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THE SCIENTIST. 
The fane of the sun at Cuzco, 
The whited ruins at Palenque, 
Or Rameses in his marble, 
Where the scarabeus lay, 
Though laughter once around them rang 
And many kings thy., greatestness sang, 
Rameses, Mer-Amen great king! 
Less durable were they. 
On its sides there is no writing, , 
Yet it bears a wondrous tale, 
Dark, dark ages dimly lighting, 
Older than the horned Baal, 
Before the Kyber Pass was trod. 
And e'er the Indus swam with blood, 
Before the Egyptian carved a god 
On Abou Simbel Pale. 
The mushroom's full grown in a night, 
T he arrow's ancient in its prime, 
Whereon, whereon shall we write 
That shall like that endure through 
time? 
For steam and steel and massive wheel 
And rail and wire will rust away 
And book and shaft anon will feel 
The sapping marches of decay. 
And Brooklyn Bridge or Appian Way 
Leave but a ridge to tell the tale. 
Whereon, whereon will he write, 
On cylinder or costly urn 
That like the mushroom in a night 
Will not to elements return? 
"The nations tremble at my power. 
Uncounted Cossack horsemen scour 
Six thousand guarding cannon lower 
Along my snowy frontier line. 
And from my ice a flood of war 
Three million gleaming bayonets pour, 
The whole earth dreads the Great White 
Tzar, 
The throne of Power is mine. 
And whereon shall old England write, 
What ocean crown with gems empearled ? 
''The Cossack and the Muscovite, 
The haunting nightmare of the world. 
Awe not the mistress of the sea; 
No Asian tyrant makes at me; 
My vengeance as an iron rod 
On stubborn Alexandria fell. 
Wrecked by the havoc of my shell, 
And as the awful Hun, my will 
Is as a hammer of God." 
We found no hope on buried things. 
In pyramid or hidden cave; 
No sculptured column runed for kings, 
Nor collar worn by slave. 
The silky stars and stripes may wave 
Ten thousand years, so mote it be, 
And the eagle spread his splendid wings ^ 
O'er the home of the free. 
Procecdiii;:!? Kanga-^ City AcacK-my of ycieiici;. 
April 7, 18'.il. 
The Probable Orij^in of tlie Ore Depos 
its in the Mines of Missouri. 
By F. C. MpnER, M. E. 
I know there are different cheoriefe in 
regard to ore deposits, but I adhere to 
the th^^ory, that nearly all mineral ores, 
or rather the solution in which they 
were contained, originally had to pass 
through the archaean formation. This 
evidently took place at different places 
and at nearly all the different periods 
of geological formations. 
It furthermore appears, that there are 
no mineral ore deposits in the rocks of 
the archnaan period, no matter how con- 
torted they may be, unless by subsequent 
force these rocks were broken again and 
then allowed the solutions containing 
the minerals to pass through them, dur- 
ing which time some minerals may 
have been deposited on the walls of the 
channel. 
In consequence of many circumstances, 
it is supposed that at the earliest time 
the earth was a mass of very hot mate- 
rial more or less fluid ; when this began 
to cool it must have formed a more or 
less even crust, but as the cooling grad- 
ually proceeded, this crust shrank and 
