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mena, but very much the reverse; ergo, | credimus quia impossibile est, it was all the more necessary to preserve the faith intact. The struggle curiously represents the very similar controversy, just too a century old, | of the Werners and Huttons. Both were to a certain point right, and both were partial ly wrong, but neither recognised the full truth. As a fact, ever since the Devonian at least, there have been glacial epochs, but they have never been universal, and have been found in the near neighbourhood of the poles. We may believe in a glacial age¦ in North-western Europe, as we may believe in a glacial age in British Columbia or Laurentia--but, and here lies the test of the whole question, they were not contempor-
aneous.
So we find towards the close of the Palaeozoic there was a distinct ice age in South Africa, and in the Mesozoic even in
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CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT. earth has a molten interior enclosed within | absolute fact." You go to school with Chi- a solid shell has lost its importance, be- cause it has become a mere matter of terms.
nese coats and foreign trousers, which really The facts which led geologists to believe young gentlemen, that clothes make the "cannot be permitted." Have you not beard, that the interior of the earth is fluid are consistent with those that prove that the
man? How much more so, then, must they earth is more rigid than a globe of steel. And
make the boy, who is father to the man? For under the immense pressure within the earth the materials can transmit. vibrations and resist compression like a solid; but they can change their shape as easily as a fluid. They are fluid just as lend is when it is forced to flow from a hydraulic press."
CHINESE COLLEGE BOYS AND CLOTHES.
(Daily Press, September 18th.) In one of INGERSOLL'S most fiery
If
orations, he suddenly broke into rejoicing over that persistent human quality which shows itself in disobedience.
"I tell you," he said, in effect, "there is something splendid in man that refuses to obey. we had always done as the Kings told us hundreds of years ago, we would all still be slaves. If we had done as the priests told us, we would all be idiots. If we had done We have been saved by disobedience, by as the doctors told us, we would all be dead. that splendid thing called independence, and I want to see more of it. I want to see
India, within our present tropics. These are not, it is true, denied, but they are blinked, and for many years no one with any respect for his reputation was hold enough to face the audience of the believers. The late meeting at Leicester was, in fact, the first time the question has had a fair discussion, and curiously, though champions appeared on each side, neither seems to have gone directly to the point. Both, however were able exponents of two opposite lines of thought. Professor Love from a mathematical standpoint sought to prove children trained so they will have it." It that changes in the figure of the earth proceeded altogether from mathematical would not do to introduce any of INGER- functions inherent in spheres, and worked ROLL's ideas to the boys of Queen's College, out lines of force and lines of deformation Hongkong. They might be misunderstood, depending on inherent laws of stability. In his address to the students "in Hall, at The worst of this line of argument was that breaking-up, according to the report in the there was no inherent necessity why these Yellow Dragon, the college magazine, the forces should act on any special lines, the Head Master invited the attention of the points of origin must have proceeded from senior boys to what he called
a pregnant. some anterior condition to which he did sentence" in an article by Dr. GRAVES of not refer. But what was that antecedent
Canton. Writing of the national danger condition? It is evident
to empires like Russia and China arising we must go back to the early stages of the earth's from individual feeling," Dr. GRAVES had existence. Some of the lines curiously written, "The danger of this individualisti? agree with what has been
worked reaction against all despotisms and control out on eutirely different principles, and is that it may easily degenerate into anarchy from actual study on the spot, but the and a revolt against all authority." That initial points of the curves do not correspond Head Master, so we need not analyse it. was merely the text for a little homily by the with what we actually find. A line of great circle is, for instance shown crossing It is obvious, however, that a disinclination the Pacific and bending round the Care of by all individuals to protest against Good Hope, rising to 45° N, and S. latitude despotisms might "easily degenerate" into respectively. The points of crossing the a slothful indifference to public interests, Equator are, however misplaced. should have been approximately in 80° W. long, and 100 E. long. and the circles
They
It
and make of them what our American mugwumps." cousins call "
The danger of all reaction is that it may react too far. Decidedly the text is pregnant enough,
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remarks, there is a olose tie between clothes your revered Head properly and wickedness. recent visitor to Government House, a Mr Witness the clothes of a
K. HARDIE, and compare his case with that of another M.P., a Mr. JOHN BURNS. Since Mr. BURNS has become more careful as to bis attire, he is a high official enjoying the confidence and friendship of the King. But Mr. K. HARDIE, what is he, with his red tie and soft, ungentlemanly hat?
A mere globetrotter. So you see, young gentlemen, you can't be too careful. There was a Lord
BYRON who wore very untidy collars you that he was a had lot. There is no need may hear from any decent Presbyterian
to multiply instances. The GOVERNor, and a few
more gentlemen here, wear trousers loose like a coolie," but they are not yet out of the wood. If you watch trouble before long. It is bound to follow their careers, you may see them meeting in all cases of culpable sartorial inexactitude. the idea that your preceptors wish to impose Do not, young gentlemen, run away with
they are being discourteously treated when sumptuary laws owing to any tenderness for their own dign.ty. It is true they feel you venture on these tentative adoptions of foreign style, but that would not matter is they could feel sure that your minds would legs unbound, there is a danger that you not deteriorate. By leaving your trouser- may learn to think like the uncouth foreign youths. Perhaps you had better re-bind them, and while you are at it, have your sleeves lengthened. No thorough Chinese hands in company. The overhanging sleeve, gentleman is rude enough to expose his
may be a little in the way when you are writing your exercises, but they should be very handy as peuwipers. There is another thing in which you Queen's College Chinese
askel what is the capital of Kwangtung, come short of the glory of the classical Chi- nese student. I. is said that when you are you reply abruptly, "Canton, Sir." It seems to us that this is wanting in respect to the teacher. You ought to preface your answer by a little speech, regretting the necessity of having to seem to air your miserable and contemptible erudition on a matter about which your exceedingly elevat-
should have risen to 55° N, or S. lat. respect but it is with the sermon that we are struck. /ed preceptor must be so very much better
ively. Then we should have actually had the most remarkable great circle ou the face of the earth-that of the Rockies and Japan, which really did give the con- tour to the two opposite continents of Asia and America. Time does not permit our going into details of the other two great circles which have been instrumental in forming the outlines of the other continents. On the other side the gage has been taken up by Professor J. W. GREGORY, probably the ablest of our rising geologists. The compressibility of the interior of the earth under the pressure of gravity is here the cue. Professor GREGORY shows the im- possibility of accepting the favourite theory of a highly heated nucleus gradually cooling down, aud rejects the fanciful theories of alterations of climate. From the Cambrian onwards he shows that climate must have been on the whole fairly uniform, and this is what geology, except in the eyes of the glacialists, clearly points out. Professor GREGORY shows, too, how apparently oppos.te conditions may be proved to be only variations of the one fundamental. The old controversy as to whether the
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many
"Old residents like the Second Master aud myself," went on the Head Master, cannot but notice the conspicuous tendency of Chinese in Hongkong to claim for them- selves emancipation from the natural bonds of duty to parents aud schoolmasters, which twenty years ago were still secured by the ancient and eternal maxins of Confucius," He immediately admitted that there was
not any
insubordination deserving of mention at Queen's College, and showed how small were the things he was girding at, by the following comment:
of a current. Vagaries in dress cannot afford Very small straws serve to show the direction to be disregarded. Hybrid costumes, partly European, partly Chinese, cannot be permitted. To wear trousers loose like a coolie, instead of bound at the ankle in the manner adopted by Chinese gentlemer, is an act of discourtesy to the class master whether English or Chinese. What is still more serious than the question of dress is the effect on the moral conduct of the step is bat a short one, let us behave as we please. students. Let us dress as we please, the next
terrible picture, not imaginary, says your Tut-tut, young gentlemen; but this is a respected Head, but "a plain statement of
informed. This little attention would be in keeping with the best traditions of Chinese gentility, and would go a long way towards sving the amour propre of your class
master.
What with hygiene, etiquette, and now sartorial ethics, your curriculum may seem to be lengthening; but "tot tantisque rebus urgemur et premimur, ut nullam alleviationem quisquam nou stultissimus sperare debeat."
A native named Yu Fuk appeared before Mr. F.A. Hazeland at the Police Court on Sept. 17 on he entered a draper's shop at Yaumsti, told the a charge of disorderly behaviour. On Sept. 16
Chinese detective, and demanded a pair of trou- master he was a relation of Iu Po, the chief
sera
give Ya a pair, so he left, but returned next as cumsha. The shopkeeper refused to
day to renew his request. When the master of the shop again refused to comply with it, the defendant proceeded to behave in a disorderly manner, and the police were call ̧d in. Ya was a fine of $15, the alternative being one month's found guilty of the charge and ordered to pay imprisonment. He was a so bound over in the sum of $100 to be of good behaviour for twelve
months.
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