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Taranaki Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 2383, 9 February 1876, Page 2

i Where we auk to go to. — A new theory has been propounded as regards our future, aud as it seems to be novel, we give it as described by the author iv a letter ro the Dunedin Saturday Adrrrfixer: — "Science," Bays the writer, " luiviug dispelled the idea of j the earth being a flat surface covered in by a ! blue roof, above which was situated Heaven, I a considerable vngueuc<s has entered into all our calculations concerning our destination alter death which vagueness tends to undermine our religious feelings; aud without a true religious leeling guidiug his actions, a man can never be really honest. In this, my attempt to disperse this vagueness, I have uot run couuter with science in any way ; in point of fuct, it yields me great assistance. Science has proved to us that the suu is the source from whence the earth draws its existence. The vegetable and animal kingdoms are especially dependent on the sum. Tlie earth, however, is only one of a number of plauets that revolve around the sun, which are equally dependent ou the fcun with the earth. Science also asserts if life does exist ou other planets, it must be iv adi Keren t form to ourt, If wo pay thp earth is the only planet that produces life, we would imply, there is a great waste in all those big planets absorbing the sun's rays aud giving nothing in return ; tho sun's rays iv our planet mean life. Xatui c, by her wouderful fitness iv all her doings that we can fathom, contradicts am such theory of waste. Science also seeks to demonstrate that the' planets nearer to the sun than the earth are' of too high temperature to support our kinds of life, therefore, we will suppose for various reasons, that the life they support is inferior to ours. Iv Venus or Mercury this inferior life flourishes and decays, liberating iv its decay a subtle essence, refined by its growth, which is transported to the earth, and our forms of life are the result of its growth on this planet. Man's soul is the subtle essence Hint the earth brings forth, and it if transported to' Mars, uud then grows and improves; so that- we may scan another page, in life's mighty mystery. There are planets uud many worlds beyond Mars." The editor appends the followiug footnote — [The above is too abbiruso for our comprehension, but we've uo doubt it will prove interebtiug to our speculative reudurs. — Eu. S.A.] Poi&ONixc; by a Lamp Shaul\ — At a, meeting of the Medical Society iv Boun, Profes&or Zuntss brought forward a case in which a gentleman who had for several years been subject to migraine observed that for some j days he had headache late in the evening, ' which without interfering <vith sleep, continued iv the morning, and was accompanied with loss of appetite and iitrtlaisc. Iv about a fortnight the symptoms became more severe, and lasted the whole day. At the same time sin- j gular Fymptomp, butmuch less severe appeared > in two students who sat at the same table in the evening. Tho grecu shade of the petroleum j lamp was su«pected to be the cause of the mischief: aud, on chemical examination, it was found to contain arsenic Its use being discontinued, all the symptoms ceased in tho three individuals. It wn» evident that the heat of the lamp had set free the arsenic, aud the greater severity of. the symptoms in the (h-Ht-inentioucd individual was duo to the fact that ho wns near-sighted, and thercfoi c sat nearer to the lamp than the others did. Professor Zuntz said that he himself wus some years affected in the Bauio way, though less severely, Mi He usiug a grjen lamp-shade, in which arsenic wns found. — British Midical ' .lour mil. | itEXEJ'TmNo i\\ a D i vouch.— Aii lowa inau obtained a di force from his wife and then hired her for a cook. The woman is dcJi,"hto.d with the change, becauso now eho can i....'. .i now dress occasionally and v little pinrootjoy in her pogk«t«fcook. j •