AMERICA'S HOT JULY.
GERMAN PROFESSOR’S ASTOUNDING THEORY.
New Y’ork, August 2,
July has proved the hottest month ever recorded in the Meteorological Bureau, which was established in 1870. The mean maximum temperature for the month was Sadegs., the previous highest being in 1887. In Chicago ninety-one chickens were found in a case of thirty dozen eggs, and from other places come reports of similar occurrences. Never before have eggs been hatched in transit.
August opened cooler. Professor Ludwig Marienburger. of Berlin, who is visiting Chicago, says that tho explanation of the excessive heat is to bo found in the circumstance that the earth is getting nearer the sun in summer and further away in winter. The result is that humanity will soon alternately bake and freeze.
The earth, says the learned professor, is reaching a stage of decrepitude, and soon animal life will disappear. The Herr Professor’s theory is stupendous, but it is not satisfying. When summer occurs at both Poles at the same time it may be iound entertaining. According to astronomers, ' however, the earth obstinately refuses to fix its axis at right angles to the plane of its orbit, and while it is in this frame [of mind winter and summer "will be found at opposite Poles,
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 212, 13 September 1901, Page 4
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