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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1884)
THE WEST SHORE. 09 THF COLORS OF BUOYS. WHEN you enter nny harbor in the world, Baid a pilot to a Sun reporter, where the channel is marked by buoys, vou will find that thoHe on your right as you pass in lire painted rod and those on your loft black. If you of a current of air, so this speck of liquid fire is made to turn under the force exerted by the flow of the condens ing gas. As we gaze in silent awe this little nucleus ex pHnd into a huge bnll - into an imuioufe glubo! IuIIUoiih of aces elapse, but this fiery clobe continues its tireless revolutions. Like a sponge it has taken up the nebulous1 should soe one painted in rod and black horizontal bands matter, and appropriated it as a part of itself, until it has the ship should run as close to it as possible, because expanded and fills all the space within tho orbit of the that indicates the contor of a narrow channel. Buoys most distant planet belonging to our present solar sys- with red and black vertioid stripes alwayB mark the cihIb torn. Its diameter is more than six thousand million of of spits and tho outer and inner ends of extensive reefs, miloB. A trrfifit force holds it in a solid mass, else the whore there is a channel on each side. When red and surface would fly off by force of the revolution on its black checkers are paiuted on a buoy it marks either a r,-i ii- l i il l. i I n. .... nlw.i.....l!... in il.A 1inlwii it imaginary axis. liut tho central attraction has its hunt, and when that is attained, the accretion continuing, poi tions of its surface must be thrown off, like balls of mud from the wheels of a coach when rapidly driven. Behold! even while we are watching, the limit of the central force has been reached and passed. See that rock in tho open soa or an obstruction in tho harlior of small extont, with a channol all around. If there are two such obstructions and a channol botweon them, tho buoy on the right of you will have rod and white checkers, and the one on your left will have black ami white checkers. When a wreck obstructs the channol a green Imoy will i,, maa rvf UnnM firA na it in hiirlorl into Hnnc.ol Mark bn T1ncfid on the sea side of tho wreck, with tho word how quickly it takes a globular form, polarity and revolu- "wreck" plainly painted on it in white lottors, provided tion upon an imaginary axis, like its parent We are there is a clear channol all around it; otherwiHO, nn even itv. NnntmiA. the number will be painted in white above the word " wreck " Ulivmug ft" !' " J- 1 ' 1 , . first born from our sun, wheels into his orbit and begins when the buoy is on tho right side of the channel, anil an .. . . Ii ii t it. his planetary life. But as the offspring m turn becomes odd nurnoor u mo uuoy is on uw hhu a parent, so Neptune threw off a portion of himself and moons were born to him. A child and grandchildren now ... .i Ti t trace their ancestry to our Bun. dui outers are oeing born; we see Uranus, Saturn and Jupiter as they fly off II I ana join me ceiesuui u uiu. NO WONDER I OW very few of tho thousands who complain of " hard times " realize that the duel causeB or our I join the celestial train .J business and financial distress consist in our toleration, A wonderful catastrophe rivets our attention on the "U8" , . . ... . u birth of the next (and fifth) planet By the operation of some occult force, instead of wrapping its hery garments as a doodIo. of indiscreet and exinmsive habits. Statistics show that we pay for articles not only altogether unnocoB- ery garments . . ... .... :;,.: l.ni. f ... . i ,. -1 , ii i i sarv lor our milium , v into globular form, and taking its place m he tram o hundreds of millions of dollars; indeed, worlds, like a well-bred planet, it bursta into Hundreds ol , ((f fo0(l ftml olothi fragments, each becoming a little W 'lamed t,y mar. . m )f ()f Rn(l tals of the present time "planetoids (like planets, the lfilO.000,000; importations of rlt suffix, oid. meaninc "like.") Fixing our gaze once r'b ' .., i 1 nnn nnn nnn. more of our As again, bo it seems, from the analogies in Nature, that the deatinv of all the planets is to return to the sun, when they have accomplished the mission for which Infinite Intelligence called them into existence. W. H. Chanev. limn, v"'Y;""r' v --- i - r mj poople that can spend money in this profuse fashion ought not to complain of " hard times I " But wo could enumerate a score of other wayB in wincii money is squandered, which would double tho aliove grand nggro- gate.. The Terminus Hotel at Tacoma, J. W. Woodard, pro- pBmRiS0 GLASHVAUK.-lt is ascertained from - i i 1 iU. nnrl onY dVintW. That Cltv ...... .1 I 1 1,. !.,.!! nliitnnrtva mill pneior, stanus hciu i"3i,v i - - pprience tnai it is aiways wv v " j' j" l,..a lnntr noedod adoauate hotel accommodations, and .l,t..iM ami nrililllirv iliiHHwiiro 1xfi)re niii them. those Mr. Woodard is now providing. The convenience glft(jg .g grefttv blllR,pnwi by the process, and the nf U Wntion and the superior accommodations afforded , ... . inn war A nroventd it from (mtowquont crack- render the Terminus Hotel a great favorite with the Lamp (.imnAyB ,! Bhades which are stamod may traveling public. bo thoroughly cleanwL by lx)iling them in soda water, . . .:i -i r,lini-w wnshinff soda. Tho dass or china should The live real estate firm ol ix,wen - ;utpr BrtlcHwltUll according to eonvenience.