Miscellaneous. ARYAN INVASION, OF EUROPE.

Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1595, 23 September 1882, Page 6

Miscellaneous. ARYAN INVASION, OF EUROPE.

In very recent times — probably not more than twenty centuries before Christ — Europe was invaded by a new race of men, coming from Central Asia. These were the Aryans, a race tall and massive in stature (the men averaging at least 5 feet 8 inches apd the women 5 feet 3 inches), with " brachycephalic" or round and broad skulls, with powerful jaws and prominent eyebrows, with faces rather square or angular than oval, with fair, ruddy complexions and blue eyes, and red or flaxen hair. Of these, the earliest that came may, perhaps, have been the Latin tribes, with the Dorians and lonians ; but the first that made their way through Western Europe to the shores of the Atlantic were the Gael, or true Kelts. After tbese came the Kyinry ; then the Teutons; and finally— in very recent times, near the beginning of the Christian era — the Slavs. These Aryan invaders were further advanced in civilization than the Iberians, who had so long inhabited Europe. They understood the arts which the* latter understood and, besides all this, they had learned how to work metals ; and their invasion of Europe marks the beginning of what archreologists call the Bronze Age, when tools and weapons were no longer made of polished stones, but were wrought from an alloy of copper and tin. The great blonde Aryans everywhere overcame the small brunette Iberians, but, instead of one race exterminating or expelling the other, the two races' everywhere became commingled in various proportions. In Greece, Southern Italy, Spain and Southern France, where the Iberians were most numerous as compared with the Aryan invaders, the people are still mainly small in stature and dark in complexion. In Russia and Scandinavia, where there were very few Iberians, the people show the purity of their Aryan descent in their fair complexion and large stature; while in Northern Italy and Noithern France, in Germany and the British Islands, the .Iberian and Aryan statures and complexions are intermingled in endless variety. — Atlantic. AMERICAN BLUE BLOOD. Two centimes and a half ago j Off trudged to work with shouldered hoe A woman, barefoot, browned and rough, With pluck of Puritanic stuff, Six lusty children tagged behind, All luitlcss, shoeless, unconfined, And happy as the bird that flew About them. Naught of books they knew, Save one they read at twilight hour, Brought with them in the staunch Mayflower. ****** A pretty lady, thin and white, In a hammock swinging light, Languishes, and in the shade, Devours rhyme and lemonade, While bending near, her lover .sighs, And gently fans <away the flics. She murmurs, " 'Tis so nice that we Aic neither of low family, But of old Puritanic stock, That landed upon Plymouth Rock." * — Harvard Lampoon.

LONdFELLOW'S BEST THOUGHTS. His fame was great in all the land. —I dislike an c} r e than twinkles like a star. Those only are beautiful which, like the planets, have a steady, lambent light, are luminous, but not sparkling — Hyperion . Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. — Drift-Wood. Trust no future, howe'er, pleasant ! Let the dead past bury its dead. — Psalm of Life. Touch the goblet no more 1 It will make the heart sore To its very core. — The Golden Legend. The surest pledge of a deathless name Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken. — The Heioes of Elmwood. Even cities have their graves. — Amalfi. Fortune comes well to all that comes not late. — Spanish Student. They who live in history only seemed to walk the earth again. — The Belfry of Bruges. Don't cross the bridge till you come to it, Is a proverb old, and of excellent wit. — The. Golden Legend. Make not thyself the judge of any man. — Masque of Pandora. The country is lyric, the town dramatic. When mingled they make tho most perfect musical drama. — Kavanagh. Whatever poel, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age. — Moritmi SalutaIHUS. As unto the bow the cord is, So unto the man'is woman : Though she bends him, she obeys him ; Though she draws him, yet she follows ; Useless each without the other. — Hiawatha.

Let us, then, be what we aie and speak what we think, and in all thing 3 Keep ourselves loyal to truth and the sacred professions of friendship. — Courtship of Miles Standish.

Dead he is not, but departed, for the artist never dies. — Nurcmburr). Music is the universal language of mankind. — Outrc-Mer. All things are symbols ; the external shows Of nature have their image in the mind, As flowers and fruits and falling of the leaves. — The Harvest Moon.

A boy's will is the wind's will. — My Lost Youth. Fair words gladden so many a heart. — Tales of a Wayside Inn. Ah ! what would the world be to us, If tlic children wore no more? We should dieacl the 'desert behind us Worse than the dark before—Children.

There is a Reaper whose name is Death, And, with his side keen, He reap 3 the bearded grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between. — The Reaper and the Flowers.