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When The Earth Was Young

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Parent Issue
Day
22
Month
February
Year
1893
Copyright
Public Domain
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To-day ie longer tOiafl yesterday- to-morrow -vvill be longer tlhan today. The lay is now 24 hours ; it was once 20 hnirs, once 10 hours ; it was once (5 houra. How much íarther can w g,o ? Once the six hcnirs is pat vo l)giin to approadh a limit. The ehorter the dy the more is the carlli buliied at Tile equator; tho more the cn-ili s Hulged at the equator the pi-eater is the strain put upon tihe nraterials of the oartli by the centrifugal forcé oí its rotation. If the eütrtSi were to go too fasfc it would le uiKible iio colicro togother ; it wouïd separate into pieoes, just as ft irriudistone tlriven too rapidly is rent ajiiinder wit.h viok'iice. An estima t.' of the critical vt'hicity has, howevor, been miade, and it hae ehown that i lic sliortest pcriod of rotation which tüie earth could have, without ilyinp into pieces, is aabout three or four foours. TliO doctrine of tidal cvolu tjon has thue conducted us to the con clusion tlnat, at gome Inconceivablj remote ephoc, tho eurth was spinnin round its axis in a period approximat tag to tbree or four hours. Good In any -veatiher- Baroiuetere Cíonfinert to ilie house- Eookint, ctoaars. A Ohina eet- Inhabitants of Hong Kong. Hare auly claws- Snipe. Your face i.s like a drooping tlower, SwcciJifart ! I see you íadiny, hour by hour, Sweottaarl ! Your ronitded ontliaea waste away, In va.in I wwm, in vain I pray, Wliat power Deatt'B cruel hand can stay '.' BTTOetbeórt, Sweetheart ! AVhy, DOttUott bot Dr. Tiercé' Favoriu- i'iit ript ion. it Imparta etrengtti to the fniVuu; system, cvxe organic troublee, and for deblttated aad tecble womeo generally, la uneqnalod. It dtepel nH'iial loly and )iervousnens. and 1 mil de up lxvth flesh and itrength. Guara&teed to give Batlafactlon In everv caae, or money pald Rr it refunded.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Courier