Historical Seminary.
Hon. Joel Moody addressed the Seminary last Friday afternoon on "The First Principles of Money." He introduced his subject by taking issue with Walker's definition of money, "money is a medium of exchange, a means not an end." A medium is that thing through or by which a thing passes—money is not a medium. Money is the 'measure of all commercial things, value springs from those inherent qualities in man that cause him to desire certain things more than others, the commercial value of anything is alone, connected with man. Eliminate man and von eliminate value.
Neither can anything have value without having utility. Price is simply the measure of value, the value is money. Value, a relative term, must be measured by something concrete. All things must be measured by a concrete unit, as extension, capacity, weight, value. It is necessary that a standard shall be fixed by law. Money was invented by man to avoid barter. By the invention of money commerce has become a science. Money must have existed before the civil state. It brought the state into existence. Even the most barbarous tribes have something that stands for money.
But money must have certain requisites. It must serve as a measure of value and have value in itself. Money must possess lasting qualities. "True money lives,—false money dies."—All the metals have been used as money, but simple lessons in metallurgy have led to the adoption of gold and silver. By its vast use to man, money has obtained its value. Gold and silver come to be used by natural choice.
Money must also possess malleability, divisibility and weight; gold does not have to be comed before it can be called money. Some claim that metal is not a necessary element in a scientific definition of money, that a fiat law can create money. The government can no more create money than it can value, gravity or extension. Civil law cannot create money. If it could a nation could maintain itself without taxation. It would make the legislative will the measure of all values. If law cannot create value and if what it creates has no value, it will not last. It is not the* fiat law, nor the stamp of the mint, nor the inscription "In God We Trust" that gives money value.
Mr. Moody was compelled to leave the remainder of his paper to some future time, owing to a short session of the seminary.
"I am wedded to art," said Parley. "Well." said Criticus, gazing at Parley's picture, "I'd get a divorce if I were you She has deserted you"—Brooklyn Life.
Life is made of compensations. By the time a man is old enough to realize what a lot he does not know he is 'too old to worry over it.'—Indianapolis Journal.
Mrs. Sheffield was barely prevented from killing Wallace, her husband's slayer, in the court room at Texarkana, Ark.
A Modern Athenian's Dilemma.
A Modern Athenian's Dilemma.
"Did I ever tell you," said Thalia to a reporter, "my awful experience the only time I was ever honored by a call from the elder Salvini? My sister had been shown many kindnesses by him while in Italy, and had begged him to call on us when he came to America. It was the maid's afternoon out. I was alone in the flat with Jack, my irrepressible ten-year-old nephew. An accrued impulse whispered to me that a hot bath was a good remedy for headache.
"I was in my bath wrap, my dripping hair hanging about me, when the bell rang. Oh, horror! The name on the card which Jack poked under the door was Tomaso Salvinil. I knew ne scarcely understood a word of English. 'Jack.' I gasped, "say after me till you get it," "Madame D. est sortie," and then go in and fire it off at him. He'll know what it is if you don't. He'll go away!" So said, so done. The little scamp caught the words quickly and repeated them glibly.
"Fancy my anguish when Signor Sativini began to question, to regret, to deprecate in a flood of swift French, Jack gazing in widemouthed terror, I on the verge of catalepsy behind the bathroom door. Jack bore it as long as he could, and then his sky piercing accents rose upon the air. 'I don't know what you're driving at!' wailed he. 'All (know is that she told me to say she was sortic, and I've said it.' Don't ask me the rest, I collapsed in the bathtim and tore my hair and wept."—Boston Commonwealth.
Air Strata Over Cities.
The popular idea that the higher one gets in the city air the purer the atmosphere becomes, has been disproved by evidence given before a select committee on house of commons ventilation in London. It is found that the air of cities like London, where soft coal is burned, is purest at thirty or forty feet from the ground. Lower than that the dust is encountered and higher the smoke from the chimneys.
These conclusions were arrived at from experiments with frames of wood covered with blanketing material put at different elevations—one on top of the clock tower at Westminster, another on the highest point of the roof and others at various heights down to the courtyard. After five hours' exposure there were found to be more smuts at high elevations than at low, but on the level of the courtyard there were considerable quantities of dust.
The inference from these experiments is that the common notion that the highest stories of the tallest blocks of flats are desirable for their salubriity is apt to be a mistaken one, and that beyond forty feet nothing is gained by going higher unless a very great height—some say 400 or 500 feet—is reached. —Louisville Courier-Journal.
Is Iron Rust a Cause of Fire?
When oxide of iron is placed in contact with timber excluded from the atmosphere, and aided by a slightly increased temperature, the oxide will part with its oxygen, and is converted into very finely divided particles of metallic iron having such an affinity for oxygen that, when afterward exposed to the action of the atmosphere from any cause, oxygen is so rapidly absorbed that these particles become suddenly red hot, and if in sufficient quantity will produce a temperature far beyond the ignition point of dry timber.
Wherever iron pipes are employed for the circulation of any heated medium, whether hot water, hot air or steam, and the pipes are allowed to become rusty, in close contact with timber, it is only necessary to suppose that under these circumstances the particles of metallic iron be exposed to the action of the atmosphere—and this may occur from the mere expansion or contraction of the pipes—in order to account for many of the fires which periodically take place at the commencement of the winter.—Iron.
It is not generally known perhaps that the most terrific storms a ship can en counter are met upon our own south Atlantic coast in the region off Cape Hatteras. The storms our compact American built coasting steamers weather there would break in two one of the long, cigar shaped vessels of the British steamer type. It could not stand the awful seas. For a stormy weather ship therefore, the American builder has developed a type superior to those fashioned on the Clyde.
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Santa Fe Route. Where Are You Going?
If you are contemplating going out of town in any direction, whether the trip be one of business or pleasure, necessity or choice, just read this little advertisement through and see whether it is of interest. The Santa Fe route runs more than twice as many passenger trains through Lawrence than any other railroad, and they are so arranged that it is convenient to start to almost any point that people care about visiting, either morning or afternoon. These trains are models in equipment and combination and comfort for both train passengers the Santa Fe depot is right down town on the south side of the river. On the most prominent corner on Massachusetts street the city office is located equipped with a full stock of railroad and steamship tickets, and reliable information regarding time of trains, routes, rates, etc., is to be obtained there at all times.
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