Gold Hill Daily News

England and the Gulf Stream.
Every school boy has been told that England is saved from the frozen fate of Greenland and Iceland by means of that grand and mysterious ocean river known as the Gulf Stream—a broad flow of warm water from the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, which courses through the Atlantic Ocean northward to Newfoundland, and then strikes out across the ocean to the shores of England and Europe, warming and moistening the climate of the British isles, which would otherwise be as cold and sterile as Siberia. The Worcester (Mass.) Spy, a journal not given to the publication of sensational news, has information, from reliable sources, that the earthquakes of the past year have so changed the course of this ocean river that it no longer reaches England, and on this fact, confirmed by ship captains and the ice flow of the present season, is predicated a theory to account for the phenomenon of the great drought in England and parts of Europe. It was the Gulf Stream that gave England her humidity and rains; that diverted from her shores she promises to be left hereafter as dry as a desert in summer and as cold as an iceberg in winter. The World confirms the Spy's report, as to the change of the current of the Gulf Stream, on the authority of ship masters arriving at New York, but hesitates to believe fully in the old theory that it is the Gulf Stream which gives climate to England. If the Spy is right, John Bull has at last found his invincible enemy.