A PREGNANT SUGGESTION.

Evening Post, Issue 19, 1 March 1865, Page 2

A PREGNANT SUGGESTION.

¦A review of Professor Max Muller's " Lectures on the Science of Language" has called forth a very remarkable and easily-proTed assertion, which, if it be, as we think it is, true, will go far to overthrow our belief ill the chronology of geologists and naturalists, which is so damaging to the Mosaic record. The review states, in reference to the words " oss quercus" and " fagus," that the fir, the oak, and the beech, from the contents of certain strata, have succeeded each other at periods more or less corresponding to the stone, bronze, and iron ages. " But," say* Mr. Abraliall, "we moderns have witnessed in Canada West the same succession of trees, and with such rapidity that the so-called pine ridges east of Toronto are covered with oaks." It would seem, therefore, that the flora which is n cessary for the wheat-grow-ing civilised man can be supplanted with exceeding rapidity. — Illustrated News. It should be 1 known that a small quantity of vinegar will generally destroy immediately any insect that may find its way into the stomach ; and a little salad oil will kill any insect that may enter the ear. About a third of the £150,000 munificently given by Mr. George P^abody to the poor of London has already been invested in building and land It appears that in the mining op ratioi g carried on by the military of the United States in their attack upon the fortifira ions of the rebels, an improved mining to 1 .v • us.cd which posaesaea the advantages of doin* a large amount of work, aud entirely without noise. The instrument is a modificaton Oi the " post-hole augers" of the western prairies, aud can be driven at so high a velocity that very rapid progress iv the boring of a hole can be made.