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Show A HOW OLD IS THE EARTH? This Article Has Been Revised for ."An swers by Lord Kelvin, F. R. S The time has admittedly gone by for it templing to "rwoniile the facta of Kit ure" to use a recognised phrase Bible, kith the chronology of the mnket the ege or the world years. rather lew than at the Indeed, in the Egyptian room see tor British Museum, the visitor can himself object e hirh go back to an luthentiiated terlod long anusmtlent to 4.000 years It. C.. anil great i Ihe Homier produced on the mlndi of liu aho first make their acquaintance, in the that same department, among Mummies, there is hat is In many the roost striking of the exhibits In tbs depart men -- the body of a man ho belongs to llte stone age. It ilea n an accurate representatkm of the lieeuliarly shape I grave In whii'hconse-guen-it found, and it has torn in aomewhat Irrevermtly museum by the habitues of the 'the man In the A UELIC OF 60.IM0 B. C. The particular interest in that corpse which men. women, and even chilhast the dren look upon without or (bought or suggestion of the fair liomtr usually inseiuowlile from death oldia that it Is iinqiieatiutuiMy the sclest exhibit in the museum; and ent 1st a have been rather struck by the (act that the authorities of the great Institution in Great Russell street, have tint eo to say, taken the bull by the liurna, and boldly labelled that exhibit M dating from 60.000 B. C. Thus, with ne single stroke of the pen. Bishop x ,'shera Biblical chronology la bemultl-that Jed by atiout nine, and It may an even higher number would be reof quired to satisfy the requirements the age of that particular sited men. How king has the earth been a planet capable of aupporting not only but all forme of life? In an addreaa Lord Kelvin once delivered on the subject, he gathered together the opinions of various arienlllie kien, which cannot but he of Inheres! to every thinking being. Darwin, iu bis Origin of Species." statsd that in all than ferobabllfty a far longer period while in0.U00.000 years has elsitsed; gter on, in the aaine book, bo wrote; II who ran read Sir Charles Lyeil'a trend work on the 'Principles of Geol-ba- y, which the future historian will recognise ss having produced a revoln-)ln- o In natural aclenre, yet does not adit bow Incomprehensibly vast have en the past periods of time, may at ira close this volume. WHEN THE SUN DIES. Lord Kelvin himself then Professor ATlltsm Thomson over forty years kgn, made an attempt to calculate the tngtb of time during which, the ana Ins been burning at ita present rate, and in that connection he wrote: "H Wins, on the whole, most, probable that the run has not illitulnatod the nrth for 100.00fl.noo years, and almost rertatn that he haa aot done hi for lOO.OOfl, 000 yearn. As for the future, we ay say with equal certainly that the habitants of the earth cannot to enjoy the light and heat essential to their life ftir many million Vrars longer, unlesa new sources, now unknown io us. are prepared In ' the great storehouse of creation. It la a remarkable evidence of the qcule perception of Lord Kelvins mind, the rare prevision of hla intellect, Sof the new words unless last rrea, now anknown to us, am pre-tgreat storehouse nf rme Should have been added to that temarkahla sen I en re. Aa an example of tlia very cxI rawdinary range of time given to the age of the earth, mn elder the following Statement from Professor Jukes' "81 u- -I ani s' Manual of Geology." lie wrote: Idr. DanVn estimates the lime rein I red for the denudation nf the rocks af the Weald nf Kent, or the erosion ef sjiace between the raifkcs df rhalk-blll- s. Known as the North and finuth Downs, at three hundred mils, lions of years. It may he possible, that the estimate ia a hundred times too groat, and that the real time million elapsed did not exceed three years; hut, on the other hand, it is just as likely that the lime whirh'actu-all- y elapsed since the first com men cement of the erosion, till it wan uesrly as complete as It now Is. was really a hundred tlmee great lhan his estimate, or thirty thousan J millions of years. M.OOfi.OOO YKAR8 OF LIFE. Professor Phillips, in a lecture to the University of Cambridge, considered the rate of erosion between the ranges of the North and South Downs to he rather one Inch a year, than Iwrwin'a estimate of one inch In a hundred yeara, eo that on mere geological grounds he reduced the times to about a hundredth. Calculating, however. the actual thickness of all the known geological strata of the earth, he came to the conclusion that lire on the earth's surface may probably date back to between 3$ ami 96 million .) ce nicK-ham- ed pie-dis- h. bu-ki- an eon-Jin- ue he per-lisp- leant. Within the last tea yeara. Professor Oxford, working on new principles applied to the stratified rocks, reduced this time very considerably. for he wrote: "So far as I an at prevent, see. the lapse of time since the beginning of the Cambrian system is probably less than 17.000.000 years, eitn when eomputed on aa assumption of tinUormliy, which to me seems contradicted by the most salient of geology. Foils, of fwi-t- s STARTLING FIGURES. What are the data, it will naturally be asked, on which calculations of this magnitude are made? Among the nmst important are the consideration of the underground heat which Is constantly being conducted out of the earth in orrher words, the pooling of i he earth, the speed at which the rn-irota'ts on its axis, as well as Physical properties of rocks at high temperature. Th- - loss of heal by conduction was Lord eKiv in's first argument for limiting the ege of the earth. He found that if the earth bad lief n losing h0ai ir. ihe past "with any approach to uniformity for 20.000 million years, the amount of heat lost out of the eanh would have been about as much as wnulu heat, by lvOdeg. a quantity of '"isiy surface rock of lsj time tbe t. earth's bulk. This would He more than enough to mult a mass of mirfev rock equal in bulk to the whole earth. No inhyisshesis as to chemical action, terns! fluidity, effects of pressure at great depth, nr iMMsible character of substances in the interior of the earth, possessing the smallest vestige of probability. can justify tbe gupiMsltioa that the Psrfh'n upper crust haa remained nearly as it is. while from the whole, c;t from any part, of the earth so great a quantity of best has been lost. EARTH ONCE RED HOT. fly considering the cooling of tbe Mirth, and by tnulug backwards the process nf cooling. Lin'd Kelvin came to a definite callmate of the greatest and least numlter of million years which emu possibly have passed since the surface of Ilia earth was everyt. This estimate he exwhere pressed In the following words: We are very ignorant as to the effects of high temperatures In altt.ring the con duct I vlt lea and specific heats and melting temiieratures of rock, and aa to their latent heat of fualim. We must, therefore, allow very wide limits In euch an estimate as I have attempted to make; but 1 think we may, with much probability, say that the consolidation cannot have taken place less than twenty million yeara ago, or we should now have more underground heat Ilian we actually have; nor more than 400 millions yeara ago, or we should have less underground, heat than we actually hava London Answers. re.l-ho- tsrlvt Jswsla. There was at ana liras a weederfu! emerald extent with white corners, while all the iwat ef tbe atone wraa of Ita proper veivery dark green hue. This atone wee wed aa an Uluairative proof that eraertlHa were hunt whies, but ripened lute the right rnlar in the mine, time working one ef Ita usual miracles en the crystal. Indeed, beryl, tbat pal gseM atone exactly like the emerald la ail fwasnttsls save color, baa often been oalM the mother ef emer. ItL Aquamarine la a beryl In other words, an unripe emerald, aot yet ma- tured into the proper tint; and of this the commooar varieties arc by no means rare. Yet It le to be doubted whether three unripe strain would ever mature lata tbe true sod lawful lustrous emerald. Laadoa Queen. Wtat (M4 Ootd tasters, by hammering, can reduce gold Mavra ae thin that 282, IV0 Bast to kid span rack other te pro draw the tidetnros of an Inch; yet each laaf la no peldset and free flm holes tlwt ana ef ttara laid upra aay surface; aa ia gildleg, gives the appears nee of solid gold. They are so thin that If formed into a book UW) would only occupy the apace at a single leaf of wnmnaoa paper, and aa octavo voinme f an Inch thick would have as many pages as the hooka of a well storked Ulvsiy of LM votamra with 3U0 pages lu each. The Ivwtsrtls Imkww la It our own fault that men now smoko all over the bouse, in close carriages with ladle and between the daneenata ball? Men of the uid school than era a few left of the flue old type that ohaerves tbe rulne of courtesy whera women are concerned, would not draaa of asking a girl to dance while abed ding arnnnd them odore of wbloky and tobacco. But the young men of the day, with a few delightful exceptions, make It their outlets ot practical London Truth. Wslw Cloaks. Among the curious featurra of ancient Tolede which unfortunately remain ne longer were water docks, devised by a Moorish genius named who placed them on the hanks of tbe Taipia eo that the people could teed the thus. They wave run by wa ter power and wen no famous tbat IwnM M arise, sa English astronomer, went all Us way from Oxford la 110 to study them. JtJLY MONDAY SIOnXINQ, POPES, PTAB, MOBSISO EXAMINER, tl, 190i mi Brmhmm. MOT A rather celebrated composer nkt. hi very Fatwst he allowed to composition to Brahma and did ao with tremendous rigor, the perspiration he pounde.rramiag down hi fac 'd the piano. Brahms at the end oi :b performance picked up a sheet o; rhe manuscript and, feeling it betweei-i,iAuger and thumb, eutliunlasticall: xduiiued: "I aay. when do you gc' rate. jour inusic psper? Ii'a first plJ neats Wlifc.ot Heats. Tka flower of ihe air1 1 a curium ih.nt found in China and Japan. It 1 to have uc called bccaHss it apis-arrm t snd la never fixed to the earth. 1 :w mes round a dry tree or aterlie rock KiK'h shoot produces two or throe flow r like a Id while, trauspurent and It i capable of being iklorifrrous. iraustorted 000 or 700 miles, and 11 grows aa it travels, suspended on a s rfctr IIS Wop T- -e 1 SOTlaan. Icelanders uavar tiWiik ef "taking up at night, and yet miiy two cases of thieving have occurred in many years. One wee a pour man with -broken arm, who stole several sheep to save his family tram starring. The punishment meted ont to him wen tbat food was provided for bis family, he was rlared nndar niwibwl care and work was given him when bis arm had healed. Tke uther ease was of a foreigner who stole aeveuteeu sheep. The law demanded that he restore the value of tbe tht.t enrl then leave the country or be executed. Naturally be left riarlav Trlek aa HaCallaaah. Will McCanmeU and John McCullough were piaUqt YlrgMtw ' aud McConnell was Mng Ictfiva. M'hen ha had ,.l. ..I to ' him he Diit a hard boiled ogg into hi point and left it there, and McCulloug: Always on Time Our Laundry Ubtg in the center of the stage at, alone, could net get rid of it He di charged Will, aa uveal, that night, bu he never stayed diacharged, and 1. was tskan on again when they foun-hion board the train an the way t the next Slstid. Ways ara Winning Ways At the Dances At the Theaters, or Catch a Train in a Hurry Wlnaing friends and customers every day. Do you like you fln-a- h laundry dull finish, smooth We or some other finish? give you just what you want: do the work a little better thaa the other launderars do It. Try us and BEE- - aw She Pelt. sold Mr. OldcastlA tha you didn't feel that you were da tro when you called tke other day an found Mr a Beeaum present. Th: Oh, no, replied her hoatea. was just th back ef my waist that kept feeling. One of tke hooka w; louse, and somehow I couldn't help L In kind' of nervous about it. Ckic.i 11 1 hope, Always Remember 'Phone 22. Ogden Steam Allen Transfer Company. Laundry. Record-Heral- 421 25th twig. 1 flora risk, The salmon aeem to be gifted with much intelligence, or hereditary foreas It 1 occasionally called, sight, which ia more particularly acute wb.n Wildanger signals are abroad, says Harris in Field and FtreHUi. liam They have taeu known, when congregated In tke upper pools; to becoim frightened by poechcra approachin;. them with net or spear and te iumie dlutely dash dawn stream to a distune of thirty mile In one eight, net sto; ping until ikcy tad ranched pool deep that they rauld not be taken wit; tin appllsaeas of Ihe poacher, Thcj seemed to know that if they went high et up the stream their doom was sealed. When entiling froai the sea In acluwir ahd on entering the eat 017 they have been secu wllh sn old lender at the head of the school, the rest forming a trtnngle about two and a half foot below the surface of the water, aud on csliu days, guided by the old patriarch, they would swim around the fishermen's nets, never upproachlng thou nearer than ten or twelve yards. si u Bad. Any fresh egg can, without being ballad, be balanced on either end by any one possessing patience and a steady hand. In order te nave time the egg should be placed far a short time ou the end upon which it la desired to balance it, ae aa to allaw tbe yolk to settle; then both forearms of ibe person making tbe experiment should be rested on the edge of tbe table and tbe egg should be taken between the three fingers and thumbs of both hands aud slowly turned around until the center of gravity ia fouud. This experiment may at flrat require a little time, but after a little practice It will lie found very catty to d& It would lie well to try It first on tlie tablckHh and then on the bottom of plate. It la conceded, of course tbat the present century le far more advanced than tbnt of CelumhuA ao It la only to bo expected that llffe,xlt Idea should bare been formfJr, even ee to the ba) slicing of eg ty. OGDft lw THE Ooaplnint. t'krni Unaa at Onilr UwMuudfkiidrna. Heart ISmu. Vlinn' Mnr-u- ui SUCCESS MARKET JSmmw. Ufeuma. (M. liaacn), Sirnllty, Hictnu. rgnl I'mkla, Hkla 1M Haim, ncaura and Sfeanaadro. 1Mmww Pitas, nmtls nad annul nt im TniuUan. unltrn lar Ole aaati. Blood Vasa Wona. Hay tarat Mymrla, Kiiopay, Inanaiaia, ataL. aad aU harraaa Flint aad Ckniats Oil Maaio Traatancnt Caras. Wrlta for hnii caaaot roll, llat If froosyraptoan laaaaUaC jma Weak Men frsia uy at isa waataaaaa or If yoa eater an anvil ky Inuonnra. vxrraa or SutraVOU ABB TUB Vfcdr FBUMM Wl wakt to talk to. 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I aa asked, mid Mr. Beecher, 'fiwn 1 recoaoll 1 fipancar with theology, San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake R. R. Co. wan given In New Turk in hie honor lleury Ward Beecher wan oue of tilt fa Mil- don't Depot, Third, West and South Tempi 'A man who haa n haMheaded dea era watching averytUng he dura or a gold pc tided lawyer not a fat oae' (looking nt Mr. Bristow), "but a long, loan, lank ouo" Hooking at Mr. Uvartxj can't afford lo talk fipanoerlara from the pulpit. It la to bo bone In asind that when a man te driving s tram of fractious horses that are Just aM he eaa manage anyhow he is nil In a state of mind to discuss questions wtth hie wMe by hla side, who is undertaking to bring up delicate domestic ms tiers. It had been said that Mr. Fpencer had ao Sons of humor, but ho Joined heartily la the merriment which Mr. Baechefa apescb provoked. DEPART. Writ a1 We can save you money. For Provo, LehL Fairfield C. F. 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Hut harols sbat-so tnmb tint when he heiptsl himself tit. salt he was obliged I support th right baud with the ML Kteltasd, the pul'ytT, bnppeond to be one evening at afl Inn on the Kept Mail hen Pi it artLJnndns put np there u tbeir wy to Walrner. Nxr moraine tbe waller ssidta Stothard. How much uite Jo ye suppusc they drHiik IbM n'gbfr. ouron IkiIH-.u- , sir?' -- Bog ers' "Table "''ilk." te. Salt Lake Cits'. 3 Trains Daily3' am cut-off- 55 r i,,,, j Wheelwright Bros rtione KM earascxacsEna 2476 Wash. Ave. t.jp u |