Daily Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1854-1855, 1855-02-17
The Earth.

| lisrdil is treating his readefs 10 se''es VI
essays on Astronomy. We give an extract
! from that on the Earth, and invite the at
itention OF the Down Casters to the startling
disclosures he makes in regard to the re-
suit OF their emigration to the Vest
/ "The earth or as the Latins calledit, Tel
| lus, (from which originated the expression
/ doteil u.s. is the third planet in the solar
system, and the one on which we subsist,
with all cur important joys and Sorrows
The San-Diego Herald is Published weekly
on this planet for five dollars per annum pay
| able invariably in advance. As the ear.h
| Is by no means the most important pianet'h
| th. system there is no reason 10 suppose
4 that Il is i rticn ary distinguished from the
others by being inhabited II is reasonable,
therefore 10 conclude that all the other plan
els of the system are filled with living. mo
wing aud scntient beings; aud AZ some OF
then, are superior to the earth in size and
position, il is not improbable that their IN
Inhabitants may be superior to Us IN physical
and mental organization.
"But if this were demonstrable fact, in
stead of mere hypothesis, it would be
found very difficult matter to persuade us
| the earth appears like brilliant star, very
much in fact, as vEsu appears to us; and
reasoning from analogy. we are led to be-
! liefthat the election al Mr.. Pierce, the Eu-
ropean war, or the splitin the great Demo
| cratic party produced but very little excite
men, among them.
"To the inhabitants of JUPITER. our i'm
4 portant globe appears like small star OF the
I fourth or fifth magnitude. We recoiieet
some years ago, gazing with astonIshmeht
upon the Inhabitants of a drop Of water, de-
yeloped By the solar microscope, and secret
lv wondering whether they were or not
J reasonable beings, with souls to be saved
/ II is not altogether pleasant reflection thae
la highly scientific inhabitant of JUPITER,
armed with a telescope OF Ito us) incon ceiv-
able form, may be pursuing similar course
i Of inquiry, and INDUCING in similar specu-
I laiions regarding our earth and its lnhaoi-
tan,s. Gazing with curious eye, his attea-
4 ton is suddenly attracted by the movements
Of grand celebration of Fourth Of July 10
i New York. or migaty convention in Baltl-
more.
4 .God bless my soul.' be eXclams. Il de-
i clare they're alit e, these little creatures.--
do see them wrigge.' To an inhabi,ant OF
/ the sun, however. he of JUPITEg 10 probably
| quite as insignificant, and the sun-man Is
| possibly a mere atom In the opinion of n
i dweller in Sirius. A little reflection on
/ these subjects leads to the opinion that the
| death of an individual man on this earth,
i though perhaps as important an event as
/ can occur to himself, is calculated TO cause
no great cenvusion of nature or disturb par
ticularly the great aggregate OF created be-
j ings.
i "The earth moves round the sun from
west to east in a year, and turns on its axis
in day; thus moving at the rate of sixty
: eight thousand miles an hour in its orbit
and rolling around at the tolerably rapid rate
: OF one thousand and forty miles per hour
As our readers may have seen that when
a man Is galloping horse violently over q
smooth read, If the horse from viciousness
or other cause suddenly stops, the man keeps
on at the same rate over the animals head;
so we, surprising, the earth to be suddenly
Il arrested on its skis, men, women, children,
! horses, cattle, and sheep, donkeys, editors
and member Of Congress. with all our goods
/ and chattels, would be thrown off into the
I air at speed Of one hundred and seventy
three miles minute, every mothers son OF
us describing the arc Of parabola, which is
/ probably the only description we should ev-
er be able to give of the affair,
"This catastrophe, to one sufficiently col
lacted 10 enjoy il, would doubtless be ex-
ceedingly amusing; bu. us there would prob
ablv be no time for laughing, we pray that
it may not occur until after our demise,
when, should il take place, our monument
will probably accompany the movement
1t is singular fact that il q man travel
round the earth in an eastwardly direction
he will find, on returning to the place of de-
parture, he has gained one whole day; the
reverse Of this proposition being true also,
it follows that the Yankees who are con-
stantly travelling to the West. do not live
as long by day or two as they would il
they had staid at home; and supposing
each Yankees time to be worth one dol
lar and fifty cents per day, it may be east.
" shown that a considerable amount Of
money is annually lost by their rowing dis
positions"
Now, if any of our Down East friends
feel uncomfortable in the loss OF this day OIL
two, we would advise them to set out anc
travel due East and continue their journey
Z until they have made the circumference o.
the globe, by which time they viii have
gained enc day and again will be in. Iowo
prepared with an extension Of their lease up
on life, to settle down.
CATCHING A DEER.--Last Sunday, whilt
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