The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-09-23

in Chilli, in the West and
East Indies, in India, and in
Peru; great storms in South America,
and the opening Of new crater in the
Philippine Islands. In March there
was an earthquake in Nevada; on the
same day a frightfnl eruption in the
the Celebez volcano began, and a great
earthquake in Begota followed imme.
diately. There were also electric storms
in Peru, and near the same time the tor.
nado in East st. Louis, and soon after
earthquakes in many parts of the world.
In the fall there was hardly day but
dawned on a dreadful convulsion in
some part of the world, and moro than
once on several localities Mt the same
time.
vUCANLAN CYCLES.
The eleven years cycle was not suili,
cient, in the scientific point OF Wow, to
account for all the natural phenomena
noticed, hence the same principle that
was applied to determine the Jovial
cycle was put to work to fix other cycles.
Those of Saturn, Venus and OF Mars
were next ascertained, and still there
was margin. There were many phe'
nomena which could not be assigned to
any of the periodic causes since they
came either too early or too late for the
planetary influence to be mademanifest.
MIR. Tice observed that these extraordi-
nary events often recurred at intervals
of twenty.three days, and conceived the
idea that the planet Vuloan had some
thing to do with them. Vulcan is new
planet, inferior to Mercury, and accord
ing to Tice, was discovered by Lescar-
bault, March 26, 1859. Mr.. Tice HIM
self says he had the good fortune to
observe it making transit across the
suns disk in September of the same
wear, but not knowing Of LescrabauJ's
discovery, supposed it to be Mercury,
The unknown class consisted chiefly OF
cyclones, though there were some earth
quakes, anroras and sun spots. Taking
the number Of days between the first
unknown phenomenon and the second,
between the second and third and 80 or,
and reducing these numbers to their
prime factors, most of them resulted IN
twenty-throe days, and those that did
not, varied only one or two days. A
list of Vulcanian phenomena which MIR.
Tice appends increases our respect for
Vulcan and his cyles to a very profound
degree.
Among others which have been re-
ferred to Vulcan rs their cause, IS the
volcanic eruption in Iceland in l7Sl' 80.
1t began in December, and was accom-
panied by violent tornadoes and great
earthquake. Three firespouts broke
ont on Mt. Skankes, which, for siX
weeks, sent Il torrent of lava sixty miles
long and twelve broad to the sea, dry
ing up twelve rivers, utterly de-
stroying twenty.one villages ond ma
tcrially iniuriug thirty-four others. In
reference to this eruption, it is, how
ever, due to Mercury and Venus to say
that they rendered material assistance
to Vulcan in this matter. Iu 1862, Sept
9, there was an equinox OF Vulcan, bve
days after Mercurial equinox and IN
some ports of England hail storm pre-
vailed, the hailstones falling "six Or
seven feet deep" possibly drifted. A
great typhoon at Hong Kong, July Il.
%. 184l, caused the loss of hundreds Of
Chinese vessels and thousands OF lives,
and was coincident with the equinox OF
Vulcan. Numbers of other phenomena
are given, cyclones, water spouts, sand
spouts, hurricanes and even earthquakes
which could be attributed to no other
influence than that of Vulcan, some
times in conjunction with Venus and
Mercury.