equalize the current and produce a complete

earth, with the earth itself, to instantly

electrical connection by wires around the

there were instantly established sufficient

governed by its polarity. If, therefore,

that the earth's inclination to the ecliptic is

currents of the sun, and it is highly probable

the earth depends upon the electric or heat

to the direction of the poles. The polarity of

a current of electricity passing at right angles

papers. Polarity, it observes, depends upon

this effect is given by one of the American

graphic system. A timely note of warning to

serious changes by the extension of the tele-

" This planet, it seems, is threatened with

Line 1.2.0 reduction of all electrical excitement, what

Line 1.2.1 would be the effect on the polarity, and

Line 1.2.2 secondly on the inclination to the ecliptic ?

Line 1.2.3 May there not be a sudden change of polar-

Line 1.2.4 ities — the Arctic region becoming equatorial,

Line 1.2.5 and the tropics suddenly changed to polar

Line 1.2.6 temperature ? The sudden melting of the vast

Line 1.2.7 ice fields would produce another glacial

Line 1.2.8 flood ; the present race would disappear, and

Line 1.2.9 the man of the quaternary would begin life

Line 1.2.10 ever again at the antipodes. All this is to

Line 1.2.11 be accomplished by the continuation of com-

Line 1.2.12 plete circuits for telegraphing around the

Line 1.2.13 globe. Of course tremendous earthquakes

Line 1.2.14 would follow, as the polar diameter is twenty-

Line 1.2.15 six miles too short and the equatorial twenty-

Line 1.2.16 six miles too long. Whether this theory

Line 1.2.17 prove correct or not, there cannot be a doubt

Line 1.2.18 that something has of late gone wrong with

Line 1.2.19 atmospherical arrangements, and perhaps the