ORIGIN OF THE EARTH.

Hastings Standard, Volume XIII, Issue 4204, 10 July 1909, Page 1 (Supplement)

ORIGIN OF THE EARTH.

Sir "ftohert BalT, in an address oil "Modem Viev.s of th~ Origin of thei']:srth" at the ITnive'.ity College, London, said that the goo-ral truth of tho nebular theory of the origin of thec.irth was becoming more and more iirm'v accented every day. The great difficulty aboui it was tho enormous periods of times tho.y we>'t» called upon to consider. Tliey eonld look through the universe and see objects here and there which exhibited various phases through which our own system had gone in its transformation iio,a the original fine mist to the form' ir. which they now had it- The existence of the whole human race was but a, Sutter compar.d to the stupendous periods which geology opened up to their vista. The fire mi-ts flattened dwn and contracted and began to revolve and then to take spiral form. In the centre part of the spiral nebulae the sun farmed. It was now generallv believed that the sun and the earth all formed part of a spiral nebulae.

FIVE PROVERBS ABOUT WOMEN. "A man of straw is worth a woman of gold." The Nesrroes of West Africa hare a saying that "words are women, deeds are men." In Fife they have a proverb that "the next best thine to nae wif* is a guid wife." The Scotch in general admit that "honest men marry soon, hut wise men never." The Germans have a saying that "there are only two good women in the world; one is dead, and the other cannot be found."