The End of the World.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 4953, 21 April 1891, Page 4

The End of the World.

Of all cfiangtjSv that afiangs has most latfii'est foe w« w hie hattuuts our own ptvnet. tlto> «aPth'. It hj»»» peiwtwd a later stage Chaft S'afarti,. though not w'• t».t« a stage as eh» niwoni t but only in Cong ages awl by tomato effw«ts will further change* W rwfled. Ag«» hence it niay be »tisci>very(t that th*srw is- soni(s slight change in the siu'ClV* ovlnt; or Mnwfiwy. yet neater t<» Che sum than *«, may he seem to p»fsae a smiUter wehit than now. aiut the terrible 6wt may come home to wait that we are drawing nearer to the sun. Time goes on. and 6h« tropics become too- hot for »sistsncii. ami uoliter regions fiwl a welcome ehangu- to' warmth.. Age after age goes liy. aiut the? en»t i«v visibly, no nearer ; but the ftgtu'Bs of astronomers only toi> stwuly tell their tate. It* time the tropics will; become an impassable itesevt arid alt the tile oti the globe wilt congregate around the poles. Spain h;is tost her vi»w»yivrdf» an«l th«? Alps their si%ow ; ftng* Tand is a burning desert and ♦ ireertland teems with the vegetation of the tropic*; t» smfvlter cirulos the mfmbitants gvther rmtnet the potes, "But," to iptote the- wont* of Sir Ke%Mey Miller, " the natvowed limits of the habitat*!®' earth can no tooget support this wwe increase- popwtvti'-'nv and ff»mine begins to- mow down its victims by millions. Sow. indeed, the end o< att lifs draws on apace. The heat and drmWfJvt become mow and more tasvtpportabte, eaiwand ttew fait «<■> longer. All i*pting{»- of water fail, and the rivers fiwiiutte down; to wtreamtets and triefcte stowty over their stony beds, and now warcifiy of water is added &•>• scarcity of fund. Thowe who escape fton» the famine. perislV by the d-ri>nght. awl those who* Bsuape the drought are reserved for a fateawfut yet! For a time ftie few remaining inhabitants are partially screened frt>rtv tlie overwhelming power of the sun by i* dense canopy of efouds formed by tlto (evaporation of every tafce and sea. Bat soon; tile sitrfscovirhes up- these vapor |«tok» iwid dissipates them into, spaee :vs 6*sß as they can; form. Then; the- fiery orb .<»fiin«» out h* an UTintterable splendor without the slightest eloud-wreath to Interpose between; himself and his victims. Them the livst denizens of the world are Stricften? down and consumed—the last truce* of organic life are titotted from its Mwftwe;" liongm.att's Mag;wine.