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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 177, 17 July 1908, Page 4

WILL THE WORLD BLOW TO J PIECES? i There is no end to the speculations oi the astronomers. Some of them have lately revived the startling hypothesis propounded a century ago that this solai system of ours once containued a planet that blew itself to pieces. In support oi this theory it is contended by a great Austrian geologist that there arc bits of nt exploded world which we : and liandle in many museums, f t other fragments are contiuuj ally falling upon us from the sky. In I short. M s belief j s tliat me teroites are the pieces of a planet which iouueny circulated between the orbits of liars and Jupiter, at a mean distance of some three hundred million miles from the earth, and which finally blew up with a force sufficient to scatter its fragments broadcast in space. But those fragments did not escape from the control of the sun. They have continued ever since the catastrophe to circle aromid~thc sun in thousands, and perhaps millions, of separate orbits, and several hundreds of the larger pieces are visible to us in tiie form of the asteroids, te, of course, that scientists have ™ .«. ween unable to give us a detailed account of this vanished world, but the bare idea of a great planet nourishing in its vitals the anarchistic means of its own destruction is overwhelming. One cannot but ask one's self whether this can l»e a common characteristic of eooledoff globes, in whose still heated entrails unknown chemical reactions are still going on. One would like to know, even if tiie answer were affirmative, whether a globe like ours can manufacture its own dynamite and light its own tires inully. Possibly it may be thought the suddeu outbursts called new stars which occassionally appear in the sky give us reason for 'questioning the soundness of the tacit assumption that the earth is everlasting. What do the muttering* of the volcanic forces mean, and how did the moon become the awful wreck that the telescope shows us? IVrlps a planet may blow up without [ altogether to pieces. I DEATH KATE DECREASED. The Chicago Tribune, in a recent ar tide on what medical science has been able to accomplish for the benefit of humanity, drew'particular attention t" the one great fact that stands pre-emi-nent in the light of reliable statistics, viz., that the death-rate of the world has, through its agency, been positively decreased., One of the chief factors in this decrease is the marvellous success which is nowadays attained in the treatment of that fatal type of disease classified under the heading of "Lung Troubles." This is accomplished by the use of Dr. Sheldons' New Discovery for coughs, colds and consumption. Modern science can point to no more marvellous achievement than the perfecting of this grand, unfailing, specific cure, wlncn can be relied on to save the lives of all I who take it in time. Guaranteed to I cure, or money back. Prices l/(i and 3/. Obtainable everywhere. 11

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