The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1867-02-02
Easy Lesson in Geography
Tho Earth.

The earth u 40 Old subjective don't kno,
how old. Wise men have cndea vored 20 ascer
tain iis age In various ways and have succeede,
very well, only differing In their calculations
few thousand centuries or so.
W"hate several reasons for writing upon ih
earth the principal one being the imperfect facl
iiifs afforded for getting upon any other: plane
to Wiiie Nothing prevents our writing upor
the sun of tie moon escrp, the difficulty ~ get
ting there
The earth il the third planet in order from ,l,,
snn. aud the largest within the belt of the plane.
i"ids. We have wondered. sometimes, why IA.
rafih III not have n beh all TO herself being III.
Champion oi the Universe
The nnrcnis looked upon the earth ~ y nar
dish swimming upon water like pirr Of iOa.l
IN - hisin ~ milk. Once upon time lot oi
ad'cniutuus ioung ancienis started out To fud
~" jumping ~ place. ard continuing on =
straight line ihc' were asionshe1 10 find them.
.rl'es on the s'ry SPOT whence they started. They
informed their patents . the circumstances, and
they, after about century Of painful aud laLo-
rious thought upon the subject, came 10 the con.
rlHsion that the earth must be round, " lFcaus.
II u nini, triumphant, asked jolly old an.
cicni, 'huW could the buys ha got dToaHd 2 49,
There was no getting around that, and the earth
has teen of spherical form ever since.
" u estimated that about tao thirds of the sur
face of The globe is covered with water. Although
y the quantity Of water has not been materially
diminished for centuries past. NJ lens, not since
the intro'iuciioBs Of whisky shops which prove a
great saving Of water, and are therefore of in,.
mense benefit 10 navigation.
The greatest distance from H.. earth 10 the sun
Is 80 oOO. 0OO of miles. aud the least distance
something over ~. 900 OGO miles 4 saving Of
1000, 900 could lie tii, cied II falrnad should
etrf connect il"iNo. by taking tie leasi disinnce
tn, ~"ulh shorten the iinIr consumed IN run
ning. aud rsduc' 'he eKlense Vsft materially --
Any railroad msn Nil, tell tuu that
The h'sru dlsituce rom the earth 10 tie .at O..
- 1n1 oDo miles which Is no mean distance. .ith
- Nhtn sou ~ 10 walk h.
The earth inu,ss found the sun from west a.
east. consuming 35i day and . hour ia every
revolution, travelling nights and SUNDAYS IL
sin evctt 'uol o. planet that can get around
The sun. The earth dos IL however She would
get around mot Ansthin.
Tie earth turns upon iis axis making one rev.
oluiion every twenty four hours, except IN MeIi-
co-ihcfc they lave a revolution two or three
times day The earth aud her axis were thick
~ peas together at one time. but one day the
earth got down her axis and fuTHodon IT,
il i the revolutions u the earth that make
night aud day TO everybody bat printers and ed.
iiors who work on morning lapers-it is all dsy
with hem.
Aher digging certain depth into the boGels
" the earth the temperature becomes warm, and
u grows warmer as you ram 20 your work 10
that At the depth of ihir'y miles. las we are ia
formed by = gentleman Who dug that distance
one Jnly morning everything is like moli,d iron
h'A lite heat. There j. good reason for believing
that people who cheat the printer are sent thirty
miles into the dcpik - the earth when they die
The earth Is not such q iisma. lace 90 live up
on as iBanv ~ 10 make IL ont - 'lr ~ knoxl-
edge eN'rnds-ahi w. probably know as much
about u as Anthody lit j. FAR preferable 20 any
of her sister planets as q permanent fcsideuce.-
A letH. y. ~ satisfied W.'h Il; and intend 10
remain her - lor. as vcaFc " on earth.