| Show impending din horrors TIM THE TERRIBLE PREDICT predictions ions rONS OP OF urn uin americas AMERICAN scientific association pew few know the terrible import of the file recent meeting of tile the american scientific association at portland in its development of new horrors in store storo for poor hu humanity manity it i was awfully prolific its members vied with each other in pre dictions ot of coming convulsions oj of nature and sustained their arguments with truths brought to light from the deepest and darkest wells of science that humanity is to be obliterated was the gist of nive five papers read by five of the most scientific trusted and celebrated celebia ted mem bers bera of the association A terrible and total extinction of animal ilfe life was foretold by all the oliv question being which of the five horrors shall shail first develop itself and perform the work of universal destruction THE SUN TO en dr extinguished professor young the most eminent livin living student of the solar physics read beaw a paper on the chesun sun bun that body he argued is a gigantic bubble whose crust Is gradually thickening and whose size is diminishing there is a constant loss of or heat which will end in its extine tion as a producer of warmth and light lie he quoted faye and others to prove that tile the material ot of the theunis sun Is gaseous and that thele theo gases are stained by some kind of a crust through this surface the tumultuous inner composition is constantly spurting and with great violence vio vloe ence nce he thinks that this crust may con of a sheet of descending rain not mot of water of course but of the materials whose vapors are known to exist exit in the solar atmosphere and whose condensation and combination are supposed presupposed to furn furni fili jh tile tiie olar solar heat 11 As this peculiar rain meats meets the gaseous sub bub substance of the tiie sun it coalesces inton into a continuous sheet forming a sort of bottomless ocean je lesting ting upon tile tiie condensed condet condei ed vapors underneath and pierced by bv innumerable ascending jets anti anzi nid ard aid bubbles this thit action of tho suns ruis envelope will be a quenching of tile the great orb which we depend for heat and night light ca it will ivill grow smaller an aud and moe more compressed and surrounded by this crust until it IV will be so hidden and muffled as to bo be practically excluded 11 aiom on the tho economy of the universe tile tilo result will be intense cold colda and ild iid dark daik nes ney 1 a I cesati of or all an animal life ilfe and an immediate return to original 0 chaos T lir run TO DURST general J G burhard barn described the interior of or the thi eal eat eaith a as 3 a in molten of ten fluid previous notions had given tile the earth eaith however a rigid exterior surface from flom one to two to thousand peet feet deep he refuted tills is the ory and claimed for the tile globe upon which we live son somewhat lewhart i the tile con coil st ruction of a rubber ball tilled filled with melted lead the surae surface I 1 is lie he thinks a pliable boatin coating 0 that has been gradually formed over the tiie fiery flery ma mas mass s inside A globular form is in maintained nilita allita ined by rapid rotary motion the inner fluid sustaining the soft shell shelf in its position so that the tile undulations are arc imperceptible to us its thus wo we ire aie llo ule belm beim being whirled through space on a ilu liu lauge g e globule tho the surface of which flo floats ats on an interior of liquid lire 1 ire lre only tile tiie rotary speed of this bubble keeps it together ther and any dis diser r rang nang ran nan gement e ment or change in terrestrial phenomena would transform atall it all ati into a fluid that would resol resolve itself into vapor general barnard does not believe that the surface is S oran of an essentially different tion from the liquid interior h ii has only been condensed bently to forma form a sort of capsule the tenor of the worlds existence therefore is IS exceedingly ext exo uncertain any greatly aitu abing influence the breake breaking ng out 6 fa huge volcano J ans any change in the tho surface that would render it bi bt blittle ittle ittie the impact of a heavy meteor or comet mayr mair ma ina lna in a moment moin morn eit elt tIt immolate it leaving humanity to whirling death amid the horrors horrais of inorganic space SILENCE AND DEATH mr IT F V walling began essay on the dissipation Disi pation ot energy by saying since the days of tile the ancients it has been known that all motion is gradually developed by firc tion and must finally cease unless maintained by external power the heat power powen of the sun which lie he regarded as the mo tive live power exhausted by the prodigious lavishness of its expenditure it is supposed lie he said that the satellite will fall into planets dunets planes into suns surls and suns into a common cen tte after which darkness silence and death will rel rei rein reign n 11 he was not wit houta a shado W of hope however ho he saw only two pom possible ibie chant chaft chances ces for a postpone postponement ment went at least of the tile dreadful catastrophe first a ser series les ies bf natural chebli chemical lal lai evolutions attracting to the suu sun a 6 vast vasta amount M of combustible material I 1 I 1 and n second tile the infinite ma mai magi mal l tude tulle of the tho universe being sufficient to permit a never ending concentration centra cent ration tion tiou of masses ono une dreaded deflect of adosa ajosa of sun suu power powen he lie said is a displacement of atmospheric forces tidal influences or planetary collisions may hasten the final dreadful catastrophe which will be a slowing of the machinery of the universe 0 until growing sta stagnation culminates lna iga ina in a total extinction of life lire forces lorees UNIVE itsal DROUGHT AND starvation ON prof professor lessor franklin B hough foretold a perpetual drough drought t t tile tiie 1 16 result of or a clearing oh off of the forests the contrast ho lie said ll betwee between an open and pasture and one interspersed with clumps of trees must have been noticed by every careful observer the fact that furniture in homes too tod much shaded will mould is an instance of the tile humid influence of urea and the results of or woodland shade shado explain the falness of springs and seti feti eams in the foiest which dry up and disappear when the trees tree aiu aie removed the rapidity with which forests are disappearing has ahead already been a matter of or alarm but when we consider the effect upon streams practical illustrations illustration of large ones being lessened and small ones extinguished is baue for flight night land band will wiil hlll become un watered and atif sterile crops will lessen in volume until the tile alid and treeless plains deruso to respond to the tile incitement of or tho the farmer nalmer universal verai ven ver al famine will ensue and the ent entirely liely depopulated populated de by starvation stal stai will sink pink into aninha some new change calls another form of life ilfe into existence INSECTS TO END THE numan HUMAN RACE liace I 1 dr lc conle conte the new president delit 1 of the association read a paper a r 0 on 11 ee th the ce enoi normous incie liter enso easo abe abo a and zd t uc cas of injurious insects the pie pre ent actual annual dania damage o done b by y fil irl injects acts to crupi crops in ill t tile lie lle idnia 0 d states is over three antl million of do dollars I 1 I 1 3 yet set et the alies e civo ivo but au an inkling of what the increase pio pro mise mii e tor for the just now sas says dr le come 11 a 1 I portion only of the insect tabes aie ail nuni numerous erous by nature 0 to liflet in july upun upon gnau and lil hi hii i PO poses bul but tion alon destiny deat ruyh royh the balanced balances of life ilfe naturally keep leep down increase and permits in inthe the cas caf cae cao of in e ts those previously insignificant in numbers to become prominence eno enc factors in a work of bf destruction truc tion 11 tiie only methods su suggested by tills this scientist to avert a calamitous plague were ito to abandon the crops and starve out tile the n noxious 0 xa insect insects or to establish a y term tern of checks cheeks on their increase equivalent to those existing before civilization interfered elther kither either elther of these plaris plans are of course impracticable the impending dilemma seems to be an increase of insects so vast that the plagues of egypt will be more than reproduced and that all vegetation and filially star stay starving vink ving aud and helpless man himself will be aten eaten all of which au augurs 11 urs an eary early dropping of the curtain upon the tile fleeting show of life york graphic il |
