Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-10-30

stranger here, and l leave Amsterdam
this afternoon. Saturday sail for New
York. You have no security for your
money" "Give me your visiting card
and your address aad that is all I care
for. have often trusted Americans.
and am never deceived" An Amer.
can merchant who did business in this
way would be liable to imprisonment for
lunacy.
In the Earth's Interior,
Talking about earthquakes" said
Prof. Van Benthusen to reporter for
the New York Mail and Express, 'calls
to mind question which, STANDING
alone, is of startling significance to the
people of this continent. It is one that
has been under discussion for manv
years, but believe that the problem was
solved when the shock occurred in 1884
The particular place where that earth
quake originated affords little room for
speculation. The main fact proved b,
that shock was directly to the point that
the interior of the earth is in highly
heated state.
"There are no facts to disprove of this
assumption, but many to support it. Ii
it is not in fluid condition SO largely as
to interfere with its rigidity, which is
counted equal to ball of steel, this is
said to be because of the great weight
with which the exterior presses toward
the center. Notwithstanding the fact
already mentioned, a cooling process is
steadily going on. Biologists claim that
it has required twenty-five millions Of
years to acquire its present external
form of solidity, and that during this
period the mountains were formed and
the hollows of the sea made by sort of
wrinkling of the surface as the globe Of
liquid fire and heated gases contracted
to its present shape. According to this
idea, the solid crust of the earth extends
down from ten to forty miles, there
being beneath that a greater or less
thickness of plastic material from melted
rocks, ETC., under high pressure, while
the crust of the earth is always in a high
state of tension from the gradual cooling
of the interior, causing cavities and al
lowing the superintendent earth to
crowd down closer to it's heated CORE"
Another theory propounded by the
preseason, and one which admits of very
little criticism, 10 to the effect that the
access of water, also by percolation from
the earth's surface to these subterranean
ovens, it is thought, may in some cases
cause explosions, dielocating vast guam
titles of material, and perhaps by open
ing communication with the still hotter
portion yet lower down be the cause Of
some Of the most destructive volcanoes.
These explanations, while being to
small extent Hypothetical, accord with all
that is known by acknowledged authori-
ties. Another significant point is that
they afford the best theory yet advanced
to account f,r the earthquake which is
row agitating the minds of people over
the globe. The geologist, waxing warm
to his subject, insisted that we have
hardly made scratch upon the crust of
the earth. The further we go down the
warmer it is. An illustration of this is
supplied in the fact that the artesia
wells supplying the city OF Paris from p
depth of nearly eighteen hundred fee
yield water of 80 degrees Fahrenheit, an6
the lower levels Of the Comstock mine
have an almost uniform temperature C
$50 degrees Fahrenheit. It is estimate.
that the heat, increases at the rate of one
degree for every fifty feet, and this
would give temperature to melt the
hardest rocks in less than ten miles. On
this theory the present volcanic and
earthquake regions of the globe are To-
Gated along the axis of those supposed
wrinkles or corrugations from the con-
traction of the crust, thought to be at
present in the state of greatest tension.
The most marked of these are down the
east coast of Asia, including the Japan
and Philippine islands, and extending to
Java, where the great earthquake Of 1883
occurred. Another also extends down
the Pacific coast of North and South
America, the manifestations of which
have been very light in the northern
part since the commencement of historic
lines, but of whose presence in South
America we have had many striking
proofs.
A Romance of the Mill.
St. Paul Globe.
"There goes young man who has a
remarked a well-Known citi-
zen, yesterday, as he looked through the
window, as young man of perhaps Is
passed up First avenue a remarkably
handsome lady leaning upon his arm.
"Tell you about it? Certainly, only I
won't give you the name of the parties