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tage- Il tl,i- gigantic scheme 10 ,h- tirs,
pace, II Aiil rob THE ocean If such an
enormous amount Of water that its gen
eial surface will be lowered tn an spprr.
ciable extent. In order to realize how
much tins lowering will amount 10. let
u consider that the total terrestrial sur
face Is, in round numbers, 100000, 900
square miles, of which the ocean occu-
pies three quarters, or 150,000.O0O. If
the estimate given of the Desert Of Sa-
hara, 4,O0O,OO0 square miles, il correct, it
occupies l. 3Sth part of the oceans sur
face, and therefore, every foot of depth
of water distracted for the desert will
diminish the ocean 1-38th part Of foot
and the withdrawal of water for lake
80 feet deep would leave the ocean level
80 by 1-3S, or more than two feet lower,
which would be plainly perceptible in
the many harbors where careful tidal Oh
servatiOns are made, and in some cases
changes may influence the shipping, rob-
bing, rs it would do, all parts Of the world
Of over two feet depth of water, which
would be very bad in those localities
where the harbors are shallow.
This much as to an immediate result
but the ultimate consequences would be
much more serious. 1t should be cousid-
cred that this large inland lake, if once
established, would have no fresh
supply by rivers; but the sea water would
certainly rush in through the channel to
make up for the large evaporation, which
we may safely set down at 1900 pounds
of water per year for every square foot.
This would lower the level twenty feet
per year, which is one.quarter Of the
whole quantity of the lake. This, for
surface of 100000 square miles, or 10O,-
600, 600, 900, 900 square feet, gives 2,000,-
900, 900, OOO,O 900 cubic feet of water to he
replaced annually from the ocean, or
nearly 0,000, 100000 cubic feet per
day, or $50 DOC, 100000 cubic feet per
hour, or 4, 166, 500 666 cubic feet per min
ute, or 69,444,444 cubic feet or 525, 000,-
600 gallons per second. AS the German
Rhine carries only 1,000,O0O gallons of
water per second, on an average, the chan
mel bringing the supply to the Desert of
Sahara from the ocean would have to car
ry as much water as is carried by 525
rivers like the Rhine; and from the salt
water only pure water would be evapor-
aied, leaving the salt behind. AS this
amounts to four per cent, or one twenty
fifth Of the sea water, and as nearly twen
ty feet deep, or one-fourth of the water in
this new lake, would annually evaporate
it would only take four times twenty five,
or one hundred years, one single century,
for all the water to disappear, and de-
post of salt takes its place. Then the
now sandy desert would be changed into
a desert If salt; which salt would fill the
whole basin and would certainly be a
more serious affliction to Algeria than the
present. sand plain can possibly be.-Sci-
ent.fc american.
DECIDEDLY WORSE THAN ARSON
Brother Gardner, says NJ. Quad in the
Detroit Free Press, was seeking job
around the Central Market yesterday,
when he came across u young colored
friend VINO was rugged out in n new sui,
of clothes and a lot Of flash jeselry.
After lengthy survey Of the outit the
old man asked:
My friend, whsi is your income At