Show HEAT beom brow THE STABS it is a startling fact that if the earth were dependent alone upon the sun suri for beat it would not keep existence in animal and vegetable life upon Us irs surface ur dace face it results from the researches of illet that the stars stara furnish heat enough in the course of the year to melt a crust of ice seventy feet thick almost as much as is supplied by the sun this may appear strange when we consider how immel immeasurably small smail gyst be the amount of heat received from any ally ot 0 those distant bodies but the surprise vanished when we remember that the bhole firmament is so th thickly bickly sown with stars in some bome places thousands are crowded together gether in a space no greater than titan that occupy bythe by the full moon |