Show KINSHIP OF ANIMALS P pints pants ints of Ite semblance in organs and gentral structure the anilo and gieg ogles or of the creation teach U us s t lit l it everything very thing Is spun 0 of the stuff ond and upen apen one plan let a powerful ot of tills this fact act be taken in ili hand at once and some portion of the an animal cration cr atlon be utilized now we have av ot of us necks some of 0 us graceful nicks some pome ot of us apoplectic necks and sums ot of us no necks at all to speak ot of a pain again the giraffe has a very long stock neck the elephant it a very short one and the por pore lole apparently stops stop short of one altogether but in lr each and every case we wa find seven cervical vertebrae brae and bevert only again they and human beings also all have the same number and variety of muscles and ligaments some ot of them certainly are simply mere I 1 tor for instance the powerful ligament urn duchae of 0 the horse Is tout but very feebly represented in man padding accounts ar W all the th rest a little more or less of 0 fat and cellular tissue our limbs form beautiful subjects tor for comparison throughout the vertebrates they never exceed tour four in number they are arc all modifications of one type whether we take the ho bits of fish the wings and less legs of birds fore and hind legs of quadrupeds or arms and legs of man comparing the jeg jeff of a bird with the leg of a man we see that the complete leg of a bird shows the thigh bone then the tibia or lower leg bone and then 1 in tile the place of the tarsus and metatarsus a single bone with at its lower extremity a small bone supporting the tour four toes primarily the analogy between the last five bones of the bird and the so called tarsus metatarsus and toes of man mail does not seem very complete but it if the chick in the ess egg be examined its legs will be found to consist of the thigh bone of the tibia of two tarsal and three or four metatarsal bones and the toe toes s or phalanges the upper tarsal bone subsequently becomes with the tibia and the lower one with the consolidated T metatarsus now the analog becomes much more complete the horse has but a single sat sal bone the third with rudiments of the second and fourth these rudimentary mola tarsal al bones bone of the horse are very interesting by means of them it is comparatively easy to trace out his descent the whale poss possesses esnes the rudiments of hind legs that the hie boa cons constrictor trio toe possesses also the ru rudiments di of ageg a leg and a pelvis and I 1 that hat the rudiments of tile the wings are discoverable in tile the apteryx the third eyelid of the bardt exists also if 11 some amphibians phi blans and reptiles and I 1 in n sharks also in man mail as a rudimentary artruc turo lure the manner in which cows dears and shoe shap tear up tile the grass when they are feeding fee dinc plucking away at the tufts Is familiar to any observant man the incisors of 0 tile hie upper tipper teeth are arc wanting the interesting analogy 13 tha tact fact that the teeth are really there but bui they are arc uncut that Is to say they have never pierced the gum beatle reans magazine 1331 bathing hing in the ane sei sea the tha dead sea or more property properly the salt sei Is also cal called led in scripture the sea of the ahabah in the apocrypha the Sojo sea in the talmudic aal bools books sea of salt and sea of 0 kojm the name dead sea seems to have been first used in greek end and the arabic nama Is dahr lut or the sea of lot it has a length varying from forty to forty six milts miles and Is only about three I 1 miles across at its it widest part sarith dictionary of the h dible bible C contains aln 3 r tn rn t n exhaustive article on this body of bills waiter cremi the ansi mis of the united expedition it appears that each gillon gallon or of the water n 1211 pounds contains nearly 3 13 1 3 pounds 3 1 of matter in solution an immense quantity sri in view of the fact that sea water ivele wiliie 10 11 pour pounds per gallon contains con taina less les than one halt half pound of this 3 13 1 3 3 pounds nearly erly Il I 1 pound Is common salt chlor of sad sodium him about 2 pounds chloride of magnes luin and leas than one halt half pound chloride of calcium mur late of i time lime there does docs not appear to be any I 1 1 thing about it inimical to lie ald aid the story of a recent nt tourist reammus this lie ile says As aa for tile the dead sea it will in contradiction OZ os the name fore forever er preserve a green and allvin memory in my mind no tish can survive in it we all know but for a claie for a swim or above all for i hoat il I l talf 7 in it 11 ail I ill 01 11 r n arl 1 l the tiresome and of the laws of gravitation how holy it 11 introduces you into the inner consciousness ness of dainty artel anil and paradox para pirK dox lox an elephant it in the dead soa sea the anore n orp you weigh v eiffe the less you yon weigh there is s the real hydrostatic down and a 1 fairy would feel himself a gazelle then what a mirror its steely surface was that morning and bow beautiful its reflections of the mountains of rai ramestine estine 0 on n the one liand baal and aa of I 1 moab on the other 13 brooklyn rooklyn eagle |