Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1909-04-06
HORRIBLE TO THINK OF.
Read What the Scientific Men Say and
Then Begin Trembling.

The terrible catastrophe in Italy
which caused the inhabitants Of
the Inflated city of Messina to be-
lieye that the end of the world had
come was only a %foretasre on q
small scale of what many eminent
scientists believe will be the end
of the world. That eternal prob
lem of how the world will end is
in the opinion of many a matter
for scientific investigation, and it
is curious that the majority of
people believe that the earth viii
open up and fly to pieces in the
most gigantic earthquake ever
known, an earthquake that will
wipe all life from the globe before
the actual construction of the
earth is complete.
The late Grant Allen firmly be-
lieved that the world would end by
the crust of the earth eventually
giving away beneath the colossal
weight above it; and Abe Dupin,
one of the greatest scientists of
France. believes that doomsday
will begin with a war that will en-
velop the greatest nations in Eu-
rope, this being followed by a
plague the like of which has never
been known, eliminating with an
earthquake that will practically
shake the world to pieces.
H. G.. Wells, whose scientific
prophecies are we'll known, is,
no Never of a different opinion.
The world will end, he declares by
its becoming entirely frozen over.
1t is a well-known fact that every
year more ice accumulates around
the poles; in short, many millions
Of tons of ice in excess of that of
the year previous settle about the
earth's extremities each year, and
in Mr.. Wells opinion this will
gradually extend until the whole
world is frozen over and every
thing is thus destroyed.
Several scientists are of opinion
that we shall perish by fire, and
this old world of ours with us.
Nikola Tesla, the great American,
is convinced that the atmosphere
of the world being SO fully charg-
ed with electricity, the result will
be a gigantic explosion by sponta-
neous combustion, when the world
will be entirely encircled by flame
which in the space of a few Sec
onds will destroy all life.
Two of the worlds greatest SCI
entists firmly aver that the end Of
the world will be brought about
by astronomical conditions. Take
Professor Marienberg, the noted
Austrian student. In his opinion
the earth will fly from it's orbit
and come IN contact with one of
the other planets shat may CHARGE
to be in a direct line. The earth
being comparatively small, VIII,
of course, get the worst of it, and
split into fragments at the coils.
sion. But, of course, directly the
world swerved from the orbit all
living things would die, and such
all earthquake take place as would
completely put the Italian catas-
trophe in the shade.
Just as interesting is the prog
nosticatiou of M. Camille Flam-
marion, one cf the greatest living
scientists. After many years of
study he has arrived at the con-
clusion that the world will in the
twenty-ffth century come across
the path of the comet Bella being
infinitely greater than the earth,
i shock may be expected which,
he calculates, will be 1855 times
greater than the shock caused by
the collision between two trains,
each travelling at 65 miles an hour.
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