The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-04-30

must conclude that it will be some o..
cradle while yet ere Texas is wrapua7
unbroken and Undertaking shec. of ;.,
has been long time since the e.,.s..
riod held sway on our planet and .9-..
ably be equally as long ere il o..s.-
second time. How long since +. ISL. e.
majority and owned the admins.
man can say, but Professor Dana h.-.. %.
the thing a little in referrnes IN ..-f.
orado canon. page 23S. Tn. ..-..
made by nature since the last a.s..s.-.-.-
and is. says the professor. "a gore 49,,
miles long. bounded mos, o. H.. 49,
steep walls of rock 5000 feet IN .-.-t,
through sandstoues, limestone ALL ...
rocks down 10 the granite. which IS -.,--.
into several hundred feet. Al ,lz s-r..
its DISORDERS testify, point 10 s.n.,-. 49,
ming water as the agent thar ul..'a -.4a-.-.
channel. The region was under -.s...-
Ill the close Of the cretaceo.s g....s
follows, then, that all this ry-er- .r4a-.
walton was accomplished bv rl.- -.,-...--
OF running water"
AOAS.'otA A1sl4Att t'bA-' tLiG ta.s-f-
for running water TO wear ont Ills r.-.,
at not less than 1.O00, 600 year. b.. .--
most biologists would contend toe ,e-.-
millions Us necessary for the ac,a-rr...+
ment of this gigantic Wort, ,he,~,s -,
means evidently brought 10 baa-. < de-.
be scared
\ first-class authority says thu Eaars..
known depth of the sea is IN -he = ,-.. g..
lantic ocean of the mouth OF the E5yg-,
Plata. The bottom was there r~.. -t A.
depth of 4O,eS6 feet, or ei-h- .r.l .z--..
fourth miles, exceeding by u.r. ..-
seventeen thousand feet the l..g- 3
Mount Everest. the loftiest ,r1--..-, e..
the world. In the North Atlau-.r ..-s-
south Of Newfoundland, soaal.a.s Las,
been made TO depth of G5S0 Ia -I. of,
p $50 feet, while depths eqa4.ia- 100
feet, or SIX and one-half mile ~, -..
ported south Of the Bermuda Islands. Til.
average depth of the Pacific ocean .g--7
Japan and California is ! little ....--z.
thousand fathoms; between Gu a.lts
Sandwich islands $3.50 fathoms .-d b.,
tween Chilli and New Zealand 1900 !s-A5~>
Professor G. W. johnson. in his Chem
istry Of the World, explains The c'-asa.-..
of the acids in many Of the food .... .-,
used by man. Malic acid pr,jpia..-.a,..
the stems of rhubarb or pie D.4.-. III.
acid in oranges. lemons. etc. is c'r.. -5.
acid in plums, apples and pears IS uG!
the acid i'll gooseberries and c-rr4.-> is .
combination of malic amt ci-r.r: tue a.r,
in grapes is 4 combination q iaatt a-l
tartaric Some of the Vegetables u--..
though not looked upon as ,au-aia.a,
acids, do, nevertheless. contain ,4r.s
amounts, as asparagus and curumbers. FIR
instance The acid in the former IS aspar.,
while that Of the latter IS fuug.u TIL,
last-named acid is one Of the most mn
rious taken into the human stomach IS
food. which accounts for the Common u7-
wholcsomencss of the cucumber
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Scientists tell us that, counting from The
sea level, the lowest body of water on The
globe is the Caspian sea. For centuries rs
surface has been gradually settling down
until now il is eighty-five feet lower thau
that of its near neighbor, the B-ri, se-,
which also lies far below the level u III.
ocean. The common conclusion has al
along been that the Caspian sea was merely
losing its waters by some means, but recent
Investigations have shown this not 10 %
the case. Soundings made ami compared
with records OF sOundings made NOR 'hau
one hundred Years ago reveal the asto4ll-
ing fact that there is still as great a depth
of water as existed then. This leaves OFT
one hypothesis that would seen 20 De Jell-
Bile: The bottom of the Caspian sea .
actually sinking. There Is much 5p-c1l'
ton in scientific circles relative 70 wha- lhd
final result will be.
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Goldthwaitc's Geographical Magazine
says the worknen in the deepest mines in
Europe swelter il almost intoleraOle heat,
and yet they have never penetrated owe:
one seven-thousandth part of the distsnce
from the surface to the cen
ter of the earth. In the lower levels
of some of the Comstock mines To
men fought scalding water and could .J5i
emily three or four hours at time unit. 81
tro tunnel pierced the mines and drew otf
some of the terrible heat, which had St0o1
at l20 degrees. The deepest boring eve'
made, that at Sperenberg, near Berlin. pen
etrates only 4172 feet about 1909 feet deeprf
than the famous artesian well at St. Loa-.
While borings and mines reveal 70 Us Only
a few secrets relating solely 10 the temper
AZURE and constitution Of the earth Tor 4
few thousand feet below the surface, We are
able, by means of volcanoes, to form some
notion of what is going on at greater
depths. There h ave been many THEORIES
about the cause of volcanoes. but i Is Tow
generally held that though the;
ar produced by the intense he-t
of the interior Of the earth. thsJ
are not directly connected with the molten
mass that lies many miles below the inme'
date sources of volcano FIR.
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