FOR IDLE MOMENTS.
There have been several peculiar showers in the United States during the last quarter of a century ; among others, a shower of “ quivering flesh ” in Kentucky ; ashower of edible mushrooms in South Carolina ; a shower of small seeds in Statesburg, S. C., in 1882, and a shower of sulphur in the Indian Territory in the spring of 1883.
A few years ago it was suspected that the latitude of places on the earth’s surface changes. A number of astronomers agreed to make observations for two years, and the result has just been made public. Latitudes do change. Berlin, for example, was fifty feet nearer the North Pole in September than it was in March. This change is not, of course, a shifting of any one point on the earth’s surface. It is a tilting of the axis of the earth.
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