The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-11-05

sun and Of the earth, at thsir maxinun,
occasioned the most awful disasters, IN
increasing more and moro the solar heat
on our globe, during rsvera1 centuries.
The temperate zones and the equatorial
regions were reduced to havo no more,
either animals or plants, under the long
action Of burning sun. 81 s.
The extreme and instant heat could
not persist without acting at the same
time on the seas which overs2read the
greatest part of the terrestrial surface.
1t caused IN immense evaporation of =
long duration: for all, relative to the
powerfulness Of the cause. When, in
course Of time, the sun was removed
from the earth by the continuity Of its
retrogradation, the vapors heaped up the
atmosphere, condensed, and the great
waters were precipitated on the earth,
under the form Of rain, with IN excess Of
fury and greatness which since has never
been equaled. They gave rise to the
universal cataclysm known by the name
of Noah's Deluge. 1t took place when
the sun WIS in Pisces at 20 degrees, about
5000 years ago. +
The very moment, then, in which the
sun will retrograde to westward, beyond
0 degree of Libra, its rays will act imme.
diately upon our globe in 4 contrary di.
rcction.
The movement Of the earth will be
slackened, and will decrease progressively
in order to cease afterwards, without any
disorder, by virtue Of what the move
ments Of our planet are common to all
the objects which are en- its surface. We
can compare the discontinuance of its
movement to that Of a steamer which
slackens more and more before ceasing
to move.
The Mosaic deluge took its rise in the
northwest; the next southern deluge will
proceed from the southeast to the north.
west. in about 0,900 years, when the sun,
after having refrigerated through the
meridianal signs, shall stand in twenty
six degrees of Virgo. The increasing
proximity Of the sun to the autumnal
equinox will smite with death al the liv.
ing beings under the torrid and temper.
ute zones; it will dry up the water
courses; will empty the largest rivers,
and by IT'S incessant approach, will men
ace our ATTITUDES with q general confla.
grafton. The waters it will be that will
save the world. The ocean will be evap.
Grated in mass in an atmosphere that
will extend itself, from day to day, in
greater attitudes. by virtue Of its expan-
sion by heat. This evaporation will not
be accomplished by an instantaneous
act, but with regular order of progress
sion. from which nature never departs.
These vapors, which will be heaped up in
clouds. will be able to intercept
the burning faction of the solar rays.
The rain, which is always ready to pour
down form the extreme limits Of the
atmosphere, being continually evapora.
ted afresh, will reascend to the upper.
most zones before reaching the lower
ones, which the radiation of blazing soil
will re1der peculiarly apt to generate
vapor. When the continual retrogression
Of the sun will withdraw it from the nth,
these ponderous collections of water trans.
formed into clouds, will lose consider
able portion Of their heat. The lowering
Of temperature will commence in the up
per regions Of the atmosphere. The waters
that will be the highest up, in descending
toward the earth. and passing through
the interior regions, will cool them, and
the compensation will become general.
The ocean will precipitate itself in its
immensely, under the form Of rain.
1t will be torrent-like descent, accom-
panied by tempests Of unparalleled SUBJ
Unity. Terrific winds whirling around
the earth; conhagrations o: lightning
In state Of pcrlhancnce, tearing in its
whole extent maddencd atmosphere.
On the surface Of the planet, volcanic
eruptions, explosions Of internal convul.
sions and earthquakes agitating the
crust OF the globe, already tossed BY tho
pillows Of an appalling food. Murderous
phenomena of q tempest machleSs in
terror. Men will have no words to
describe the boundless and universal
sweep OF its awful ravag:s.
THE MOON DOES NOT REvoLyE AROUND THE
Professor Trauser asserts that the
moon does no. revolve around the earth.
as the modern astronomy says: because,
IT 1t were so, the ecl,pses of the sun would
begin by the oriental part of that lumi-
n"'J "AAA Si'u W IAe WeSk absolutely
the contrary Of what is observed. But
the moon accompanies the Garth, from
west to cast, in her annual revolution.
Her apogee and perigee take place indif:
lerently when she is new, full, or in her
quarters. Apogee signifies the point of
the earth's orbit the farthest from the
earth; and perigee the point Of the moons
orbit nearest the earth. At the summer
solstice the moon may be at perigee, when
she is new, and at apogce when she is
full. At the winter solstice she may be
at apogce when she is new and at perigce
when she is full.
From this regulation may be deduced
the general characteristics Of the whole
plan; that the moon, in her movement of
annual translation, makes excursions on
each side of the terrestrial orbit; that
these excursions are included vi, hin two
circular limits, concentric With the center
of her orbit, and beyond which she never
passes; that the orbit of the earth being
eccentric to these two circular limits, our
vision may allow itself to be surprised BY
deceptive perspectives, and thereby as.
sign to the movements of the moon, which
are constantly uniform and always in the
plane Of the ecliptic, inequalities that do
not exist: in fine. NAV subordinate the