Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-10-06
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Lord Kelvin in lecture stated that
as result of recent Investigation 1t
was estimated that the earth had been
the abode of life about thirty million
years. -,s1
From recent statistics it appears that
the annual death rate in the United
States is eighteen per one thousand; |;
In Great Britain 1t is 1874; Ireland,
1872; France. 22.5; Germany, pa; Aus
tria, 29.4; Hungary, 32.4. In Norway
and Sweden 1t Is less than eighteen.
Out Of one thousand deaths in the
United States during the year, 10O.93
win be In January.
Acclimatization of Europeans in the
tropics is regarded by DR.. Koerfer as
simply a matter of diet. Nature has
made food to conform to climatic con-
ditions, from the fish-oil polar zone,
through the porkfat temperate zone,
to the ohve-oil and vegetable tropic
zone; and to preserve health in hot cli-
and alcohol behind with his furs and
heating stoves. In tropical expert
ence Of several years DR.. Koerfer has
met with no case of sunstroke.
1t has often been suggested that the
brilliance of the SUMS disk is due to
incandescent particles of carbon, and
within a few years past the presence
of carbon In the sun has been demon
strated by the spectroscope. Lately
Professor Hale. the director of the
Yerks Observatory, has shown that
there Is thin layer of carbon in the
lower part of the suns atmosphere 1t
surrounds the solar globe like lumin-
GUS shell, and. under normal condi-
tions, is probably not more than 500
miles above the suns surface. But
when an eruption takes place, from
beneath. the carbon layer. like all the
other constituents of the solar atmos-
5phere, is broken up and locally dis
persed by the tremendous agitation
Near the head Of the Copper River in
Alaska, in very rough and broken
country, above which rises the cone of
the extinct volcano, Mount Wrangell,
there exists, according to the report of
Captain Abercrombie of the United
States Army, nest Of gigantic geysers
which may even exceed those of the
Yellowstone Valley in power and mag
nitude. The captain was unable to ap-'
proach near to the geysers, but he saw
many In eruption from a distance, and
he thinks that the steam from these
geysers has given rise to erroneous re-
ports that the crater of Mount Wran-
gell is still active. The surrounding
country is SO savage, with Its chasms,
glaciers and lava-beds. that Captain
Abercrombie thinks 1t would be al
most impossible for explorers to reach
the mountain.
Recent observations with the seismo-
graph at Mauritius have led to the sug-
gestion that not only the ocean and
the atmosphere, but even the land, may
experience the effects of daily tide
running round and round the earth as
it revolves on its axis. But while the
tides in the air and the sea are due
more to the moon than to the sun, the
supposed .'land tide" arises solely from
the suns action. Moreover, it Ia
caused, not by the attraction of the
sun, but by its heat. A waYe of de-
preston is supposed to follow the sun
from east to west, caused by the ex.
traction Of moisture from the SOIL At
Mauritius it is found that there is q
relative upheaval of the land to the
west of the place of observation from
morning until evening, and relative
depression on the same side, or an up
heaval to the east, during the night.