Year: 1875

mum, it IS constantly scizing upon
these numerous wandering masses,
so that they are constantly dashlng
with irightiul force upon It's surface.
Once there, they are first melted
and then consumed in the intense
heat of the suns surface. And this
is the way fuel is supplied to keep
up the heat of this most wondrOus
sun. Often these small bodies fall
to our world and are seen as blaz-
iRg meteors, or motoorites, in the
sky, sometimes exploding with ter
rifle report just before they touch
the earth Only a few weeks since
one of those mysterious bodies tell
in Iowa, making hole ten feet in
diameter and fifteen feet deep. 1t
WAS intensely hot and continued
Kissing and exploding for some
time, and 1t was several days be-
fore it cooled SO as to be approach
ed with safety. Another fell in
Siberia sometime since, and was SO
large, and its heat so intense, that
several days elapsed before it could
be closely examined, though deep
ly buried in the earth. In the cab.
met OF Yale college there is me-
teorlc mass of pure iron Weighing
seventeen hundred pounds. When
{ reached the earth it must have
been at white heat, as nearly all
the dross has been consumed by
exposure to high temperature.


Now, as these bodies are often at
tracted by our comparativel y small
globe, SO as to dash upon its surface
with great force, we must conclude
that vastly greater number fall
upon the sun, as that body Is about
one million two hundred and sixty
thousand times larger than the earth
and therefore has a greater attract
I'VE power.


While two astronomers IN Europe
were observing the sun with their
telescopes, suddenly there was a
most intensely bright light seen on
ITS surface, and they both supposed
that the coIored glasses IN their in
struments were cracked, allowing
the strong light to pass through,
causing pam TO their eyes. But to
their surprise they found their
glasses were not cracked and on
examining the self-registoring mag
nctic apparatus they discovered u
most extraordinary disturbance of
the Instruments, while at the same
instant the telegraphie registers
were wholly untitled tor work, and
in some instances the building con
tanning them were set on fire by
the electric current, though there
was no thunder storm at the time.
1t was aiterward found that even IN
Europe, Australia and .he United
States, the tolcgraphic wires were
greatly deranged. Now for the
cause of all this. As the intensely
bright light was seen in the teles-
cOpes AT the same instant that the
magnetic and tolegraphic apparatus
were so seriously injured, it was
Justly concluded that the dazzling
light seen on part of the suns face
was caused by an immense solid
body that had been drawn from its
path, millions of miles distant, and
bad rushed with fearful momentum
into the sun, dashing with tremen-
dous force upon Its surface, produc-
ing a collision trightul to contem-
plate. This sudden collision had
produced in an instant vast
amount of heat and hight, and this,
in turn, had excited intense electri-
cal action, and in this way the mag
netic and ;elegraphic apparatus was
thus strangely affected, even over
the whole world. Thus we see how
closely connected with the sun we
are.


1t has been also supposed that the
construction Of the sun produces q
pant of the heat, bnt this IS not so
clearly established as the theory
just given. Electricity must be- a
source Of considerable light, for
where there is such ceaseless raging
OF the elements there must be enor-
nous friction, and friction always
produces electricity, so that we may
safely infer that there are continu-
Gus flashes of Lightning and a cease
less roar Of thunder, equaling in vi
olence and intensity ten hundred
thousand thunder storms Of earth
all concentrated in one.


1t will easily be understood how
contraction and friction produce
heat when it is remembered that at
the last fair OF the American insti.
tute one of the great trip.hammers
on exhibition amused and instruct
ed visitors by causing masses of cold
iron 10 glow at red heat in a few
seconds by its heavy ard rapid
blows.


We gam faint conception of the
immense amount OF heat thrown out
hy the sun by n simple experiment