The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-09-28
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DANCER PROM THE CoMEr- Prof. lew
| that the CONT which is now on a visit TO on
system, will cross The orbit Of our planet ut sucl
point as to influence our globe, perhaps del
nge it with water by is tail swashing into tn,
Pacific or Atlantic oceans, and sending up Ia,
spray far higher than the mountains of ths
moon. We have fears Of such n result, bu
IT it comes, We canuct help ii.
The New York Tunes makes fair hit at the
Professor, in the following:
The learned Professor has studied Comets
has followed them round Kept one eye on them
for thirty-fuur years; and knows bv heart every
whisk Of their tails. Hence he can give .an
opinion as is an opinion, and one that is well
worth listening TO- He says the diameter oI
the nucleus and envelope Of the Comic is l0O,-
600 miles, and its velocity is about % 600 miles
minute; consequently, its direct concusson
would produce an enlarged 8. melancholy catas-
trophe" to all the inhabitants of the earth
The Professor is not, however, certain that
the collision will be direct. 1t may strike us
kind OF slaning wise. Ii so, the Professor
thinks 1t will not carry away any body or any
thing, but only greatly disturb US by destroying
all objects, animate and inanimale, which NAV
be in its course. The Professor regrets that ne
cannot find any reliable data for calculation as
to what part OF the earlh's surface will be the
first point OF contact as, if he could spot il ex-
actly, the number OF victims might be greatly
decreased, by removal Of the inhabitants from
that part, and placing them in comparative se-
curity on the opposite side of the globe Ii the
Comet should first strike the waier-say in the
middle of the Atlantic or Pacific Oceans the
Professor thinks there would be partial or gen.
eral deluge, and insinuates that in such d,lem-
ma it would be well to procure many boats
and life preservers as possible. BY the way,
the Professor throws a new and interesting
light upon the cause of the first deluge--it was
a Comet that struck somewhere, and splashed
the water all over everybody. But let the
learned Professor give his opinion in his own
language. He says /" IF il should strike on
the solid land, the evils to be aPprel,ended
would be multifarious The concussion would
extinguish life in great many-the sub,erra-
mean fires might be stirred up and made to burn
so 6ercely as to consume the whole world At
all events the axis Of the earth would be chan
ged so much that it wonld be necessary TO re-
move the poles and place them at points nearer
the centre Of bearing-draw new lines for the
tropics and the equator; and those changes
might place our country in the frozen regions at
the North pole, or, parch it under the burning
sun at the new equator"
II the subterransan fires are to be stirred up,
why there's no use of building boats, because
it'll be so hot that the water will all go off in
steam. What rousing kettle of fish there
will be when the water begin to boil; and then
what pity that there will be nobody to eat
them! Where's Mr.. Wise, the balloon maker,
We hereby order him to build for US two dozen
largest size balloons and one hundred para
chutes' Immediately, and at any price-so they
are reliable. The "parachutes' must have
long and strong ropes attached, SO that we can
sead down reporters to take notes, and pull them
up again, with the latest news
I z. S.-We must have windIass in eacn bal
loon, aud the whole bill will be paid as soon as
things get right again.