Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-11-16

Lssar Days 81 Iiehss.
d.. Kisa,s Osraao euar...-., -
sseretly eHllad IL a1ssa1ips a sser.ok
oeso 10 . lunar esa1se epoo thss~ M
vSds. vhieh heA ~ bsGsss heeo -
essvsd. ssd which - Ssels sase - ~
u szistsses too ysaas ago. As1ruoe-
oers have loeg Gioes givwn up I'll -.
Al tsacing either ths signs of actusl IL
upoo tAo 0ooo OF tnnoes II the fnuH n.
i.tesce al living creatures there. Rsf
there are sail aooag them ihuss vAo
relieve thas BY ss<luloas and cssuful
scrutiny processes a nsteei.l chaneD
nay he Recognised il that seeminCiv
inert Ds-s. In reality. perhs spa, t.
voosler rather 10 That aigns Of Chez
shOald noe b. olssa rrcoGnixed. 10
that fro0 tine 70 tine Q p~v crsAar
sh0sld aPpssr 90 the walls Il old es.-
sses fali in. The aoua's sarf,os II n.
posed 10 vsvistioas a tempes.turs Con-
pared 18th which thass s6scsiag ~
sariaes Of our earth asv alsossGhsr
tSi6isg. IL 10 tras thsss u no ssanse
o. ~isses in the oooa.
Sir ". Hssschsl has spokea Of IL
Lunar seasoss - thoagh hey rs,~ohls
oar 0vn. bat il reality they srs vsry
di0sseat. The suns midday heixhs 6
esy Lunar station = oaly shsst thsss
degrees gTpo1ef N sao0s1 than in vin-
eee; whereas oar Sumner sun u forty.
ssves degrees higher in The sky q peea
than our winter sun. In fAoe, MD
ea0oer's day On the nooa doss nol
di0sS 1oeo iron . nidsinsss day, -
iar - ths saa's seeaal fsssh On he Ky
h ooocerDed. then With - the Itch a
Asreh di0sss iron The Is. az the l0th
Of 0epesobsr froa the 9Th. Il u ths
change from day 70 night which chis1y
Affects The .m0on's surface. In tho
lunar year Of seasons. Lasting 3ae q Z
u our days. each lasting twenty nins'
and thrse-q OF ours. Thus day
lAsts moro than fortnight, and 10 FOL.
lowed by night Of equal length. Nor
10 this all. There u neither air nor
moisture 10 produce such effects ~ are
produced BY our cir and the moisture
II contains in mitigating the hest Of
day and cold Of night. Under the
suns rays the moons surface becomes
hotter and hotter - the long lunar day
proceeds, until at last its heat exceeds
that Of boiling water; but 80 sovn %
the sun has ret the heat thus received
10 rapidly rsdiated away into space (no
screen Of moisture. laden sir checking
its escspe), and long before lunar mid.
night q cold exists compared with
which the bitterest weather ever expert.
enced by Arctic voysgers would bs OPP.
pressively hot. These are not merely
theoretical conclusions, though even a.
such they could be thoroughly relied
upon. Tue moons heat has been
measured by the present Lord Rosse
using his fathers splendid six.foot
mirror). He separated the heat which
tho moon simply reflects to us from
that which her heated service herself
gives out Tor, technically, liz separated
the reflected from the radiated heatj by
using glass screen which allowed the
former heat to pass while it Intercepted
the latter. He thus fUund about six
seventies Of the heat we receive from
the moon is ne to the heating Of her
own substance. From the eutlre series
of observations it appeared that the
change of temperature during tue en-,
WIG AuA"A uoy -VNOe A0p AAoI4 uSOk INV
night to near midday ON the moon
amounts to fully 500 degrees Fahren-
heit. II we assume that the GOLD ct
lunar midnight corresponds with about
$50 degrees below zero 1.-THE greatest
cold experienced in Arctic travelling
has never exceeded 40 degrees below
zero). it would follow that the midday
heat was considerably greater than that
Of boiling water on the ea, tn ut the sea
level. But the range OF change is not
o matter OF speculation. Il certainly
amounts to about 500 degrees, and il
whatever way We distribute it, We must
admit first, that no such life as We are
familiar with could possibly exist on
the moon; and secondly, that the
moons crust must possess life OF its
own, so to speak, expanding and con-
tracing increasingly and energstically.
-LOnti0n Times.
TIN Mowvpv ANN ruu DrNrrsr -0no