Show I SOMETHING ABOUT THE SUN I it were possible for one to rise above the stratum of air which surrounds sur-rounds the planet earth the sun would appear to the observer a a huge ball of fire while everything else would bal fre be wraped In Impenetrable darkness This Is true because we know that there could be no sensation of light conveyed I con-veyed to the brain without an atmosphere I atmos-phere for the suns rays to act upon But on the contrary if the earths atmosphere I at-mosphere extended to a height of 700 i I miles instead of fortyfive or fifty as I lis probably the case the suns heat and rays could never penetrate it Had 1 such been the state of things in the 1 beginning this earth would never 1 have been populated with its varied forms of animal life But should such a state of affairs accidentally be brought about through some unknown agency every vestige of animal life would perish from the face of the earth in a very short time and the terrors of starvation would be augmented a thou sandfold by the fact that everything would be wrapped in darkness darker than the blackest midnight New York Commercial Advertiser |