Show the banh does move it has puzzled the heads of a good miny stera to know how the earth tarns round A german educational journal published in frankfort gives the following directions for proving that the earth doea move take a good sized bowl fill it nearly fall of water and place it upon the floor of a room which is not exposed to shaking or jarring from the street sprinkle over the surface of the water a coating of powder a white substance which is sometimes used for the of the toilet and which can bo obtained at almost any thoa upon the surface of this coating make with powdered charcoal a straight black line say an inch or two in bength saving made this little black mark with the charcoal lay the floor close to the bowl a stick or some straight object so that it will be exactly parallel with the mark if theline happens to b parallel with a crack in the floor or with any stationary object in the room this will serve as well leave the bowl undisturbed for a few hours and then the position of tho black mark with reference to the object that it was parallel with it will be to have moved about and to hwe moved from east to west that is to say in a direction opposite to that of the movement of the earth oa its axis the earth in aim ply revolving has earned the water and everything else in the bowl around with it but the powder bathe surface has been left behind a little the lino will always be found to have moved from east to west which is perfectly good proof that everything else has moved the other way |