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l ill 1 ! I 4. t! P I ! i . i If! to. ' t r - i. ft The Slory of llio TIiIph. From a selonUlio noltit of viow tho work done by the tldot is of unspouk-' nhlo iiuportniico. Whunco Is thia onorjry derived with which tliu lidos do llitiir workP If tlio tides nro tiatiHod by tho moon the energy tlioy possess must also bo derived from tho moon. This looks plain uiioiitrli, but unforluiintbly It Is not. true. Would It bo trim, to assert thai the linger of tho rifleman which pulls tho trigger supplies tho energy with which tho ritlo bullet is animated? Of course, it would not. The unorgy is derived from tho explosion of the gunpowder, and tho pulling of tho trigger is merely tho moans by whicli that energy is liberated. In a some what similar manner tho tidal wave produced by tho moon is tho means whoroby a 'largo part of tho energy stored in tho earth is compelled to ex pend itself in work. Eot mo illustrato this bv a comparison between tho earth rotating on its axis and tho lly-wheol of an engiiio. Tho lly-wheol is a sort of reservoir, into which tho engine pours its power at oaeii stroke of the piston. Tho various maohinos in tho mill mora ly draw oil tho power from iho storo accumulated in the lly-whool. Tho earth is like a gigantio lly-wheol dotnohod from tho engine, though still connected with tho m chines in the mid. In that mighty fly-wheel a stupendous quail tlty of energy is stored up, and a stupen dous quautit) of energy would bo given out before tlnir lly-wheol would come to rest. Tho earth's rotation is tho reser voir from whence the tides draw tiio energy Ihoy require for doing work, lleuco it is tint though the titles nro caused by tho moon, j ot whenever thoy require energy thoy draw on tho supply ready to hand in the rotation of the earth. Tho earth diners from tho lly wheol of the engine in a very impor tant point. As tho energy is with drawn from tho lly-whool by tho ma chines in tho mill, so it is restored thereto by the power1 of tho stoam-en-glne, ami tho ily runs uniformly. Hut tho earth is merely tho lly-whool with out tho engine. When tho work done by tho tides withdraws energy from (lie earth, that energy is never restored. It thoreforo follows'that tho earth's rota tion must bo decreasing. This leads to a consequence of tho most wonderful importance. It tells us that the spcod with which the earth rotates on its axis is diminishing. We can stato the result in a manner which has the merits of simplicity and brovity. Tho tides aro increasing tho length of the day. At present no doubt tho ellbet of the tides in cuaugiug uie lougiu 01 mo (lay is very small. A day now is not appreci ably longer than a day a hundred years ago. Even in a thousand years tho change in tho length of the day is only a fraction of a second. But tho im portance arises from the faot that tho change, slow as it is, llos always In ono direction. Tho day is continually in creasing. In millions of years tho accu mulative o licet becomes not only ap preciable, but even of startling magni tude Tho ohango in tho length of tho day must involve a corresponding change in tho motion of the moon. If tho moon acts on tho earth and retards tho rotation of tho earth, so, conversely, does tho earth react upon tho moon. Tho earth is tormented by tho moon, so it strives to drlvo away its persecutor. At present tho moon revolves round tho ontiro earth at a distaneo of about two hundred and forty thousand miles. Tho roaction of tho oarth tends to in crease that distance and to force tho moon to revolve in an orbit which is continually getting larger and larger. As thousands of years roll on, tho length of the day increases second by second, and tho distaneo of tho moon increases milo by mllo. A million years ago tho day, probably, contained some minutes loss than our present day of twenty four hours. Our retrospect does not halt lioro. We at onco project our viow back- to an incredibly romoto opooh whicli was a crisis in the history of our Hvstoin. It must have been at least fifty million years 7igo. It may have been very much earlier. This crisis was tho Interesting occasion when tho moon was born. Tho length of the day was only a very few hours. If wo call It throo hours we shall not be far from the truth. Perhaps you may think that if wo looked back to a still earlier por'od tho day would become still less and finally disappear altogether! This is, however, not tho ease. Tho day can never havo been much less than throo hours in tho present order of things. Everybody knows that tho oarth is not a sphoro, but 'thuro is a protubornnco at tho Equator, so that as our school books tall us, tho oarth is shaped HKo an or ange. It is well known that this pro tuberance is duo to the rotation of tho earth on Us axis, by whicli tho equato rial parts bulge out by oentrlfugal force. Tho ouiokor tho earth rotate tho greater Is the protubornnco. If, however, tho rate of rotation exceeds a certain limit tho uiiiiutorinl portions of tin- earth could no longer cling together. Tho attraction which unit.s tliou" would bo overcome" by Ccntrihtgal force, ami a general break up would occur. It can bo shown that the rotation of tho earth whon on tho point of rupture corre sponds to n length of tho day some whoro about tho critical va'uo of throe hours, whicli wo havo already adopted. It is, therefore, impossible 'for us to supposo a day iiiuoh shorter than throo hours Lotus loavo tho oarth for a few minutes and examine tho past history of the moon. Wo havo soon, tho moon rovoivo nroutui ino oarin m an ovor bio. Tldtty or fo ty m ll'ons of years ago tho moon was" much closer to tho earth than it is at picsoiit; very pos sibly tho moon was then only half its present distance. Wo must, howovor, look still oarl or, to a certain epoch not lorts than fifty m'll'ons of years ago. At that epoch the moon must have been so close to the earth that tho two bod es wore almost touching. Everybody knows that tho moon rovolves now around tho earth in n por'od of twenty seven days. The period depends upon tho distance between tho oarth and tho moon. In earli6r times tho month must havo boon shorter than our present month. Some millions of years ago tho moon completed AH journoy m a week, instead of taking twenty-eight days, as at present. Look tig Imok earlier still, wo find tho month lias dwindled down to a day, thou down to a few hours, un til at that wond ous epoch, when the moon was almost touch ng tho earth, tho moon spun lound the earth once every three hours. In thoso aneicnt times I see our eartii toboanobloglobo, as it is at present. Yet it is not partly covered with oceans and partly clothed with verdure. Tho primeval earth seems rather a fiery and half molten mass whore no organic i fo can dwell. Instead of tho atmosphere whicli wo now havo I see a dense mass of vapors, in which, perhaps, all the oceans of tho earth aro suspended as clouds. I see that the sun still rises and sols to give tho success, on of day and of night, but tho day and tho night togetlier only amount to three hours, instead of twenty-four. Almost touching tho chaot o mass of tho earth is another much small er and oqnally chaotic body. Around tho earth I seo this small body rapidly rotating. The two rovoivo together, as if Miey were bound by invisible bands. Tho smaller hotly is the moon. Nature. Individuality. In asserting your own individuality, do it witli bounding modesty. How? Oh no Tolomnohus, "cheek" is not " better than wisdom." It is not bettor than anything. It is too brassy to bo mistaken for anything else. All tho triumphs of check are only apparent. Tho world knows tho cheery man, and assigns him to his proper level. It is true, tliat sometimes tho man of cheek bores his way along through tho crowd to seats and places intended for better people, and for tho timo wo give way to hint. But so wo givo way, my lioy, to a man carrying a pot of paint in eaoii hand. Not because wo respect tho man, but boeauso wo want to take care of our clothes. Avoid cheek, because you can soil goods without it, and your custom ers won't run away and hido in tho col lar when thoy soo you coming. He member, my "boy. tho world is older than yourself by several thousand years; thai for centuries past it has been so full of hotter and smarter young men than yourself that tiioir feet stick out of tho dormer windows, and Avhon thoso young mon died, the old globo wont wiili'llng riinit alonr, ami not ono man funeral, or FACTS AM) FHIUKKS. Tho value of tho increased yield over last year in South Carolina ol wheat, oats and, corn is estimated at 8 10, 000, 000. There aro .'Ji,79 1 pensioners in Mas sachusetts, Maine, Now Ilampthiro and Wrmont, anil tho aggregate of their pensions is $;),811,.'1GIj a year. Chicago iias now a population ol about 670,7)1.0, an ineroaso of about 70, 000 since tho national census was taken. Chicago is ono of tho few largo cities in tho country whoro there are more males than fowi n os, tho excess being by this last census 11,1)28 Exchange. Tiiero aro thirteon Bostons, foui Now Yorks, live Cliicagos, seven Phil adclphlas in tho country. Of lho 2,G!)0 imper ectly addressed lottors received ono morn ng in Now Yok, not more than half a (Io,i'ti woro sent to tho Dead Letter ollico as hopeless. Uolden Jlule. Ninety-nine locomotives and 11,097 car-wheels woro exported from the United States last year. During tho siimo period there woro exported 2,1(51. 018 pounds of iron rails and 110,108 pounds of siool rails. Tho greater part of this material wont to South Ameri can ports. Mr. 1'ortor, of tho Census Bureau, says tho census report will cost $5,000, 000. Tho work was begun in 1871) and will be un inishod in 188!), after five years of solid work. It will bo tho completest work of tho kind ever done. Tho r nglisli census cost only $700,000, but it was completed in oho night. Chicago Times. - Tho great oattlo rango of Wyoming, under tho military protection of Kort MeKinnoy, is about three hundiod miles square. In this area I hero aro now grazing 6UO.000 head of cattle, worth 27 a head, amounting to 81,fi00,000, to whicli can bo added tho valuo of the horses and ranches of tho cattle-men anil tho fanners, and tho stock of the grangers, making at least $15,000,000 worth of property under tho protection ol Fort MeKinnoy. Cliicaqo Times. A mortgage for $100,000,000 was recorded in the ollico of the Recorder of Deeds in Philadelphia recently. It was executed by tho Philadelpfiia & Heading Railway Company and Phila delphia & Heading Coal & Iron Com panies, jointly, and colors all tho prop city, rights and franchises of those companies. Tho total valuo of the proportv is estimated at $101, 258,070. .fii). This is tho largest mortjiajjo ovei executed m ;if Press. Pennsylvania. Philadcl- WIT AND WISDOM. widoning orbit, nnd consequently tho moon must in ancient times havo been noaror tho earth than it is now. No doubt tho change is slow. Tlioro.is nqt much diHorcuoo botwoon tho orbit of tho moon a thousaud years ago ami the or bit in which tho mpon is now moving. But when we riso to millions of yoars jtiio diiloroaoo becomes Yory nppreoia- in ten million wont to tho oven heard of tho death. Bo as smart as you can, of course. Know as much as you can, without blow ing tho packing out of your cylinder bonds. Shod tho light of your wisdom abroad in tho world," but try not to daz zle peoplo with it, and don't always ox poet people to beliovo that a tiling is so simply because you say it is. Don't bo too sorry for your old father because ho knows so much less than jou do. Ho membor, my boy, ho hasn't had your advantages. Tlio world has groat need of young mon, but no greater need than tho young men have ol it. Young men aro useful, and thoy arc ornamental; wo all lovo thorn nlid wq couldn't ongi neer a picnic successfully without them. But thov aro no novelties, mv sou. Oh no; nothing of tlio kind. Thoy havo l)oon hero before. Now, mind; I don't want you to bo so modest that you will shut yourself clear out; but don' t bo so fresh you will havo to bo nut on ico to keep from spoiling. Don't bo afraid that vour merits will not bo discovered. People till ovor tho Stato aro huntinr for you, and if you aro worth finding, thoy will liml you. A diamond is not so easily found as a Hint pobblo, but poo'ilo search for it more earnestly, and shout and show it to tho world when thov 11ml it. If you are a nobble, my boy, you'll holp macadamize tlio road, and if you aro a diamond, you'll go into tho crown jewels or travel with a min strel troupo, tho Kotos only know whloh. Burlington lluwkeyc. Fascinated by an Alligator. I was at tho Zoo yesterday and saw something which is worthy of boiug mentioned. One of tho gulls entered tho pond whoro the alligator was lazily propoHing himsqlf about nnd proceeded to oujoy itsolt in its native elements. But tho oyo of tho scaly "monster was upon it and tlio mesmeric inlluonco of its jinnee was soon felt. It was im possible for tlio gull to resist tho baleful glare of the saurian; inch by inch it was attracted to tlio alligator, powerless to resist tlio fascination, until it came close enough for tho roptilo to open its mammoth jaws ami gulp down tho luckloss bird. After having dovourod its prey tho alligator sank to tlio bottom to digest its meal. Toronto Mail. A Montana vigilanco committoo postponed a lynching matinee for two hours in order to allow tho victim to shako in a raillo in whloh ho had a ohnnco. Tims doth tho spirit of Chris tina magnanimity crop out ovon in tho rough and uncouth wilds of tlio West. Chicago Herald. A woman of Tuosumbia, Ala., was struck by lightning and found upon re- covcry mat nor nalr, onco a beautiful brown, had been iustantauoouBly ti.i nun iv ll DUVW AYllUUl'UlUl. aioOc. Good qualities arc tho substantial riches of tho mind; but it is good breeding thift sets thorn oft" to advantage- A Nevada woman, if she happens to bo feeling just right, can gain thirty live foot on a bear in a race of an oven mile. A Hartford firm lias turned out n bolt four feet wide and ninety-six feet long, and a woman with a waist to lit it can secure a bargain. Detroit Fret Press. There is not In all China a native surgeon who can sot a broken leg or arm. Peoplo in that country aro sup posed to broak their necks when thoy meet with an accident. Detroit Free Press. "A constant reader" makes inquiry as to tlio authorship of "Pntionco." As in tho case of tho lettors of "Junius" and the poem on "Tho Beautiful Snow," tho author's liamo is not positively known, but it has goncrally been attrib uted to Job. Courier-Journal. A girl from Cinciunatah Kdjiton Kt-owlnirfnt, and lnttab, TDoiigl) Bho dieted on button For ii yeah. In vnlnslio tried to scnttuh All tho mil posul iniittah. Till tho doctor suld Hho'd licttuh Stop hcrbouh. Baltimore American. A Now York hello met with a sad loss while returning from a summer re sort tlio other day. By somo moans hoi diary, containing tlio 'names of all the Sentlemen slio had bocome engaged to, ropped out of the car window, and now sho can't tell which of hor male friends Nearly Klirhl Hundred Thousand. Never before was there an immigra tion within any three yoars approaching that wh'cii lias takon plnce wlneo tlio last census was taken; and tho agents of the steamship companies report that tlio Hood is likely to keep up at an equal rate next year. The abundant harvest in wldch wo now rejo ce will, of course, tend to stimulate tho movement. Tho disunited condition of Euro no w 11 also give it impetus. War, or tlio prospect of war, f lightens away the subjects of militarism. Tlio continued depress'on of agriculture in England Will glvo a further impulse. Tho remarkable suc cess wh ch thoso immigrants who camo during tho last year seeking employ ment liavo had in obtaining it Will en codrago many thousands of artisans, mechanics, laborers nnd domestics to follow in their footsteps. Tho ollicial records show that the im migration to tlio Un.tcd States during tho liscal year wh ch ended with last Juno amounted to 78'J,0lW. About ono hundred and twenty thousand more im migrants were received hero than in 18K0, when the number of arrivals was greater by over two hundred thousand than in any previous year. Kor tho throo fiscal years 1880, 1881 and 1882 tlio arrivals havo amounted to 1.015,091, or nearly as many as tho total for tho eight years just previous, and about ono lilih as many as the total during tlio whole por.oil from 1820 up to 1880. About one-third of tho immigration of the last Austria. lrom (.icrmnuv quarter of a million new settlers were received. England sent between eight and nine thousand moro than Ireland, and nearly a hundred thousand camo from Canada; but it must bo borno in mind tiiat a very considerable portion ot these merely passed through tho Dominion, alter landing at Montreal, in order to reach tho United States. So great, indeed, has been tl.o immi gration of tho last three ears, and tho prospect that tlio tide will continue equally strong for at least another vear is now so well assured, that labor hero begins to be nhumod at tho inllux. Somo of our worklngmcn do not nt all relish so vast an addition to their force. Among those who aro now coming ovor are thousands of stalwart men who en ter as competitors in tlio trades. The greatly increased population of Now York since tho census of 1880 is a proof that very many of the immigrants ro eeived at Castle Garden within three years havo remained in tlio city to swell tho ranks of tlio workers hero. But. with abundant crops, choap food, active trade, and busy manufacture, there will bo work enough for all the now coiners, as well as thoso already settled hero. The majority of the now i oniers. too, go West to make now com munities, and to furnish now markets for tlio products of tho toil of tlio arti san, tho mechanic and tho laborer. N. Y. Sun. t year was from Germany and lrom Germany tilonu about a Divulging a Trotting Secret. have a right to kiss hor. Whllo a tourist was in Palestino he took a sail on tho Sea of Galilee. Aftei visiting tho different places of interest he rut ui not! to tho lnndimr and askod: ' How much for tho trip?" "Ten sho kelsl" responded tho smiling boatman "Ton shokclsl" said the traveler, "why, that is an outrageous prieo." "Well," replied tho skipper, " that's what thoy'vo been paving over since tho soa was hero." "Thunderntion!" growled tho voyager, "I don't wondor that Peter tried to walk it." " How aro tho colorod votors com ing on, out on Onion Creek?" asked an Austin enndidnto of a darkey with a loiulofhav. "Dar's a heap ob slok- ness out dar among tie colored folks." "What is it, malaria?" "I reckon dat's do naino ob de stun". Hit am sum- tin what hogotfromdodruggory-shop." "What stall aro you talking about?" "Do stull a wliito' man out dar puts in his wivtormillious to keep do colorod folks from mistnkin' om from dar own wntormillions." Texas Siftings. A scientist says: " Segregation is a procoss tending ovor to soparato unlike units, and to bring together like units, so serving continually to shnrpon, ot mako dolinito, differentiations which havo beon otherwise caused." This seems plain enough! and satisfactorily explains why tho homogeneity of the contaetion of tlio nobuloaity and tho ev olutionism of tlio subsequent atlon and individualism anv In nutlpiithy to the hbroforoncss and primordialistn of the cosmos in its relation to tho uusoonnesj St. Loult of tho vacuulty. And yet somo porsons I may doubt it. Norrislown Herald. Wo prosumo our readers havo all heard of that privato trial in tlio year 1870, when Mace drove Lady Thorno a ghostly milo in tlio gray of tho morning, and only two others, John L. Doty and William B. Saunders, timed the mare. In regard to this trial her driver said: "1 never saw Lady Thorno trot a full milo at her best but onco. and thuro aro two other men living besides myself who can tell how fast that was, but I shall never toll, and it is probable that thov will not. It was so fast that it would not bo credited by lho public, anil so wo agreed that wo would never mention the time. But I will say this much: It was a faster gait for the whole mile than "I over saw kept up by any other horee for a single quarter." Kor a lound dozen of years did Dan Maco maintain his determination to "never toll," but in an unguarded moment, iv short timo ago, out popped the secret. On tho occasion to whicli wo refer Dan had become much interested in conver sation with a gent emnn about that year, 1870, whon Lady TJiorne was to meet Goldsmith Maid at Buffalo. Sho had beaten tho Maid whenovor thoy had contended on Eastern tracks, but tho party ol tho little bay mare were quito confident of a victory at Buffalo. Dan, after the trial referred to, felt abundant confidence himself, and ho related, on this present occasion, how ho mot. Mr. Smith, tlio owner of the Maid, and told him ho would beat her. "But," said Mr. Smith, "we can trot three boats bettor than 2:VJ0." " So can I," said Dan. "Wo can trot three heats better than 2:18." "So can I," said Dan. "Wo can trot three heats In 2:10." "So can I." said Dan. The gentleman to whom Maco related tho forgoing conversation casually askod: "Why Dan, how fast did you ever drivo ThornoP" Dan impulsively replied: "1 drove horn mile just as fast as a' milo was ovor trotted in public, and the last half in l:0.r." Tho socrot of a decade was now moro fully out. Lady Thorno trotted a trial in 1870 in 2:10j, last half in 1:05, timed by two of tho most experienced men on tho turf, both still in tho llesh, and driven by a man who now lacks two veal's of his threescore. Spirit of the 'limes. It is roportod that during tho three yoars In which Mr. Henry M. Stanloy has beon conducting tho Belgian Ex ploring Expedition on tho Congo in Africa, ho has never had a quarrel with the natives, and has succcoded in es tablishing four trading stations. 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