, 1877-12-09


| For In it there is often stone or brick.
OAKLAND. r. u. BROWNE.
TRAINS LONG FAST.
/ Se1o York .SHn. Dfc i.
George Francis Train was found In bed at
$50 o'clock last evening in q small 50 room o1
the Phnnix House, Broadway and Twelfth
street, close up under the roof, where the air
is pure. &c pays So n week only, because he
took the room last May. when tho house was
| being rcltted, and submitted to a good many
| consequent Inconvenience. The waiter that
! conducted the visitor to the room looked
bright. lie carried In his hand . pitcher Of
water 1t was the first drinking water that
Mr.. Train had ordered for six days. By the
side Of the single bed we're an apple and
biscuit. During two hours OF convcr-
sation Nr. Train used the apple once
| to Illustrate the position Of the world as ne
| stood above it on y mountain; but he did not
Yesterday morning at o'clock, he said, had
completed period Of six dars since he had
| taken food Or drink. DR.. White had called Oil
! him and urged him to eat. Mr.. Trains family
then went to him aad urged him to eat some
| thing. This was too much. Ho could not re-
sist their appeal, or rather when it made lie
! felt no inclination to resist it. Psychology
| would explain that, too. SO yesterday lnorn-
ing Ills family had some oat meal and water pre-
| pared for him, aud he ate about as much us he
cou:d have held in one hand. On his way to
the house he had stoppad at q pump, and was
able to drink n little water. At noon lie
had eaten half n biscuit. That was all he hal
eaten In six and i half days. Tue biscuit on the
table was fnr his supper. but he did not care to
eat it, lie had felt slight desire for water.anll
so lie ordered some. 1t was his usual bedtime.
lie usually remained in bed fourteen hours.
During the SIX days Of fasting he lost about ten
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their peculiar lustre, and his knec-jolnts had
! bccone weak, but. after eating handful of oat-
meal, eyes and knees alike had been restored to
their normal state. It was not the nutriment
tie mechanical action Of the stomach, which
| had ceased for want of food, was again set 20
ing, aud SO disease was ayerted.
| ssThc time will comc,'' said Mr.. Train,
In the meantime hare proved three things.
Tic first is tlat I'LL the stories OF terrible ago
/ ny in starvation Is 8 humbug. They are in-
| yeutions OF people who want to glorify then-
selves because they have an opportunity. rs
a matter OF fact. hard times are q blessing to
| the country because they causo very many
| persons TO fast from sheer necessity. The sec
ond thing have proved is that I, who an not
Christian,. but who accidentally havc all the
| virtues and InoTalj.ies oi Christian, have
really been able to do what the monks only
pretended to Go. I have really tasted, and
have really felt my intelligence and power Of
prophecy increased. The third thing I have
proved is that person vino has lasted six DAYS
has no rayeuous appetite"
Mr.. Train PASSED all hour yesterday in his ac-
cnstomed seat in Madison Square. The keeper
said that for two Or three days he has ceased to
take his usual rapid walks about the square.
When he vent away yesterday he accompanied
sumo children down 'rWenty-third street towards
Fourth avenue. Mr.. Robinson of the PhHnix
house says he thinks MIR. Train had not eaten q
snorscl from last Tuesday until Yesterday n,ort,-
ing. He had noticed tha: his clothes had oc-
conc very loose around tho waist. He thought
another man might lave been put inside Of
them with Nj. Train. Mr.. Train's sou called Mt
the hotel several times yesterday to find him
AIr. Train's usunl fare for months past, he saws.
has been: For breakfast five penny rolls, five
cents, and cup OF coffee, fire cents; for din
ner, 10 cents' worth OF potatoes and bread, and
five cents worth OF baked beans; for supper,
cup Of coffee, five cents. The total cost per day
was 30 cents.
HOW TO TEMPER OUR CLIMATE.
4 writer in Atantic -nonthly fer December, in
discussing the North American climate, refers
to our national condition Us compared with that
OF Europe, points out tile cause, and suggests
9 remedy. The buried tropical forests on the
shores OF Greenland indicate that our land was
not always rs at present the battle ground OF
bitter cold and burning heat, but was cncc bath
cd in u mildly-llcatcd atmosphere. The cause
OF this change must be sought, according to the
methods OF modern science, in the gradual ef-
fects OF some permanent force. Streams OF heat
pouring from the sun with nearly equal force in
every direction, are uncqualiy distributed over
the spherical form Of the Garth; ut the tropics
where The direct rays OF the sun are received,
the ex2ansc power of heat causes q system
1 Gi pos ena wash sa spEsad s th 2r wos- lac
diums ct this distribution are tic ocean
currents though the winds hare some share iu
the labor. The gulf stream is the most irnpor-
tant carrying agent, and but for it the tropics !
would be several degrees hotter, the polar cir
cie5 colder In q corresponding degree, and tho |
world rendered far less habtab1e. As the ocean !
currents in going from the equator to the poles |
move faster than the regions they continually |
enter, their paths are northeast and southeast;
and rs this condition is perpetual each ocean |
keeps within its own basin circulation of |
heated water very deep at the equator, growing
shallower and shallower rs it Spreads towards |
the pole, but carrying even into the arctic circle
nearly rs much heat rs is cast there by tho RAYS
OF the sun. It is evident that the intervention
Of any body which turns the ocean current |
5:'a. 1iom ITS pain VIII b. powerful agent OF |
climatic change. It is held, therefore, that |
thei conformation OF the two continents
which causes the pacifc gulf stream sweeping
from the coast OF Asia, to uselessy discharge
great volumes OF heat into the BAY formed b7
principal cause OF our unfaVorable climate. The
tropical water is beaten back from the shores.
very little inding its way through tho narrow
passage OF Behriug Strait. II the low districts OF
Eastern Siberia aad Western Alaska could be
sunk 1 few hundred feet beneath the sea, the
Pacific current, like that of the Atlantic, would
1ow ueintcrruptedly to the pole, the tempera-
ture OF the Arctic regions would be raised some
1hlrty degrees, the vegetation of the Temperate
Zone would spread north,yazd, mud yast forests
would take tile place of lifeless cxpanses Of snow
and ice. Tropical heat would also be lowered, the
winds from the north would blow over fields and
woods, not icebergs, our climate would become |
mild and equabIc, and the life sustaining power |