AN EXPLANATION.
Mamma. "Why do you come in every minute for something to eat, Herbert?"
Herbert. "Because, mamma, I am so small that I cannot eat enough to last me over an hour."
ON THE EARTH AND IN THE SKY.
THE EARTH YESTERDAY, TO-DAY, TO-MORROW.
BY N. S. SHALER,
Professor of Geology at Harvard University.
From ancient days men have been seeking to learn the history of the earth; how it came to be set in the orderly array of the heavenly bodies; how it has step by step come forth from the ancient chaos to the existing perfection; how and to what end it is to go forward in ages beyond our own. In this century many thousands of able men have been engaged in these inquiries.