Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-04-04
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S. WORLDS
-. .ooHhg Of the BARN. fslas il.
by the term "worldr 49,
ally speaking, this eloha mean, u,s
stand, but the merest glance = Which !,
through a telescope sbow now y The 81,
world Is only one Of MANY ~ y That Of,
tner reflection and study u ~y ~ Flu
OF the universe will cont, i, o'her part.
among these other wo.,a Us thai
many many n different stages % i mere mere an
their development. We NAV !" speak d
our EARTH for instance. az ! y y, repreep,
maturity 81 its being, m 1v,ld inths
others which exhibit difrerass slere ars
the progress. Some viii H. pnasesd
t Woraas winch are to be regard ppea Y
IRENE old age, while Others s s.sa n ~
70 be In an imperfect or inn asaln seen
dltion. IT Is Of these latter as., Con-
we are especially going to sn aollas that
paper. = speak IN hi,
II, in blacksmith's foro.
tlously placed your hand u mo- ~ mean
IRON ana 1t burned your tinoer.p pee q
.he blacksmith told you th nu's a, and /
had lain there for half Al ~. 1le Iron
not doubt that it must have J - you Do
hotter when the blacksm;.ap' zen much
from the fire than you have j. mn afew It
II 10 be. Probably it was ev ,'uw lound
at the time 1t was laid aside ~" req hot
we must apply this argument, /.
immense globe, 5000 miles i y. 70 that
on which we are standin, lu,'a.metet
exterior crust Of rocks and stoua las an
contains good deal Of iro ,uAvs and
ms great ball is undoubtea,raa inside
hot in it's interior. We have ~. sey
sons for knowing this "a ha a u res
The eruptions of volcanoes sue ease
simplest proof. The smoke tho lns
and the molten lava that volcan ny asnes
forth show us that the earth il a,s.p pouf
but cool in the lower regions o snlhs
terrestrial phenomena bear sinh. o'ner
mony. Hot springs, for instanaa 80 es'-
the heated condition of the deer. ss'hee
rocks. Any miner will tell Won III ,s' a
deeper ms mine the hotter he fnas ,ue
work to be. The gain in best 80 ~, MS
from the fact that the deener ~ alises
the nearer it lies to the centrsI Al'ns
descence. ''can'
During all these ages the earth 10.
gradually have been growing coIa as'
ana therefore at the beginning Il mna,
nave been much hotter than If IL q a.
AS we look back earlier and Gin as ouay.
the earth ever seems hotter and ho,.a,
through the ages. At least tho 49,
ment points to time when tho o.sl
must have been hot even to its sn,,aaa
so not that you could not stand ~ :.
then earlier still it was red hi MI. s
hot and molten. Even here tbe .ra,
ment does not fall; we find tho H..
must nave been even greater and cro.,'
er the further we look back, until At h.,
we come to time when the now ooI;s
materials of our earth must bave ~
in widely different form. For we knaw
that the most infusible materials il.
steel or flint can, if they be heated snt.
hclently high, not only be transformed
INTO liquid, but even be driven off into
vapor. Thus we learn that there wasa
time when our earth was merely mass
of glowing gas.
A great deal of light is thrown unon
this subject by looking at other worlds
some of which are to be seen in anita
an unfinished state, even at the present
moment. They are unfinished in tbe
sense that the gaseous material has not
yet condensed down sufficiently to form
a solid globe. There are thousands o,
bodies with which astronomers are ao.
quainted which will in one way or an.
other illustrate these phases of our
earth's past history. shall only men.
ton one or two, The first that NAV
refer to is especially famous. It's the
great nebula of Orion. We find in this
constellation an object which is, practi.
cally speaking, invisible to the naked
eye; it has only the effect of producing
4 slight haziness in the stars which
form the sword handle Of Orion in the
quaint fashion in which the constella.
ton used formerly to be represented
When viewed through telescope Of
sufficient power a most marvellous spec
tacle is disclosed. There are wisps and
patches of glowing cloud-like material,
which shine not like our clouds do by
rejecting to us the sunlight This
celestial cloud is self-luminous; it is, in
fact, composed of vapors so intensely
heated that they glow with fervor as
write. | have Lord Roses elaborate
drawing of this nebula before me, and on
the margin of this stupendous object the
nehula fades away SO tenderly that it is
almost impossible to say where the OBJ
ject terminates. Probably this nebula
will in some remote age gradually con-
dense down into more solid substances
1t contains. no doubt, enough material
to make many globes as big as our earth
Before, however, it settles down into
dark bodies like the earth, 1t will have
to pass through stages in which Its con-
densing materials form bright sunllKe
bodies. 1t seems as If this process ofcon-
densation might almost be witnessed AZ
the present time in some parts OF tne
great object.
There are also some very striking
nebula which are often spoken OIL as
planetary. They are literally balls Oh
blush colored gas or yapor, apparently
more dense than that which forms .ne
nebula in Orion. Such globes are aouuE
less undergoing condensation ana may
be regarded as unfinished worlds
bany IN. W Argus.
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