Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1885 — Page 3

EARTH’S CHANGES.

What Has Been and May Be Again. _ Prof. XL Ramus communicates to La Nouveille Revue an article on the earth and its changes, the glacial epoch and the final disappearance of ice from the planet, from which article the following is extracted: “During the whole period of the primary rocks and the formation of coal strata, tropical heat prevailed from latitude 35 degrees to 80 degrees—to the polar renions, that is. The temperature was uniform over the whole earth. During the first half of the second period, that of jurassic rocks and chalk, the Climate remained the same; the same plants ind the same animals were found all over the globe. During the second half of the period, however, the climate began to cool somewhat, and deciduous trees made their appearance, though tropical plants were still to be found in England and Denmark. Even to the ‘ middle of the tertiary period there Was an equality of climate in all latitudes; bur the temperature in Europe fell very gradually, and it is certain that at the end of the tertiary period there was no ice on the globe, not even at the poles or at the top of the highest mountains. “With the quaternary period a great change took place. The reindeer was to be found in all parts of Europe, the cold was excessive, and the great Swiss glaciers extended to the south of France. The glacial epoch was in full swing, and the uniformity of temperature formerly prevailing had been destroyed. Then a reflex action begins; the glaciers, and with them the reindeer and the mammoth, retreated as slowly as they advanced. At the furthest point of the glacial extension the cold became so intense that a sea of ice covered half Russia, all Prussia, Hanover, Holland and part of England. “What, then, was the cause of this change from uniformity to excessive cold over so large a portion of earth’s surface? And how is it that the extent of the cold region, after having reached its maximum, gradually retreated? We attribute the change to the deflection of the earth’s axis from the perpendicular and then its gradual return toward its old position. In the case of a perpendicular axis the climates will be nearly equable all over the globe; there will be some difference in different latitudes, owing to the fact that the sun’s rays are only vertical at the equator, but it will be comparatively small. There would be no nights long enough in any part of the planet to leave time for the formation of a large quantity of ice. Consequently all we have to do to account for the ages of time when the climate, as geology tells us, was the same all over the world, is to imagine the earth with a perpendicular axis in place of an ax s at an angle with the plane of the ecliptic as it is now. “The angle to-day is 23 degrees 27 minutes and 9 seconds. But the Chinese astronomer Choo Kung, who measured the angle 1,100 years before Christ, made it 23 degrees and 54 minutes. It will take the axis 176,946 years to move at its present rate through the distance which now separates it from the perpendicular. “As long as the axis remained perpendicular, the climate, as has been said, was uniformly hot, and in Greenland and Spitzbergen pomegranates grew. One day the axis began to change. At first this had a slight effect. For ages the modification was trifling; even at the tertiary period there was still no ice, and snow, when it fell, soon disappeared. But by degrees the zone was traced. Round the pole the change was already complete, and the radiation of the earth overcame the solar heat, and the night the day, so that masses of ice were fqrmed. The quaternary period was entered; man appeared on our continent; the angle of obliquity of the axis being about 15 degrees, and the polar belt, about 1,000 miles in extent, finished at the southern part of Spitzbergen. The glacial epoch had begun. "As to the age of man upon the earth, assuming that he did not appear until tne lower stages of the quaternary period, in which his bones are first found, it is certain that the climate was much warmer in Europe than it is now. On one calculation man has been 223,108 years on the earth, and 249,054 years have passed since the axis of the earth first moved out of the perpendicular. ”

Woman as a Machinist.

A woman don’t know any more about mechanical principles than a man does about feeding a baby; but the manner in which she doctors up a balky sewing machine and makes it go, is one of the world’s great wonders that has not yet been put in the catalogue with the other marvels. She never has the slightest idea what the trouble is, but her manner of taking the difficulty by the ear is about the same in all cases. She gets a hammer and pounds everything breakable for about five minutes, without doing the slightest harm. Then she takes a screw-driver with the corners so broken off that it has a point like a gimlet, and pokes around until she gets it wedged fast somewhere. She jerks and pulls, pounds, tugs, and pries in four directions at once; gets red in the face and white around the mouth; loses her temper and the concerns that hold up her back hair with considerable simultsneousness; gets her toes pinched under the treadle, and her apron wound tight around the main shaft, but just before she gets mad enough to swear, the screw-driver loses its grip and comes out with a suddenness that results in two broken finger nails, and considerable battered up skin in the neighborhood of the knuckles. And then she jumps backward with a rashness of impetuosity that upsets the baby’s crib and breaks the milk bottle, as the poor discouraged woman squats with unstudied grace in the middle of the floor, and lifts up her voice in the plaintive melody of primordial man. But all things have an end, and so has her song of woe. She jumps up and gives the machine a few shakes that make the gearing rattle, pours a lot of oil on the balance wheel, and the business is done. The thing resumes its stitching, and goes right along as smooth as prosperity, without any more kick. After a conrce of treatment like , this any

sewing machine can be guaranteed to run equal to a two-dollar watch for four months.— Chicago Ledger.

The Cyclone.

The cyclone is, properly speaking, a "Western institution. But of late years it has spread to almost all parts of the globe, and seems to flourish in any climate. In its character it is distinctively American, but it has the knack of at once adapting itself to its surroundings and making itself at home wherever it may happen to be, The cyclone is a concern which can be described in no better way that we know of than by simply saying that it is a wad of wind, electricity, dust and devilment It is a thing of life and business, and when it has a job on hand it goes at it as if it meant to earn its wages. It is thorough in its methods, far-reaching in its efforts, and most complete in the fulfillment of its contracts. You never see an able-bodied cyclone dallying on the roadside or fooling around with its hands in its pockets waiting for a rich relative to die and leave it a fortune. If a cyclone has the contract for wiping out a town it never sits down on a stump waiting for a town to fall down 6r burn up, nor does it sashay up to a weak building and sort of gently pull it to pieces and lay the boards out carefully. The one we saw didn’t. The cyclone came sailing along at the rate of a thousand miles a minute, and acted just as though it had started out on a business venture without any inclination to monkey. As it came in sight of our town it shook off its coat, spat on its hands, snatched a long breath and grabbed hold of things in a very familiar manner, just as if it knew what it came to do. It wasn’t long with us, it didn’t have time to tarry, and did its best to make things lively on its way through. It didn’t purposely slight anything—it never does. With one hand it scattered a brick house and with the other peeled a chicken. It cut across lots and stole down back alleys, picking up everything it found and scatering them to the four winds of heaven. It darted down into the wells to sample the water, and raided the cellars to see what was there. In about two minutes its work was completed, and without pretending to offer an apology it lit out for other parts. As we before remarked, the cyclone is quite thorough in its work. A man in going over a town recently vacated by one would need to use a microscope to find anything it had left untouched. Nothing is too small for its notice—nothing is to large for it too tackle. It is surprising to see how readily and impartially a full-grown, doublegeared cyclone can go through a town and never leave a hair where it was before. We said we had not associated with the cyclone much, and we haven’t. We have never yearned to become intimately acquainted with it, nor to take it to our bosom as a boon companion and personal friend. Like the mule and the Indian, it is too freakish, and in some of its playful moods is liable to twist one into ten thousand shapes. For a regular associate we don’t know but we would' prefer the mule. He is perhaps a little less dangerous, though a great deal more uncertain. We don’t just admire the cyclone’s system of business, but so long as it lets us alone we are not going to tackle it. It requires a brave man to stand up in front of a healthy, able-bodied cyclone and look it in the eye calmly and remonstrate with its teeth. That is something we won’t do, and if one ever comes along and expresses a desire to pocket our little collection of worldly posessions we will accede to its request with as good grape as we can command at the time.— Pittsburg (Kas.) Democrat.

Wonderful Transformations.

Forty years ago Gen. Sam Houston made the reputed transformations of vegetables and animals in Texas part of a humorous speech. It had been stated in a little book on Texas that after being planted the second year Irish potatoes wguld turn to sweet, and other equally queer transformations were alleged. The presiding officer of the Senate addressed by Houston had had a quarrel with a neighbor about the ownership of a hog. After recounting many of these alleged transformations, Houston, looking the presiding officer in the face, wound up by saying: “But none of these changes, Mr. President, are equal to that by which ’s little spotted pig became ——’s big spotted barrow! and thereby hangs a tale, Mr. President—thereby hangs a talfe,” wagging his finger at the presiding officer at the same time, and assuming a queer though grave expression. The presiding officer fidgeted m his seat, and Replied, “It’s a lie, ” but Houston paid no attention to the retort. —Galveston (Tex.} Neiqs.

Novel Use of a Newspaper.

There is no aristocratic quarter in the City of Mexico, and it is fashionable not only to live on a business street, but to have a saloon or a meat market on the ground floor. Everybody lives in flats; the houses are usually three stories high, and the top floor is considered the best. It will rent for SIOO a month, while the second floor rents for S4O. When a house is to be let in Mexico the owner sticks an old newspaper in the window. It isn’t very tasteful, and seldom improves the appearance of the house, but it is economical and understood by the community.— Cor. Chicago Inter Ocean. ,

Made the Dividend.

The only stockholder that fever got a dividend Out cf the old Farmington (Conn.) Canal has just died. The President told him that there was no dividend, and no prospect of any dividend, and jestingly advised him to go home and mow the tow-path for a dividend. Mr. Munson did so, taking a 20 per cent, divided in hay from the eight miles of tow-path, and went on doing this with perfect complacency thereafter. Don’t tell what you ought to do or intend to do. Aside from a sitting hen, nothing is more uncertain than the person who always intends but delays to do this or .that.

TRICKS ON THE TRACKS!

Dangers from Which Engineers Save the Public and Themselves. [From the Railway Review ] One who is accustomed to railway traveling can scarcely realize how much he is dependent for safety upon the engineer. Added to the responsibility of their station, engineers are also in constant danger of accidents caused by the tricks of jealous rivals. This rivalry, it is said, sometimes prompts to the doing of utterly mean tricks. A Nickel Plate engineer, after his very first trip, was laid off because he had “cut out” all the bearings of his engine. He was reinstated, however, after he proved that some rival had filled his oiling can with emery. Another new engineer was suspended for burning out the flues of his boiler. Through grief at the loss of his position he died, and then a conscience-stricken rival confessed that he had put oil in the tank so that it foamed and showed water at the top gauge, when in reality there was scarcely a quart in the boiler. These Intense jealousies, together with the terrible anxiety incident to their work, have a terribly straining effect on the nerves, and statistics tell us that, though Locomotive Engineers may look strong and vigorous, they are not all a hearty class. Ex-Chief Engineer A. S. Hampton, Indianapolis, Ind;' (Div. 143), was one of those apparently hearty men, but he says: “The anxiety, strain, and jolting came near finishing me.” His sufferings localized in catarrh of the bladder, but he used Warner’s safe cure faithfully for twenty weeks and now exclaims, “I am a well man.’’ T. S._ Ingraham, of Cleveland, Ohio, Assistant Chief Engineer, and other prominent members are also emphatic in its praise. The Locomotive Engineers’ Brotherhood has 17,000 members and 240 divisions. Its headquarters is in Cleveland, Ohio, where Chief Engineer Arthur for twenty years has exercised almost dictatorial sway. It was organized in August, 1863, by the employes of the Michigan Central. It has given nearly two million dollars to the widows and orphans of deceased members.

Costumes in India.

For grace and elegance the Parai woman far excels her Mahratta rival. The Parsi costume is very near to what is worn by ladies in Bengal, only the Parsi sari is thicker and invariably made of silk, besides their being an undergarment, while the upper part of the body is fully and handsomely covered with divers chemises, jackets, and bodices of ample length and breadth, as well as of suitably varied and costly texture. Her headdress is the only blot to the otherwise fine array of the Parsi girl. Her head seems to be carefully shaved and chalked and plastered, because it is smoothly and lightly covered by a piece of snowwhite linen to keep off the assaults of black Ahriman. And the Parsi lady’s noble and graceful figure is thus surmounted by a whitened dome under which is concealed the wealth and luxuriance of her streaming locks, said to constitute the glory of a woman’s form. The women of Sindh, where the zenana is observed with ten-fold rigor, and the women of the Punjab put on what may be safely styled a sort of Mohammedan costume. The huge flowing trousers, tightened at the ankles; the loose coL ored tunic, serving the purpose of gown as well as body covering; the long detached piece of chudder which drapes the whole figure from head to foot, possess essentially a Mussulman aspect —a fact which is easy to understand, seeing that Mohammedans have been most powerful in these provinces. Hindu women in general are not particularly anxious to cover their feet. The Bengali lady goes about barefooted. The Mahratta beauty wears the traditional anklets, about five pounds of pure massive silver, putting on occasionally indigenous leathern footgear of extraordinary weight and dimensions, called shoes by courtesy, and of equal service to both sexes. The Parsi woman incases her feet in satin slippers, and the Punjabee girl of the period draggles behind her a pair of tattered something which raises all the dust and echo of the streets of Lahore.

Mausoleums.

Gen. W. T. Sherman, having been written to for his views on the subject of a national mausoleum for distinguished Americans, makes the following characteristic reply: “I have neither the time, inclination, nor ability to discuss the proposition of an American Westminster. I once visited the catacombs under ancient Syracuse. Our guide said there were a million interments, but the contents of every chamber had been sold for manure. I asked him if a single grave had been spared; not one. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ,ever will be. Amen!”

Too Much Curiosity.

"What was God doing all the time before He made this world,” asked an incipient. Bob Ingersoll, of a Dallas Sunday-school teacher. The teacher was silent for some minutes, evidently absorbed in deep thought, but arousing himself he said; “He was growing switches with which to drive the curiosity out of little boys,” and dancing the boy across a bench, the teacher allayed, temporarily at least, the curiosity of the seeker after more light.— Texas Siftings. .

Lots of Fun in This World.

Wife—l noticed a statement to the effect that in this city every year $22,000,000 are spent for liquor, but only $7,000,000 for religion. That’s significant. Husband—Significant of what? Wise —That you men are having a pleasanter time in this world than you will in the next. — New York Sun. ~ My young friends, reihember that you are at last what you have made yourself. Somebody may take credit for your making, perhaps, but somebody will in that case take credit for what he has not done. ’Tis your struggle, your victory or defeat, your reward or dishonor. v There is no good reason why people who differ from you in opinion, who have ideas of their own that do not happen to blend with yours, should be dubbed “cranks, and yet I believe that it is the prime incentive for the appellation in most cases. The majority of so-called “scandie” that afflicts society more often springs from weak souls and empty heads than from really sinful, envenomed hearts. • • ♦ • Young’ or middle aged men. suffering from premature decline of power, however induced, speedily and radically cured. Illustrated book for 10 cents in stamps. World’s Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y.

Holland and Its Safeguards.

The people of Holland are defended from invasion in a singular manner, which could not be employed in any country not similarly situated. Other nations, when they are threatened'With attacks frpm without, mobilize their armies; in Holland, this year, the order is given for the “mobilization of the waters." When this operation is effected, a water-line .from five to ten miles wide and some sixty miles long will be -created, directly barring the advance of an invader coming from the East. Above the surface of this inundation nothing will be visible but a few narrow roads raised on embankments, enfiladed by fortifications bristling with cannon. The water, for the most part, will be only a few inches deep, so shat it will not be navigable by hostile gun vessels or flotillas; while deep trenches cut in the ground below will frustrate any attempt to wade through the inundation. The contingency of an invasion taking place in the winter, when the waters might be frozen over, is ingeniously provided for. The depth qf the inundation will then be increased, and the waters allowed to freeze on the surface. The water below will afterward be drained off, leaving the crust of ice suspended and ready to break in under the weight of the first troops who attempt to cross it.

Ins and Outs.

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