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prying under feminine bonnets, still the habit of wearing 
false chignons is to be deprecated on quite other ground 
than a dread of these much talked-of parasites. The main 
reason for condemning the practice of wearing bought hair 
is, that it injures the real hair by weakening, and so thin- 
ning it. The mere weight of the chignon is hurtful—it 
drags upon the hair, and enfeebles, if it does not pull it out; 
and besides this, the heat imparted by the chignon to the 
part of the head it covers, tends to weaken the hair and 
cause it to come out. In order that the natural growth 
may be strong, it is necessary to keep the head cool, and 
to rather reduce the weight of the same by occasionally 
cutting it than to increase it by superadding this modern 
and abominable sham. 
OMEGA. 
Ie TIARMONY OF CREATION. 
BY S. C. GRIFFITH, M.D. 
(Continued from page 494.) 
EFORE we quit our review of the laws which rule 
celestial bodies, we will glance at a few facts which 
have been recently proved by astronomers. 
When Herschel discovered Uranus 1,600,000,000 miles 
distant from the sun, it was supposed that the farthest limits 
of our solar system liad been reached. But Uranus showed 
perturbations in his path which were not to be accounted 
for by the attraction of Saturn. Le Verrier determined 
the position and mass of a new celestial body by calcula- 
tions, without having seen the planet, and Galle, of Berlin, 
proved the accuracy of his theory by discovering Neptune 
2,800,000,000 miles from the sun. Thus, by the intellectual 
power of reasoning man, a discovery was predicted, and an 
induction based upon exact calculations was verified. 
Besides the planets and moons and comets, a vast 
number of smaller planetary bodies revolve in elliptic or- 
bits round the sun. When these small planetary bodies 
come within the sphere of the earth’s attraction, they obey 
its influence, and darting down give rise to the phenomena 
of shooting stars and meteoric stones. The chemist finds 
these meteoric stones composed of iron, nickel, cobalt, 
silica, aluminium, and other terrestrial elements, nor do 
