The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-04-27
AenrcurruaAn CoLLroE, April "A.

AeRrouIruRAL COLLEGE, April "a.
Correspondence Of The True Northerner.
A heavy rain last week has given vegetation
of all kinds lift into newness OF life, and
everything has fine vernal appearance. The
oats arc nearly all sown, but rs usual the
farmers here are about ten days behind those
in our county, on account Of the lateness OF
the season.
The Sunday afternoon sermon was given by
Rev. G. r. Wilkins. Mr.. Wilkins expects to
leave Lansing for New York, next week. Prof.
Beal gave q lecture last wednesday afternoon,
subject, Horticultural experiments, and pressed
me necessity for further. more extensive, more
careful and more accurate results.
The Junior base ball club played a club COM
posed of six players from Lansing, and three
professional players, two from Detroit, and
one from Greenville, last Saturday. The score
rave the Juniors 8. Lansing boys 2, and for the
fret game of the season, seems very good.
thoroughbred Devon beifer was sold from
the farm, last week, for forty dollars, an Ayr
shire for seventy-fve dollars, both two years
old.
The most interesting investigation in the
Natural History work OF late, is that OF Mr..
Strong. on the Blue Glass theory. The report
consisted mostly OF an abstract from COL
Pleasenton's work, which is printed on blue
paper, bound in blue and sent out IN blue
wrappers. Col. Pleasenton endeavors to set
ASIDE nearly all OF the explanations OF natural
phenomena as given by Newton, Davy, Agassiz,
Tyndall, Huxley and other genuine philoso-
piers. and bases all phenomena az gravitation,
Life and heat upon electricity and magnetism.
OF light, he says it is q material substance.
coming from the sun to us, though the sun Is
not its source, but only acts as reflector.
The true source of light is the stars and other
heavenly bodies, each OF which can furnish but
one element Of the solar ray, as red, yellow,
etc. These rays OF different colors meet at the
suns surface, are reflected IN body, and give
white light. Light, let it be remembered, as
material, coming from the sur does not get
heated because there is such cold temperature
in space between us and the sun. Heat. there
fore, does not come from the sun; but from
tbe centre OF the earth. The idea," says the
Col, "of heat coming from the sun to the
earth, why, it ID we'll known that heat rises.
lie apparently and in fact does not ignore the
fact that there is no up or down in space. He
makes Newton q humbug II his wonderful
theories be true, and there is no such thing as
gravltation. To prove this, Mr.. Pleasen.on
tells us to heat ball of iron red hot and place
over it feather, let go OF 1t and 1t rises, in
stead of falling. Where" he says, is "the
force of grayitation." He would explain it by
saying that the ball and feather have opposite
kinds Of electricity and hence repell each other.
Again" he says, "take an iron ball weighing
FIVE pounds, throw it into the water and 1t will
plnk well known before" make it into q
sheet one sixteenth of an inch in thickness and
If set edgewise upon the water it goes down,
al, as the philosophers tell you, from gravIta-
tion." Now turn up the edges or the sheet
al around, 80 as to form dish or boat place
it upon the water and 10, it does not sink. Its
properly called weight is not changed why
doesn't 1T descend by force OF gravitation? "
or course, he says if the opposite kinds Of
electricity existing between the iron and the
water. 1.-THE earth and the waters on ITS sur
face have opposite electricities, ind repel each
ether, This must be 30, for If it were not, the
immense weight Of the ocean would break the
back OF the earth" "A man who owned a
deaf mule put blue glass transome over the
door OF the stable and in two months the mule
could hear perfectly" Mr.. Pleasenton claims
that greater heat is produced from the sun
IN a room by allowing 1t to shine through blue
glass, but this is proved false by direct expert
Inent. The entire work Of the would be phlloso-
pher has so much appearance OF burlesque
that one can hardly believe that he believes
what he writes. Oh Newton, thou art dead.
G. Z. 2.