SIMPSON'S DISCOVERY.
Haw tha Aimvtthmlo PropertlM of Ch..
wrorn Wei Wrought to I.lht.
The name of Doctor (afterwards Sir)
James Youus? Simpson .became closely
identified with Urn study of Rtiwsthe.
tics, lie approached the subject with
n due seuse of its importance! and ap
plied to it a scientific .skill of the first
Order. Several deaths occurred througa
the careless aud indiscriminate use of
ether, causing that agent to be re
garded with diminished favor. A less
dancrerous but equally effective sub
stance was called for. and to the dis
covery of this Dr. Simpson devoted his
boat energies. In his researches he was
assisted by several able professors, and
fnr timn thnv irnve a larre share of
their attention to the matter. Any
volatile substauce in which amesthetio
nroDerties were suspected was care
fully examined, and' It was not lonjf
before the experiments brought forth
the coveted reward. One nipht Dr,
Simpson and his assistants were sitting
nn late, bunt on their self-imposea tasK
A number ot chemical fluids had been
elected for experiment, each man pro
viding himself with a gatm, into which
& small auantitv of the particular suh-
Btance engaging attention was poured,
the glass being placed over warm water
to help the evolution or vapor, xa
this wav. with their mouths and nos
trils held over the vessels they tested
one vapor after another, but It seemed
as if the spirit of uncotisciouness
was not to be evoked. They tried
many gases and liquids which no one
had ever thoughtof testfng in this con
nection before, and at Inst a small bot
tle of dark liquid which provoked no
great expectations, and was only known
as a chemical curiositylji the labora
tory, was raked up out of some ob
Hcure corner and put to take Its turn
. with the rest. This was a little bottle
of chloroform. . Presently, after more
promising substances had failed them,
it was resolved to submit It to the test.
A amfill nortion of the liciuid was
rod into each class and- the ex-
nerimenters be?an their inhalations.
Prof. Miller, one of the assistants, has
described what took place. An un
wonted hilarity seized the party; they
became bright-eyed and very happy,
and conversed with, such intelligence
as more than usually charmed other
listeners who were not taking part Id
the proceedings, But suddenly there
' was a talk of sounds being heard like
those of a cotton mill, louder and
louder; a moment more, then all wa
quiet, and then a crash! On awaking,
Dr. Simpson's first perception was
mnt..li This is far stronger and
better than ether," he said to himself.
He next observed that he was pros
trate on the floor, and that his friends
were confused and alarmed. Ilearing
a noise, be turned . round ana saw his
assistant, Dr. Duncan beneath a chair;
his jaw dropped, his eyes staring, and
his liead half bent under him; quite
unnnnscious. and snoring in a deter
minpd and alarmlne manner. More
noise followed and much commotion.
and then his eves overtook Dr. Keith's
ft and leers making- various efforts
to overturn the table, or more proba
bly to annihilate every thing that was
it.- All soeedilv rearined their
senses, and from the middle of that
night dates the discovery of the ansea
. thetic uses, of chloroform. London
Tablet. : .. , .
HUMOROUS GEESE.
Bow Tby Had Good leal of Fan With
N amber of Young; fig. .
A goose has perhaps the keenest ap
preciation of humor of any animal, u
less it be her own arch enemy, the fox.
The writer once saw in a little grassy
TtaAAnok somo eiffht or ten fat and
healthv pie's and half a score of geese
From the paddock a narrow open gate
cave entrance into the farm-yard, ana.
as evening drew on, the geese ranged
themselves in a row near this Ther
moDvlae. Obviously supper-time was
approaching, and the pigs wished to
return home to their trouens. equally
clearly the geese had given each other
the word not to let them pass through
' the gate which they guarded.'wlthout
paving toll.
First there came up a jolly, good
humored little pig, wio trotted cheer
fully along with a confidence which
outrht to have (Unarmed criticism, till
he came amoiur the ceese. Then, with
a cackle aud a scream, every neck was
stretched to got a bite at him, ana.
ouallinir and yelling the -poor little
" j w --
porke' ran the gauntlet.
The same fate befell' six or seven
more of his brethrenlu'succession, each
bfttmvins- increasimr trepidation as he
approached tho fatal pass, and made a
bolt through the corps ae gurue or geese
whose chattering and screeches of de
light were almost undistinguishable
from human laughter. .
At last the biggest pig of the party
brought up the 'rear.. He was a pink-
fleshed, clean young fellow,-with fat
limVw and sides, and his ears were
cocked, and his tail sharply twisted in
the intelligent, wide-awake manner
which so completely distinguishes the
Wjilwt.iiii.l mtr from the more swine
nance, mis Drave oeastcnargui inrougn
the flock of geese, and bad actually al
most gained tho gato, when a large
gray goose mnde one grab at his rat
ham, caught up tho skin in a bunch,
and gave it a tremendous pinch with
her red beak. Needless to say, the hit
was rent with the squeals of agony of
the injured pig. and the ecsUitio
pmans of the flock of geese in chorus.
From tho order in which this trans
action took place, I derived tho ira
presslon that a similar game of prison-
3r s base probably formed ttio enter
tainment of the geese every evening.
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ORIGIN OF ELEPHANTS.
A Race of MummaU That Hint Appaarad
In tiia Mloeeua renew.
The origin of the great proboscidian
race in ceneral. and of tho mammoth
and elephant group in particular, like
tho early history of Joamos de la
Pluche. is "wroo in obscurity. " All
we ean say about thorn with any confl
donee is that thoy form a comparative
lv late order of mammals, wnoso
earliest recognizable representative in
geological time Is the monstrous aino
therlum, nn aquatic animal with a long
trunk, and with two immense curved
tusks, proioctinir downward paradox
lcallv from his lower instead of his up
per jaw. The dinothorlum makes his
first apiearance upon this or any
other stage in the Miocene pe
riod; but as ho couldn't. of
course, have appeared mere
(like Aphrodite and Topsy) without
any parents, and as ho was then al
ready a fairly specialized and highly-
developed animal, we must take It lor
granted that his earlier ancestry.
thoufrh ancient and respectable in Its
own time, had long passed away, leav
ing not a wreck behind, so lar as ye
known, in the matter of tangible geo
logical vouchers. These unknown an
cestors, in all probability, gave birth
during their earlier 'and more plastic
stage for suedes, like individuals,
are most readily molded in their green
youth to three main family branches.
The senior branch produced tho di
nothorlum. a vast brute, who, finding
the world too full to hold him about
tho close of tho tertiary period, de
mised suddenly without issue, leav
ing the honors of the family in sub
sequent ages to tho junior mom-
beis. The second branch pro
duced the mastodons, huge creat
ures of elephantine outline and ma-
iestio tread, most of them with tus ks
in the upper and lower Jaws, though
the under pair were always the small
est The third branch produced the
true elephants, including both our
modern Indian and African species, as
well as the mammoth himself, and
many other extinct congonors. All
the elenhants proper have but one
solitary pair of tusks, and that pair is
quite correctly located in the upper
law inst-ad of the under one. ihus Is
Evolution iustified of all hor children
The true elephants made their first ap
pearance, as far as known, In the
Pllocone period that Is, tho epoch
preceding the Great Ice Ago. Thoy
blossomed out at once into an alarming
number of species. Cornblll Alaga
sine
THE AGE OF SPECIALISE
Tendency Which la Becoming Hor
Pronounced fcverr Day.
Here is an old story in point, illus
trating conditions: A certain man, a
sort of scientist after his fashion,
found an insect which in bis crude
way he could at once determine to boa
beetle. But be wished to know just
what kind of a beetle that particular
one happened to be, or, in other words.
to find out its name. So, like a good
and patriotic citizen, ho reforrod it to
a specialist just as a sensible minor
with a broken leg would call In the
service of a sunreon. He went to a
friend and said:
"Here is a beetle. Now, you are an
entomologist; please tell mo what that
is.
"Oh. no." said the referee "I am
not an entomologist."
'Not an entomologist? Why, I
thought that was your lino."
'No; I only wish I were," he sata,
sadlv
Well, what are you? What do you
call a beetle sharp a coleoptorlst?"
No," said he, modestly, and with a
donrecatory air, "no, I m not
coleonterlsL If you insist upon Know
incr. I mitrht claim (now brurutoning
up) to bo a scarabaeiat; that is, you
know, altogether u liferent from being
a regular coleopterist."
It is not so long ago that a single
creat mind, like that of Humboldt,
could take in at aslngle comprehensive
glance almost the sum of human knowl
edge. There can be no Humboldt now.
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Mr. Herbert rspenoer woro wireo Honrs
ilnv. dlctatlnsr all bin writings. Ilk favorite
recreation is found in playing billiards.
Ti,.u., rv.rtnnff Hntrlnr t.ha noTftlifit. will
J W-' "'j - - ,
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The elevation ot Edwin Arnold, author of
"Tha Light of Asia,", to tn ranlt of hnignt-
hood, ban matte of a somewhat democratic
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