Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-29

matter The electric current passing over
wire swells out all around The wire, which
can easily be detected by Instruments Put
q wire through 4 hole i'll glass plate and
scatter filings on the glass. Bytappinc the
glass the filings VIII arrange themselves in
magnetic lines and move toward The wire
This electric atmosphere is so strong out
side of the conducting wire that an aStatic
pendulum made TO oScillate across this
electric atmosphere will change the direc-
tion of its oscillations. Charge with cleo
tricity moist paper bail suspended by I
silk fiber and the electricity will form 4
sphere or an atmosphere-we might call il
an ectrosphere-around the paper ball.
All electricians declare the earth to be
magnet. Guthrie, an English authority aud
professor of physics at the royal school of
mines, says: tine earth is TO be regarded
as 4 spherical magnet. and on au average
three cubic feet of earth holds as much
magnetism as I steel rod weighing one
pound The whole body of the earth is
charged with currents of electricity, and as
every body so charged must have an cleo
trIc atmosphere extending far outside of it,
our earth'S electric envelope must reach far
out into space. II is well known that the
higher we 30 into the atmosphere the
ligt.ter-more rarited-it is, while the cleo
trio tension continually increases. This is
the universal testimony, anC evidences are
lists at an elevation OF Ten miles
Charge pith balls with electricity and
they will recede from each other. but if the
electricity be taken from the pith balls so
that they shall have less than their natu-
raj NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. call this charging
them with negative electrcity-the balls
will converge or fall together. This indi-
Gates that the electric atmosphere of the
pith balls pushes them apart while the lack
OF these atmOspheres permits the elements
surrounding them 10 drive them together.
Objects that will float III water and are
capable OF being charged with electricity
will float away from each other when
charged electrically but when their cleo
tricity is reduced below their natural guam
tity they float together. These objects will
not permanently hold electricity, and if the
electricity in them be reduced without
causing too great deficiency they will float
toward each other. their momentum carry
ing them into each others clcctropheres.
where they will recede from each other,
and thus OScillate or perturhate
The perturbation Of the planets is strong
evidence on this point. When Mercury is
at its farthest point from the sun and Venus
Is At superior conjunction with it-AlercuEy
being between Venus and the Sun-both
Mercury and Venus are thrown far out of
their orbits, Mercury going nearer to ana
Venus farther from the sun, thus receding
lrDLl edcn Oiutf, causing WHAT Itlc dSlfOU-
OmerS call pcrturbatlOuS. In moving around
the earth the moon recedes from the earth
when it passes over the continents Of the
latter and comes nearer the earth when
crossing the oceans. There is much greater
magnetic influences over the continents
than over the oceans. The moons envelope
sinks into the oceans, depressing them,
following which, as the waters become
level again. the food tide comes in. These
tides ara r1uSp1 bv u OIISh and the ruoOn
over the continents is caused to recede by
i push from the earth's magnetic envelOpe.
l cannot fully discuss the push of gravity
in this letter. but readers will see some
foundation for argument. Both the ele-
ments that surround the sun and those of
outer space repel condensed matter as
water does the cork and, therefore our
earth establishes it's orbit between, where
there is the least resistance. as an egg sinks
through oil to the surface Of the salt water
and a rock to the surface of the quicksilver.
W. T. FOSTER.