The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-12-22
our Neighbors In the Stars,

Many writers have gone into the question of
the probable stature, strength, and confguration
OF our fellow-bengs in other spheres. Christian
Wolf longago fixed the height of the inhabitants
Of Jupiter at forty feet eight inches. The Fourier
lists have more recently imagined a kind Of cees-
tal hierarchy in which the successive groups rise
one above the other, in analogy with those Of the
lower universe, into what NJ. Renaud has termed
binyers, trniyers, quairinvers, etc. The planets
themselves have souls and die out, as ours will
do TO give place TO newer forms of planetary life.
Swedenborg, everybody knows, grew so familiar
with the inhabitants of the several planets in
which he was in the habit of spending his leisure
moments OF spiritual ecstacy, that he has left us
but little TO tud out touching the moral and other
characteristics OF our brethren in those abDdes.
The feelings with which we, in turn, inspire those
| remote re ations Of ours-the lively warmth of
Venus, the dignided calm Of Jupiter, the sardonc
| coldness OF Saturn-are not less matters Of fact
and veIsci'y. Science, thus interpreted, points
| to place for our souls among those radiant
| spheres. Transported among new conditions OF
| existence they may contract or put forth powers
akin TO those Of the happier beings whose lot has
| been already cast there And, as TO what that lot
! may be, ii makes tie mouth water lO listen to NJ.
! FlammaTiOn lecturng US.
| In an atmosphere no longer composed of oxy-
| gen and azote, what ills Of climate may not be
| spared those fortunate denizens The whole pull
| monary apparatus is doubtless modified, and
| with IL the whole system of organic functions
| Instead OF the gross and clumsy plan of keeping
! up the bodily growth and warmth by food liquid
| anu tOllu inc OtBTauluS eNpeulenL OF borrowing
Tor that end the debris OF other beings and worst
| OF all, that Of killing and deyouring those en-
! dowed with life, there may be a system Of nOur-
| ishiDg atmosphere, composed Of elements nutri-
! ciOus IN themselves, and capable of assimilation
! by organs OF corresponding ethereal texture In
| the general repeal Of laws which belong 20 mans
| inferior state, that of 'labor' may come In for
the earliest aboiion aud with it go ali those vul-
| gar cares, appetites, and ambitions to which so
much OF the misery and sHn,d OF terrestrial life are
/ due. Vice will never have arisen. The origin of
| evil will offer no point for philosophers 10
wrangle over fer evil itself will never have step
i ped in. Another claw" abrogated, or rather
/ never set in force, will be that of "death."
! War and violence, excess and decay, being
! unknown in these happy regions the idea Of
| dying will be out Of the question. Peace and
| right will reign undisturbed. The worry faculties
of the intellect will partake of the purity and the
| elevation of the moral nature. The tedious and
| cumbrous process OF experiment and observation
| will be replaced by direct and transcendent
vision Of truth. Ii seems If the limit of logic
itself will be struck of as letters from the spirit.
| The old problems insoluble here will seem per-
| fectly eOntemptible. The circle will have been
squared there long ago, and philosophers stones
will be picked up by the roadside. The elixir OF
| life, indeed, viii be unknown, because, as we
have seen, il will be superiuous. Art and science
viii enter upon new phases. Numeration win
proceed by snch novel aud unprecedented pro-
cess that we trembe 10 pronounce what two
and two may be expected to make In M. Flam-
marion's developed universe. .-TSqtRday ReoieIe.
The Courier des Alpes, Published at Gap,sta.Cs
that the gendarmerie Of ofChatean- . uey ras having
heard that dock of thirty-twO hundred sheep
were blocked up by snow IN the mountain Of the
Col-Aguel, seventy five hundred feet above the
level ofthe sea- set out and assisted by tue villa
gers of Pierre Crosse and Fontglarde had to
traverse Q distance or eight miles covered with
snow twenty inches thick. After ton hours Of
painful and dangerous labor, the sheep, which
you'd have shortly peIished OF hunger, having
had no food for four days, were removed 30 a
Place Of safety. -Four only OF the entire aock
| perIshed " the snow,