The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-02-08
Prof. Dressler Talks About
Child Study.
AMAZING THINGS IN SPACE.
The Round Table Grows in interest.
Ethics In the Schools and the
Education Demanded
by the Day.

full labors when the busy world ia at
rect" began the great astronomer Of
Mt. Lowe.
when humanity sleeps the sstrono-
mer holds sweet converse with his
Maker and views His great handiwork
in the whirling worlds that float in
space.
Let US take a rapid view OF the collar
system. By the solar system We mean
the great system Of worlds that revolve
in space. am inclined to believe and
am willing TO believe almost anything
in astronomy.
"W men we look and gee the provision
that the Almighty has made for our
comfort and our life on the earth, and
when we look and see that the same
provisions are made for life on Mars,
we are led TO believe that there are poo
pie living on the planet Mars just the
the came ae on the earth.
IF horse should step on the corn OF
a man 100 feet tall it would be just one
second before the man would wish he
hadn't let the horse do it. Ii baby in
cradle had an arm long enough to
reach the sun and should stick its finger
in the sun and ruin it. it would bs only
139 years before the babe would feel the
pain.
"Whsn you look at the sky tonight
every object you Gee except Mars. Jupi-
ter and the moon will be star, and
every star 10 q sun.
II call the claim that there was once
a glacial epoch scientific delusion.
The idea that snow ever lay on the
earth in summer is ridiculous. What
makes these smooth places on the
mountains that the glacier believing
scientists say were caused by the glacial
epoch? Why. moving icebergs with
stones on the bottom.
EVERY year we are getting about 40
miles nearer to the sun. But we will
never run into it in our time. II takes
Venus hall million years to make one
revolution. II takes AZ minutes for
light to come from Jupiter. and during
that time Jupiter has moved many
thousands of miles. We are thua not
looking at Jupiter. but where Jupiter
wRs.
1.-THE earth curves eight inches in
mile. When we want to measure the
distance around the earth we figure
from this curve.
'The everest problem man has at.
tempted to grapple with lie the distance
only one star--the second one from our
earth. 1t is not visible now, but 10000
years from now we can see it. Il ia 90
900 100000 of miles from US. It would
take locomotive 81, 900 900 years to go
there. The fare in silver dollars would
weigh 12,500,000 tons.
Light moves 1856, 500 miles in sec
ond; it comes from the Gun here in
eight and one-half minutes.
THE earth wobbles once in 1925, 900
years.
''On the morning of the 10Th OF No.
vember, 1899, there will be q return of
the great shower OF shooting stars.
Probably 10000 600 stars will shoot, but
you may not see them ALL"
After the address the audience sent
written questions to Professor Swift,
who answered them promptly and in all
cases satisfactorily.
Qtsstion-Whst do you think the
spots on this sun are? Auswer-They
aeem to be depresaions. They have q
motion different from that of the sun.
Qdestion-Why are the north pole
and the north magnetic pole not identi-
CALF Answer-We cannot tell you why.
Qnestion-What shall we teach our
pupils in regard to the formation OF the
solar system7 Answer-The prevailing
theory that the solar system was once a
mass OF gas, This theory, the nebuar
hypothesis, has received many a black
eye.
Qlsstion-How many stars are there
Ans~er-Thers is no. end to space. no
end of stars; space is ell filled with
stare, and it has no end
Question--How long does it take the
earth to wobble? Answer-25. 800 years
for one wob BILE.
QUESTIONABLE the inner or outer
planets the older? Answer-I do not
know; probably the outer.
Qnestion-What holds the stars i n the
sky? Answer-The atsrs are held by
the attraction of other bodies.