Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1866-08-29
Is THE WORLD, GROWING LARGER,

world IS daily increasing in size? lsthere
not an action taking place on it's surface
analogous to that which occurs 10 plas-
tic cell when placed in circumstances fas-
orable for it's development 25dt ,edt g-r
TO illustrate this thought: 1g, ,..,,
We plant little acorn, weighing few
graius, in the ground. In the course Of
time it becomes the large oak weighing
thousands of pounds. and spreading, its
branches far and wide in every direction.
This oak gets its weight and bulk princi-
pally from the air we breathe, and it re-
mains upon the earth thousands Of years,
perhaps, and undorgoes great many
changes before it is finally restored to the
atmosphere, even il, this event ever does
take place.
So animals derive their weight and
bulk partly from the air they breathe into
their lungs, and partly from the vegetable
productions which they devour, When
animals die, their bodies, it is true, are
partly decomposed into gas and restored
to the atmospheric but they are princi-
pally seized upon and appropriated by
growing vegetables. which,ain their turn
are devoured by others. s..i,u ;,5ls
1t thus seems to me- that the earth,
through the agency Of its animal and veg
etable productions, must be daily increas
ing at the expense of the atmosphere by
which it is surrounded. d. gev i.dt
In other words. the plants and animals
of the earth are all the time appropriat
Ing to themselves the elements Of the at
.mosphere, and forming out of them neV
compounds which remain upon the eartl
an almost indefinite length of time befor
they are decomposed and restored to tn
atmosphere.
This idea is also Illustrated in our Goa
mines. All coal was originally wood an'
like all wood was formed principally a
the expense of the elements of the atmos
phere. This coal has remained upon tn
earth millions of years, perhaps, -an'
now at length men urged niby their nee
easities, are digging it up and by burnin
, it, restoring it in the shape of carbon'
, acid gas, to the atmosphere from which
: originally came. ..
. No one. it seems to me. can doubt tha
i the earth is larger now than 1t was whe
this coal existed int form Of wood, A
b, though the world may be increasing
D size now, it does not follow that it wi
increase for a time, sooner or later q
% equilibrium will be established betwet
% the amounts Of elementary principles th
u the earth takes from and restores to ii
+ atmosphere .4 .l..f.,...l.I Is.,I......
But at present, in my opinion, it is Ill
growing animal its absorption exceed
, its waste. Ia word our planet is not
r full grown earth; it is merely an cart
J. ling, Ex.
NOVEL Balloon AsoENsIoN-Mond;
afternoon Riverside Park presented an u
usually lively appearance. some three
= four thousand people having assembled
: witness the balloon ascension of Nor
Augustco Buislay, and the execution |
:, him of some of the most daring evolutio
i Oh q slender .trapeze, without the aid
rc,arding ropes OF even car. A We
large .numbcr of ladies were present.
), little past four tic monster Montgolfi
3 balloon was raised by means of pulley
and as soon as it was got into proper 7
;, sition, spndry bundles of straw were j
nited, and we're in blaze in an ibstal
the hot air from which soon inflated t
. balloon, and @t given signal it was c'
: loose from its tastcnings, aud rose to
h very great hight, going in the direction
:. Harvard College buildings When at I
u HIGHT Of about forty or fifty feet the ]
trepid aeronaut hung himself from t
- slender trapeze attached to the balloon,
\ = being suspended by his wrist only. Quiz
," ly maneuvering u position on the trap
he executed numerous daring feats,--t
ba loon the while ascending The sie
y caused a shudder among ttose who v
! !. messed the reckless daring ofthe porfor
> or. In about ten minutes from the u
of ascension the balloon, began COLLAPSE
= =. and descending, gradually at first q
" " then very rapidly, until it finally land
y in the garden Of Mr. G. Danforth on
sa corner of Mount Aubrn and Linden sire
= ;" near Harvard squate. A crowd Of w
~ " deriIg spectators, ogerrsn the premises
" Mr.. Danforth, trampling down his be
:. tiful flower garden aud doing serious d.
=" y, age. The damage landed directly owe
|: beautiful mound. which was covered W
= choice flowers Neither balloon or az
M naut suffered injuryhacq bssisl "a aga
n egOne Of thc hardest hits at Secret
''' Seward, since his detection from
H., Uniony party, is the following resolutl
;" adopted at meeting at Kankakee
>, Illinois. -
~ ; Resolved. That we fympathize v
~ Secretary Seward in and on account OF
~ ~ suffering he underwent at the hand
'n' repcl assassins, it being accidentally d
c...ay. tbax,l nat thau kuoU