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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



PLANTS HAVE SOULS. 



So Says a. Belgian Scientist. 



foil-most scholai- of lii'igimu. hiivi' em- 

 bryonic souls, witli nidimcnts of mem- 

 oiy, reason, germs of habits and percep- 

 tion, and clearly if roughly sketched 

 .outlines of every other essential requi- 

 site of soul life. This he has demon- 

 strated in certain painstaking observa- 

 tions and experimentations, which he 

 announced, with frequent intermittent 

 accompaniment of applause, at a recent 

 conference of the Association of the Stu- 

 dents of .Science. The scliolar in ques- 

 tion is Professor L. Krrera of the Uni- 

 versity of Brussels, and he re.i;ards the 

 'physiology of vegetables as n Cinderella 

 anion;; the natural ^-liriH.-. wIjm-c lis- 

 ters, human and hhmimI |i1i\ ■ in|.ii;y. 



bask in hish places iiiiM. r i h. 1 kiuc of 



servants, while she. in .l,-r,i.liii- Imiiiil- 

 ity, serves to attend to a little necessary 

 rough work. She is quite unknown in 

 her true character. 



AVitll thr n.illlllrM ^,11,1 -t -Ur,-inct 



analy- - mI lii- -iiIiJitI l'i,iir--.ii j-irrera 

 demoii-i r,i',r- -i;ii I lliiul;. :iii:l iniriscly 

 how nii>l;iki'n ]>liili>~(ipliii ~. pliy-iolo- 

 gists and even botanists have been in so 

 .completely passing over this phase of 

 nearly one-half the organic world. 



Botanists, he say-. Ikix. c.mtinted 

 themselves with iiiii.l\ ,i |.i.iiim' of 

 some ilowers and scmir pl.inu. uitli an 

 herbarium and a miciu.,. ,,|i, , rim-i- who 

 study into physiology in the general 

 acceptation of the term deal with a sci- 

 entific !-tudy of the life of beings which 

 move, which think, which react upon 

 stimulants, vividly and briskly. They do 

 not take into account the fact that 

 plants ))rescnt nioveiiients. experience 

 (■sn.sations and imiinli -i i .;,, i i,„i- ; that 

 the term ]ili\ -i.ii.i-\ i- Mulin.uiK- ap- 

 plied to everytl,,,,:: ll,;,l Im- l,lr. -aviiig 

 only plants. Ne^ctabU: pli.\ .siului;y does 

 not e.xist except in name. 



As for philosophers, they, too, have 

 come short, says Professor Errera, in 



INDIANS BUILD A RAILROAD. 



Horn Hasi 



on till 



ling 



Wyoming the Burlington rail- 

 ■ down into the Big 

 ind the contractors 

 ing a lot of Crow 

 om the reservation 

 a number of tneiii 

 st they were lined 

 up cm li \\iili ;i -. rapcr and a team of 

 horse- .iihl .11 111. Honl. with a yell, they 

 startc'l I'l i.H-.'. tlial being the .sport dear- 

 est to til.' Indian hi'art.' But after the 

 '"boss" got them in line again, and ex- 

 plained that they were there to "move 

 dirt'' and not to race horses things went 

 more smoothly, and most of the bucks 

 have developed into good workmen. 



And so it happens, that within a few 

 miles of the battlefield where Custer and 

 his brave men of the Seventh Cavalry 

 made their last stand in l.STO. these war- 

 riors, and sons of warriors, many of 

 whom no doubt took part in the mas-' 

 sacre. are pcacefullv takiii- up the white 



man's burden and "make 



heap 



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