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A GREAT PROBLEM. Missing Link Between Inorganic and Organic Life. One great life problem remains which

» doctrine of evolution dees not touch. Se origin of species, genera,

orders i dasses of beings thr.agh endless smutations is in a sense explained,

w? Whence came that primordia! nism Whose transmuted descendants ke up the existing faunas and floras the globe? here was a time, soon after the doo- of evolution gained a hearing,

sien the answer to that question seem-

to some scientists of authority to

been given by experiment. Mecur- sto a former belief and repeating e eatlier experiments, the director

| the museum of natural history

M F. A. Pouchet, reached the

melasion that organic beings are spon-

generated about us constantly the familiar processes of putrefac- which were known to be due to agency of microscopic bacteria. But #862 Lovis Pasteur proved that this ing spontaneous generation is in ity due to the existence of germs in sir. Notwithstanding the conclu- of these experiments, the claims Pocbet were revived in England years later by Professor Bastian, then the experiments of John Tvn- i fally corroborating the results of gave a final quietus to the claim ontaneous generation’’ as hitherto tlated.

for the moment the matter But the end is not yet. Fauna fora are here, and, thanks to La- and Wallace and Darwin, their pment, throngh the operation of “secondary causes’’ which we rs of uature, has been proximal- plained. The lowest forms of life been linked with the highest in en chains of descent Meautime, th the efforts of chemists and the gap between the inorganic the organic worlds, which once i almost infinite, has been con- narrowed. Already philosophy row a bridge across that gap. But ive science, which builds its own has not yet spanned the chasm, Mithough it appear. Until it shall done so the bridge of organic evo- is not quite complete, yet even ttands today it is the most stupen- Mientific structure of our century. Smith Williama, M D., in

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Ferdinand Gottschalk has made a pro- nounced hit in London as Katzenjam- mer in ‘‘Never Again. ”’

The death in India is announced of Lizzie Byron, the only daughter of the once favorite dramatist, Henry J. Byron.

Richard Strauss is the first German eom poser who will conduct works of his own at the Colonne concerts in Paris next winter.

Meyerbeer’s ‘‘L’Africaine”’ is about to be produced at Alexandria by an Egyptian company, with an Arabic ver- sion of the libretto.

Signora Duse is still in Paris, but will spend the winter in Italy, by ad- vice of her physicians. She will not ap- pear, it is said, until next spring.

A new symphonic poem, entitled ‘The Corsair,’’ by Franz Kessel, was performed with much success at the niuth Gurzenich concert in Cologne.

‘‘Magda,’’ Sudermann'’s best play, was recently produced for the tirst time in Spain at the Princesa theater. in Bar- selona, in an excellent trauslation by- MM. Costa and Jorda.

A very remarkable theatrical per- formance took. place the other day in, St. Andrew's hall, at Berlin. The play-

the actors were deaf mutes.

Mme. Rejane will appear at Berlin, in: Donnay's. ‘‘La Donloureuse,’’ in the original, unaltered version, the censors. having given, their consent for one per- formance of this drama obly.

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The whale fisheries pursued for many years with great profit to the whalers of Massachusetts and Long Island are now: but a shadow of their former proportions. Forty years ago nearly 600 whaling ves-- sels sailed from: New Bedford, Mass.,, and returned with oil and whalebone: worth nearly $7,000,000. Whale oil then sold for:$2.75 a gallon and whale-- bone was worth $6 a pound. Now:that the whaling grounds have been denuded. of their riches, the docks of New Eed-. ford are almost Geserted of whalers, for few fishermen are hardy enough to ven- ture inte. antarctic waters, where the, rempants of formerly vast schools- af whales fled.for security.

The whaling industry is; one of: the oldest in America. It was established in 1755. It reached its most profitable period 94 years later. Since 1860 it has been decreasing in importance and profit. Today it adds very little. to the wealth of New Bedford.

A writer in The Fishing Gazette says: “One William Hamilton was the first person who killed whales on the New England coast. He was born in Scotland in 1643 and, coming to this country in the early part of his iife, took up his residence at Cape Cod, where he was persecuted by the inhabitants.for killing whales as one who dealt with. evil spir- its. Whaling was.afterward. carried on by a Mr. Paddock, who went to Nan- tucket about the middle of: 1680 for the purpose of instructing the English in the art of whaling in boats from the shore, which business continued good and profitable till the year 1760, when it diminished in consequence of the

_ searcity of whales.. In 1718 whales were

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‘“‘The most valuable catch ever made by a whaleship was that of the Onward, Captain Allen, which arrived in New Bedford after a 41 months’ cruise with a cargo worth over §275,000, of which the captain’s share was $33,000. The total value of the whole product of the whales brought into New Bedford dur- ing the 52 years for which a record has been kept is more than $145, 000,000.

“The average ship, carrying a crew

‘of 30 hands, used to cost about $85,000.

The ships were owned by companies, which supplied provisions and clothing and allthe necessaries of the voyage and advanced certain sums of money for tne captain and his crew to leave for the suppart of their families while they were away. No wages were paid to either the officers or the sailors, but each had his share in the proceeds of the voyage, and the balance was divided among the stockholders when they re- turned. The captains and mates were hardy New Englanders, but the crews were mostly Portuguese from the Cana- ry. Madeira and Azore islands.’’

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Mine: Woltow of St; Petersburg is tryirg to found a new club which is to be devoted entirely to the hygenic de- velopment of woman.

The Empress Eugenie lives in the most complete retirement at Farns- borough. She is much crippled by rheu- matism and very devout.

The mikado of Japan, though pas-

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Lerd Braxfield, a. Scotch judge, once said to an eloquent culprit at the bar, ‘*Ye’re a vera clever chiel, mon, but I’m thinkin ye wad: be nane the waur 0’ a. hangin.”’

Miss:Helen ¥. Boswell, the organizer and head of the Woman’s Republican movement in New York, is a mining engineer and ranks high asa mining draftsman.

George W. Stephens, who made a great reputation as a war correspondent durfng the Greco-Turkish war, is a graduate of Balliol college, Oxford, and is not 28 years of age.

So.Mayen is the first heir to an Afri- can throne that has graduated from an American college. He has received a diploma from the Cobb University school at Lewiston, Me:

A Maine woman who. asxed the Rev. Elijah Kellogg hisage the other day was quickly answered by the author of ‘‘Spartacus:”’ “‘I do net tell my age. I say: lam.38. I am sure: of that.’’

Collis P. Huntington, the noted rail- Way man, maintains three palatial resi- cenees, which are kept in such perfect rnnning order that any one of them is ready for occupancy by his family at a moment’s notice.

Professor Mahaffy of the University of Dublin said the other day that he ‘*doubted. whether, as the result of the educational movement of the last 30 years, the people of England are either happier or better.’’

Abraham Crabill, a sharpshooter in the Stonewall brigade, died at his home in. the Shenandoah valley recently. It is a well established fact that he fired the shot that killed: General Sedgwick, near Spottsylvania Court House.

George Sand, tae noted Frenchwom- an. and writer, was really Mme. Dude- vant, and her relatives were so proud of hen literary success that they had the family name changed from Dudevant to Sand—the only instance of a nom de plume legally ousting the real name.

Archduke Joseph, a cousin of the em- peror of Austria, not long since gave a banquet to his schoolfellows who at- tended the grammar school with him 50 years ago. There were nota great many of them left, but those present represented every walk in life, froma major general to a harness maker.

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