The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1884-09-18

about $50 deaths. In 1867 severe earth
quake visited the kingdom of Naples, do
Ing little damage in; the city, but much in
the provinces, and This earthquake was
made specially nemorabfe by the investi-
antions relatinG TO ID made BY ProfeAs0x
Mallet, of thu British Assassination. !.
| BY using the flssnres ii build
disturbance of heavy objects, etc., s. iIst-s
ural measurers, he Rxed, Irom 1T determ-
nations, the focns of the aistnr banca a..
being beneath the village Of Caggiora,
finding the mean depth of The cavity ~ 81
miles. He also deduced the general form
Of the focal cavity as curved assure, 8
thickness, the velocity 81 transit Of shock
being between 658 andes feet per second
The great earthquake ct Lisbon in 17E5s
was probably the Most severe one felt in
Europe outside Of the italian peninsula.
The shook was felt III the Alps and on the
coast Of Sweden 10000 persons persisted,
and part Of the city permanently enguh-
ed 600 feet beneath the bay. Among
many others felt in Europe in 1878 was
one which seems to have in many respects
resembled the redent one here. IL oc-
CURED on August rs, and was not remark
able for its violence. but for the great ex-
! tent II territory aft ctsd 1t is estimated
to have covered over 1900 geographical
square miles, ringing bills AID swaying
houses and making CRACKS IL the walls,
and was accompanied bysa dull subter-
ranean noise the Workmen OIL the towers
Of the Cologne Cath dral saw the scafold-
| ing oscillate and feared orIheir lives, yet
not one Of /, 100 miners working l 900 feet
blow in the mines noticed the disturb
anc.. This was NOT SO Severe even as the
shook felt in England last spring, when
some chimneys were thrown down, and
many walls SO twisted as to be rendered
n South America there have been
numerous earthquakes within the last fifty
wears. Caracas, in Venezuela, was en-
tirelyy destroyed by three shocks, within
ffty seconds, In 1872 The city Of Quito,
in Ecuador, was almbat destroyed in 1859,
and in 1868 large part of Ecuador was
devastated by great earthquake, several
shocks from the 18th to the 18th Of Aug
ust occurring over nearly all South Ameri
ca. This was the date also Of the earth
quake at Iquique, Peru, when the U. :.
war ship Wateree was lifted and left strand.
ed two miles inland by great tidal wave.
The latter earthquake caused q wave more
than 2 feet high ;, at San Francisco, and
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earthquake shocks. One that occurred
there March 26, 1872, occasioned general
alarm, and did good deal of damage in
San Francisco, cracking the walls Of many
fine buildings. s'.-...'..
The nearest region of earthquake aetiv-
ity to our eastern shores, however, is
| found in the West. Indies. Here, on
March 10, 1873, the city of San Salvador,
about 800 miles due east OF the southern
part of Florida, was totally destroyed !;
three successive severe shocks were ex-
perienoed, bat the Inhabitants had been SO
well warned by the previous noises that
only some 500 lives were lost. The At
lantic states of the union are thus, it will
be seen, not very far removed from a re-
gion Of recent volcanic activity, and belong
to section whose probable axis of seismic
disturbance lies about as indicated by the
recent earthquake, 1. e., between the West
Indies and Bermuda on the one side and
the Appalachian range on the other, some
what according to the course of the gulf
stream. The number of minor disturb
anoes in this region has been considerable,
but far the largest proportion of them have
been SO slight as almost to escape notice.
The earthquakes already catalOgued num-
Der about 1000, and it is estimated that
one occurs on an average twice a week
!. somewhere in the world, but our section of
the world. has contributed very little to
this list, nor does the earthquake Of August
10 afford any idea that tho we sre more likely
! TO have such disturbances in the future, ex-
lcept as II. suggests the ever present possibili-
I ty, for uS a., well as all othef people on the
Proctor says ssThs lifetime of q world
4 like ours may may be truly said to be life
time of cooling. Beginning in the glowing
vaporous condition which we see in the SUN
and stars, an orb in space passes gradually to
/ the condition of ajcool, non luminous mass,
and death. Regarding our planets state as
that Of mid life, we may call. that stage death
in which these conditions have entirely dis
appeared. Among these condi Hons ID the ac-
Il ton Of the subterranean forces hH which the
i earth's surface is continually modeled and re-
modelled. Only by the action of her vulcanian
energies can the earth maintain her position
as an abode Of life. She is then. ndanifesting
her fitness to support life in those very throes
by which, too often, many lives are lost.
4 The uphsavals and downsinkings, The rushing
Of ocean in great waves over islands and sea-
porta> by which tens Of thousandstof, human
beinga lose their lives, are partI of the evil
dence which the earth gives that within her
frame there still remains enough of vitality for
the support Of life during hundreds of thous-
ands Of years TO come. "-Sciens;fc american.
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/ There were about fifty delegates present
at the convention of the Connecticut Cath
/ olic Total Abstinence union in Waterbury
on Tuesday. The county direetsrs report
ed as follows New Haven county, pres
/ emit membership 1,541-gain $50; Hart
ford reDOrted a gain If 60 sTColland show.