Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-07-31

learn which place of refuge was open to
them according to the section of the
globe in which they lived. And il is
easy to understand how anxious the
people were TO learn their fate.
On the 18th OF September the cable
dispatch was sent TO the Office of the
observatory at Washington, with orders
to figure out the final consequences
upon geographical locations. Two days
afterwards the problem was all worked
out. The Old World was notified of the
results by cable and the New World by
telegram. After this calculation had
been published by thousands of papers,
it was the only thing talked of in the
great cities and elsewhere. What will
happen? This was the question which
every body was asking At every point of
the globe.
The following was the notice made by
the observatory at Washington:
IMPORTANT NOTICE.
The operation which is being tried by
President Barbicane and Captain Nicholl
is as follows:
The production Of recoil on the 22d
Of September at midnight by means of
cannon million times larger in volume
than the cannon of twenty-seven cent?
meters, throwing projectile of $50, 600
tons, with powder giving it a velocity
of $500 kilometers.
Now, If this shooting takes place be-
low the equatorial line, nearly on the
saith degree of latitude west of the merid-
ian of Paris, at the foot Of Kiliman-
iaro, and if it is directed toward the
south, these are the mechanical effects
which it will have On the earth's sphere:
Instantly, in consequence of the shock
acting with the daily movement, a new
axis will be formed, and as the old axis
will be displaced to the amount Of %
degrees and 2s minutes, according 70 the
figures obtained by J. It. Maston, the
new axis Will be perpendicular to the
direction of the ecliptic.
Which point will the new axis start
from? As the point of shooting is
known, it has been easy to calculate this.
In the North the extremity Of the new
axis will be situated between Greenland
and Grinnelland, exactly at that part Of
Baffins Sea were it cuts the Arctic
Polar circle. In the South 1t will be on
the line of the antarctic circle, a few de-
grees east of Adelialand. Under these
conditions new zero meridian, starting
from the North Pole, win pass through
Dublin in Ireland, Paris in France.
Palermo in Sicily, the Gulf of Grand
Sytre on the coast of Tripoli, 0bed in
Darfur, the mountain chain of Kiliman-
jaro. Madagascar the Herguelen Island,
in the Central Pacific; the new antarctic
pole, the antipodes Of Paris, Cook
Island, the Island of Quadra, Vancouver,
on the margin Of British Columb ia;
across North America TO Melville
Island in the neigh borhood Of the North
| Pole.
In connection with this new axis of
rotation, starting from Baffins Bay in the
/ North to Adelialand in the South, a new
| equator Will be formed above which the
sun will travel without ever changing
his daily course. The equinoctial line
will cross the Kiliman jaro, at Wanna
sal, the Indian Ocean, Goa and Chica-
| cola, a little below Calcutta in India,
Mandalay in The Kingdom Of Siam,
Kesho in Tonquin, Hong Kong in China,
Risa Island. Marshall Island, Gaspar
Rico, Walker Island in the Pacific the
| Cordilleras in the Argentine Republic,
Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, the islands Of
! Trinity and St. Helena in the Atlantic
| Ocean, st. Paul de Loando on the Congo,
| and finally it will meet again in the
| territories of Wamasai, back of Kiliman-
| jaro. This new equator being thus
determined by the creation of the
! new axis, it became possible to
| calculate the changes of the ocean
tides, which was so important for the
security of the Inhabitants of the earth.
| 1t is just to observe that the directors
| of the North Polar Practical Association
had taken measures 70 weaken the
shock as much as possible. If the
shooting had been toward the north the
| consequences of it would have been
| much more disastrous for the more civ
! ilized parts Of the earth. On the other
hand, shooting towards the south the
consequences would only be felt most
in parts less populated and less civilized.
| The careful calculations made showed
| how the waters would be distributed
when thrown out of their beds by the
4 flattening of the sphere around the new
Poles. The globe would be divided by
| two great circles, intersecting in a right
angle at Kilimanjaro, and at its antip-
odes in the equinoctial ocean. This
would form four sections, two in the
north and two in the south, separated
/ by the lines upon which the cean up
/ heaval would be zero
In the Northern hemisphere: The
first section west Of Kiiimanjaro would
take in Africa from the Congo to Egypt,
| Europe from Turkey TO Greenland,
| America from British Columbia to
Peru and from Brazil as high as San Sal
vador, and finally the whole Notthern