Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-10-12
At THE poTToA OF THE SEA
He Trace Of wrecksse In the Deepest q
the Oceans Depth.

the Oceans Depth.
An extraordinary circumstance that
has been noticed with interest and
that always creates surprise when first
learned Is the entire absence of foreign
matter In the decpest part of the
oceans noor. OF all the vessels lost In
mii-ocean; Of AL the human beings
that have Sccn IL ,wle1; of all the
marine ANNALS that nave pcrishcd; of
ali the clay, sand and gravel let fall by
dissolving iCeGer-. Of M the va
rious substances drItted from every
shore by shifting currents. no trace
remains, but in their place water from
one thousand t. TWENTY-FIVE hundred
fathoms in depth covers the uniform
deposit of thick. bl"irh. te1acious
slime ca1el globigci. = oo:c, says the
Cosmopolitan Maga.:e.
A bit Of this under power IL lens
Is dcclar'1 to be a r~~clation OF beauty
not rca il, forgotten. The ooze is
compose-. a!,1o t entirely of the dain-
ticst. mot dI!icately beautiful shells
imaginabl At depths greater than
twenty-five hundred fathoms the bot
tom of the sea consists mainly of prod
uct ar; iag from exposure. for almost
incaIcula5le periods. to the chemical
action of sea water, of pumice and
other volcanic matt,rs.
This finally results in the formation
Of red clay Gcposits that are considered
character of the pro:1undest
depths of che ocea1. Carbonate Of
xv,r,,,N, ~, f,rrr of AL, -
foraminifera makes up SO lar &c a part
Of the globigerina oo1e, is here almost
entirely ab 'ent.
Soda water il very nearly a universal
solvent. and before any shell. large or
small. reaches the bottom Of these tre-
men1ou, abyjms it is CT I'M: cally eaten
up. literally dis,olv "a result which
the enor aois pre- IRE Of the water
must ma tcrially hasten.
At one thousand fathoms the weight
Of the water pressure on oil sides Of
an object imm,r to that depth Is
very nearly one ton to the square inch,
or moro than one hundred times that
sustained at the sea level. and At tho
greatest depth the pressure Is SO in
creased that il would seem nothing
could withstand it; in fact, heavy
metal cylinders let down with the
sounding apparatus are sometimes. on
being drawn up again to the surface.
found bent and collapsed; strongly
made glass vessels which the metal in
closed are shattered into fraSmentA
EVERY SEVEN YEARS.
A curious Belief In Regard 70 Physisai
Regeneration.
Il Is surprising how many people be-
licve that the entire body of a man Il
renewed every seven years exactly,
SAYS the st. Louis obe-Democrat
This u~ed 20 b~ taught In books. and.
although not orthodox now, Is still 40
cepted "a gospel by many. To show
Its ipsccusacy one has only to hit .
nail on his finger hard enough, for In
that case the injured object will como
of and DO replaced by an entirely new
nail.
II this process occupied seven years
such an accident would be very tire
some affair, but. IS any mechanic will
TELL you, Il occupies few weeks The
growth Is more rapid In summer than
winter, but never taking more than
four months. So far IS the nails are
concerned. then, the renewal process
Is repeated about twenty-oue times
during the regulation seven years, and
the theory Is thus destroyed. even II no
other psoof Of Ii hAlsity were forth
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