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| HOW MANY PLANTS? 3 ee aved tm © cave by the one What the Naturalists Tell Us About the ae te af 2 ee oy : . a Number of Species, oy . ' lity shows. en The number of different kinds of plants Ge sl evidence goes that are to be found on the surface of the i} To prov« n ra pan, globe has long been a disputed questi«:. : Bat ! i with a shell when he chose, ' The history of the efforts to determine it i fees the manner of pelgnttive man! } isa curious one. Those efforts hegan in , Ge worshiped the rain and the breeze, 390 B. C. with Theophrastus, who enr- | Be worshiped the river that flows, i, pPerated 500 kinds of plants, This may be i And the and the moot ithe trees presumed to represent all that were then And bogies ind serpents and crows, known. The botanical knowledge of King | pe bared 266 Oe a with their toes Solomon had, then, comparatively narrow i Te a - a ee sd h limits, even though he discoursed on all f eo eee oo the plants from the cedar of Lebanon to i etwas th manner of primitive man! the hyssop on the wall. Pliny—A. D. 79 ; c : ‘ : —increased the number to double that ppp enemvanal Wives Bt bin ones | That’s a pecularity of cats; they always do; so do the thousands of persons who buy their Clothing from us. They | named by Theophrastus. ee ae nal biows, ’ mae lee : - ‘ . . In the beginning of the seventeenth con- Sp ben state had» quren, lke the bens | don’t return from force of habit merely like the feline, but because they lave learned that in the three great essentials — ' ¢ury the number had increased to 6,000. Tem ho anole, 8 wee neste Saeabia Quantity, Quality and Price—we are never found wanting. A matter worthy of your careful attention 13 our line of Men’s ; She cee ea ae —_ . s¢ he sang in a strain that would se Tito 2 > © : e 2 aY . mas m1 iG . . ? , ’ r (to donbt it, pers hance, were iain U Isters aut vo Vd, » : . 00, $9, $6, > ‘ > $8, $9, $10, $12. up to 1807, had detected 17,457 species of ‘Twas the manner of primitive man! flowering plants. From this period the , mrver. | increase in the number of known specics Max, proudly your Aryans pose is very rapid, asa result of the stimulus But thoir rigs they undoubte a given to botany by Linneeus and his suc- Por, as every Darwinian knows, : : cessors, 80 that, at the beginning of the ‘Twas the manner of primitive man! present century Robert Brown had esti-

—Andrew Lang. mated the flowering plants at 37,000 and Humboldt all plants, lowering and pon- flowering, at 44,000.

Progressing still further in 1820 Te Candolle estimated that at least 56,000 were known. It was found that the num- ber of species preserved in the herbarium at the Jardin des Plantes was estimated at the same figure, and that the collection of M. Delessert contained 86,000 species in 1847, although Dr. Lindley bad estimated in 1885 that all the plants in the world might be included in that number.

Humboldt entered upon a series of cal- culations about this time to show that al these estimates fell short of the number that might be supposed to exist, ‘Such considerations,’’ he writes, ‘‘seem to ver'fy the ancient myth of the Zend-Avesta, that the creating of primeval force called forth 120,000 vegetable forms from the sacred blood of the bull.’’

In 1845 R. B. Hinds estimated the phe- nogamic and cryptogamic plants at 134,- 000 species, The next estimate we meet with is in Henfrey in 1857, 218,000, but in 1855 De Candolle had by another process of reasoning come to the conclusion thas the total could not be less than 875,000 for flowering plants.

At the present time the very lowest estt- mate of authentic species of cry ptogamia cannot be less than 500,000, and they prob- ably exceed that number. Here, then, we have an approximate idea of what may be regarded as a very low estimate of the number of species of plants scattered over the face of the earth. If we feel confidence in asserting that there are not less than 500,000 distinct and different species of vegetable organisms, including land and

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Biome Time In the Future This Country Must Appear at the Dar.

Throngh the perspective of history each Satin is but a larger man. It has its birth, its childhood, its manhood and old Bog, its characteristio virtues, and. alas, fs predominating vices and favorite sin. othe old nations, whose records we can without prejudice or favor, and give dgment with judicial fairness, we have more difficulty in rendering a verdict n ou a prisoner in the dock. And just 20 in the future the United must appear at the bar. Some Gib- or Carlyle, with spectacles on his nose, lsitin judgment on tbe deeds we are doing in the flesh, the chronicles of »day will present a brief and the evi- nee for the prosecution, and Irving and croft and others who have loved us, wt #0 wisely, perhaps as well, will appear ppr the defense. Sa The finding of that court we cannot ast as yet, but at least we sheuld de- , what is our chief sin, that we may | eieun it and reform if possible. And that min, marking our whole people with a pend as plain as that of Cain, is waste. e south wastes annually enough to pay interest on our national debt; the @mstc of the nation could pay the princi- WEA in two years—waste of food, waste of bes, waste of energy and brain force. ,in this category we count nothing waste that gives fair return of pleasure health or rest. Money spent for these

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The article describes New York's eof life is n to our bealth ° enerally believed to be due o ecessary y sere - age = a _— is ye = a | $ ° g h y hj h three fireboats. Mr. Hill says: . - . rice the age of a deer is that of an eag These boats serye a double purpose, for = Prggprediegpetin gw mage Thrice the age of an cagle is that of an oak $ DAY USE : JOY | JOY | JOY | a to the ; same naa Ww uC snaruntasice aes ee eae _ ear . : ® , ‘ ives rise to OnsumMmption. | engines, but powerful tugs as well. When - h it is based: Twothousand one han- This is to assign the deer a period of 3 e Victoria Cafe, Great g . P a fire is discovered on a ship lying among _ Bid and tweny-five acres near Paris pro- | more than 200 years, and the estimate is e e G St t It appears mostly in those other vessels, a line is fastened to hor, and all the vegetables necessary for the } supported by many highly Cees |S Requires to be done neatly s sarge rr hi she is towed out into midstream, where 900,000 inhabitants of that city and fur- | stories. Thus Captain Macdonald of Tul- | @ equir "oe ; who are fat-starved andt IN, | op act a destruction abou’ her 4 sorplns for shipment to London. | loch, who died in 1776, aged 86 years, is | © promptly and cheap. a Oysters served in every style; i - we, * see A a oe el Seine oe spiouatel cero | b no appliances more costly than a few | said to have known the white hind of Loch . There is only one place in Lunches and dinners with despatch _| usually In €a y ite, nosis soon put ous any fre in the raging Y : Steet Sia i000 ee Sam tation tae, ped yeh neha A : the city, where you can eS : "a usual, 1 am prepared to deliver | Course of treatment of Scott’s - he a If = fire has acon 1 tia 1,000. ; ; ars j tity t stomers ° . t old o eaten in among the c»rgo, A Besides, it is now certain that not even | years before him. Soin 1826 Maodonald | § the fullest satisfaction, that ¢ | Oysters in any quamily so cusomes’ | Emulsion’ with the Hypo- St te tewabdown nthe tnen Geta nne is necessary for the perfection of plant | of Glengarry is reported to have killed a | @ is at. e ‘© any part of tne city. . fy Liberty island or to the sand bars south : -"7 German, Professor Nobbe, ee stag which borea mark on the left oz 3 Telephone Connection. hosites wherever Scrofula of Governors island and beachod. Then es a jars of water perfect rice plants, heavily | identical with that made on all the calves * 7 : : the big lengths of hose are passed aloard, ruited, merely by {utroducing the chem- | be could catch by Ewen-Maclan-Og, who > e JOHN P. JOY manifests itself, will prevent large a otal Galinanibens ssoinaina to the Peal food of ths plant—principally nitrogen | had been dead 150 years. Analogous #to- JAS D. TAYLOR, se the development of the dis- | ends, and these are thrust into the hvld or ss nto the water. Nearly ail these constit- | ries, it may be noted, are told in countries - : V C into any compartment wi-ere there is fire, ‘ o “pene the a are returned to itand | on the ——- = Europe er s ICTORIA UAFE ease. Let us send YOU @ | and shots soon pumped full of water and be again forever. are to oun any number, Su a | the fire drowned out. If a boat like the a And yet we are already talking about | alas, the general opinion among experts The Printer e. Gt Geo1 ge St. eaes book. F ree. New Yorker has charge of this work, it is ‘ ; 4 felds.”’ . What about | would seem to be that 80 years or there- : june dinatincons quickly accomplisbed. f ee dbamigar Force ease el ama ace eS SO00S0ds cosooooooooneree sr a " ~ This saves the hull of te veessl and les#- ~~ . e dawn of history?— n- ens the damage considerably, for the own- . oa a ile (Fla.) Citize=. : Her Bible Views. os é 6 FOR SALE. al nore ee pemoet out wares i Pa There is in New Orleans, acoording to 5 9 and, ull remaining intact, there -e “e the Boston Traveler, a negro woman “‘ who = PAS OPPAPOS™ | nothing but the burned interior to repair. La *% ¥ 2 rHosToe - has some deeply rooted if not clear ideas R ARE CH ANCE ‘ If she were scuttled in micistream, the bull Vf S. ar shade Games about the ‘Bible, aang, Se being the First-class a oa Ne ae i + a By Co cmptly and permanently conviction that while wrote some oi — wou a © amoun s a e uN fos tN. parts of the great book men put in other e property occupied by J.J, Gay and son vessel, so it can be seen that these bonts mer : I 2G Sricxncee tmissions,Sperm | portions. One thing which God wrote Uharlowetown, 1s offered for sale, "The. pro- Athletes and can render other services than thet of ex is _> ‘ a x atorrhea, Impotmeyandall | sureenough,”’ says the article, ‘‘is the story rietors have carried op a large market gar- ‘tinguishing fires. (ts TE SS By ef ect8 of Arruse or Excesses, | of the tower of Babel. ‘Yassir, yassir, God oon Watesty..amd ased. hasinens fer Sire Racers use In fires on, vessels Josded with rotton . es B.S » Montal Worry, excessive use| writ dat,’ she says. ‘No doubt "bout dat x arge share of the local trade. ‘The prem- (they make ugly fires to hapdie) a lightes | tS Hreand After. % 7 Optumeor Stimu | bein writ by God hisself. Dat's probed ises comprise a large dwelling house, sore ADAMS’ ia nevally brought alongside, and . fer. lants, which soon lead toIm | glory tode Lord. W'y, dey ain’t no one asese warehouse, barn, shed, orchard, and about 15 ' : ° the worst of the fire has been subdued the a ty, Insanity, Consumption and an carly graves | nowhere, ‘cept Mexicans, kin. talk slats sereq of the moet fertile land on, she aland, |g -_ bales are hoisted out one by one and vxtin- a8 ms: Is ns "eine ed Honest Medicine | 92% 9°" kin onnerstan ’em. 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