Show AT HIGH ALTITUDES very interesting experiments have been made lately in europe to sneer ascer tain the he exact conditions condl tiona in the upper regions of the atmosphere where the air Is too attenuated for human life to exist little balloons ballooned bal loone were sent up simultaneously filled with hydrogen and aup supplied plied with self bev rewording pot scientific instruments one of these little was dispatched from paris ascended the enormous enor maus height of nine and a half and was recovered in belgium after a three days daye journey thesila the silk covering injured but the instruments were in perfect order the thermometer showed that the balloon had bad encountered the extremely low temperature of eighty two de h ren belt below ze roand roDd what Is till still more significant that thle this tern tem pera per ture sture to lu the highest strata was wae almost permanent the difference between night and day being hardly appreciable ceable it will be readily under stood that this fact opens up again the question of the real origin of the beat experienced at the surface of the earlb that Is ia a sine qua non of human Q and animal life A theory that ban baa become almost popular 1 to that tha sun in ia a great mass of gaseous substances substance to in an active state elate of combustion and that the solar beat mind and light which we earth receives receive consist Co Delist of so eo much of the beat and light rays raysaw as are arrested in their passage through space and refracted by the earths atmosphere according to this hypothesis the sun to is an enormous oven even into which worlds and frag ments of worlds are constantly at trotted and consumed the necessary beat to the revolving orbs arbs whish some day in ID their turn perhaps will be used as fuel in the great center of light and heal beai it is further resumed that the atmos cheres ot of all planets of the system are protective envelo envelopes peep modifying the tY of the solar beat during the daytime and tempering the severity of the cold during the night when such parts of their respective surfaces as are enveloped in darkness are turned away from the sun BUD should it however prove correct that the heat to is least where the atmosphere to is most attenuated this theory must buet be abandoned another theory is that the sun son la in simply a great magnet whose revolutions in the ether excite activity in that element and that what we ex perl PO VIence enoe as solar heat beat to Is the re ire suit ot of the friction of the other ether as 88 its particles force a passage through the atmosphere it if this supposition Is correct cor the beat would be least where the air la in and vice versa veins it Is well known that hat in low depressions of the earth earlb as for instance the colorado desert and the valley of f the bead son sea below the sea reft level the heat best at times Is almast unendurable the densky density of the atmosphere accounts account for this oo on the he supposition that solar heat beat to is caused by the friction in thid the air find and pow the be testimony of the little balloon seems almost to settle battle the matter perham 22 says an ex change from which some of these facts are gleaned nothing Do thing stronger Bt roDger has bas been adduced in favor of the theory than the silent but indisputable ev evidence idenie which the parisian meteorological balloon the se rophile brought down with it a few weeks ag from rom the upper air in the record showing that where only an attenuated envelope intervened between the delicate instrument maki or the record and the of lir light ht the temperature was practically sta night and day this would seem to imply that the solar rays are originally void of heat beat and that the friction created by their passage through the atmosphere is the true and only source of heat beat as we experience it on the earth should it be established scientifically as a tact that the central orb in our planetary system is not a gaseous ina maee to in a state ot of combustion combust toa the ques lion i ard rally presents itself how bow far this fact act interferes with the evolutionary theory of the creation acceding according to this our part of the world was first a gaseous cloud which cooled contracted exploded and thus became a central sun eun with planets and satellites I 1 Is this consistent with the supposed fact that the sun itself Is ie only a magnet void of heat perhaps except as it receives it from some other and larger sun to in the same way as the earth receives it through action on OD be atmosphere Solent ste are fond of rearing hypothetical structures but these often of ten fall before the discovery of a single fact sometimes apparently insignificant such as an the recording record ing of the temperature by the se rophile sent up from parts paris surer than all hypotheses is in the knowledge received through sacred writ about the creation there is no contra fiction ot of any known fact in the almost sublime statement in the beginning god created the heaven and theearta the earth 11 and it if to this to is added what from she be same source has baa been revealed in these latter days through the prophet joseph we have a solution of the great problem of creation worthy to serve no as a basis for the most profound scientific research and acceptable to the faith of the most devout heart |