Show DAYS WERE ONCE SHORT only three dwars tn in len Lenc ath in the early stasel ot of the world wa when ie n the earth was young oung says dr rl th the eminent british astronomer it turned on its axis sk rapidly that it i one complete revolution ones once in overy ery three hours the earth was vac quid then says the st louis c J it spun around at that fearful fearful peed ced probably for thousands of years ahe sun caused ever increasing tides 0 on 11 the surface of the great liquid planet and at last it burst in two but the break was not in the middle of what ad been the great swift revolving lr i be of liquid matter it was to one P and the effect was to throw the fragment out into space that ira ent kept on tun turning ping and gasoon was wa soon a ishio ned into a globe we see it today to day ind 1 d know it as the moon the larger I 1 acce ce also kept turning on its axis and n the course of ages became the spherical 1 habitable earth the smaller fragment men t of the great original globe being bield in place by the attraction of the larger has been going around the earth ever since but lias has been gradually increasing the distance between itself and i ts is primary some astronomers believe atiat eventually the moon will get so far away thai it cannot be seen by the inhabitants of our planet |