Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1883 — AGE OF THE EARTH. [ARTICLE]

AGE OF THE EARTH.

The age of the earth is placed by soime at 500,000,000, by others at 1000OOU.OOO of years, and still others of, later times, among whom the Duke of Argyie, place it at 10,000,000 years. None place it lower than 10,000,000, knowing what process have gone through. Other planets go through the same process. The reason other planets differ so much from the earth is, that they are in a much earlier or later existence. The earth must become old. Newton surmised, although he gave no reason for it that the earth would Jn time loose all its waters and become perfectly dry. Since then it has been found that Newton was correct. As the earth keeps cooling it will become porous, and great cavities willjbe formed in the interior which will teke water. It is estimated that this process is now in progress, so that the water diminishes at about the rate et the thickness of a sheet of writing paper each year. 4-t this rate, in 6,000,000 years the water will have sunk a mile, and ia 15,000,000 years svsry trase of water will have disappeared from the globe. The aitrogen and oxygen In the atmosphere are also diminishing all the time. It le la an inappreciable degree, but the time will oome when tke air will be so this that no orsaturs we know of eould breath it and live; the time will come when the earth eannot support life. That will both# period of old age, and then will oome death.—Richard Proctor.

Bishop Sheney, at Christ Fpisopal Chareh, in Chicago, said: “Out of that seething hell at Mllwauke the ether day, two heroes, with a frail ladder spanning the ohasm of death, eared twenty women. Think you these wemen will ever lee the day when they will be ashamed to oonfsse that those brave fellows rescued (hem? How mueh more should you confess Christ, who has said, he that eonlessea me will I confess before my father in heaven. ” Jefferson Ulery has been arrested on two indiotments, charged with blowing up saloons at New Palestine with dynamite. That town has been the soene of four dynamite explosions and every seloon that has been opened has been klowed up. Ulery, has been placed iu jail at Greenfield,