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EARTH'S SURFACE.

Caused By Attraction Of The Moon.

SCIENTISTS DISCOVERY,

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U.S. NOW WITHOUT AN EX-PRESIDENT The earth has a perpetual bump that keeps travelling around under

Washington, District of Columbia. the moon, and stretches the Atlan

The saying that America. "kills tic occan out 3 feet wider at some times than others, according to a tenth of second-important in her presidents" seems borne out speaker at a meeting of the Ameri- such measurements was claimed to by the fact that although the death can Association for the Advance show that the positions of these of Mr. Calvin Coolidge removed two observatories on the earth's the last ex-President, six recent ment of Science.

The travelling bump is caused by surface must change with respect widows of former Presidents the moon's attraction, which stret- the stars, for otherwise the "star still alive. ches the earth out as though it time" at both observatories should were made of rubber instead of be the same. renk, and may upset soms measure-

The only way that the two points ments of the stars made in the past could change their positions would before astronomere knew the bump be by the stretching of the earth's Mrs. "Teddy" Roosevelt bave re- exists, said the speaker.

crust toward the moon, responding mained-perhaps most in the public The earth's bump was said to to the same "pull" that causos eye.

Only one former First Lady, the travel all the way around the globe jocean tides. As the moon travels every 24 hours, like a bump on around the earth it thus pulls out, widow of President Cleveland, re- rubber balloon produced by run-a continuous bump on the earth's married. She lives, with her hus- ning your finger around the inside. surface, which "snaps back" when band, a Professor of Archaeology at Princeton University, in Prince. The effect of the bump, it was the moon has passed.

Discovery of the travelling bump ton, New Jersey. claimed, is to stretch the earth's

This is only the second time surface a little, so that any two may help substantiate the theory) points, such as New York and Lon- that the rocks under the earth's since the death of George Wash- don are farther apart at one time crunt are plastic, enabling them to ington that the United States has in response to the been without a living ex-President. of day than another. The exis-stretch

It may also un-'For a few months between the tence of this "bump" was deduced moon's pull. from a difference found in time set past measurements of the posi- death of Grover Cleveland and the signals determined from the stars, tion of stars, for it means that the retirement of Theodore Roosevelt, sent out from the Greenwich Ob-point from which a star is measur-there was no former President- servatory in England and the U. S. ed is not stationary but is in a a situation comparable to the pre- Naval Observatory. This differ slightly different position at dif- sent, since Mr. Herbert Hoover ence, amounting to as much as a ferent times of the night.--Rauter, retires on March 4-Reuter.

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