The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1872-04-10
Disappearance Of a Sea.


Disappearance Of q Sea.
Bovy St. Vincent states that ;hc tine
is coni;.g when the Mediterranean viii
be nothing more than 4 chain Of lakes,
and then u mighty river. The sea Of
Azof is alt c.dy bci;g converted into n
stream its shores constantly approach.
ing nra.rr together.
Tracts Of water which extend from tie
the mouth Of the Don to the Straits If
the D>rdanelcs may not be compared 10
Likes Superior, Huron and Michigan.
When the great Island Of Atlantis went
down, as Plato relates, crv.rc,l with cit.
les, 1t must have changed the sea bound
aries exceedingly. Rivers are forever in
the process Of changing ,'.rr channels
and Swallowing by the debris they spread
along their bottoms.
DEEP iETESiAN WELLS.
That of Grcne!le, bored for the Use of
the s'sushter.houscs Of Paris, is It'll
feet deep. Water asccn.ls ninety one
lcct aho"e the surface, which shows
prodigious hydrostatic pressure some.
where TO drive column with such force
into the air.
At N:usalz~crk, near Minden, there
is an artcsian well 2,304 feet deep, out Of
which pours salt water. One vas bored
some years since for sugar refinery, in
St. Louis, Missouri, deeper still, being
2,642 feet in perpendicular dcpth.-
Whether still active or not we have not
ascertained.
The waite: in these deep recesses rises
in temperature the further down below
the level Of the sea. In some of the gey.
sers on this continent aud in parts Of
Europe it is believed it may be heated in
! the bowels Of the earth to six hundred
degrees; but in its ascent towards the
surface it cOols rapidly, rarely being two
hundred at its escape.
Where does the water come from in
these lower regions? 1t gathers on
mountains, and indeed everywhere, and
tricklcs down seams and disincations of
rock, porous strata, g., till reaching in
candsscent matter in stale Of fusion, it
is converted into steam, forced where
there Is least resistance, becoming con.
denscd Into water again, but pushed on
by steam behind.
lSSlGNlFlCANC% OF TIE EAKTH.
Mr.. R:cluS, celebrated astronomical
writer, says this earth is the lowest in
rank among heavenly bodies Where an
astronomer on some o:her planet explo.
ring the immensely Of space, this plane,
We inhabit, o.. ing to its snail size might
readily elude bis intelligent view.
The sun is ], 1855, 900 times larger, and
yet that enormous MASS is only q speck
"a mere point which seems lost amid
eighteen millions oi stars which are dis.
coversbie by instruments in the milky
way.
Whist an incomprchensible organ the
human brain, to have ascer,ained such
astounding facts, and demonstrated the
laws which govern universal nature,
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llo% 70 GET OuT OF BED. d.. Hall
does not approve Of the old fashioned
doctrine which was insliiled into the
minds Of childrea-namcly, that they
should spring out Of bed the instant they
awake in the morning. He says that
"up to eighteen years every child should
be allowed ten hours to be in bed. They
may not require ten hours sleep, but
time should be allowed to rest in bed
until they feel as if they had rather get
up than not. 1t is very great and mis-
clIicVous mistake for persons, old or
young, especially children, and feeble and
scdentary persons, to pounce out Of bed
the momen: they wake up; all our in.
stiHcts shrink from it, and fiercely kick
against it. Fifteen or twenty minutes
spent in gradually waking up after the
eyes are opened, and in turning over and
stretching the limbs, do as much good as
sound sleep, because these operations SET
the blood il motion by degrees, tending
to eQua'ize the circulation; for during
sleep the blood tends to stagnation, the
heart beats feebly and slor, and to shock
the system BY pouncins up in an instan,
and sending the BLOOD in overpowerirg
quantities to the heart, causing it to as
sumo gallop, when the instant before
1t was in creep, is the greatest absurd
ty. This instantaneous pouncing out, a:
; soon as the eyes are opened, will be fol
lowed by WEAKNESS long before nooa."
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The talent Of turning men into ridi-
culc, and exposing to laughter those on
converscs with, is the qualification 0
II little minds and ungenerous tcmpers.