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Jacob stauller, of Lancwter, until the latler's death. flO-Sn-d&w 1EMKMiIi;U IF VOUARE ASUl'MiKblt X, lrem yeui Kidneys or a Terjiid Liver, KUDNEYCTJRA ' will leuiove all trouble. OCc. a pack. See circulars. KAUFFMAVS DKUG STORE. HO-luid 11C N. Queen St., Lancaster, Pa. u Earn astrr I-ntrlltgrnr f r. TUESDAY EVENING, FEB. 15, 1881. THE ICE AGE. ' A THOUSAND ii:ahs 1IAY." Alii: AS ONE Lecture by Prof. Gee. M. Philip', of Lewis Uurg'Uiiiierslty, belere the Lan caster Star Club. Orerull the uertbern part of the North ern lletnisphcie, geologists have found the expefceJ rock. rounded and worn smooth, yet covered witii dccji scratches and grooves, i turning in certain dticctieus ; large beds el' sand, and especially of clay, eiten filled with stones also rounded aud gtoeved, but containing no sea shells of any kind. Seme of these stones have evi ilently been carried bundicds of miles ever seas and mountains, ethers are left in large heaps high up en the sides of moun tains. They are, geologically speaking, recent effects, and at lirt various theories were propounded te account for them, but new geologists h.ive generally accepted Agasbii's views, and asciibe these te the action et an eneimdus mass el ice, cov eting the whole country te a thickness of thousands of feet. Astonishing as this may seem, the pi oefs of it aie very strong. Veu all knew something of the present glaciers of the Alps, these rivers of solid ice fiem ten te twenty miles long, one te two miles wide, and sometimes 00 feet thick or deep, which Hew down lrem the mountains in their beds.precisely as rivets of water Hew, only very much slower. These glacieis pioduce pteciscly the effects te which I have alluded. Ge near te the poles and you will lind them upon a much grander scale. The whole et the north of Green land is coveted by a thick mass of ice all the j ear. This ice. Hews down towards Hie sea in gieat glaciers, the ends of which running out into the ocean, there In caking elf, lerni the icebergs. Wonder ful and intetesting as these glaciers and their elfectsaie, time will net allow us te describe them. I cut in this lecture only try te show the causes of these great masses of ice. But remember then that theie is no doubt, and it is univcisally ad mitted, that all of Nuith Anieiica lrem about the latitude of Washington up te the North l'ele, all of Lurepe down te about Switei land, and in all probability the net them patt el Asia, were once coveted, excepting the tops of the highest mountains, entiiely with a gteat sheet el ice in .seni) places thousands of feet thick. This condition of things pi ebably lasted many thetistuds of ycais, the ice fiem the iiiiciier slowly flowing en all .sides down tewauls the uncovered country and the se, aud by this motion, scoring and grind ing the w hole face of the country. Te find an adequate cause for this is the task be be fe)c us te-uight. Several theeiics have, of ceui.se, been piopesed. One i that the poles hate moved, bunging v.uieus patts of the eatth into the Aictic legions, but it is new known that te effect this would lequire the shining of incredible masses et the eat tit. We can discover no adequate cause of such meemenls, nor have we any evidence that they have taken place. This theory must thereto) e be abandoned. Hut Dr. James Ciell, of the government geological survey of Scotland, has lecent ly weiked out a teraaikable theeiy of this matter, which geologists and asttouemos alike seem te be accepting a3 the true one. It is te this theety that I would call jour attention te-inght. J very one heie knows that the annual path of the llaith around the Sun is net a circle with the sun iu the centre, but au ellipse with the sun at one focus, se that the cat th is neater the sun at one time of year than at another. At pit-sent thee.nth is neatest te the sun at the 1st of January, aud faithest oil" at the 1st of July, the dif ference new being a little mere Allan 15,000, 000 miles. On this account the earth re ceives 1-13 tueie heat from the suu ou the 1st of Janu.uy than en the 1st of July. But this ellipse. ; net always the same, ou account of the attractions of the ether planets. New it is approaching nearer and nearer te a citcle and will continue te de se for 21,000 ycais, when the dilletence between its greatest aud least distances fiem the sun will be euly(i00,C00 miles. Then it will again become meie and meie ccccntiic or ll.ittesed, until it i cty much meie se than new. Tiiie change, you must remember, i cxlicmcly slew, a life time or even a thousand years, makes scatcely a perceptible change in the shape of the cai ths path. These vibrations in the shape of the earth's eibit arc iueeu lar both in their extent aud in their dura tion, both of these have been calculated for millions of years past and te come. When the eibit is the me-t eccentric pos sible, the earth w ill every yen go nearly 0,000,000 of miles farther from than the sun than new, aud it will then be ever 14, 000,000 of miles nearer te the sun in one pait of the )ear than at another. The earlh would then get, when faithest from the sun, 1 3 leas heat than when farthest off new, and when nca)cst, 1-5 meie than we get. The difference between its own cti erne., then will be about double that. Tliis condition was almost fulfilled 830,000 e.u.5 age. Oui'.summci.saml winteis depend new net upon our distance from the .suu, although this medilics both, but upon the inclination or the slant that the sun's lays have. At piescnt, and for some thou sands of ycais past, whenever the caith comes te that pait of its orbit that is neaicst tethe sun, our pDle and hemis phere ai e turned from the sun. for the e.nth's axis is always jiarahel te it.self, as we say. or always leans iu the same diiec diiec tieii. But this direction of the caith's axis is net invariable. Owing chiefly te the attraction of the sun and moon upon the equateiial parts of the earth, the axis of the earth swings slowly around, caus ing what is known as the pioccssien of the equinoxes, and it takes the axis about 21.000 yeats te make a complete revolu tion. In about 3,000 years from new the ax)s will have turueM through of a revo lution, and our pole will be turned most dh ectly from the sun three mouths befeie the caith is in the nearest part of its orbit, then we shall be nearest te the sun in the sjning aud faithest from it in the fall. Anether 3,000 yeats, and our pole will be tinned fiem the sun when the caith is farthest off, thus giving us our winter at that time, and our summer when we aie neatest te the suu. This is the piescnt condition of things for these living south of the equator. Aud 10,000 years hence our summer will be somewhat hotter and our winters colder from this cause. Yeu see then that our winter and summer distances from the suu alternate about every 21,000 years. Fer hall that time we of the northern hemisphere arc nearer the sun iu our winter than iu our summer, for the ether half of that time this is exactly reversed. The present telatien of our summer aud winter te our varying distance from the sun is, se'far as wc can see, simply acci dental ; it is our geed luck. Although it is net se much te our advantage te be en one side of the equator rather than en the ether, new, as it would have been 200,000 years age, or as it may be some time in the future. Let us see hew these have brought about the glacial epochs. Suppose that the earth's orbit was at its maximum of ec centricity, that it was most flattened ; and suppose also that the axis of the earth was se peiuted as te give us our summer when nearest te the suu and our winters would then be 36 days longer than our summers. Moreover, we should then be nearly 9,000, 000 miles further from the sun in winter than iu summer. This would give us 1-5 less heat fiem the suu in winter than we new get, and would make our winters very much colder than at present. All the waterfallingfrem the clouds upon theNerth Temperate zone during thus long winter would be iu the form of snow ; our annual snow-fall would be vastly increased. On account of the intense cold this would net melt, but would accumulate during the whole of the long winter. Although our sheit summcis would be as much hotter than our present ones, as our winters would be colder than they are new yet they would net be able te melt all the snow that had accumulated. Because the great heat would cause great evaporation from the ice aud snow, this vapor chilled by contact with the cold air and the ice and snow, would cause almost constant dense fogs, which would partly protect the snow from the sun's power, and thus hinder its melting. North Greenland is new covered with snow and ice all summer, yet se long are the days there that if it were net for the mass el snow tnc summers there weuiu be as warm as these of England. While iu fact dui ing the whole summer the torn tern peratuie of the air is only one or two de giees above the freezing point, because such a muss of snow fulie during the win ter, that, the summer, het as it is, cannot melt it all. The rays of the sun there have been known te actually melt the pitch from the side of the ship, while the tcnipciature of the air was far below the freezing point ; iu the sun's rays the ther mometer has steed above a hundred de vices, while iu the shade it steed twelve degrees below the freezing point. I n the southern hemisphere this is still mere marked, the island of Seuth Georgia, which is in the same latitude as the centre of England, has perpetual snow descend ing te the very beach. .Moie'snow, then, would fall in the long winter than would be melted in the short summer, there would consequently be an accumulation of the snow from year te year, se that all the land of the northern hemisphcte, far down from the pole would be continually covered by a mass of snow. Pressure always turns snow into iee, aud just as new iu the Alps the upper snow presses the snow below it into ordinary ice aud thus forms the glaciers, se this great sheet of snow would be turned into ice. coveting the whole country continually. 1 hit it is net claimed that this would be suiiieicut te cause directly the great age of which I spoke when I began, when ice ceveied the country for thousands of years te the depth of thousands of feet. But new a new set of agents comes into play, tl3 great ocean currents, and it is the changes iu these produced by the con ditions named, that arc the great causes of glacial epochs. Most intelligent people have some idea of the great beating power of these eeeau currents. It is pretty well known that the Gulf Stream, fich fiem the torrid zone, se moderates the climate of Europe, that Londen, away north even of the Canadian cities, has a winter much milder than yours in Lancaster, that although we are fuither south than Keme aud Constanti nople, yet we must go te Flerida te find a corresponding climate and productions. Still, unless one investigates the subject, he doesjuet realize the influence et these currents. Dr. Crell shows that a low es timates makes the Gulf stream supply the Neith Atlantic ocean with 1-3 of all the heat it gets. This great current of warm water by carrying such vast quantities of heat fiem the equator into ene zone, con fers indeed a double blesing, it greatly lowers the temperature of the equatorial region?, which would otherwise be un cndurably het, aud greatly raises the tcm tcm peratme of our temperate zone, much of which would otherwise be exceedingly cold. Weie the currents of water and air from the equator te be stepped our aver age temperatuie would probably be lowered 20 while that of Londen would be lowered 40, cither of which would be a very disastrous change. In short, with out tlic ocean currents, a very large part of the earth would he absolutely unin habitable. Wheu the earth's orbit is very eccentric, and our hemisphere has its winter when farthest from the sun, we would see that all the upper part of this hemisphere would be covered with ice and snow continually, while the ether hemisphere would net be a great deal colder than the equator. The great differcuce between the temperature of the equator and the northern hemis phere would make the winds from the north very strong, while en account of the small difference in temperature, the winds fiem the south would be feeble. The stteng winds from the north would flew some distance across the equator before they would be turned te the west, hence the equatorial current would be moved some distance te the south. It would then strike the coast of Seuth America below Cape St. Iteque, and consequently be turned down into the southern hemisphere, carrying Us enormous supplies of heat with it, and heating up still mere that warmer hemisphere, giving it almost a tropical temperature, down te the Seuth Pele. But upon our hemisphere the effect would be disastrous. With the less el the heat fiem the gulf stream, our tempera ture, low before, would bj again greatly lowered. The changing of the great Pacific current would assist in producing the same result. New still less of the freshly fallen snow would melt in the short, cold summer, and upper return currents of air as strong as the cold under currents would bring back great quanti ties of moisture from the equator, all of which would be condensed, thus greatly increasingihe snow-full, which, acccumu latinir for centuries, would arise, be piled up mountain high ever all the upper part of the North Temperate Zene. This vast sheet of ice seems once te have ? extended in this country as far south as the cityel Washington; where we new are the depth probably was net se great as farther north. In Europe, which seems always te have a milder climate than ours, the ice sheet did net extend se far south as it probably did net en our western coast. Comparatively little difference as there new is between the northern and southern hemisphere, still the trade winds fiem the southern and colder hemisphere are con siderably stronger than these from the north, most of it .being upon our side of the equator ; se that new the greater part of this current, striking Seuth America north of Cape St. Reque, is turned into the Gulf stream, thus giving us the lien's share of the warmth thus distributed. I have already spoken of the unquestion ed evidence of this great state of cold, bnt the evidences el a very high temperature in high latitudes which was bad there when tl.e ether hemisphere was encased in ice are fully as strong. Far up in Green land and ether regions near the north pole, extensive coal beds and pertified forests have been found. New such vegetation cannot grew within many hundreds of miles from that vicinity. Many varieties of fossil shells are also found there, which could only have lived in warm seas. Yeu have heard of the mammoth feuud pre served in the ice of Siberia, far north of where such animals could new exist. As the cold would increase in the south ern hemisphere, it would gradually become covered with ice reaching its severest state in 3,000 or 6,000 years and subsiding for as many years, during all of which time our hemisphere would have its long summer, when tropical plants grew all around Lancaster. Thus a glacial epoch, instead of being one continuous stretch of intense cold, was an alteration every 10,000 or 12,000 years from a very high temperature te a very low one, or rice versa. Precisely these changes are going en new, you understand, but the earth's path about the sun is new se near a circle that it does net mike a great deal of difference in our temperature. That these changes of temperature occurred during the glacial epoch, geology strongly con firms by showing us remains of a warm climate mingled with these of the cold period, but the effects of the great cap of ice are semarked that the whole period is called the glacial epoch. These warm inter-glacial periods were probably very fa vorable te the growth of coal forests, aud many coal beds seem te have been deposit ed at these times. Dr. Crell has shown by astronomical calculation that in the last three millions of years the earth's orbit has been very ec centric three times, at 2,500,0000. 850.000 and 200,000 years respectively. The last one which I have already referred te sev eral times, was the least severe of the three, but en account of its recentness its effects are much the best known, and it was the glacial epoch. But new geologists lind evidence of glacial epochs in every age of the iverld. These periods have net been uniform, the date of each must be calculated by a long and laborious compu tation. Yeu must have already thought of the important fact that we have here a key te some geological dates, and I might say that the time which I have assigned te the last glacial epoch is fairly confirm ed by ether geological observations, the wearing away of the surface since that time has been just about such as might have been expected in the time that has elapsed. I have net, of course, gene into miner details of the subject ; having already kept yen tee long, I fear, but there is even another change which modifies these effects considerably, the varying obliquity of the ecliptic as it is called, or the vary ing limits of the torrid zone. There is a constant but small change here, back wards and forwards, new increasing, new decreasing the severity of the ice age. But for this and many ether and fuller details 1 must refer you te Crell's " Climate and Time." Fer an account of the glacical epoch itself, you cannot de better than te read Gcikic's "Great Ice Age." I have, ladies and gentlemen, been at tempting te-night, a difficult task, ene that involved an explanation of some of the most difficult points iu Astronomy and Physics, some of which must have lieen new te many of you. Aud I cannot hope that I have made myself perfectly clear te each of you. Let me then, therefore, be fore closing, very briefly sura up this re markable aud beautiful theory. Astronomers long since proved that the earth's path about the sun lias been slow ly, but constantly, changing its shape from one almost' circular with the sun near its centre te one quite elongated with the sun considerably nearer one end, then back tewuds a circular shape, thus oscil lating through unequal but very long in tervals. When the orbit is much elongat ed, that hemisphere whesa winter comes when the earth is farthest from the sun, will have a long aud very cold winter,, with a het but tee short summer te melt the winter snows. That hemisphere will thus be much colder and the ether much warmer than new. Owing te the proces preces sion of the equinoxes, or the slew revolu tion of the caith's axis, that hemisphere which has its winters when farthest from the sun, will in 10,000 or 12,000 years have its summers there, thus shifting the reign of cold from ene side of the equator te the ether. But the indirect effects of this long win ter will be still greater. The ocean cur rents carry an enormous amount of heat from the equator towards the poles. These currents are caused by the winds notably by the trade winds. On the icy hemis phere the gi eat difference in temperature between it and the equator, will produce an unusually strong trade wind blowing towards the equator, which will be op posed by a fceble wind from the ether and heated hemisphere, the winds from the cold hemisphere will therefore blew across the equator aud drive the warm ocean cur rents down into the ether or warm hem isphere, thus raising it nearly all te torrid temperature, and making their own hem isphere vastly colder from the less of these great heat-bearing currents. These causes would be sufficient te produce the intense cold and the immense deposits of ice which Geology shows us have repeatedly occurred in the past. I will close by referring te a question which must have suggested itself te every one who has listened te ma te-night. Dees science teach us te expect another such terrible epoch, and if se, when? Itisalways easier and certainly safer, te explain the past, than te predict the future. But in the present case I have no fears that any et you will reproach me en account of the iien-fultillment of my prophecy. The same calculation shows us that there will be no considerable max imum in the eccentricity of our orbit for 500,000 years, and that one will net be se great as was the last one, but iu 800,000 and again in 000,000 years the eccentricity will be greater than it was 200,000 years age. At these periods, then, it seems probable that the dismal events which I have faintly pictured will be repeated. But I hope, in closing, that the prospect will net disturb your slumbers. Xete. 15e suspicions or persons who recom mend any ether article as "just as geed" and take nothing else but Dr. Hull's Cough Syrup. Ge te II. 11. Cochran, druggist, 137 and 139 North Queen street, ler Afr. Freeman'x Xew National Dye. Fer brightness and durability el color are uncqualed. Celer from 2 te 3 pounds. Price, IS cents. I'restrated. Jabeah Miew. Gunning Cove, X. 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The above goods are net smoked or burned, only slightly damp. FAHNESTOCK'S, Next Doer te Court Heuse. PKCIAI. NOTICK. HAGER & BROTHER, Ne. 25 WEST KINU STREET. We are selling at less tliau piesent value STANDARD MAKES OF Bleached and Uibleaehed Muslins, Bleached and Unbleached Sheetings Pillow Mnslins, and Tickings. LOOM AND DAMASK TABLE LINENS, Napkins and Towels, MARSEILLES AND CROCHET QUILTS, riTITEantl COLORED BLAXKET3. OPENED THIS DAY A LARGE AND CHOICE SELECTION OF HAMBURG EDGINGS Mirar MIMS WITH LNSERTTNQS TO MATCH. i Tg .. ft f -i 41 I n 33 -
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