The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-08-22

"Oh pickle your meteorites the politician with vinegar "
cont "Tel the sory-thats aerstory no haiti
well you heller it's the story I'm ten lou
know know where meeotes come rom anu
story is a romance among the STARS
You see gentlemen everything smaller when colder oo
10 Yes Of course YOU anything contracts AT th
same you pound down anything piece OF ron to De
heat lis foredo out of it isntit?' ~ -: ;
OF the story asked the reporter
M is gentlemen begin again How high neat
go?that how hot anything become-wha is the upper ~
heat?"
ADunno answered the politician.
Infinitely hgh-no im, in theory replied the pencil snover
CHATS boy thn how low can heat little can
there How low 'cold go?'
the extent 4
Right again OF course Now, gentlemen you heat any
substance piece OF stone metal hotter and hotter "n
"Melts, by thunder, shouted the politician
'But gvei more heat after it melts what tnen
sGas!" cried Styx. ..4:. -
sir everything becomes loses all a
mingled with other That to say genen "
disappears, and mnges with everything else ohao ~
heat would take place with more heao
.'Wel about all this anyway" Suggested styx
Why now downward instead OF upward oo
reduces the size of departs as smaller
infinitely what becomes OF ma0oer of suo
stance?"
"Why disappears somewhere '-muttered the heller
nd goes that departed as disappeared
scribe
boys would become heat But snguary enough
YOU make colder the substance becomes more
BRITTLE"
eyes sir breaks matter into PARTICLES IN
SMALL will cold do the same thing IN neor' ANU "
far as carry the experiments, in fact!
"And what of it-w does the meteo1ie come in?'
Rgt beyond worlds OF planets colder than the
end of John colder than we have
measuring infinitely cold! Then who say that worlds nave
the and measureess spaces Ito when world
not mighty ocean, by warmth the vast bill
owy held in it's nonsubstance form y lack OF
begins together And the moment small spec
formed conducion from and casts heat
radiation the formation OF real matter state IN
tense is tremendously rapid-at least for a time
why fol ID time, growled Styx
Because as soon cases. began thick envelope
about the planet absobs the heat radae and the
chunks OF matter the outer realm near space wou
be and less frequent!"
"Truetrue law!' observed Styx
But where in, quered the politician
That point there fifty sixty miles above
there markaton boundary between thin air
call space probably bowy and often disturbed
arths surface At times you
reacng the suns thin
into the spacemae Instant
" there That would follow Of absolute necessity
would take tremendous to the planet
twinkng be red hot The motion Of the earth nigh
give the motion OF the bowy air in the
channels intensely become that it might be dssipae
again as appear Or might be drawn down
into the SOIL Millions these are actually forming
the time The heavens full OF them at all times
umbounded at the actual creation rock in mdheave 1t ha
possibly eternal universe made Of boundes
planets and merely holes cavities in almighty
OF matter!'
Doc" said the politician with yawn-and
Where does the story come in?"
Then we told the these
things with Bonded knee and hat oftold then
how force filed there away something where
still crawling around
skulcap blind bug in a circus tent - and -
But lo-the both sound asleep!
the get the hat 1t had fallen to the oo and
softly placed upon it's appropriate PEDESTAL
boys we softly muteed calmly side
the sepwak and mandered homeward under mdngh
democratic nowut that straw hat
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