Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-08-26
Tn.y are stranger. Now.


her disen-ssed hand. She blushed. AID with
dow it just as the gentleman on the other side
slipped mis- hand in the mu.f. She knew by the
action of her ad0rers that the hand-pressures
were frequent and loving within the silk lining
of the muf. for first one face and then the
other would bob forward to catch look at the
sweet face and eyes which prompted, as tlcy
supposed. the tender pressure of the hand. The
by-p;ay lasted until the young lady quietly re-
marked: If You gentlemen are through with
my huff will trouble you for it now, "a my
hands are getting Cold" And the two gentle
men who had been comfortably warm UP to this
time, suddenly felt an Arctic chill creeping up
their Spinal columns, and the mercury of their
feelings dropped to $50 degrees below zero.
The two gentlemen are strangers now.
Neat from IaaEamering.
From the EC.inburg Review
Theory assumes that the sun is a stupendous
anvil In the course Of being perretualIy ham
mercd upon by falling meteors, and that it's heat
energy is maintained by this hammering as a
lump OF iron is kept red hot by the vigorous
blows of a blacksmith. Sir William Thompson
undertook to calculate how much heat might
be furnished to the sun by this process If the
planets instead of meteors. fell into it, an(, he
came to the conclusion that by such instrument
tally the sun might be sustained in its present
state for nearly As 900 years The plausible point
about this theory is that scientific inyestiga-
ton has proved that II moving body is
stopped, degree of heat is generated where
the resistance comes into play which is in pro-
portion to the mass of the moving body and to
the square of its velocity of movement A
body weighing trifle more than 16 hundred
weight, and moving at the rate of a little more
than ~ inches in the second, if stopped, would
generate enough heat to raise pounds of water
at freezing temperature 10 of centigrade, or 1.So
OF Fahrenheit. Ii 1t were moving with the speed
of cannon-ball-t is. $40 yards per second
it would generate $4,000 times as nue.. heat.
or enough to raise mass OF water equal to it
self nearly 5000 of centigrade. 1t it were NOV
ing with the velocity with which planet would
fall into the sun. it would generate nearly
100000 times as much heat, or enough to
, Dring -, mass many thousand times
descence. far exceeding that which could
be produced by any form of combustion. A mass
OF matter, equal to about the hundredth part of
the earth, falling every year from the earth's
distance. would In this way suffice to maintain
the suns heat radiation permanently. The
Chief strength of this conception, 1t will be
observed. is the use which it makes of the fact
or the continuous Increase of heat with increase
OF velocity. in the square Of the augmentation
OF speed Its obvious weakness, on the other
hand, is the extreme improbabillty that any
such quantity of matter can be thus
thrown meteorically into the sun. If me-
teorc material was SO abundant in space
the earth's share, instead of furnishing
IL WIN al occaSioual pyrOtecnnlcai dlSpiay.
ought to batter it's mass in a year into tile
temperature something like that of boiling
water. Such an amount of mass added to
the sun would serve to accelerate the move
ment OF the planets and to shorten their
periods of revolution IN consequence of the
solar attraction If, again. there were any
meteOrlc gatherings near the sun. capable of
yielding such cOpiOus contributions, these
would of necessity produce very manifest dis
turDanceS in the movement of the planet Mer-
0rlry Jt1f 10Th 8 1t.
tected. IN consequence of these cOnsidera-
tons the conclusion, almost unanimously
adopted by astronomers. is to the effect that,
although some accession to the suns heat may
possibly be derived from the impact of meteOrs
failing into its substance. it is very improbable
that the gain from this cause can reach anything
like the amount which is ascribed to it in
Mayors theory. The verdict of mere common
sense is certainly quite uncOmpromisngly and
Internationally in the same direction. especially
when it Is taken into account that the anvil
upon which the meteoric blows have to be de-
llvered is more of the nature Of an air-cushion
fastened upon q nucleus of putty than of the
iron mass upon which the blacksmith operates
Brooklyn ana New York COntrasted.
New York Letter in San Francisco Chronicle. ,..a,
The Brooklyn Bridge is now In sight It, is
really no more the Brooklyn bridge than the
New York bridge-nOr, indeed, half SO much,
for the many millions which have built it as far
as 1t is built, and the millions still building it,
and the more millions which are to build 1t,
virtually come from New York. Brooklyn
Is to New York simply dormtory where
In money making brains and bodies repair
to sleep and recuperate themselves for the
next days battle on Wall street and else
where. The moment you land in BROOKLYN
you are sensible of change as compared with
New York. You feel hundred miles away
Everything seems subdued, quiet, toned down
But be not deceived. This city holds a great
deal of the mental strength of New York It
is not SO pretentious, but it is more solid. It is
not SO snowy, but more sensible. 1t has more
OF the real American element than New York
or at least that element here makes itself more
distinctly felt. 1t has recently turned out a
foreign born mayor and elected a young ''rep-
resentative American" who really seems irving
to act cOnscentiously, Independently and
honestly. 1t contains splendid park, where
people may walk and roll on the grass if they
like, and. unlike Central Park, is kept for use
not show
walk from which you look over hundreds of
acres with "Keep Off the grass" ever i'm sight.
and policeman to club you if ever you 90
thereon-a place visited on Sunday by 10000 or
5O,OOO weary people. for there are seats for not
more than 1900.
1t contains most distressed and ramshackle
menagerie of wild and tame animals whose
misery Is so apparent, that Bergh, the horse
humanitarian. advised the other day that they
either be turned loose or killed for pure human
itys sake. 1t contains an old stone, brought from
Egypt and presented to the city by the richest
man in America, being typical in GOODNESS and
heaviness Ofhis heart and head. This parl lso
holds some monuments of local poets, who. hun
dred years hence, will be occasionally sought for
and resurrected by antiquarians out of the ency-
clopedias OF 1882. 1t is really beautiful park-to
die Inland much sought after by suicides Its
police are very strict in preserving all the pro-
prieties, and men have been dubbed off the
grounds for putting their arms around the
waists of their own wives, although this is such
phenomenal and uncommon occurrence that
it can hardly be expected of a simple policeman.
actuated by rigid sense Of duty and morality
Gas all New York politically appointed police
men are) to view it otherwise than in the light
of a social and public improperly.
Freaks Of a Western Cyclone.
From the Chicago Tribune.
Writing of the cylone which devastated Grin
nell, Iowa, on the 18th of June correspondent
says: 1.-THE course of the cyclone described a
sem-circle around the outer edge of the town.
commencing near the tracks of the Chicago,
Rock Island and Pacific railroad on the west.