THE CHINA MAIL.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1924.
SOMETHINBOUT SWISS GLACIERS
Mich of our knowledge of glueters in fue to the patient study of Pro- -Passovo. Lexis Agasaiz for whom the magnitßeent museum na Härvited Bliver aily is med. He wondered, as many others have dine, what enused certain phenomena, he wint to work and found out The first stage in glacier making you have witnessed when you have scurried away from melting snow slipping from same skuping roof. The second stage is ex- plaing when bags, mould damp sow into balls. "Have you read of the long, alow ride of an English bridegroom in the heart of a Swiss glacier?
"BY LILIAN HAYDEN BIESTONE
A few years ago a moving picture mas above, heconies more and more) Mentre in Washington, D. (," was fulley,
of people at a Sunday afternos pr Thoshird rock in below and does not) forinate It was in the must siris-give way as the theatre roof did, sel tocratic part of the epiful and many there is only ane place. for the undur prominent people were there. Show neath snow to be pushed to, and tha had been falling for wo days and lay is down the hill. As there is a lot of heavy on the roof. The sun came out it and more is conțing all the time, and and began to melt it. Suddenly the the whale mass is becoming hard and people in the theatre heard ominous icy, it moves very slowly and accommo erucks and before they could mere than dites itself with difficulty to the even begin to worry, the whole, ref crashalslopes of the mountains. While in the down upon them." The put of the form of neve pressure moulds it as the theatre was fat. Many were killed and boy moulds his snow. The nearly every one was injured.
becomes harder and hater through mass Among very high mountains where the grout pressure of the deep snow there is always winter, far above the fields above it. The ever-inerenaing now ling, the enormous weight of the moisture and freezing on its downward constantly falling and ever increasing way into the warmer valleys where the snow presses down very heavily upon oo-day sun is hot and the night cold, the rocks, but they do not give way as open in order to turn earners. These make it so hard that it has to crack the roof did. The summer's warmth does not melt the snow perceptibly races are often very deep and dan- there is loo much
to anyone who attempts of it but what gerous little moisture there is trickles down lib over the surface of a glacier.
to
through the snow and, with the pres-
A Ride In A Glacier, *** sure, makes what is known us neve, Many years ago an English bridal which means snow on its way to hecom couple went to Switzerland on their ing ice. Tain moist Η ΠΟΛΥ can be honeymoon und as their hotel was near moulded, like the boy's snowball and, one of the big glaciers they went with with the pressure exerted by the great guides on to the glacier. The surface
of most glaciers is very uneven and and difficult. People wear shoes with climbing over one is both dangerous large spikes bridegroom fell into one of the large prevent slipping. The crevasses, as the cracks are called, and all attempta failed. Men were let down by ropes to to get him out again
fur to be found and the crack began try and find him, but he had slipt too
to use as these cracks have way of doing. A famous scientist was « living there, studying the motion of the glacier, and he told the frantic bride that her husband would be carried along in the heart of the frozen ice far down below the surface, until the glacier reuched: the lower valley and melted. He assured her, that if she
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came back in forty years, she would find her husband still exactly as ahe
the Icel dust saw him, carefully preserved in and did come back when she was an She went back to England
old woman and the, glaeler did yield
had been driven in the glacier and watch up the youthful bridegroom, looking as he had so many years before. Stakes
had been kept so that the place where he had fallen in could be located...
Glaciers, Move Very Slowly, Glaciers move so slowly that for many, centuries.it was hot known that they moved at all. A student of ..glacial formation built, a hut to sleep in on a glacier and went away for several years. When he came back
he found to his amazement that the hut wes not in, the same position with regard to some mountain-spur as it, had been. The hut could not have. moved so he concluded that the glacier had progressed and taken the hut along with it. After that very careful and accurate measurements were taken and it was found that glaciers moved slowly. and that the laws which governed their motion were exactly the same as those governing the fow of water" in a river. The motion was greater on top than underneath and In the middle than on the sides.
Moraines.
As the glacier proceeds great masses
of rock are broken off from the cliffs along its course and fall upon the ice, Gradually these form on each edge of the glacier what are called lateral moraines, or irregular bards of stones and rock. Two glaciers often unite and then the lateral moraines unite and form or the new gladler what la known as a medial, or middle, moraine, These stones sometimes fall into cracks and are held in the ice and dragged along the surface rock, making deep scratches. These scratched rocks are often found far from any present glaciers, but to a geologist they are evidence that glaciera once existed there. Glaciers s carry huge
boulders far away from their home- rock and deposit them wherever the glacier happens to mult. Those boulders ure. found hundreds of miles from the mountain where they originated and are proof that glaciors wore once InAnitely larger than they are to-day. Where a glacier finally melts all the rocks carried so far are dumped and forra what is called a terminal moralne. Ancient Glaciers Of Huge Size. Those mornines are found in the United States and in Europe, more than thousand feet high and so long that they form lang ridges of hill. Geoglogiats wondered where these great piles of unstratified stones came from and Professor Agassiz, after long study of glaciers, found that the huge glaciers of ancient times were respon- Mible for them all. Sometimes so machi loose rock and stone was brought down. by a glacier that it blocked its own path and the melting How ·hat to ellect until it rose above the barrier. In this way many inkes were formed. Lake Constance in Switzerland is such a lake. Around it are high hills all made from mornines, and the Rhine. fortned by the vast glaciers of must. of Switzerland, "f led up this grout basin before it could progress.
Glacial Caven.
Sometimes when the solid glacier goes over great inequalities of rock there is a large place left under the ice. It sometimes possible to enter these caves and look at the deep blue. icaTM above. The colour comes when the air is driven out of the ice by the pressure. This under glacial ico is often a benutiful deep blue and is very much harder and more ditheult to melt than any other ice,
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There are often formed, what are called mouling. In Lucerne the tourist is at once taken to the glacier-garden and shown one of these great mills, or moulins, which was formed perhaps thousands of years ago by one of the huge, prehistoric glaciers. The manner of formation is this: In some natural clefs er hollow of the rock-surface pieces
of rock which have fallen through a crack in the glacier, are ground around by descending cataracts of water, formed by the surface-snow melting, unt the hollow is smooth and the stones are polished and rounded. In this so-called glaciar- garden at Lucerne the hollows are as if polished by human skill and the great stones within are perfectly round and highly polished. There is no glacier near at present but this was certainly formed under some immense glacier of olden time. Geologists say that all of Switzerland und much of Eurepo were at some time covered by tremend- ous glaciers, which carved out valleys and transported huge boulders and left moraines like hilla, all" across the country.
In polar regions where the ice is often one or more miles in thickness as in the great ice-cap of Greenland, the ire in its slow movement reaches the sea and is broken off by the action upon it of the waves and spray whose water freezos in its cracks. These great masses flout off as ice-bergs.
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DEMPSEY vs. GIBBONS
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So great was the interest and enthusiasm aroused by these sensational bouts, on Septem.. ber 12th., 1924, that thousands of people were turned out from Boyle's thirty acres stadium. Just think what wonders the cinema. does. The. cinema will bring you to the ring-side and show two of the WORLD'S GREATEST BOUTS. Think how much would it cost you to travel from Hongkong to U. 8. in two different trips, and if you were "turned out as thousands were, wouldn't you feel as if you had received a "knock-out."
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gowned players are picturesque-nine full reels of thrills, suspense. ly portrayed in "The Gold Dig- and excitement for four days' gers', which will be seen for the
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17th... These are Dempsey va Bibbons, 16 rounds and Firpo vs, Throughout the entire picture, the eye is constantly delighted Wills, 12 rounds. So great was by the stupendous sets-big stage the interest and enthusiasm scenes, large, beautifully fur-aroused that when Harry Wills rished apartments, "wild" parties and Luis Firpo fought a acnas- with their splendour, and the beautiful soft atmosphere of tional twelve-round bout at Spanish dances.
Jersey on September 12, 1924, thousands of people were turned away from Boyle's famous thirty" acres stadium. When James A. Johnson announced that Dempsey was fighting Gibbons in Shelby, nobody believed it until "Doc" Kearns, Dempsey's manager 'and Eddie Kane, Gibbons manager confirmed the news" published. The public thought it was impos- sible to raise enough money to pay the World's Champion, and no one would risk the purse for The story tells how this group it. The bout was held. in the of chorus girls, clubbing in an open-air and under the summer- apartment proceed to extract in sun, the success was due to the as much money and other valu- contestants and courage of the ables as they can from the men of promoter Johnson and his assist- their acquaintance. They go-to ants. Dempsey vs. Gibbons wil parties, smoke, dance and enjoy bring the crowd anywhere they life. Thus things go along until fight and anywhere they are Just think what won- one of the young men falls in love shown. with Violet Dane. This alone ders the cinema' does. would have been enough to upset cinema will bring you to the ring- the tranquillity of things but to side and show two of the World's add to the complication, the youth greatest bouts. Think how much. faces disinheritance by his uncle will it cost you to travel from who detests show girls,
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