Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-09-18
END OF THE WORLD.
Speeuiations Q. Scientists as to How
 1t Will Come About.

It Will Come About.
 The terrible catastrophe in Italy which caused the inhabitants of the i'll fated city of Messina to believe that the end of the world had come is only foretasta on a small scale of what many eminent scientists believe will be the end of the world. Ina. eternal problem of how the world will ter of scientific investigation, and it is curious that the majority believe that the earth will 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 destruction of the earth is com plete.
 The late Grant Allen firmly believed that the world would end by the crust of the earth eventually giving way beneath the colossal weight above it. And Abbe Dupin, one of the greatest scientists of France, believes that doomsday will begin with war that will envelop the greatest nations in Europe, this being followed by plague the like of which has never been known. eliminating with an earthquake that win practically shake the world to pieces.
 Mir. II. G. Wells. whose scientific prophecies are well known, Is, how ever, of different opinion. The world will end. he declares, by its becoming entirely frozen over. It k well known fnct that every year more ice accumulates around the poles. h 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 Mir Wells opinion. this will gradually extend until the whole world Is frozen over and every living thing Is thus destroyed.
 Several scientisis,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 go fully charged with electricity, the re- suit will be gigantic explosion by spontaneous combustion, when the world will he entirely encircled with flame. which in the space of few seconds will destroy all life
 Two of the worlds greatest scien- lists firmly aver that the end of the world will be brought about by astro- nomical conditions. Take Professor Marienberg, the noted Austrian stu dent. In his opinion the earth will fly from its orbit and come in contact with one of the other planets that may chance to he in direct line The earth. being comparatively small. will. of course. get the worst of It and split Into fragments at the collision. But of course directly the world sweryed from the orbit all living things would die and such an earthquake take place as would completely put the Italian catastrophe in the shade
 Just as interesting is tine prognost. cation of NJ. Camille Flammarion, one of the greatest living scientists. After many years'tjf study he has arrived at the conclusion that the world will in the twenty-iifth century come across the path Of inc comet Bella. which crossed our line few years ago. On this occasion. however. collision will take place, and, Bella being Infinitely greater than the earth. shock may be expected which. he calculates. will be sG5 times greater than the shock caused by the collision between two trains, each travelling at sixty-nve miles an hour. Casseil's Journal
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