Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1897 — GOIENCE. [ARTICLE]

GOIENCE.

Tbs deposit s t mow and fee in tbs Interior of Greenland is estimated to be a mile in thickness. u The largest comets are so rarlfled that they never harm planets or satellites by colliding with them. ' Mars is only 141,005000 miles away from the earth, but every fifteen years It approaches to within 85,000,000 miles The Sierra N era da range of OallfOD nia is nearly 800 miles long, 75 wide and from 7,000 to nearly 15,000 fast high. Platinum has been drawn into smooth wire so fine that it could not be dl» tlngulshed by the naked aye, even when Stretched across a piece of white car<J» board.

A man in Bremen has invented a ktol »f "oil bombs” for calming the waves, which can be fired a short distance. There are small holes in them, allowing oO to run out in aboat an hour. In the northern hemisphere all storma levolve from right to left In the southern hemisphere they revolve from left to right Cyclonic storms never form nearer the equator then the third parillel of latitude.

The strongest timber known Is the “BUlan” or Borneo ironwood, whose creaking strain is 1.52 times greater than that of English oak. By long exposure it becomes of ebony blackness ind immensely hard. . Meteorologists* say that the heat of the, air is due to six sources: (1) That from the interior of the earth; (2) that from the stars; (8) that from the moon; 4) that from the friction of the winds Old tides; (5) that from the meteors; (6) that from the sun. ] -„;ilte Is the lowest rock in th« larth’s crust; It Is the bed rock of tha world. It shows no evidence of animal or vegetable life. It is from two to ten times as thick as the united thickness of all other rocks. It is the parent rock from Which all other rocks have been directly or Indirect# derived. Twilight is longest toward the poles, where the night of six months Is ahorb» toed by an evening twilight of about fifty days and a morning one of equal length. At the equator the length of the evening twilight is about one*aad one-fourth hours, and remains abassft nenstant the entire year.