[show it. One-half your theory's gone, and, soon, the other half goes, too: So, better turn about, at once, and show what you can do. Own up (as people have to do, when they have been deceived), And help the searcher after Truth of doubt to be relieved. 'The only amaranthine flower is virtue;'--don't forget it-- 'The only lasting treasure, Truth:'--and never strive to let it." ODDS AND ENDS. "We do not possess a single evident proof in favor of the rotation"--of the earth--"around its axis."--Dr. Shoepfer. "To prove the impossibility of the revolution of the earth around the sun, will present no difficulty. We can bring self-evident proof to the contrary."--Dr. Shoepfer. "To reform and not to chastise, I am afraid is impossible.... To attack views in the abstract without touching persons may be safe fighting, indeed, but it is fighting with shadows."--Pope. "Both revelation and science agree as to the shape of the earth. The psalmist calls it the 'round world,' even when it was universally supposed to be a flat extended plain."--Rev. Dr. Brewer. [What a mistake!?] "If the earth were a perfect sphere of equal density throughout, the waters of the ocean would be absolutely level--that is to say, would have a spherical surface everywhere equidistant from the earth's centre."--English "Family Herald," February 14, 1885. "The more I consider them the more I doubt of all systems of astronomy. I doubt whether we can with certainty know either the distance or magnitude of any star in the firmament; else why do astronomers so immensely differ, even with regard to the distance of the sun from the earth? some affirming it to be only three, and others ninety millions of miles."--Rev. John Wesley, in his "Journal." "I don't know that I ever hinted heretofore that the aeronaut may well be the most sceptical man about the rotundity of the earth. Philosophy imposes the truth upon us; but the view of the earth from the elevation of a balloon is that of an immense terrestrial basin, the deeper part of which is that directly under one's feet. As we ascend, the earth beneath us seems to recede--actually to sink away--while the horizon gradually and gracefully lifts a diversified slope, stretching away farther and farther to a line that, at the highest elevation, seems to close with the sky. Thus, upon a clear day, the aeronaut feels as if suspended at about an equal distance between the vast blue oceanic concave above and the equally expanded terrestrial basin below."--Mr. Elliott, Baltimore.