The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-12-18
ELECTION UPSBTS LONDON


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but are moro likely To craze one another
than to meet directly. A. q result cnor-
nous sparks are struck Oh each star.
sometimes Of the mas OF our sun.
The two wounded suns pass on their
way but the PARTICLES coaleece and form
n third body Of terrific heat and energy.
known to astronomers as temporary
stars Owing to it's heat this body ex-
plodes and Is finally dissipated into
atomic dust.
The professor declares that his theory
while successfully accounting for ths APP
pearance OF temporary stars proves too
that continual rcjuvenescencc Of tho
cosmic system Ia in progress. thus giving
proof OF tho eternal character OF the uni
verse.
The latest addition to astronomical
concerning Sirius. tho bright
est double star in the heavens. is fur
nishsd by Or. ". M0nch Of the Astro-
physical Observatory at Potsdam. who
has submitted the spsctrographic data
collected there during the last ten years
to minute examination.
The chief point OF DR.. Munch's investi-
cation has been 70 Determine what Ia
known to astronomers n tho radical
speed Of the gigantic Sirius system. which
is nov calculated at s.Ose miles. This
means that Sirius ID approaching the earth
AZ that rate second. Every year. there
fore. Sirius gets nearer the earth by more
than twice the distance bot tween the earth
and the sun.
This sounds alarming: bat timid people
may be reminded that taken in relation
10 the immense distance OF the great
Dog Star its annual rush earthward may
be called insignificant. The parallax OF
Sirius. according TO DR.. Munich. IL 0.37'
from which il is calculated that it's
from the earth il So 900 times
o2 $50 900 mics (which Is the distance
between the sun and tho earth). so that
light needs rather more than eight years
to cover the distance between the earth
and Sirius.
The latest data on Sirius arc that tho
star itself Is ,. 20 times the size Of the sun.
and its companion star is i.0a times Es
large. The companion completes in
% = years 4 revolution around the COM
mon centre Of gravity Of the Sirius sys-
tenn and 10 20 solar distances remote
from the main star.
Railroad pioneering in the jungles
Of Assam il adventurous work. though
not without its grim humors.- said Mrs.
Frank Wilde. the wife Of railroad builder.
in the course Of lecture At Csxton Hall
the other evening.
She spent three years in the jungle
with her husband. who vas laying down
a branch line connecting Assam with
Calcutta. For a whole year she never
had the chance of speaking to another
woman. The dense swampy jungle about
their home. which was built OF bamboo
was full Of Wild elephants.
tigers and bunaloes.
Often she said. Il have been asked
by my friends how I felt when I heard
q tiger walking round our house ut night.
as sometimes ! did. But. you know.
it In so dull in the jungle that you vel
come even tho visit Of a tiger
dinner to eat outside their sleeping apart
nent and made unpleasant noises cruch-
ing the bones. They had TO shoot him
II was unpleasant to lie awake listening
10 the steady crinchink Of bones.
Mrs wilde told some interesting stories
Of the Kheis. a native tribe Of northern
India. These simple folk were greatly
attracted by the dynamite cartridges
used for blasting. They were no, at
tracted by the noise. but by the decora-
tive effect OF ths little .cy finders.
The khels had To be carefully watched.
for they stole tho deadly things st times.
making presents OF them to their lady
loves: the after effects OF . dynamite
cartridge necklace we'll. there Is none
really. The men have been known TO
knock q charge out Of tho cavity in
which IL had been placed in q rock. their
efforts betrayed by the premature ex-
plosion.
Six months after the Aseam line had
been laid down an earthquake happened
and tangled up the tracks completely
One native station master whose plat
forms had been swallowed up by the
earth and whose tracks had changed into
a switchb..ck railway wired his chief:
's,ir. act Of God occurred hero. please
arrange
The question OF the influence Of athletics
upon physique which was raised Ivy DR..
Sargent OF Harvard and Mr.. Alexander.
the American artist. continues to interest
people here, Marcus Stone the artist.
thinks too that tho figure Of tho average
English woman has detsriorated in recent
years. but he considsr~ that this In not
due. n in the United States. To violent
exercise.
Few English women indulge in ath-
lctics sufficiently to change their de-
veiopment.- he sayw. Those who do are
in such u minority a. tn be- negligible.
Undoubtedly the figures Of English
women have grown worse. and IL is ex-
tr.nely difficult for an artist now tn find
an ideal model In my profession ws are
OF anatomy almost ~ much -
doctors are. and We know how figures are
corrupted hold that the corset in the
reason for the feminine figure being worse
that IL was
You scarcely ever $50 normal length
Of neck nowadays In a woman because tho
shoulders arc OF necessity held 40 high
The impression Of sQuarsness In the
shoulders given by tho modern girl IL
dine to the unnatural holding in mt the