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irSvtolble Or tho EarthThrough a Nebula

LitrarySo called dark days of which

a number ot remarkable ones havebeen recorded in the earths bis-

t tory have usually been explainedby the presence of thick smoke

ue to great fires accom-anied by some peculiartmosphenc conditions There

have been a few howeveri who have thought that this hypoth-

esis does not a complete

fexplanation and the observationsmade on a series ofsuch days thatoccurred in Siberia in 1896to strengthen the case of thesedoubters we are to believeofficial reports the dense smoke

I that covered half the continent ofAsia on those days was due neitherto fires nor to volcanic eruptions

I is the opinion of M Adamwho describes the

Iphenomenon in the Bullctzn de a-

Sodtte AsJronot1l qtte Paris thatthe earth at that time was pas inZ-

throu h what he calls a great cos-

mic cloudperhaps a gaseousnebula The is that

I in this case it would seem that theI whole earth ought to have been

equally plunged in the smoky substance but he explains ingeni-ously the fact that it was not as

be seen at the end of his statemeat most of which we translatebelow

ALter collecting a large num-ber of minute details I nowable to present to the Astronomi-cal Society an account of an im-

mense cosmic cloud that coveredthe whole ot Siberia durinc elevenconsecutive days ol the month of

r396 All the inhabitants ofSiberian towns were astonished atthis time to find themselves en

in a thick smoke containinga large quantity of water vaporIt was that therewere enormous forest fires butdespatches from the governmentofficials showed that there were nosuch fires anywhere Besidesthey indicated that everywherewas the same extraordinary smoke

over a territory 7000kilometres 4300 miles in extentfrom Samara to Chlta and Ironthe Sayan Mountains to the Polarcircle The whole Asiatic continent was for eleven daysIn thick smoke The odor of car-bon as very evident and the sunsdisc appeared like a red ball oftire I at it easily througha field glass without the least fearfor my A perfect calmreigned in nature but the upperlayers of the smoke glided quiterapidly over the suns disc borneby a northwest wind Now sinceno forests were on fire anywhereand since there was no volcanic

I eruption in northern Asia andfrom Samara to Chita the

phenomenon everywhere the same peculiarities wemust conclude it seems to methat this was a cosmic phenome-non Could we have been passingfor instance through a gaseousnebula or the tail of a comet According to the stories of farmerswhenever the was cut duringthe smoky period the hay seemedto be poisoned and the sheep thatate it died A workman who was bleaching wax inthe Jun found that after the smokehad disappeared the wax was com-pletely red and that it kept thiscolor even after being melted Acivil engineer has recently published a on this phenome-non in the Russian Younzaland he upholds the same

namely we were passingthrough a great cosmic cloudwhose has not yet been ex

M Rzyszczewski tells us thatto of tray

diets the smoke extended to thetOlS of the highest mountainsanadditional evidence that it was notdue to terrestrial causesforfire smoke according to him lieslow so that one can se over itIrom a mountain peak Travellerswere completely lot in the gloomand a white tent could not b seenat a distance of two hundred feetIn closing the writer saysClIIthe earth was then pasing througha gaseous nebula we must suppose that nebula had for a vastdistance a plane boundary andthat in the earth plungedSiberia into the cloud theday while at night it emerged intothe clear space lor the nights werefine all the stars were visible andthere as not the least cloud orsmoke But icarcely had the daydawned when the den e smoke returned The ot coursewould be quite conclusive it itcould be shown on the opposite side of the globe at the sametime the nights were smoky andthe days clear no evidence ofthis kind has apparently beensought

ISLAND THAT IS A BIG MAGNET

Oe most dAngerous platesin all the seas says the ChicagoRecord is near the coast of Denmark where there is a little islandthat goes by the name of Bornholm seas do not run

high about it nor are the currents but when the marlnet approaches it the needle ofhis compass to act ira thestrangest most unaccountablemanner Instead of pointing tothe north it switches around andpoints to Bornholm so that if ithappens to be dark and stormy thepilot may guide his ship straight-on rocks that hemaking he north This strangecondition eXists for the reason thatBornholm consists almost entirelyof or magnetic iron andit draws the compass needle like apowerful horseshoe magnet

is felt even at adistance of miles and on the isl-

and being sighted by mariners onthe Baltic Sea at once discontinue steering their course by theneedle and instead to thewell known lighthouses to directtheir craft Between Bornholmand the mainland there is also abank of rock under water which isvery dangerous to navigation andbecause of itssubmerged vessels have been

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Strflet Scenes In NaplIlN

Tile Moulily

One of the strangest contrasts anNaples is to walk from the royalpalace with its hue marble stair-case up the new Corso Re dItaliaand to climb Into the steep streetsaround the church of SanSeverinoe Socio These streets are thedwelling of dyers and Jnesteps trom regal magnificence intoa crowd of semi naked people whoare busily dipping great 01

cotton or into seething cal-

drons As elsewhere the work iscarried on in the street and littlestreams of waterredbrown and pnur over

stones and multicolored pools whilst on lowbenches against the walls womenare washing clGthes inthe dirty soapy water thatsplashesover from their tubs The pass-ersby walk heedlessly throughthe dye and soap suds whilst thechildren find pleasant occupation inthrowing of every variety 01

color at anybody who chances tobe wearing light colored girmentsIt is a verItable feast of color fromthe merely spectacular point ofview but a visit to these streetsleaves a bodily as well as a mentalimpression Very often in thedepth of these sordid alleys onecomes across a forgotten old palace built when carriages were unknown its great court of honorcrowded with booths its vast hallsfilled with a heterogeneous

of men women and childrenfowls and

a donkey all living tOletherin the happiest proximity Themassive old walls are hidden beneath centuries of dirt the woodwork has for the most part disappeared the rooms that onceknew the revels of Angeviri noblesnow shelter the haphazard existence

With the blue waters of the Bayof Naples ever at their feet and theblue of a southern sky abovethem the poorer Neapolitans areable to support lire under conditions which would annihilate anorthern race and they certainlymake snore noise than any otherpeople in Europe Late in the

the Toledo the principal streetis full shrieking hawk-ers or newsvendorswho rush through thethrong an unceaIJing line of

roll over the rough stoneswith perpetual cracking of whipsand wild shouts and aU theworld seems to have gone madOn the other side of the Corso Refltalia itinerant cooks siltingtheir stoves in the air or un-

der awnint7 sell fish macaroni andneat whilst at the Villa del Popolo and the Porto Capitanaquackfactors lecture on their nostrumsto large crowds of idle and credu-lous folk drowning the stridentvoices of the public readers whodeclaim passages from TassoAriosto and other to thosewho care to pay two centimes forthe dubious pleasure of listeningto them Everywhere there isdeafening noise which once ortwice a day is silenced by the pas-sage oi a funeral procession es-

corted by the masked and dis-

guised members of the brother-hood to which the diseased has be-longed Flocks of goats withtinkling bells are driven throughthe streets at all hours of the dayclimbing up to the top story of thehighest houses in order to bemilked at the purchasers owndoor Cows too are inthe same way the housewife desending into the street and waiting

turn to hand the cowkeeperher or basin which he fillsfrom the patient and long

animal The are cheapand the horsesdriven without bitsrush along the streets at a handlZa1opunless they are engagedby the hour NOise dirt indes-cribable squalor shameless beg-gary and nerve are thememorieJ the traveller bears awayfrom Bella Napoli but if he goesto Porto to Santa Lucia and Mercato he will also possess the memoory ofa marvellous kaleidoscope ofcolor which he will never seeagain since much of It isthreatened by the wholesale des-truction of these unsalubriouiquarters The work is known asthe SVtlllrammlo and has alreadlraltered the worst of the citygiving and sunshine to

of people who like theirforefathers before have livedin the depths of cellars withoutlight and without air

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