Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1882 — The Magnetic Needle. [ARTICLE]

The Magnetic Needle.

A condensed explanation in regard tc the needle pointing to the northward and southward is as follows : The magnetic poles of the earth do not coincide with the geographical poles. The axis oi rotation makes an angle of about 23C with a line joining the former. The northern magnetic pole is at present near the Arctic circle, on the meridian oi Omaha. Hence the needle does not everywhere point to the astronomical north, and is constantly variable within certain limits. At San Francisco it points about seventeen degrees tc the east of north, and at Calais, Me, as much to the west. At the northern magnetic pole, a balanced needle points with its north end downward in a plumb line. At San Francisco it dips about sixty-three degrees, and at the southern magnetic pole the south end points directly down. The attraction of the earth upon a magnetic needle at its surface is of about the same force as that of a hard steel magnet, forty inches long, strongly magnetized, at a distance of one foot. The foregoing is the accepted explanation of the fact that the needle points to the northward and southward. Of course, no ultimate reason can be given for this i atural fact, any more than for any other observed fact in nature.” “ Golden Medical Discovery” ("words registered as a trade-mark) cures all numors from the pimple or eruption to great virulent sating ulcers.

“Ma, what’s a sweet, sugar-coated little angel pill ?” asked a Williamsport boy of his mother at breakfast the other day. “ I declare, Willie, I don’t know,” was the laughing reply. “ Where <Jid you ever hear such an odd expression as that?” “Oh, I heard pa telling Mary that in the hall, last night,, when you was over to Mrs. B -’s.” The “sweet sugar-coated little angel pill” was discharged the next day.— Williamsport Breakfast Table.