Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1894-03-29
Observation-Disclosures
AND HENRY COUNTY NEWS.
LAST GREAT SHAKE.
An Unpleasant Event Booked for No
vem ber Is, 1900.

vem Der 1S, 1SOO.
The records indicate that people
hive been looking for the end OF the
world atintervals ever since the world
be gan, and prediction of this character
generally receive every limited. Gre
dence, but when scientific man of
the standing Of Prof. Rudolph Falb,
of Vienna, makes prophecy Of this
sort it is at least worth thinking about.
Prof. Falb has a reputation all over
Europe for his meteorological knowl-
eige and particularly for his extraor-
binary familiarity with the habits and
customs of earthquakes. Hispredic-
tions of these seismic disturbances
have been remarkably fulfilled. His
prediction of the great earthquakes
at Zante last year was published in
the press dispatches all over the coun-
try the day before the earthquake oc-
Cured. Another example of his
accurate foreknowledge on this sub
ject is shown in the fact that on March
81, 1893, he wrote to the tourist club
of Vienna accepting an invitation to
lecture about earthquakes, but added
that he would like to defer the lecture
until after April 10, as an earthquake
would occur by that time, which
would aid him in giving them enlight-
ment. AS matter of fact, an earth
quake occurred on April 8, and was
felt all over southern Hungary. Prof.
Falb's propheciesgo back over num-
Der of years, have usually been made
from nine to twenty months in ad-
vance, and have in almost every in
stance been correct. Now, however,
the professors prophetic eye has shot
across space of five years, and he
says that on November 19, 1899, the
erratic wanderer known to astrono-
mers as the comet of 1866, will llreappear
and collide with our globe; then ''the
fireworks and-darkness. By way
preliminary to the main event, how
ever, itmay be mentioned that, accord
ing to the program, New York is to
disappear under a tidal wave next
July or August, while Florida and
California will probably become is
lands as the result of submarine
earthquake. The most unpleasant
feature about these prophecies is, as
already intimated, the fact that they
are not prophecies at all, strictly
speaking, but scientific predictions
based upon scientific Investigations
into mundane anatomy. To put his
theories in as simple fashion as
possible, it may be said that Prof.
Falb believes first of all that the deep
down interior of the earth is filled
with a molten mass, which is subject
to ebb and flow like the water of the
ocean. Between the earth and this
molten sheol, which is slowly cooling,
there is only a shell of an average of
eighteen miles in thickness, upon
which we mortals live and love and
die. In some places the earth's crust
is thicker than in others. Where it
is thinnest, the confined, terrible
forces of the under world, chiefly in
the form of gas, seek constantly to es-
cape, and when the pressure of the
atmosphere around the earth is lowest
the gas finds an outlet, usually in we'll
defined districts, generally through
the volcanic ventholcs. But beyond
the constant pressure of gas, Prof
Falb has the theory that the sheolic
molten mass beneath us is subject to
the influence of the moon, which pro-
duces waves, and occasionally great
tidal waves, which sweep round the
inner crust of the world with terrific
force, shaking the earth in it's passage.
Prof. Falb publishes every year a list
of the days on which he expects
seismic convulsions. These he calls
Critical days"-and theee days are
those when the moon approaches
close to the earth. The critical days
given by Prof. Falb for 1894 are stated
in the order of maximum disturbance
as follows; August 80; September 30,
February 90, March 81, May Sand Oc-
tober 2S. Thus the most serious dis
turbance may be looked for on Au-
gust 80, and the slightest on October
30. In connection with the great
scientific contest peIween mother
earth and the comet, which to use d
phrase current in scientific circles, is
to be 'spulled off" In 1899; tits recalled
that on January IA, GIG, ten people
were killed in China by the fall OF a
meteor. In the year 1898 thirty five
villages in Saxony were destroyed by
the fall of a meteor, and many men
and animals killed. On September 4,
1911, one man and four animals were
destroyed by falling meteors near
Crema. On November 4, 1749, ameteor
struck the mast of a ship that was
crossing the Atlantic, killing FIVE sea-
men. Each of these cases can be re-
garded as the fall of small comet up
on our world. LIT isa comfortt to know
that some, Vienna scientists believe
the comet is going to get the worst of
it, and point the fact that the comet
Lexell, when it came too near to Ju-
piter, was thrown off it's course and
sent flying out Of our planetary sys-
tenn.
Women makes good jurors and to them we
wish brify to sum up the eyi dence proving
superiority of ID -gic Dyes, to wit: They
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