Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1912 — DISAPPEARANCE OF LAKES. [ARTICLE]

DISAPPEARANCE OF LAKES.

Whether the globe on which we dwell is gradually drying up or not is a question that has been much debated. Recent discoveries in Central Asia have been regarded by some as favoring the affirmative answer, -but. others have replied that the observed phenomena are simply- periodic changes. Dr. Walser of Zurich champions the affirmative view on the ground that a number of European lakes have certainly disappeared within the last 250 years. The Cannon of Zurich, for example, had 149 lakes s$ quarter of a century ago, and only 76 today. He believes that a similar tendency to disappearance has afrected the lakes of Germany and Russia.