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  we would vastly prer a wigwam to such chain- waters of about the same depth
on diefnt
  ben aa we have beoo crammed into hundreds coasts and in the different latitudes.
  of times in this and other countries. The door      OURuaX"s or THu
SEA
  must be eloeed ad bolted for protection against  All our little readers
know that rivers hwe
  buglars, and there we were, shut into a mise- currents, but acme of them,
probably, do net
  rable, sour, musty little corner, without the know that there are also
currents in thb se.-
  possibility of getting a mouthful of fresh air currents which always flow
in the uio dfreo-
  until morning, uGless by kinkting out a pane tion, just as surely as the
Mississippi am
  of glas, or removing the entire window-a Southward to the Gulf.
  thing byno means easy to do, in most cases,  "1 Yes," says one,
" I was on the seneabe
  without a set of carpenter's tools. After a tor- once, and saw one of these
currents drab itk
  turous night of groaning and horrible dreams, waters upon the shore, oh,
so furiously  "
  morning came with nervousness, headache, No, that was not a current, such
as we ean.
  and inward cursings at the diabolical reckless- That is, it did not flow
steadily, and always in
  ness or execrable stupidity of the architect or the same direction. It
was only a dashing of
proprietor of that particular Calcuttian hole. the waves, which to-morrow
the winds may
   Farmers, and every body else, open your turn the other way, just as the
waters or the
windows, if you cant do any better, and so let little lake near you sometimes
wash upon one
in the pure air of heaven. It will not hurt shore and then upon the other.
you unless you allow a draft to sweep directly  One of these great currents
in the sea is
over you, and after sleeping a few nights in a that which flows from the
east westward in all
pure, health-giving air, you will never again be the equatorial regions of
the earth. They are
content to sleep in the atmosphere of your own compelled to flow in that
direction because
exhalations.                                 the earth revolves on its axis
in the opposite
                                              direction. To prove that this
must be so, take
          YOUTH'S CORNER.                     an apple, put a stick or knitting
needle right
                                              through the center, from the
stem to the blos-
         lore Things About the Sea.         sora, dip it in water, and then
standing  ith
  In the November number we told you some your face to the east, hold the
two ends of the
things about the vastness of the Ocean, its needle in your fingers and make
the app18go
depth, the quantity of water it contains, and round and round from you towards
the eost.
the immense amount of salt.                  What water adheres to the apple
will flow to-
          THC COLOR OF THE SEA              wards you from the east. Or,
look at the grind-
  Varies in different localities, and for reasons stone, and see how the
water flows in just the
not yet fully explained. In some places, as i  opposite direction to that
of the hand and crank
the inlets on the coast of Norway, it is so clear used in turning.
that, when at rest, the bottom can he plainly  But we did not intend to give
all the ren-
seen at a depth of one hundred to two hundred sons. If there should be anything
you don't
feet. Upon some coasts it has a reddish or pur- understand, ask your parents
or school teach-'
plish hue, upon others white, and again is almost er, or us by letter.
black. In the tropics, it is at one time an in-  This mighty current we were
talking about,
digo blue, then a deep green, and again a slate is also Influenced, on the
surface, by what
grey.                                      are known as the trade Winds,
which blow in
On our way across the Atlantic, it varied at the same direction, and for
the same reason.
different points from a light sky blue, through  It that part of the equatorial
current which
dl the shades of green to a blue black. Depth flows westward on the north
side of the ejqa-
undoubtedly has something to do with the dif- tor, could flow without hindrance,
it would
lerent shades, but does not account for the wash directly through the Continent
of Northl
strange and beautiful hues which characterise America; but as it can't do
that, it makes a



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