THE INTELLIGENCE OF FLA NTS. Man, in the pride of hie reason, which is ky no means unerring, has long been accus tomed to deny the possession of the same faculty to all inferior animal. He has, how Ter, been graciously pleased to allow that these animals possess something else, which he calls instinct. This answers almost as well as reason for guiding them to the happi ness and maintenance of thoir lires and the propagation of their speoies. Whatever be the exact difference between reason and in stinct (which has been rather a puzzliog matter for philosophers in all ages), and how rer much or however little of either faculty may be possessed by men and animals, be the latter large as elephants, eagles, and whales, or small as mice, butterflies, or animalcule, man clearly admits that these creatures hare a certain degree of intelligence which is useful to them, lie will not, ho we rer, admit this to be true in the case of plants and vegetables, whether as regards reason, instinct, or any minor degree of intelligence. The great naturalist, Lin nrcus, although he was the first to declare that plants and flowers, as well as animals, are male and female a discovery which one would suppose might have led him to acknow ledge sensation, if not intelligence, in these living beings says, in defining the differences between the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms: "Minerals grow; vegetables grow end live; animals live, grow, and feel." n other words, he asserts that the mem bers of the vegetable world do not "feel." Another and more recent definition sets forth that "a plant is an organized being, uncon scious of its own existence, fed by inorganic substances which it extracts from air or water, according to laws independent of the f ormulic of organio chemistry, by the help of a faculty dependent on vital force. Are these ideas just, and these definitions correct ? I think not, and have been led by observation to believe that plants are conscious of their own existence; and that they are endowed, not only with feeling or sensation, but with intelligence in such degree as is sufficient to make life pleasant to them, and enable them to take proper mea sures for its preservation. If the oyster fastened on the rock can feel, why not the rose or the convolvulus, or the great oak tree that is fast rooted in the ground ? Of the glow of the sunshine, or the freshnesB of the rain and the Air, are they not pleased recipients ? Who can tell ? Or who ehall deny, and give good reason for his in credulity? Who, however learned he may be, can decide where animal life ends and where vegetable life begins ? What, for in stance, is a sponge ? And if, as Linmeus says, plants have no feeling, what makes the mi mosa, or sensitive plant, shrink so timidly from the slightest touch, and apparently with such pain or terror from a ruder blow? Whether I am scientifically and philosophi cally right or wrong, I take a pleasure in be lieving that 'To everything that lives, The kind Creator gives Share of enjoyment;" and that the possession of life, in however infinitesimal a degree. presuDDoses in its possessor, whether animal or vegetable, a faculty of sensation that administers to its happiness, and that may consequently ad minister to its suffering. For, pleasure and pain are twins, and the one is not attainable without liability to the other. The idea is not new to poetry, though not accepted by science. It blooms and sparkles in the grace ful mythology of Greece, and the somewhat less graceful mythology of Home; as all who remember the Dryads and Hamadyrads; the loves of Apollo for Laura, Daphne, and Acantha; or who at school or college have pored over the metaphors of Orid, will readily admit. The Oriental poets of India and Persia delighted to animate the flowers and trees, and, according to Hafiz, the rose appreciates the tender melodies of her lover the nightingale. Greek superstition endowed the atropa mandragora with all the sensations of an animal, and believed that it shrieked with pain when its roots were wrested from the ground. Science may laugh at all such notions, but Science, though a very great and learned lady, does not yet know everything. Her elder sister, Poetry, often sees 'further and deeper into things than she does. Did not Shakespeare, in the 2'empctt, foreshadow the possibility of the electric telegraph more than two hundred years before Wheatstone ? Did not Dr. Erasmus Darwin, long in advance of James Watt and Robert Stephenson, predict the steamship and the locomotive engine ? Did not Coleridge, in the "Ancient Mariner," explain the modus operandi of the then un suspected atmospheric railway ? On the question of the intelligence of plants, my convictions as well as my sym pathies go with the poets rather tham with the scientific men. I know that the trees and the flowers, inasmuch as they live, are my fellow-creatures, and are the children of the same God as myself. Like myself, they may be endowed with the faculty, though pessibly in a much fainter degree than mine, of enjoying the world in which His love and goodness have placed both them and me. They breathe, they perspire, they Bleep, they feed themselves, and may be over-fed; they are male and female. If science admits all these faots, how can it logically stop short at Buch a definition as that of Linnieus, and deny them sensation? Darwin, in his philo sophical poem, the Botanio Garden (not much read in the present day), fancifully describes the Iovcb of the flowers, and imagines, not perhaps wrongly, that love-making may be as agreeable to them as it is to higher organiza tions: What beanx and beauties crowd the gaudy groves, And woo and win their vegetable loves ! Here snowdrops cold and blue-eyed harebells blend Their tender tears as o'er the stream they bend ; The love-sick violet and the primrose pale Bow their sweet heads, and whisper to the gale : With secret sighs, the virgin lily droops, And Jealous cowslips hang their tawny cups, And the young rose, in beauty's damask pride. Drinks the warm blushes of his bashful bride ; With honey lips, enamored woodbines meet, Clasp with fond arms, and mli their kisses sweet. This may be thought on idle dream, un worthy of serious or, more especially, of scientific consideration; while some very xnatter-of-fact person may ask, how there can be sensation without senses. It is true that flowers have no organs of sight, or bearing, or taste, or smell, which man can discover; but they may, nevertheless, possess very delicate sense of touch. And ho much intelligence may display itself, witheut any other sense than this, is known to every one who has read the remarkable story of Laura Bridgeman. When Bhe was feur years Id, this unhappy person, after a long illness, was discovered to have lost her eyes, her ears, her palate: every door of the inner spirit leading to the outer world of life and hu manity, eave the one deor of touch. But through that door, by the patient sagacity and untiring kindliness of Dr. Jlowe, of Bos ton, Massachusetts, the resident physician of the Blind Asylum to which she was consigned as a patient of whom there was no hope, sue was enfttlv4 to communicate, her wants, her THE DAILY wishes, her hopes, and her ideas to her fellow creatures, and to share in the knowledge and civilization of her time. Though she can neither see nor hear nor articulate, she can talk with her hand, and she can receive responses through the same medium, and she can write. Though the great world of sound and the joyous world of mnsio are as alien to her as invisible planets on the uttermost verge of sidereal space, yet by means of the one sense merci fully left her Bhe is able to distinguish her friends and acquaintances the one from the other, and to enjoy music, by means of the vibratien through her sensitive and delicate nerves, of the rhythmic pulsations of the air caused by the great organ in the hall of the asylum. These throb through her whole body, giving her a palpable pleasure, possibly as great to her as that which more fortunate persons can derive from the sense of hearing. "Little chinks let in much light," says the ancient proverb; and through the one little chink of feeling, touch, or sensation, the in telligence of Laura Bridgeman can both aot and be acted upon. And if it be granted that the trees, the plants, and the flowers, possess this one sense and who can prove that they do not? may we not reasonably suppose that some degree of intelligence and capacity for pleasure and pain go along with it? Being a systematic man, though a very busy one, I alwavs find that I have time to spare for my amusement. I also find that my amusement often assumes the shape of a new variety of work. In this manner I have become a student of natural his tory; and whenever I walk in my garden, through the green lanes and country roads, over the meadow path, or through the woods of England, or up the bens and down the glens of Scotland, I always discover some thing to interest me in the phenomena of nature, animate and inanimate. I have educated my eyes, as well as my mind, in re- l 1 1 ... . ' inemorance 01 ine sage maxim "that in every object there is inexhaustible meaning, and that the eye always sees what the eye brings means of seeing." Last Bummer, in my garden, I made the acquaintance of a very respectable and, as I found reason to believe, a very intelligent plant, and studied its growth and its movements during two or three weeks. Tho rl&nt WR9 nrmnrhita known to market gardeners, cooks, and house- Keepers as tne vegetable marrow. Tins, like "- ww SEVWU, TV A.A V. V C&VSU lyUO g I VJ ULlkA if it find nothing np which it can climb; but u mere do a ireo, a Drancn, a pole, or a wall within easy reach, it will infallibly make its Wav tO it. and twine its tanririla rminil fVia most available points of support. The vege- tauxe marrow, uko me Vine, tne nop, the briony, and all other varieties of the genus VitUS. to USe the words of Unrrv applied to her more renowned : ' . the grapevine: A roamer is Bhe O'er wall and tree, And Bemetimes very good company. I noticed that this particular plant extended its tendrils let me call them for the nonce its hands and fingers outward, and away from the trunk of a hazel, and from a box- hedge of about seven feet high, and towards a gravel path. It persevered in extending itself in this direction for three days, after I nm oegan 10 taxe notice of it; but on the fourth morning I perceived that it had changed the course which its tendrils were pursuing, and had turned them" in the con-" trary direction towards the box-hedge. In two days more it had securely fastened itself to the hedge with its vagrant tendrils, and put forth new shoots a short distance higher up, with which also in dae time it en veloped the supporting tree, which, for the first portion of its life, it had sought in the wrong direction. Another marrow, further removed from all support, had also put forth its feelers towards the gravel path; but find ing nothing to lay hold of, turned them back in a similar manner; but like the first one, only to meet with a disappointment. The marrow, however, made the best of unfavora ble circumstances, as a wise man or a wise plant should do, and meeting with the ten drils of a sister or a brother marrow engaged in the like pursuit of a prop under difficul ties, they both resolved apparently that, as union was strength, they would twist around each other. And they did so. After they had been intertwined for a day, I deliberately and very tenderly untwisted them, with such care as not to injure the delicate tendrils, and laid them apart on the ground. In less than twenty-four hours they had found each other out again, and twisted their Blender cords together in a loving, or a friendly, or at least a mutually supporting, union. Much inte rested in these enterprising marrows, I tried some experiments with another climbing plant, the scarlet-runner. I untwisted one that had grown to the height of about a foot np the pole which had been placed for its re ception, and twisted it carefully round an other pole, which I stuck into the ground at a distance of abomt an inch from the old one. The scarlet-runner, hewever, had a will of its own, and would not cling to the new pole unless I would tie it, which would have ruined the experiment. I therefore left the plant to itself to do as it pleased; and two days afterwards I found it on its original pole, twined securely around it. I repeated this experiment several times afterwards, with briony and hop, and always discovered that the only means to make a creeper creep, or a climber climb, in a direction different from that which it had already taken, was to tie or fasten it; if left freely to itself, it persisted in carrying out its original intention. Is this intelligence or instinot, or is it merely mechanical action? During the same season, I had occasion to remark that several climb ing roses in front of my cottage seemed sickly. On investigating the cause of their ill-health, I discovered that the soil in which they grew was very poor, and consisted merely of a thin layer of earth, over the chalk; that their roots had reached the chalk, and could not penetrate it; and that they had declined in strength for want of proper nourishment. I had a pit dug, about three feet deep, all along the front where the roses grew; and I filled it up with new soil, manure, and rotted leaveB, in which they have simce thriven remarkably well. A healthy and luxuriant honeysuckle growing amid these roses, which clambers over my cottage porch, was at the same time laid bare to the roots. I found that the honeysuckle bad been wiser than the roses, and instead of pushing its roots vertically downward to the barren chalk, had extended them horizontally through the thin layer of earth, immediately under the sod, to the distance of no less thau eight feet from the stem. Was this instinct or intelligence ? Or was it blind meshanical ferce? My opinion is, that it was intelli gence, aad the adaptation of means to ends by a will that might have acted otherwise. Every plant growing in a darkened room bends itself to the chance light that may hap pen to penetrate through a hole or a chink; every such plant overshadowed by trees of larger growth endeavors to stretch itseli be yond their influence. Is this instinct, intel ligence, or mechanical force? I confess my EVENING TELEGRAPH inability to decide; I doubt the ability of any one else to settle the question; and, taking refuge in the idea that every manifestation of God s power and love is illimitable, and may be infinitely small as well as infinitely great, I come to the conclusion that there is no life upon this globe, however humble, which is so wholly unintelligent as to be helpless for its own sustenance and preservation, or un endowed with tho capacity of joy or sorrow. Alt the Year Round. Hotv i1ubm Inper-Weiglits are lTlale. Every one knows those paper-weights of solid colorless glass in a hemispherical shape, in the centre of which are bouquets, por traits, and even watches and barometers, etc., etc., but few persons know how or by what means these things are incarcerated in the centre of the glass. There is a great distinction to be made not merely between the objects, but also between the materials of which they are composed. As those representing flowers and bouquets in glass those from which the name is de rived are the most ancient and the best known, we will begin with them. The first thing to be done is to sort and arrange a certain quantity of small glass tubes of different colors in the cavities of a thick molten disc, disposing them according to the object te be represented. This done, the tubes are enclosed between two layers of glass. To do this they begin by placing on one side of the disc which contains the tubes a layer of crystal, to which the tubes soon become attached. When this is done the diso is removed and a second layer of crystal is placed on the opposite side. The object being placed in the centre be tween these two layers of glass thus soldered together, it becomes necessary to give the ball its hemispherical form, which is done, when the crystal is again heated, by means of a concave spatula of moistened wood. It then only remains to anneal and to polish it on the wheels. That a glass ornament, being covered with a layer of hot glass, should receive no injury or change of color, may be easily understood from its extremely refractory nature; but it is not the same with objects in metal, such as watches, barometers, etc., which a far less degree of heat would oxidize or even entirely destroy. The mode of manufacture, there fore, of these latter objects is quite different from that of the first. It is eaiy to prove this. If we look at a paper weight, provided the interior be of class, ,the upper" and under pari of the recipient will be also of glass. If we now examine a paper weight containing a watoh or barometer, under the lower part of the ball will be found a piece of green cloth, the use of which is to keep in place the objects which, instead of only forming one body with the oovering of glass which surrounds them, are only placed in a cavity made beforehand in the centre of the half-spherical ball. In a word, to take out the glass ornaments it would be neces sary to break the paper weight, whilst to take out the others it would suffice to take off the cleth. As for the paper-weights in which are placed portraits, usually of a yellowish color, these profiles are made of refractory earth, and many thus bear, well a heat which only softens glass. Manufactured successively at Venice under the namo of millefiori, and then in Bohemia, these paper-weights have been carried to per fection only by French artists. The sole difficulty in their manufacture is in avoiding internal air bubbles, which would the more deform the objects, as any defect would be much increased by the thickness of the glass. CARRIAGES, ETO. CARRIAGES WM. D. ROGERS, CARRIAGE BUILDER, ORIGINAL A NO ONLY Manufacturer of the Celebrated ROGERS CARRIAGES, lOOO ana lOl 1 CIIESNXJT STREET, PHILADELPHIA. New and elegant styles of Carriages constantly produced. 8 a taUm3mrp PAPER HANGINGS, E I Q LOOK! LOOK!! LOOK!!! 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STATE RIGHTS FOR SALE. 8TATE Rights of a Talaable InTtntion juxt patented, and for tbe BLIOXNU.CL'MINU, and 0111PP1NU of dried beef, cabbage, etc., are hereby ottered for sale. It is an article of great value to proprietors of boUls and restaurants, and it khould be introduced into every family. STACK K1UHTH for sale. Model can be seen at TKUCG&APH OffiOK, C'ER'S Vlj foT HOFFMAN. Horn Exchange Bag Manufactory. JOHN T. DAILEY, K. E. Cor. WATER and MARKET Sti ROPE AND TWINE, BAGS tnd BAGGING, for Grain i lour, bait, Super Pboapuate of Liiae, bone Dust, Kto, 84 lArgtftuasouuiKUKiN DAtio coostanuy a Mtna. Also, WOVL bAUiUi. MAY 20. 1870, INSURANCE. DELAWARE MUTUAL BAFITY INSURANCE COMPANY. Incorporated by the Legklatart 01 rennajiTAnla, 1880. Office south eat corner of THIRD And WALNUT Strata. rhlltJleiphta. MARINE INSURANCES On Vessels, Cargo and Freight to all parts of the world. INLAND INSURANCES JO goods toy liver, canal, lake and land carriage to all parts of the Union. 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KEOEK. Assistant Secretary. 11 THE PENNSYLVANIA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY. Incorporated lKio Cbarter Perpetual No. 610 WALK UT Street, opposite Independence Square. Tim Company, favorably known to tbe oommnnity lot over forty vears. continues 1a immre ajuunat Iom nr H.m. age by tire on Publio or Prirate Buildings, either perma nently or for a limited time. Also on itnrniture, Stocks of Goods, and Merchandise generally, on liberal terms. 'J beir Capital, together with a large Surplus Fund, is Invented in tbe most careful manner, which enables then) to otter to the insured an undoubted seonrita l.th. of losa. Dili-- iU" -Daniel Smith, Jr., I John Deverenz, Alexander Hanson, . I J'bomas Smith, 1mm Uar leburst, I Usnry Lewis, Xboma. Robina, H'add j'""".- Fell. DANIEL SMITH' Jb. President. WM. O. OROWELL. becreUry. a'"" rrua g TIIE ENTERPRISE INSURANCE CO. OF PHILADELPHIA. Offlcs8.W.raer of FOURTH and WALNUT Street PERPETUAL AKh'I'UUU ixn umim iriamrn OASU Capital (paid np in full) Ju0,0u0 00 uaan amvu, jam. I. I!"7U DIRECTORS. F. Ratchford Starr. Kalbro Fraxiar. J. Livingston Erringer James L. O lag bom. Wm.O. Bonlton, Charles Wbealer, Thomas li. Montgomery, James M. Aerteaa. John M. Atwood. benj. T. Tredick, George H. Stuart, iruna i. nrown J. uanee as. met-u V. RATCHFORD RTAHU HmJul . THOMAS H. MONTGOMERY, Vioe-Prstidtnt. 1I.FX. W. WISTKR, Secretary. INSURANOk. INSURANCE COMPANY NORTH AMERICA. JaWTJAM 1, 1871. . Charter PertsU. IweerpariUrd 1704. CAPITA!. S300.00O ASSETS S!4T83,3Sl Losses pnld since TgalmtlB...,g j?,ooo)000 Receipt r Premium lN69....Sl,rrl,83743 Interest fresa Investment, C9. H4.606-T4 Losses pnld, 1869........... 8 l,033,3St4 Statement f the Assets. First Mortgages on Oitj Property rrm tHi United States Government and other Loa'n Bo""1"- 1J9LMS Railroad, Bank and Oanal Stocks . MTnl Cash in Bank and Office , Ji!;lS loans an Collateral Security ' Notes Receivable, mostly Marina Preminma... SSUma Accrued Interest m JJJJ Preminma in course of transmlssiea '"' Mian Unsettled Marina Preminma lonoon Real Estate, Offio of Company Pniladalpbia.. m'fiOO DIRECTORS. S3Wl W.f'i" Alfred!). JeSnp?" William WeUh. Looia O. Madeira. MoI"S wJn. Charles W. Cnkhmaa. UfS' . Clement A. Griaow! Georte L. Harrison, William Brockiaw ARTHUR O. COFFIN, President Ml CHARLES PLATT. Vloe President. MATTHIAS Mabis, Secretary. O. H. Keeveb. Assistant BecreUry. g f JPIRE ASSOCIATION. INCORPORATED MAROH 87. 1880. OFFICE, HO. M NORTH FIFTH STREET INSURE BUILD HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, A2r MERCHANDISE GENERALLY, From Loss by Fire (in the City of Philadelphia, only). ASSETS, JANUARY 1, 1S0, 81,57i,TJJ 33. TRUSTEES. WM. H. HAMILTON, JOHN CARROW, GEORGE I. YOUNG, CHARLES P. BOWER. JK8SK LIOHTKOOT, ROBT. SHOEMAKER. PETER ARMBRUSTStt. xji.vi r-. WA1B. M. H. DIUKINHOM ' SAMUEL SPARrlAWlC. ' PETER wixLJLaJslSOll JOSEPH E. SOHKLL. WM. H. HAMILTON, President SAMUEL SPARHAWK, Vice-President WILLIAM T. BUTLER Secretary. IK AME INSURANCE COMPANY, No. 809 CUES NUT Street INCORPORATED 1856. CHARTER PERPETUAL. CAPITAL 8300,000. FIRE INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY. Insurance.agait)it Loss or Damage by Fire either b Perk petual or Temporary Polioiea. Oharlea Richardson, . Robert Pearei Robert Pearee, John Kesaler, Jr., tv imam n.ivDiwD, WilUam M. Seyf ert, John i Smith, Nthn Mills. x.uwmra n. urne, Charles Stokes, John W. Evermaa. tlAwluaf 17 l. George A. West, CHARLES TtTfiH A n niia v 1;J .. - WILLIAM H. RHAWN, Vioe-President WnxiAMS I. Blanchard, Secretary. 7 2Si JMPERIAIi FIRE INSURANCE CO. LONDON. ESTABLISHED 1S03. Paid-up Capital and Accumulated Funds, S8.000.000 . I3V OOJLiD. PREVOST & HERRING, Agents, 41 Ko. 107 8. THIRD Street, Philadelphia!" OHA8. M. PREVOST OHAiJHERRrNO CUMBER. 1870 8PRUCR JOIST. SPRUCE JOIST. HEMLOCK. HEMLOCK. 1870 1 R7A SEASONED CLEAR FINK 1 QsyV 10 4 U SEASONED CLEAR PINE. Io70 CHOICE PATTERN PINE. BPANISH CEDAR, FOR PATTERNS. RED CEDAR. 1870 FLORIDA FLOORING), FLORIDA FLOORING. CAROLINA FLOORING. VIRGINIA FLOORING. DELAWARE FLOORING. ASH FLOORING. WALNUT FLOORING. FLORIDA STEP BOARDS, KAIL PLANK. 1870 1 ft 7fi WALNUT BOARDS AND PLANK.-. OTA 10 i U WALNUT BOARDS AND fLANILlOfO WALNUT BOARDS, WALNUT rliAMK. 1 ft 7 A UNDERTAKERS' LrJMBER. -s r)rr 10 4 U UNDERTAKERS' LUUBEIL 187 0 NElt rmnin WALNUT AND PINE, 1870 SEASONED POPLAR. 4 o PTS SEASONED CHERRY. . Io70 ABM. WHITE OAK PLANK AND BOARDS. HICKORY. 1870 CIGAR BOX MAKKR8' -i OTA CIGAR ROY MA KKRm IKVil SPANISH CEDAR BOX BOARDS. FOR SALE LOW. 1 ft7A CAROLINA SCANTLING. -t Qrr 10 4 U CAROLINA H. T. SILLS. 1870 NORWAY SCANTLING. 1870 CEDAR SHINGLES. IOTA CYPRESS SHINGLES. lOll MAULS. BROTHER A CO., No. sooo SOUTH Street HI PANEL FLANK, ALL THICKNESSES. 1 COMMON PLANK. ALL TH1QKKSW)W 1 COMMON BOARDS. 1 nd 1 SIDK FENCE BOARDS. ,,W?iTJiP0INK fLOOKINQ BOARDS. YTfLLOW AND SAP PINE FLOORlNUSTlM and tU SPRUCE JOIST. ALL SIZES. 7 UO" na ,' HEMLOCK JOIST, ALL SIZES. PLASTERLNG LATH A SPECIALTY. Toe-ether with a general assortment of Building- Lnrabet lor sale low far eaah. T. W. SMALTZ. lUHnm FIFTEENTH and Bi btrseta. ' United States Builders' Hill, FIFTEENTH Street below Market ESLER & BROTHER, PROPRIETORS. -4 20 810 Wood Mouldings, Brackets and General Tnrnlnz Work, Hand-rail Balusters and Newel Posts. A LARUE ASSORTMENT ALWAYS ON HAND. UMBER UNDER QOVIB. ALWAYS DRY. Walnut, White Pine, Yellow Plue, Sprnce, Hem lock, Shingles, etc., 'always on hand at low rates. WATSON A GILLJ NG HAM, ' 8 gl No. 824 RICHMOND Street. 18th ward. BUILDING MATERIALS. R. E. THOMAS & CO., BIALEB8 IN Doors, Blinds, Sash, Shutters, WINDOW FRAMES, ETC., N. W. CORNER OF EIGHTEENTH and MARKET Streets . l ' ' PHILADELPHIA. JKT GOODS, NEWEST! 8TTLE3 DIXON'S fto. kl S. si&HTU Mr an,-
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