VAN BUREE, ARKANSAS SATURDAY MORNING. MAY 90 1913
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by the delicate test of the torsion boInnce 10 ..
tract each other, and therefore not to hang ou;,e
Perpendlcularly. A pummet suspended near the
side of n mountain inclnes towards it in n degree
proportioned to its magnitude, as was ascertained
by the well known trials of DR.. Maskelevne neo :
the mountain Skehaion, in Scotland. And the
reason why the plummet tends much more strong
ly towards the earth than towards the hill, is on.
ly that the earth is larger than the hill. And at
New South Wales which is point on our globe
nearly opposite to England, plummets hang and
fall towards the centre of the globe, exactly MS
they do here, so that they are hanging up and fall
ing towards England, and the people there are
standing with their feet towards US. Weight,
therefore, is merely general attraction acting ev-
cry whero. But it is owing to this that our earth
itself Is globe. All its parts being drawn to-
wards each other, that is toward common centre,
the mass assumes the spherical or rounded FORM
AND the moon also is round, and all the planets
are round; the glorious sun, so much larger than
all these, is round: proving that all must at one
time have been fluid, and that they are all sub
Ject to the same law. Other instances of round.
ness from this cause are--the particles of q mist
or log floating in air, these mutually attracting
and coa'escing into larger drops, and forming
ram; dew-drops; water trcklng on a duck s
wing; the tear dropping from the cheek drops Of
l"udanum; globules Of mercury, like pure silver
beads, coalescing when near, forming larger ones;
melted lead allowed to rain down from an elevated
sle', which cools it descends, so as to retain
The form Of its liquid drops and becomes the spher-
ical sot-lead Of the sportsman. The cause of
the ext 1ordnary phenomenon which we call at.
traction acts at all distances. The moon, though
100000 miles from the earth, by her attraction
raises the water of tho ocean under her, and forms
what we call the tide. The sun, still farther off,


has similar influence; and when the sun and
moon act in the direction, we have the spring
tides. The planets, those apparently little wan
dering points in the heaven, yet affect, by their
attraction, the motion of our earth in her orbit,
quickoning it when she is approaching them, re-
tarding it when she is recedng.