Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1874-01-27


the earth the level rays passed. Jansen
aud Secchi found the same bands in
the spectrum of fires en- a distant
mountain, Two months before them
DR.. Cooke, Of Cambridge. Mass, COM
bining observations with the spectrum
and hygrometer, found the bands more
distinct, as the moisture of the air was
greater. The moon gave no such
bands. The white spots on Mars did.
Then these were clouds The water
for clouds must come from oceans
Clouds must drop rain. Rain must
fall on mountains and decend in
rivers TO the oceans, and be raised
again by heat, causing air currents,
and water currents, storm winds and
rain clouds. So much of Mars seemed
to correspond with earth. What was
this world like? Well, in surface it
was nearly one-third as large as the
earth, in volume one-seventh as large !;
that il. it had 66 600. 900 square miles
| of surface. II life was that fer which
the planet was formed such surface
could support an enormous life In
the matter of gravity. what weighs a
poand on earth would weigh six
ounces OF Mars. The change would
hav> curious effects, though the forms
at life. If such existed, would he adapt
ed to it. If such a change took place
! on earth We should all lose weight, be
| more active and stronger, but less
stable. We should find ourselves
| staggering rs one walking in water
AS ali objects would he lighter, build
ing would entail less labor. but build
ings must be more massive To with
stand the winds. \ hurricane on
Mars would have terrible effect OH life
except life were adapted. If the force
of gravity on cal tn should be lessened
the dropping head of the snowLrop
would rise, and the pistils and stamens
displaced would no longer produce
their kind; the race of snOwdrops
would die. For the whole might 81
the earth's weight was employed in
Keeping at its due slope the head of a
| snnwdrop. So if life existed Oh Mars
/ it must he in form 10 us very strange.
| On that planet land and sea We're
| about equal. and The seas were all
bottle neck"d. BY sounding in our
seas II had been discovered that should
| the earth he drained of wa,er TIL land
| and water were equal in surface the
| conformation of The sea bottoms was
| such that the seas would be bottled
necked in shape. Perhaps then the
| change had taken place on Mars. The
! moon, smaller than the earth, had no
| water at all. There was an apparent
| correspondence between the size of a
| planet and the amount of its surface
covered by water. a smaller planet,
too was colder than a larger one, be-
cause the force of gravity was less AID
| the atmosphere cois equently rartr.
| The Whewellitc theory was that Mars
| had parted with its heat and was suf-
| fering with intense cold was midway
between the populated earth and the
barren moon. There must he on Mars
| ten times as much air as analogy die.
tates to prevent an intense colds-
| There was always on the edge of Mars
disk II whitish rim, supposed at one
time to be summer thunder cloud. -
| But on earth such clouds existed only
in the daytime. On Mars they were
| present morning aud evening only
| heing mt the edges of the disk. whiIt
the sur shonc down at the CENTRE
| They might he aggrcgations of morn
ing and evening vapOr CONCEALED inIC
| hnarfrOst and snow. The snow once
fallen must by some process get carried
To the poles, and great catastOphe'
would take place, This theory which
pointed to the ImposSibility of life OF
the planet the lecturer confessed HI
was unwilling to accept, having mad,
a pet uf Mars, and pleased himsel
with extending to it kind of livinl
sympathy, holding it miniature o
the earth. But when he took up TIL
cudgcIs to overthrow the theory tn,
theory overthrow him. He believed i
was shown as clearly as such thing
could he shown that Mars was unfi
for such forms of life as existed oil
earth, or for anything but very loy
forms indeed. On earth itself cOndi
ti0ns were recognized under which
life could not exist. On n globe sucl
a. Mars or the moon life, it seemed
could nowhere exist. Mr.. Procto
then passed to Jupiter. the giant plane
of the solar system, belonging to til
nuter family as being placed beyon
the zone of aterOids, This family con
sisted o. Jupiter. Saturn, Uranus. an,
Neptune. aud the distance betwee
Mars and Jupiter, or Jupiter and Sa
turn, was equal tn the whole span &
the inner family, That was an int
) nation that here bodies of anothe
kind w.re 10 lie dealt with. Jupiter
diameter was 5000 miles. and il
volume >. o times that at the ear:l
The TELESCOPE showed il covered wit
-trpai;s and bands. In those lafId
here seemed to bP traces OF motion G
material un from point of slow rota
ton To- u point OF more rapid rotation
fGrIhr from The surface in which tn
newly arrived mater was LIT behind
The natural conclusion WAS that tn
atmosphere was deep. The satellite
uf Jupiter, . 100 miles lit diameter
were not rarely so large as the grea
, rounded clouds on the planet = surface
7 Bat if these were only loo miles dee
, they would hp So pressed down at In
l lower parts 10y gravitation that tn
| atmosphere. If il remained an atmOs
plrre. would he many millions &
times d"nSer than platinum. TIL
earih's atmosphere doubled i'm thick
5 ness every three and a half mile.
} jupiter every one and a half mile:
, uIadrip!cd IN three miles. and 30 OF
ihr a;mo~phefc would cease to exist
heinz Solidiiiri under the imman>
, pressure. How Interpret fact :
strange? VOL, the he planets dest1
+ nv was just that az the sun. Nigh
one not =" fur her and say they wer
i. a,ikr IA either RS ecis? A. the su
the pressure "a~ tremendous, but il
heat expanded the nus and prevente
II from being driven IN. Without SUI
po-ing such "a heat in Jupiter il wa
apparently Impossible 10 get over III
difficulty. Prnft ssnr Pierce-Of whom
, DR.. Holmes said.
; Lot master IN n statelier walk
Whose annual eyPh, ring takes ton Of chalk
had come to the conclusion that Jup
L.r and The sun We're alike orbs, II
stinct with inherent fire. \ satCliit
nai been se"n TO pass over upon tll
edge of Jupiter and 10 APPARENTLY =
uack y hing Gould 90 back IN tn
Lar system. But, a. Goethe, sac
| lu her utunetruciiivS nature reveal
her secrets" We must have a solu
non uf this MOI strouS phenonen"l
a. Il tins theory gives 1t. The sateili'
uas~td over he edge OF he deep cloud
around The planet; heat dissipated tn