Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1884 — The Magnetic Pole. [ARTICLE]

The Magnetic Pole.

In a lecture at Glasgow by Prof. Thompson, he states that the magnetic pole is at present near Boothia Felix, more than 100 miles to the west of the geographical pole. Singular enough, in 1657, the position of the needle showed the magnetic pole to be due north. It had been eastward before that; it then began to point westward, and this westward variation continued to increase until 1816, when the maximum was attained; it has since steadily diminished, and in 1976 it will again point to the true north. Prof. Thompson says that the changes which have been observed not only in the direction but in the strength of the earth’s magnetism .show that the same causes which originally magnetized the earth are still at work; and strangely enough, these changes to not occur at long intervals in the course of centuries but are going on from day to day, from week to week, and from year to year. A Yankee editor remarks that he has lately seen a couple of sisters who had to be told, everything together, for they were so much alike that they could not be told apart. Brought down the house—The build' ing mover. •