DARWIN ON SNEERING.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2495, 8 January 1887, Page 2

DARWIN ON SNEERING.

.In snewing or defiance''the mm lip is lifted; and.retraoted in saJH manner that tlie'caiiiDO tooth onmj Bide of the face-alone is shown, thefH being upturned and half averted Mb the.person causing offence. DaHB pertinently remarks that it is a HI prising fact that man should pofiH this power to unoover the canine (H| or exhibit any tendency to its useßß account for this civilised gesturaM |goes on,to- say:' "We may relH believe that /our male senii-huffl progenitors,, uncovered their ca9j t'eeth wlieh prepared for battle, asjjH st 'ill do when feeling ferocious,'or vBH m. srely sneering ator'defyingsomeH| wil liout any 'intention of making a Ha atta '<& with our teeth.",;, >; H ' "F'AITHFUL UNTO DEAThH :''. The 'Mowing story of an.AmeriH| reporte ir's last ' despatch/is ;taken tm& the St.. Paul'Moneei' PresL?. It s3H It is 1 wt many years ago 'that Tfli B—, 1 ybie .attache" of alCentral iffl paper, now defunct, rodo -out fromn Southern lowa 'city one perched d; iringly on the ;'b'rako offl flat car tin >t> was attachel.tO' a " ifflj freight" an i loaded with. iron ran He had beeitt in newspaper. ; work SB about six yaws, and was, thorough capable. To''make'the : story shcS forty miles out from-its starting poffij the "wild"' freight);'•with-' a leapM madness and. a crash, woH tnrough.thet'iridgeJTdown sixty feM and Tony sitt iixg on' the brake-beamH It was over in: an-Manl When tH .conductor of'the train ; [the ;,only omt uninjured) criiwled out" of the wreß ■his oyesM:|irst,on Tony, lying aoroH the side.of a,iJismantled' box; oar—(ffl his chest a heavy rail,' his legs orushtH —and dying.' Beyond liimlay a dom brakesman;. the engineer : was burieS under his .m aohiriei,, and by ; a laron boulder, was iihe.fireman with r-'lteH back- Tony' was conscious;.4&tfliem the oohduotor reached him JPaskeß for paper and'.pen&l. Theiy vyera founH in hispockefe,. Unable to write hinfl self, he dictatedthis, angrily,' >derinH the men .who to let hirH alone:—"O—E—, Managing-Editoß Stir,-*-,lowai'Train through bridgfl at—.'Was on Board and hurtH Will send full' at once.—Tm B." A iapgte .'was secured, whfij .carried it to jhe.neaßt station. TherH this boy, true to do his, duty .and nofi flinohing before death, fiuffermgfrighfH fill agony, and-'while, willing hanffiS sought in vaiii to' hifflj position, dictated' ;f.special' l >qf lgdofl 'words Whis ho one can eyer-linow:.'.:: ,Ii!-'|&& j'withH difficulty that he could 'andl every gasp cost him a wreh6h(:i))[ But he and so on, w^ ; iffl "Tony :B—v.;reporter^!?■. hJ ended that'his;eW; i f^ea>,with' : ';teaKj and he looked .upOTsfuily;'toi|he con-1 ,duotor, who forhiin; an4 l wh'f himself' could noil keep, his my s#To^y)i ; did my dutyi; and.rboys,' rush ,thabQver : the wiresabr.mo/' > ltfeseooj,'" ; It ,went pyef the-wireg=all' right,;and it W .a; 5 ,',' scoop 1 ;" -but -belok'it '■'. w$