Show FIN FINE E GEMS FROM THE STARS I 1 founis in ial a I 1 and abid the ballas Moi iders They tina signify speculations ARISING ABOUT THEM here all brought to the earth by 7 1 aror roc henry a vard story glory of a tillight bird birda nellt A plan to cultivate tho the intel lector apell Curlo vii nome about grains fafian and ge Thi aliss 1 sept 2 1891 or 01 ill all the curlo which chu A iso of 0 tile association tor for the tha advance ailt of bernce brou to washington to thel r follows fol lowa the most win was a facto 0 rite with ilia dla in it such a thing ng hid had never man been or heard ol of before in tact it wait the only specimen of tho the kind find thu thus S I 1 in the world the dl dla ones oars but what they ealm was hii big abe lu hi question was 0 ono no or of liay found recently lir at arlona ionti neur hear tho ho anon deablo jl it was ras supposed by tb abit t they had tilt hii upon la iron mine of ell armons value but in ill N I 1 95 clOD proved that the great thanks tot of metal picked up had bad been shot ill 01 the re bealle alle tf of space the place athe the tenet des they iter were cre obtain obtained cid ll li known know n as ie crater Cr aier beca use it looks like one lag g L circular hollow d feet lit in rill pill 0 of f a toile wide and by a wall 0 I 1 rock so it the strew etoal bottom Is n walh ith the of an I 1 ma I 1 a blob hava kol in and balisle to 0 o clim bou out again kaver L 1 i 1 u not of v volcanic vol 1 caDic a origin I 1 a there roved ii 1 with by the fact tb ai no do laa ava obsidian volcanic viell guior A arother other volcanic product in tile hie aaili 1 ti hat was ll it then that the a Mi ormed eay y that list ll it 91 gantle by tho the I 1 impact in pact of 0 a th 0 past melcor vi abich hi ell at 1 l some boine time in sri bellof struck tho the earth and burled buried it t ah As thim since filsht leaving a holo bich 10 become partly y filled died ui of bill ni it by Y 1 a wall of forced dmd 0 rock thil that was out of big tobie ono it t place imagine what a have bif ity thice been to luave leave a burths of a toile mile in m here t 11 bit width this h 1 planet tho the huge huga mass on 04 ot of it herit which 1 it a as composed compo ted Is 1 yet of 0 lank to 0 o course perhaps ll it Is not I 1 lal 1 deep top to teoder render mining for or its ll 11 ferniza the unprofitable Fragment it bythe hii masses IM that were picked up Pres that lit prospectors above to one OD which contained the dia dl 0 ds however has opened an absei b it ing K subject for or speculation it proves that there are diamonds in other worlds than ours but bul albo it ft points to many other important conclusions tho the diamonds of tho the famous kimberly mines m which it ch at present produce almost the worl ls supply ol of those these gems are all found at tho the bottoms of jut just such buch craters as tb the 0 ono described in arizona it ills Is believed that these cra craters tors so called were formed by the IMPACT OF GREAT I 1 because thero there is no other conceivable way in which they could have bi bren bien en in made ade and tor for other reasons geological it if so then it must bo be interred inferred that probably all the diamonds ot of the wot id were brought to this terrestrial sphere by meteorites in other hord these Pr precious erious jewels oro are not matiie to the tha ear earth it bi but 1 t have been fetched hither with the 11 dust of other stars that accounts lor for tho the in manner anner hitherto deemed unaccountable in IA m which b ich they uro are spattered scattered evelym everywhere boo through drift of all sorts bating apparently no birthplace or relation to other minerals soum scientists go so tar far as to assert that diamonds like coal alch Is so 60 I 1 nearly learly ol of constitution could not possibly come into imo existence without previous vegetable growths to generate their mater material lal foi ibis reabon they inter infer that 1110 lial finding ot of tho gens genis in tho the mole mote orito dellion strates that there inett have been vegetable life at all events in the plato whence checo tho the cainie caine it if thorn was life there ll it Is a fair air presumption that there was animal life also all this may be untrue but ll it affords tile tho first lir l grebs that has haa ever been obtained into the problem that mankind has cir attempted to handle natu namely iely the question whether hether A life el ests in other oilier worlds than ours oars front from the point ot of view tho the tact fact cannot but but bo be taken for granted lit in a universe in which the sun Is merely in an interior inferior 8 car of tho the foulch magnitude noser th thel oless sonio absolute absolu lo evidence on tho the po nl ni would be extremely satisfactory ordinarily at arc a finally oil all iron fruit with a small mail of nickel nonn none ot of them has ha e pier er been know n to contain a particle of any precious metal Never nevertheless theles many ot of them aro are worth many times their weight lit in gold be bc como of structure or otherwise every collector of minerals brals makes it a matter of arido to have letb Z specimen ot of bevc every ry known kind of 0 mete meteorite orILO in his cab cabinet inet ire it tt newport new sort turns up and ho be has not dot a piece he bo Is unhappy it happens sometimes that thal ons ono weighing not nol more than a pound 0 ot f a nuke tip that has bai dot cot been seen chii before will sell in bits tor for a couple of thousand dollars it if its possessor know he how to jaw C ot of it IL people tire ara not cot less interested for la in other worlds because they know clothing about the next one ODO tur THE MOST interesting MAS MAN among tho the scientists who have A boo been visiting washington Is pro professor rr ur A ward the groat natural collector ol of Roc rochester hoster K N Y Us lie has spent spen fr kishlo it traveling iran lang all over tho the world tor for the purpose of gathering material tor for museums the rho adventures bo be has met with in pursuit of curiosities in 0 o ono one far corner of the iho earth or another would lill fill many delightful books lit in conversation the other day lie referred to tilt hii expedition he once made lit in search of an extraordinary australian bird which malch lin has a communal cummi inal nest a aholo nock flock uniting their in Us its construction st arid and sharing its conveniences tor for the iho purpose of laying their eggs it m was as in tho the neighborhood of 0 fort darwin barwin on torres aralts tr alts said the 1 I had bad some native blick black fellows with me ma and a lot of biscuits to pay client with RIs cults go with client for anges as a viell ell as money because they caro care for nothing in life but eating if you give giro them coles coins t hey carry thorn them in their ears and they are arc more apt than not nob to wear ear no clothes cloth esat at all bao ao a band around tho the left led arm to awid a tobacco pipe that Is stuck in it w hen not in uso use one must like caro care not dot to lot them havo have any alil asi as thay call them until their work ll ii done otherwise ha meic log gobbled them they are aio likely toile to lie down at any moment and 0 go o to sleep though it may bo be in the middle of tho ihu road slid and the occasion CLun OL one of serious these particular black follows fellows hid bid promised to guido niu ilia to a nest of tho the brush turkeys I 1 had never seen ono one arid and was very anxious to do so on n our journey joi irney roy joy companions t seemed incessantly to bo be looking for to eat whon when opportunity served flioy th ey climbed ull tall trees tor for oysters the rise and fiill fall of the iho tides lit in torino straits is enormous and the oysters which litch are under tinder water m when hen it ii Is high being attached to iho trunks of trees ate aio left led ten or twelve feet out of tho the water w hen bell it in if at its lowest I 1 saw two gigantic kangaroos on oil that trip and inea the iho leaps ol of ono or of them thirty two tout feet plo lio tape hnit showed allowed for each jump julep taking it from too toe mark to tou too mark as the original animal left theta ihen in the th sand it Is marvelous to soe roo ono one of those groat great mar kuplais sup lala streaking across the country lit la hain criso bound bounds literally itaf AIR with its mighty hind limbs and aid hardly seem ing to touch louch the lh earth in its flight the th beast really looks as if it was wai lying flying an and d I 1 an not surprised that captala captain cooks naturalist should have mistaken the ibo first kangaroo he saw tor for a big bird on our way to und find tho the nest I 1 came across s beautiful specimen of a kind of lizard com commonly called tho the lying dragon because it appears to 10 uy fly supporting up porting itself la in the air to somo some extent as doos does a flying squirrel this one which had so an especially largo large an and d fine raulo around its neck crawled into IDIO a hollow log to escape I 1 up endrud tho the log when it fell out and I 1 told ono 0 oo 00 the black follows to pick it 11 up ha d did id so 0 o lad and immediately carrying it to his bis louia bit off its head I 1 na as very angry to loso lose such ouch a treasure in that way but w when hen I 1 scolded the man simply looked ked astonished rubbed his stomach 00 and nd sold good nood good soon afterward lay attention wa was callad toa to burt of jack la tho pulpit that grew in ii a little dell its beav es were bomea net withered which tad fact was accounted lor for w ashen hen another of my aboriginal companions plucked tho the plant up by the roots aud and showed me ine hanging handing from them theiu a bright green caterpillar quite a foot in fit length this latter ho he coolly held up by ono one end dropped it do dou A his bis throat closed his bis eyes in an cestary of gustatory appreciation and rubbed his bis stomach also wo reacted the nest at last and it was well worth seeing it was vv as a circular at mound 8 feet high and 32 22 feet in dia niete tho the birds begin tho the con of such a ono one by petting getting together got her a big help hes p ol of lea s os on oil top of 0 anil and around this heap they gather gallier earth by scratching it bac backard kaid toward the ibo pile anil and it ft was in this way v wholly holly that the great mound I 1 describe was mas built up all the outface suil soil has been scraped away for or a long distance dlf tanco around for adding to the accumulation whon ahon tho the brush have thus wade made their carth bead ready for the seasons ica sons laying they cut a cylindrical hole down into tile tho middle ot of it into this ibis they set get one ODO by ono and lay their eggs As soon as all are through they fill up the hole leaving a cavity shaped ake to a wash basin on oil the top of the mound rains come and tile water waier ret nned in this hollow filters through to the deposit of leaves aich aro are thus made to decompose do compose tho the cicat of decomposition hatches tho the eggs and alio llio loaine fowls burrow their way out of tile tho wound not upward but through the sides it Is a w wise ise brush turkey that aliu kiowa Us ovin mother tor for tile tho parent birds give no though nor care to thel r artor depo tiltIng their eggs you ciu call imagine whal hat a vast amount of material Is put into one of these it vv uhro hen I 1 tell ou oil that a friend 0 of I 1 mine in australia his U garden patch from one half of ono of the mounds 10 THE tae APE A roan man of largo mcana who he resides in washington has recently declared his bis lonrlon lon lipen llon tion priVa privately LelY to dovolo to lu A very original purpose ills idea Is that no DO satisfactory opportunity IIA it ever been afforded for the development 0 of the intellect ot of tho the brute intelligence like bodily qualities Is susceptible of improvement through breeding as s every ono one knows who has thought about the iho evolution of the th dor dog frow the wolf by artificial selection loc tion this rich man loan proposes that monkeys or apes shall hill be taken as tub sub jecks tor for experiment simply imply because man understands those animals better than he be does others let fifty of them half males and half females bo be placed lo in a paddock sult suitably ably provided with separate quarters for the sexes then have them brood pair by pair as shall be directed by who superintend some of thorn them will develop certain abilities morn more conspicuously than others for example certain individuals will exhibit a superior understanding of thu the commands addressed to them or will ill show a greater dexterity tn in the handling of objects twoie which appear stupid are to lo le be liou uio colony tuter places being filled by fresh when a male and a female are arc found who exhibit the same saino son eon of aptitude in any direction they aro are to be mated this process carried on for generations would necessarily result in the tha development of superior characters until finally after tile tho lapho or of twenty tive live years perhaps thero there would almost certainly bo be had apes or monkeys far higher in the scale of reason than auy known up to the present time these putative cousins of tho the human race already exhibited a mental menial and even development jn in point of in tolle collect ct chimpanzees have been taught to bring things to the table and the tha big langer baboon of india is commonly used in that countey today to day clay as a servant for working tho the fans fan with 1 aich the iho files dies aro are kept aw am ay front from dinner tables explorer beanley hii has hi i 91 slim en tn an account of apes blikh carry torches at night ibis Is believed by scientists to be an absurdity be abuso all the 0 an o pol and simian tribes tire are too afraid of liro firo to render sich a thing than po possible amble it Is a tact fact well known that hint got goi gorillas illas while they avill ill gather about a 1 deserted descried camporo camp oro lire for or the sake of warmth will mill never think of keeping the embers slight alight by adding fuel nevertheless every book on natural history relates many an instance illustrative of theo creatures thinking goei and 1 thorn there Is DO question that it could bo be really greatly improved by the processor process of judicious breeding even evea a pig cau can bo be taught to EO logut up to ten tea TIM THE GRAIN RIF KISE the department of agriculture says that the lie recent ria ri a in tile grain market la Is not the east bur surprising this Is the third ear ar of short wheat crops everywhere every hero abroad said mr J richards Cl chard dodge the oost most cuil authority on such nuch matters in ID this country countr yi yesterday not only has the leftover left loft over surplus been exhausted but what Is called the invisible reserve supply lu in the farmers blus bins his has been used up 1 iho he present wheat crop in this ahl country Is unusually big and 1 tb must mast bo be drawn upon largely by europe particularly by Ln angland gland which eats eais enormously more wheat than she produces hence the rise in price russia Is the rye producing country of the world the crop Is very poor and the czar has commanded that none of it shall bo be exported ei ported tho the germans who lie eat cat rye and not wheat are alarmed the soldiers are grumbling seriously at the prospect of being obliged to feed upon wheat broad bread lor for lack of rye bread this ibis year incidentally the tw low wil mil lions ions of bushels of rye grown in the united states stales have advanced la in value it ills Is very curious to observe how the different Herent dl nations eat cat different grains in the united states slates wo we teed feed largely upon corn which in england Is thought to be only good tor for horses A very few years IBO ago me 0 o ate ie no oats at |