Show PROVED CURVATURE OF EARTH scientist settled disputed but loser proved himself fa 66 g poor sport korv it will scarcely be believed that tb tin of the shape of the airth earth could ever have anve disturbed the pea peara ful atmosphere of the law courts yet la in 1879 the question indirectly iader did come before three learned judge and the I 1 he case excited a deal of laoj lute est and amazement the nere ere as follows s the plaintiff one hampden ente talked the opinion op alon that the world wy a not round and issued an ad advertise vertile ment in a paper challenging philo phelmo pliers divines and scientific professor to prove contrary from Script nn ti son bon or fact ile he deposited 2500 in i bunk to be forfeited to anyone win could prove to the satisfaction of any intelligent referee that there was wai such a thing thine as a convex rall railway way canal or take lake the challenge was taken up by no less a person than the late prof alfred russell kussell wallace who proved to it tie faction of the referee the curve curta ture to and fro of the berford level canal between whitney bridge ana enl welshs welchs dami dam six miles to the extent of five feet more or it ind and the 2 was paid over to him but he did not keep it the plain tiff apparently began to see that lit li was aas making a not of himself and brought an action and recovered back his deposit on the ground that tilt the naolo tiffalo was a wager and therefore illegal springfield republican |