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Northern Advocate, 26 November 1887, Page 3

The reckless prodigality with which, in • ancient Egypt, the upper clasesa squandred away thn labor and lives of the people is perfectly startling. In this respect, as the monuments yet remaining abundantly prove they stand alone.and without a rival. We may form some idea of the almost incredible wast, when we hear that two thousand men were occupied for three years in carrying a single stone from Elephantine to Sais, that the canal of the Bed Sea alone cost the lives of a hundred and twenty thousand Egyptians, and that to build one of the pysmaids required the labarof three hnudredand sixty thousand men for twenty years. Starting on Dr. Dawson'a assumption that one foot of coal represents fifty generations of coal plants, and that each generation took ten years to mature— a very moderate assumption — and taking the actual measure thickness of the coal-measures in some localities at 12,000 feet, Professor Huxley calculates that the time represented by coal formation alone would be 6,000,000 yeais— sufficient to show that when we come to deal with geological time the unit of measurement is a million of years. In the Royal Aquarium at St. Petersburg there are in existence a few fish which it is absolutely proved have attained the age of 140 years. Some have grown perceptibly, while others are still the same length as when captured. Professor Baird has also authority for stating that carp have reached the age of 200 years. According to tradition, a pike which died about fifty years ago in Russia dated its birth back to the gooil old times of the fifteenth century. So, considering that it was born in 1450 I and expired in 1810, it must have lived 380 years. A farmer Hay 's that a cow can be cured of kicking by catching hold of her leg while in tho act. Just so ; and a- bee can be cared of stinging by cotchiug hold of her stieg while*;. in the act. Try 'em both it's fun. T*'m/j The older we grow the plainer we 1 seeßuat our knowledge of the great mass of truthialess* than a simple flake in a universal snowstorm 1 ?* The cow is described as" the cfijtraohaSctAp' ing link between humantifp.aLdttj^Kaithihair Bupports>-«t. " • V^fIH^HHH^BB