiation of Bounete. echelle •
at the .present day, the existence of e scala
,animantios,,je iteeessiarY cow:sequence Of the •
doctrine dreiffilutione'end its °stabil:Mined
constitutes, I believe, the foundation of
scientific taxonomy. Many years ago, in
me lecteres'at the royal college of surgeons, •
I partiepleely ineistet on the central posi-
tiorrol the Insectiviera among the higher
maminalia ; and farther 'study of this order
and of the rodentia has only Itrengthened
my convict* that any one who is acquaint- .
ed with the range• of vadat* of deuce -ere
in these groups peoseeses. the keit to OMIT'
peculiarity: which le met with* the eel.-
metes, the 'carnivore, : and the ungulate. •
Given the came* plan'ofthe insectivore •
and of the todentia, and granting that the
• Modifications of the 'Structure of the liffibs,
of the brain; and:of the alienentary„aed re, •
prOciective viscera Which occur :among tliemt •
may exist and accumulate elsewhere, and
the 'deviation Of ell :eutherie from aniittale
which, except for their diffuse placentation,
would be insectivores, is 11 sintele deduction -
.frone. the law of evolution. I venture to e
express a confided expectation that hives.,
eigation Mt°, the inapnrialia fauna of the.
meseeffie epoch wine soener. Or latter, till up
• thee° blanks'. Pref. ..Huitley meg:ceded to •
give detail's on whicli his Conclusions Were •
based, rind dwelt on the fact that much
further careen work is. needed to clear up
problems before us, •
. • • e
Noiy Bridal Tours?
: ;7-7 •
An ernitent physician of New York, Open
the.oecasion of his daughter's marriage, pro-
hibited her from going , on the metal bridal'
Our. He did tliis front considerations of
health and delicacy which lied not generally
borne in Mind. . The first experieecee of it ;
bride are such that she would naturally
court retirement and rese rather than °side- • ,
tatieuipublieity. A young couple in public
cars and at hotel tones cannot keep the
precious and happy pewee all to themselves. •
Their novideoformed eclat* tells itself th a'
thousand ways. Of this the bride is colt-
sciouseend the ordeal to seneitive youeg'
woman is most trying. Then, the sudden
change in the life Of the evoman is liable to
• bring On physical derangements Which may :
last a lifetime; for the shock to and exalta-
tion .of her feelings react dn. the .body often
inidrioualy., So tho Now York dead we
hate been speaking of ordered his daughter
' with her young husband to enter at once
upon the duties of a now hOme, and ta post-
pone the tour until at least a month had
paseeet' away. Of einitse there is 'another
side to this question. It may bo that even'
the fondest affect* Would not continue if
• .two people were forced to speed all. theft.
time together without the ctstractiOn meets-
' sitated by travel ,and the relerve neeetsary
to be kept up in public. places. This is an
-interestieg topic, and one svhich inight form •
te profitable 8ubject to debate in women's
societies. It is .a sebject, ajsc: npowwhich •
women physicians might be heard to advam.
tage.
Tins the t tal amoont of rales under the
Eneumbered'Estates net in Ireland mcceede
$260,000.,000. The stet came into operation
thirty-one yeers ago. .0