New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1895-05-29

the SIDE CT the moon opposite to the
earth, amid mountains and valleys, up
Oh whose bold outlines no earthly eye
has ever gazed. tits by far the best side
| of the moon, too, but she is getting
rather tired Of living there and talks
about changing places with me. l ex-
pect you would be rather surprised down
below there if some fine day-or night,
rather--you found woman in the moon
| instead Of man. Ha, ha, hal" and for
getful Of his recent fit of the blues the
old chap gave vent to a hearty guffaw.
Eve should indeed, y I replied,
laughing in my turn, although fancy,
unless your sisters appearance differs in
d marked degree from your own, that
We should scarcely be able to distin
guish the difference You must admit
yourself that one must possess good eye
sight to tell a man IRON a woman 24O,-
600 miles away
"'Oh, but" answered the old man,
with a touch Of family pride, 'she is a
fine woman! Not bent and bowed with
age like me. Indeed she is really 6, OOO,-
600 years younger than am I. Then, of
course, she dresses in-in''-
''The habiliments suitable to her
sex, - I ventured to say.
Precisely, and, like all the women
here, is fond Of DRESS Why, when las,
visited her, some 25, 900 years ago, al
most her first questionwas, How do the
women dress now on the earth? OF
course there wasn't much to tell her be-
L,
didn't trouble themselves much abou,
dress, but am thinking of paying he)
another visit soon, and then I shall have
different budget of news for her. -
But tell me-, interrupted, for
was not much interested in the old fell
lows siste:, something about the
earth. YoE >uust b"ve seen almost as
great chans-s i'll tie earth as in the
mOOn'
Almost, - War, the answer, "but not
quite. My world is cold and dead.
Yours is still aJlv~, % was mine once,
but your turn will cone some day, and
then we shall both 80 circling through
space, cold, silent aud lifeless. But
that" he continued, will be many
millions of years from now, almost as
many millions as it is since I first set
eyes on your planet. Then, as said be-
fore, it was mere mass Of molten mat
ter-a vast white hot ball whirling
round the sub and carrying me with it.
remember as though it were yesterday
the first beginning Of earthly life. At
first the seas covered everything, and
beautiful specimens of marine flora
Hoated everywhere upon the surface of
the water, while in it's translucent
depths fishes of strange form and glo-
rlous coloring disported themselves.
Then the dry land began to appear, and
by slow degrees the great forests that
shrouded as with mantle all the earth
not covered by the waters. For millions
OF years what you are pleased to call
the lower animals we're the only deni-
zens of their somber depths, and even
after man came it was hundreds Of
thousands of years before he even par
TALLY dominated the face of NATURE
"But was there not,' 1 asked, IAN
ice age?"
IA what?' he exclaimed with puz-
zled expression of countenance.
IAN ice age," repeated. "A period
of time when the ice which, as you are
aware, is always present at the poles,
spread northward and southwark until
it enveloped almost the entire globe"
"Oh, yes,' responded mine host,
with the air of man trying to recall
some long forgotten and altogether triv-
lal incident. II believe something of
the kind did happen, and not more than
100, 900 or 15O, 900 years ago either.
But it only lasted about 10000 years,
and had quite forgotten all about it
until yOu mentioned it. -
This concluded the interview. for
although | would have liked to have
pursued my inquiries further the old
chap suddenly snatched up his bundle,
bent his back and resumed his orthodox
position, at the same time Indicating by
a gesture that he was not inclined for
any further conversation. 1--WE are right
over Greenwich observatory, he ex-
planned IN answer to my look of sur
prise, land | don't want the astrono-
mers there to see me without my bun
die and talking to a stranger too. 1t ism It
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