Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1881-06-16
[From the New York Sur.l
Feeling the Easth Move.


''Would you like o rel iae motion
Of The r4fib whaIng or its axis Just as
you fee The motion Of buggy by the
air driven against your lace &
The man who asked Ibis singular
question looked both sane and serious.
As he spoke he touched with his,fnger
a small globe, which with the slight i'm
pulse thus communicate &, began 10 re-
voive smoothly and swiftly within a
brass ring and broad wooden zone, on
which were pictured the odd-looking
figures ths represeBt the Twelve signs
O. ne zodiac. q De greco parted oceans
md yaiiously tinted conlents on the
LILLE globe blended iaio confused
tumble Of cGIo1 viii the motion.
Europe and Ane5;cs re Atlantic and
the Pacific, 'ost their outlines. Green
laad mace 6srk circle ABOUT the pole
like s.ftass al 0oy ) 'op.
"You know toe ca, b is wbirling ike
iaa-many '0es ise,er than hat,
sed he philo, oaas. "s.,d e The mos
pierre did rot Eal ,cs sane mo-
don there wog * cv9s'sht bar
cane blowing h 100 miles
an hou.. Mes ~ soes &C eP the *.
planation .hs tie la~phe,e revolyes
as fast rs he scIis ,o0nd y"houl IN
curing sny tur'hsr, sAo Sc they
sight Of one o! lac rot stating facts in
nature. JJst Sc 10 } c.
The reportrr ioi owed he philosopher
TO the fiat roof OF lis bo9ae.
Don't you fee. ;bz.;" asked the
philosopher, puA:as h's mad to his
cheek.
II feel wind from the northeast"
replied he reporter.
well, that's it, then, I" SAID. the phil.
osopher. "6s In 80 4 ee 81 The earb
revoIvcs eastward i deets cu'rcn Of
air flowing from the notb which las
not acquil ed a velocity OF citation qual
to that of ihe ground = passes over. So
objects on The earth ere driven by the
earlh's motion though i ha; Is moving
more slowly 10 the eastward thal 'hev
are. The result ]. .hot The Siad which
started TO blow Eom he pole iowa d.
the equator, instead o, moylng straight
from north TO south, Ppears 70 come
from the northeast. T1- ason 81 this
will Te plain he ~ mute yoI COX at a
revolving globe. You see that close 10
The poles the revolution ~ he surface
is very much slower ihaA at tae equator,
just as point Oh The hub o. wheel
moves more slowly ,haa : POINT on The
tire.
''You most not, however, suppose
hat every wind rom the Northeast IS
the result Of this curious law. In fact,
in this latitude II is very biscuit 10 say
when the true wind oil revolution, il
may so speak o. il, il felt, because there
are so many local causes that govern the
direction OF the wind. Nevertheless,
whenever q current Of air s'ar's from
the far North towards the equator this
phenomenon viii be experienced 10 all
the places Il passes over, although Il is
yery often obscured by the changes OF
direction caused by ranges Of noun.
tains, great valleys and local temper
atures. But the curious fact remains
that we feel in ibe wind the whirling
Of our globe about is axis. Ia the
topics this phenomenon manIfests it,
self perfectly in the famous trads winds.
IN fact the West and southwest winds
that prevail here large part OF the year
are the returning trade winds In this
case the air, moving from the equator,
where revolution is fastest towards tho
poles where il is slowest, has, ss il adj
yances, a westward motion greater than
that OF the surface over which il passes.
So marked Is the prevalence OF this
wind that SAILORS call II down hill from
here to England, Oh account OF the easy
saaiBg with the wind. SO YOU can see,
that, although the winds alone would
sever have enabled as to detect the fact
that the earthrevoVes, yet now that the
fact Is known we see in them one Of
i;s most striking results. u