The Red Cloud chief., 1881-05-26

we're lost. The water In the river rose
81 feet almost i'm a moment, and sank
again as suddenly. The shocks, some
lasting more than n minute, were felt
all over the Island of Luzon; the vol
canoes started into activity; the earth
opened TO emit hot ashes and Jets OF
boiling water. In September violent
shocks threw down pagodas and light
houses near Rangool AMI along tho
coast Of Java. In America the mani
fcstations were unusually numerous
and violent. beginning at San Salvador
January lilo. llopango was destroyed
and its lake, the crater OF an extinct
volcano, boiled UP with mud and sui
phurous yapors, a crater being event
ually formed in its center. On the 4th
the boiling lake in Dominica burst into
fresh activity, and toward the close OF
the month all western Cuba wa visited
severely. General Grants earth
quake" On the Ist of February severe
shocks were felt at Nuclta Abajo and
in Mexico; on the 9th, a volcanic erup-
ton in Santo Domingo had an echo IN
the shape of a smfrt trcmIiemcnt in the
Ottawa valley. On the nth OF April
San Francisco experienced the heaviest
shock known for years. june % the
eruption of the volcano del fGcgo in
Guatemala marked the commencement
of an era of terrible activity. Acoiumn
Of flame shot up To the height OF 800
feet, throbbing with strong regular
pulsations for nearly two hours, at in
tervals of fifty seconds; the River Qua
calate rose suddenly and ran warm.
july % much damage was done to New
Amsterdam and other parts of Guiana,
and August II n terrible CONFUSION
visited Chill, though. happily, the loss
of life was no proportionatc To lis
severity. The shock WAS felt on the
highest points of the Andes, where the
telegraph wires were broken and thrown
down, and at Mendoza. east of the Cor
dilleras, earthquakes occurred on the
10th and 18th such As had not been
known since 1861. 1t was about this
time that an earthquake was felt in the
Azores, followed by the emersence
from the sea of a new island of $4,000
square yards area. With the horrors
Of the earthquake ut Casamicciola in
the first week of March our readers are
familiar.
The most notable and disastrous
earthquakes on record, it may be said,
are those~of Italy (j2G), when 10000
persons persisted, and of Sicily 06Si),
when co. 900 losttheir lives, According
TO GIbbon towards sig each year was
marked with the repetition of earth
auakeS of such duration that Con-
stantinople WAS shaken above forty days
of such extent that the shock was
communicated to the whole surface OF
the empire. At Antioch a quarter OF n
million persons are SAID to have perish
ed. This period of earthquake and
plague (5i2-O was the period when the
superior planets were i'll pcrihelion, rs
they are now. Arabian and Persian
chronicles record Ill earthquakes be-
tween the seventh and eighteenth CEN
turtles, some lasting from forty to seven
IL days, and nearly all accompanied
by Winds or floods, or terrible storms
or LIGHTNING and thunder. Readers of
the Relations DIES Jcsuites' will re-
member the great earthquakes OF 1903.
which shook and tos, ed the earth for six
months from Gaspe 10 Montreal, the
rival of our own earthquake of 1911 in
the Mississippi Valley. The severest
of the earthquakes felt in this region wa
that of November, 1913. an echo of the
CONFUSION that tumbled down Lisbon
and saved the POmba Ministry, through
the fact that the Minister house vas
almost the only one left uninjured and
his family one of the few not bereaycd
of a member. Helm, i'm his interesting
%Opusculc on earthquakes, estimates that
on IN average two earthquakes n day
occur on the earth. In 1870, though
there was no severe single shock, 2,225
houses were destroyed or greatly dam
aged i'm Italy, nineiy-cight persons killed
and 223 wounded. The same shock
may last for years: instance that OF
Eicge, in the Valais, which endured
from July. 1875. to 1857. At Cabul 30
severe shocks have been felt in n day;
at Honduras. in 1876, 10S were counted
i'm a week, and at Hawaii, in 1868, 1000
shocks occurred in one month. Helm,
il may be said i'll conclusion, opposes
the theory of Il connection between
earthquakes and volcanic eruptiOns aud
considers that of their coincidence with
atmospheric phenomena as better sup
ported by facts; for they are OCCASION
ally preceded or accompanied by thick
and widespread fogs ut seasons when
fogs arc not frequent, by sudden falls of
the barometer and equally sudden
changes of temperature. Their occur
renee, however, in the majority of eases
comedies with normal meteorological
conditions. Earthquakes arc more fire.
qucnt after sunSc; than III the daytime,
in autumn and winter than in spring.
The influence of the moon is insigniii-
cant.-N. Y. World.