Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-05-08
A slippery Place for Geoloris,..


From the Chicago Advance
heretofore the average geologist has been a
man VINO drinks up time like a river and basteth
not But now there are some indications OF n re-
form In respect to this lavish use OF time. Prof
Prestwick, in the second volume OF his geology
Just issued from the oxford University press. saws
that the calculations on which the Glacial Enocb
was put back 100000 years are very defective 90
tney are based on the rate at which the nnny
giacless Oh tne Alps move But, basing his calcu
iatons on the rate at which the Greenland Glaciers
move ne thinks that the time occupied by the
great American ice slide need not have been more
OF similar observations and calcuatiOns he iinss1s
the time for the formation OF the valleys whtnh
l9,ioWed, 70 500 or 10000 years. Hence the be-
more than 10000 years ago instead OF oIr, noo
and the close OF the period not more than n, oo1
years This makes an immense shrinka0S IN The
antiquity which some OF the geOIogisrs Inc INC
claimed for the human race. The deTscts IN atI
these calculations IS that 1t is not. known ho.,
perry place Tor the geologsts.
BLAsPHKMER SUDDENLY BKREFr OF Re.so~
dispatch from Seneca, Kan, MAY N saw a IT,,
Well-to-do farmers named Primley, who Uye ahouY
rs me s,I north OF this place and hand
VOWED IN violent discussion concer-,i no the taL
Ing OF the sacrament, when AlthouS exclaimed IN
loud Voice, accompanied with an oath .Yn,,
think, when you take the sacrarn< mt Won ar s
lowing Jesus, feathers and all" No soonsr ~ az
u pnsS tne words when ne became madiy insane
rushed about with frightfri groaps ami tiesnIfa,
the Efforts OF the Primley s. escsIed ana uesp..e
posed To be hiding in thu woods along the Nemebah
river. S1e H>e"enan
SMOKED FOR NEETY-I1GHT YEARS AND D,rn At
o oti., htSpkEn AND ILEvEN.-Thos Eegieston
aSsu one hundred and eleven years ten monthS
and twenty days. died Saturday an Grfrsthsutiia
W. va lie had lived in West Virginia for eighty
years being one OF the first white SETTLERS ty nhs
Mountain state He Outiyed his Wiz, rs ID a inc
urn ana most OF his grandchildren. He meyer
oooh uose OF medicine until he was one hundred
md m
ne had never been sick or had the beadacha ~
uoothache Most Of his life was spent on rsrn M
vIm io' .se last lew years he lived In Grifiths
shie. ne retained his memory 10 the last me
old man was fond OF pointing to himself as an aT
ample OF man that tobacco could not XIII as 10
teen years Old. Ae !" as 'nif-
MONEY VALUE OF VENTILATION IN sBops-Josan,
Corbett, an English engineer endeayored ro
out the money value Of ventilation In iaroe W.
snoRs IA paper read at Manchester lately. de-
scIuing various methods OF ventilation Nr Cor
Dett said thr best OF all known means for int,c,
anu reguiating the ventilation OF WORKSHOPS were
Iahs ufNen py power. In most workshons tho
power could be given by Skating or steaVp .ne
DC suppned 10 little engine attached 10 The yan
IN some cases it would, he considered pay well to-
Apply gas engine Tor the purpose Tie power re-
CURED being very small compared with the resuits
attained. In concluding, Mr.. Corbett said thar hv
man now Warsan 70 ~ nenth N the workshop any
healthy shop might be made at least per ~ -, ?,
aoier, more active and more efficient In his VII '
~
year 10 MS employer, that per cent mea,f "a .
year, or equal 70 GO OF capital All thaI h. ~ ~
susgested would not cost fsO per MAJ, IN rnc a
snops not 20 per man. He hoped taer.fora thas
ooth on tina low ground OF mers mOney v.,a ,n ns
on the high ground OF duty TO Wcrk neonsa a no
paper would convince employers Of the true scon ms
| omy of health In workshops. 00"n-
those VINO ARE RELATED to or Intimate with ~.
spin.aaiists OF New York do not know OF anV case
p,esent That resembles the misfortune OF iusSsr
=. Marsn put they say that the humber or osherl
| vs. sensible and solid folks who attend rha
SonSes anu support the seers IS very reTnarfahie
- ~ every case wholly useless 70 Convince theSs
| RIIpao snat what iasctnates them "a hunbu1ver~
A,nougn every noted medium who exhibits 10 tbe
cSonysn nas oesn exposed their followers are noS
Saye sesS xhl, have got mysterious istters or Il
"a n mnat satisfies me" is what they all "a "
mad ,n.eiesung Tact about these Victims or ,Sss
heSnna ~, tnat they are nearly all either persnns
| Ssya s cue MIDDLE age, who may be- pFesumsd m
soon ~ const 700 earnestly about the herSaftes
Ssya ~ 49, vunisSnt them. or they are persOsS NJ
Ma,1 oeen Ioooed hy Death OF some obsecs ~ 49,
nvss lose With the latter class ths m e, u,s
n@'o 'noh oaAesl task-Ehtiadefphio ~ seS,rs..s
v,a III. henry N. Cox, OF Port Murray " No.
,.eu AT Easton, Pa, OF causinx fhe o., Seo =.
Seannie Osborne, by malpracIice va. e o.
sslSenceu 70 Imprisonment in ne Ess,oo ~ ~