Norwich bulletin., 1922-01-02

or a problem in relativity, suggests
 a bulletin from the Washington. D. C., headquarters of the National Geograph-
 ic Society.
 scene one might disclose little American Polly Smith dropping pennies
 in box to take to Sunday School
 to give teacher to send to missiona-
 ries to the heather" Scene two might
 portray some waving grain field of
 our fertile west, and a closeup show
 Farmer Blank buying fertilizer at the
 village store. And the fertilizer en-
 riched the soil, which grew the grain, |
 which sold for money, which little |
 Polly Smith put into the box to give teacher to send missionaries to the l
 heather.
 Here a second geographical fact must obtrude: The special agent need ed to change Naurus phosphate rock
 to a soluble state for sale to farmers is Vauna Lava's sulphur Then the bulletin continues with the following information about the island l of trees that grow on stilts where mis- sionaries have gone, and where we may
 get lizer-information extracted from a communication to The Society | by Rosamond Dodson Rhone:
 'sNauru, or Pleasant Island, Is almost
 at the jumping off place of the world; it is not exactly East of the sun and west of the moon, but it is almost the i farthest east, being only thirteen de- grees west of the international date 1 line, and it is a half degree south of
 the Equator. 1t is one of the Line islands.
 Before 1t fell to Germany it knew, no white rulers, but was governed | by it's own immemorial laws, enforc- | fluence had impinged upon it for many years. Whaling ships from New Eng
 land ports called there and traded fire
 arms for drinking coconuts and island
 pigs. It was rather a poor island in 1 those far-off days, before its great
 wealth was discovered. It had no san dalwood or tortoise shell; no peals or copra was not made In the Pacific beche -mer; not even copra, for before 1872 and cotonut oil was not
 an article of commerce.
 "One day Nauru, like Aphrodite,
 arose dripping from the sea. The date
 of this emergence cannot be more near
 ly indicated than ages ago. and the term day Is not limited to twenty
 four hours, but Is to be construed literally, like the days of Genesis The island may indeed have been thrust llltO ll1C al, N4Lu dll 1lSt lON0iy pOty pS gasping and shriveling in the trop ic sun, and scarelt fishes and long armed octopi leaping affrighted out of the exposed caves to the safe shell ter of the sea, while slow-moving sea urchins and nollusks perished in tho pot-holes and labyrinths of the coral; or the process of elevation may have been gradual life in the coral dying gradually at the emerged top, while it remained in full vigor just beneath the level of low tide.
 At any rate the upheaval was com plete, when the fairy towers and pin l nacles and the unsunned caverns of the sea had been lifted into the blaze of the sun, life at its base beneath the z sea continued unabated and the firing ing reef was slowly extended around it.
 At this period the island must have 5 looked like those fantastic artificial a structures which we see in equariums s No product of mans construction could I be more extravagant in conception than these pinnacles, towers, bridges, fly, s suggesting architectural fantasies up- a ing buttresses. their shapes always 5 reared into the air. There it stood Z bare and bald as did the earth on that s day in Genesis when the dry land first , appeared.
 Then came the sea-birds, million, and millions of them, feeding on the R abundant sea-food, nestlfng in the CO., q ral, matching their young in ever in creasing multitudes, and depositing the ' waste of their bodies in the coral til q the lower crevices were filled and { ? gradually rising body of guana attain. 2 ed at length a level with the tops ot N the pinnacles and then rose abov, , them and lay in a level plateau across & the island.
 2 "On the margin the rains, the windl % and the breakers, spouting high agains 2 the coral. washed away this deposit J so that ramparts of bare pinnacle E stood up and still stand all around tn tsland: hut the coral walls hack iron