The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1878-10-11
The World Boiled Up.


Yich, perched on bluff overlooking
he New London Northern railroad, is
nondescript structure of plank, stone,
6fk and unhewn timber, looking as
little liz O house as anything under
the sun. : is a habitation however,
and it's tent is person whom the en-
tire districtooks upon with awe. His
name is Ivan Grinnell. He is an &C.
centric of tie first order. For twenty
eight yearsae has dwelt in his curious
abode. Hewas once sailor, and to-
day is hehit with theories of char
acter as strsge as he is himself. When
found by a Nercal,y representative last
Wednesday he was seated on boat in
front of Indoor, skinning and quarter
ing the cariss of large cat, with the
gravity of abutcher dissecting bull
lock. The pintive meous of five other
cats confineda a chicken coop close at
hand echoed silly on the summer air.
In person he VS. man OF over sixty,
bent with rheumasm, with rugged
and weather beaten fac. scrubby white
hair and beard. After Sfmemh mhaSilHaadl
his feline victim and putting the frag
ments in pot, he built fire, put tn,
kettle on it, and signified that he wa
at the reporters service. At interyal
during the interview he interrupted
himself to replenish a bowl in the cat
coop with strange looking liquit
from bottle. AS lorg as this liquit
lasted, the cats remained quiet whel
it was gone, they mewed, apparently fo
more.
.I am glad to meet you," he said
ST frequently find,the Mercm.u article
of scientific and theoretical natur,
that are very interesting. Ialways Gu
them out and paste them Up. as yol
see." His hut is papered with news
paper clippings, among which mum
Der from the Mercury figure conspicu
ously. He went on: "None of then
agree with me, to be sure, but they al
predict tremendous natural revolu
tion to be at hand. So do I. The,
suggest various ways in which this re
volution is to be broughtiabout. Now
am going to tell you the true one
Between now and 1882, the world il
going to be destroyed by flood of hot
water. The flood is to last exactly
thirty days, from sunrise to sunset
AS soon as it ends new earth is going
to appear; only instead of being like i
is now, everything is going to be re
versed. The poles, for instance, ar.
going to be in the tropics, and til,
tropics where the arctic regions ART
now"
"But what is your theory for thi
certainly remarkable changer" de
manded the amazed reporter.
IT haint none. Its on account o
general badness, you see. The worlt
is rotten. Things is all wrong. wal
told that in revelation. It came t,
me while I was mate of the whale
Polar Circle, in the South seas, in 1849
I was at Tahiti, and went to look at til,
volcano there-Mauna Loa. slept OF
the edge of the crater, and I heart
what I'm telling you, in dream, o
rather a vision. It was voice.
heard it afterwards down in Peru ani
Chilli, and once it spoke to me in Per
nambuco. Since I've been living her
it comes once month regular, witt
the change of the MOON"
s'But what does it say ?" cit told
meIfrst that. the earth was to be billed up
A food of hot water is going to com,
from all the volcanoes at once. A
shower of hot stones and lava is going
to fall into the sea and heat it, too
They will raise the level of the ocean
too, and big tidal wave will sweer
over every thing. Hot springs viii
burst out every where, and volcanoe,
will fill up the sea. So where watel
now is will be land, and rice uersa. o
I've got it down fine. Here's map O
how things will be-" Here he pro
duced from battered sea-chest very
neatly executed chart on the Mercatol
projection. In it the outline of the
preaent conformation of the earth ha,
been strictly followed; but water every
where took the place of land and LAND
that of water. Cape Florida was vas
inlet, Gibraltar a large harbor; Grea,
Britain, Ireland and Australia, colossa
inland seas, while the great lakes fig
ured as enormous islands, connect
ed by three like causeways. The
tropics of Cancer and Capricorn tool
the place of the Arctic and Antartit
circles. The chart was not scaled in
to degrees of latitude and longitude
It's author said:
II don't know exactly yet where tht
poles are going to be. / only know
that the North and South poles will bt
somewhere on the equator. The voice
will tell me where soon, and viii war;