The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1880-11-18
The End OF the World.

1IS AolOWluS ClSllal plcJllIc OF Illo
end of the world is by the noted French
scientist, Camille Flammarion:
The earth was born; she will die. She
will die either of old age, when her vital
elements shall have been used up, or
through the extinction of the sun, to
whose rays her life is suspended. She
might also die by accident, through col
hsion with some celestial body meeting
her Oh her route; but this end of the
world is the most improbable of all. She
may, we repeat, die natural death
through the slow absorption of her vital
elements. In fact, it is probable that
the Oil and water are diminishing The
ocean, like the atmosphere, appears to
have been formerly much more consider
able than it is in our day. The terres-
trial crust IS penetrated by waters which
combine chemically with the rocks. 1t
is almost certain that the temperature of
the interior of the globe reached that of
boiling water Mt the depth of about six
miles, and prevents the water from de-
scendlng any lower; but the absorption
will continue with the cooling of the
globe. The oxygen, nitrogen, and car
bon1c acid which compose our atmos-
Phere also appear to undergo absorp-
ton, but slower. The thinker may for
see, through the mist of ages yet to come,
the epoch, yet afar off, in which the
earth, deprived of the atmospheric.
aqueous vapor which protects her from
the glacial cold OF space by preserving
the solar rays around her, will become
chilled In the sleep of DEATH AS Henri
Vlvarel says. ''F'rom the summit of the
mountains winding sheet of snow will
descend upon the high plateaus and the
valleys, driving before it life and civili-
zatIon, and masking forever the cities
and nations that it meets on its passage"
Life and human activity will press in
senslbly toward the inter tropical zone.
st. Petersburg, Berlin, London, Paris,
Vienna, Constantinople and Rome will
fall asleep in succession under their eter-
nal shroud. During very many ages
equatorial humanity will undertake Arctic
expeditions to find again under the ice
the place of Paris, Lyons, Bordeaux and
Mnrseilles. The sea coasts will have
changed, and the geographical map of
the earth will have been transformed.
No one will live and breathe ANYMORE ex-
cept in the equatorial zone up to the day
when the last family, nearly dead with
cold and hunger, will sit on the shore of
the last sea, in the rays of the sun which
Will thereafter shine here below on an
ambuent tomb revolving aimlessly
around useless light and barren heat
Paganini and the Blind Man.
One cold Christmas day poor blinC
man was playing on o violin and trying
| to earn crust in one of the LondOI
streets, but somehow his tunes lacked
the power to bring him any pence
There stood the blind man cold ant
hungry, alone in his misery. Two gen
tlemen were passing, and stopped oppo
site the player, conversing few minutes
One OF them approached the player, ant
gently patting his back, said: "Won'
the people g i've you any money!" "No,
was the reply; "they won't open thei
windows; it is too cold" "Well, lenC
me your fiddle, and will see if they viii
open for me The speaker took the vic
lin and played tune the like of which
was never before heard and likely neve
to be heard again in o street. The win
dows opened as if by magic, and none,
was thrown out of them plentifull1
enough. The charmer having accom-
plished his purpose gathered up tn,
money, and handing it to the blind play
er, said, "There, you can go home now
you have got sufficient to keep you fol
one day at least" 1t was Paganini.
A MAN in Jersey City died the other
day from hydrophobia eleven years after
q dog had bitten him. The next thing
somebody will be taken sick of colo be-
cause Eve ate an apple, ->-Bm6alo Cour-
der.
ArOusIn8 iGs Readers.
;, an alarm OF fire at midnight is startling
thing. but not half so startling to many who
hear 1T as would be the sudden knowledge of
their own dangerous physical condition. Thou
sands OF thousands are hurrying to their graves
because they are carelessly Indifferent to the
lnsldious inroads of disease and the means of