Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-04-27
HE HERALD.
DAY OF JUDGMENT.
WILT OCCUR THIS YEAR.
Startling Revelations from the Pyra
mids of Egypt-The Earth's
Final ThroeS.
Prom the New York Mercnrr.

From the New York Mercury.
The heavens above, the earth be-
meath, the waters under the earth
and tho atmosphere which envelopes
our planet, have recently exhibited
such portentous phenomena as TO fill
the minds of all Christendom with
wonder and apprehension. Men of
profound research, like Victor Her
ault, De la Rue, Darlington. and
others, who have struggled assiduous-
~ TO wiring the secret OF our worlds
destiny from nature, are no longer
treated as mere distempered vision
aries. Those cosmical changes that
telescope and the spectrum reveal in
the heavens and the terrible meteor
illogical demonstration that dotted
eur coasslne with shipwrecks, lead
US, by solemn steps, back into the In
finite. There is not an astronomer
or scientist worth the name living
to-day but accepts the statement
that "both the earth and it's inhabi-
tants have past tho prime Of their
developement," as selt-evident fact.
They predicate this CT ndition as re-
spocts the earth, just as confidently
as we popularity predict man of
sixty Is past his phys prime.
The subject of the death of tho
earth may not be a pleasant one;
but some of the foremost minds of
the age haze said death may occur
to the earth at any moment, just as
to the individual who has entered
upon second childishness and mere
oblivion" 1t may be by slow pro-
cess of natural decay, or it my &c
sudden. The fact of the globe hav-
ing Ell cred into its death period, it
will be remembered, has nothing
whatever to do with the intellectual
development of man. The earth
quake, the volcano, the thunderbolt,
and the hurricane spread havoc and
destruction irrespective of mans
wishes or mans pray ers, and the
globes final convulsion, wo are as
sured, will overtake us Gas q thief In
the night "Then we which are
alive" says ST. Paul, First ThessA-
lonians, Chap. ~, V. II, "and remain,
shall be caught together with them
in the clouds 10 meet the Lord in the
air. This does not seem much like
q peaceful millennium! In the same
belief Bishop Heber writes;
''The Lord shall comel The earth shall! quake,
The mountaine to their center shake;
And whitening from the vault of night,
The stars shall pale their feeble light
Respecting the date Of the final
convulsions that will, in the twink
ling OF an eye, wind up The human
life of our planet, some extraordi-
nary evidence has recently been dis
covered on the banks OF the Nile, in
the ancient lar d Of the Pharaohs.
The pyramids of Egypt have just
y been regarded among tho wonders
| IF the world. Scholars and servants
Of Ell 3ountres have endeavored to
explain their significance, but they
have proved almost as inscrutable q
mystery as their noighbor, the
Sphy nx. ". lite, the celebrated
English architect, measures tho
Great Pyramid near Gzeth With
nethodical accuracy a quarter OF 8
century since. "lts dimensions were
| 764 feet at the base and 480 feet in
perpendicular height, covering over
thirteen acres Of ground. 1t con-
sumed 79,028,000 cubic feet Of stone.
The joints Of the large casing rocks
of granite were SO fine Gs TO DO
scarcely preceptatle, not thicker
than q paper" On one side of il
there Was an opening through which
the Pole star Of the period is suppos-
ed TO have been observed, and Prot.
Smith, OF Cambridge, England, has
expressed his belief that this stupeno
dons pilo Of fundamentally accurate
| masonry Was constructed for the
purpose Of recording the knowledge
of scie nee dlvinely impaired to man.
Prof TyndGll has often and el-quent-
ly commented on tho service that
the imagination has rendered to sci
enco. There WAS never q mere for
chile laslration of this service than
in this theory of Prot. Smith. Prof
Jardslay, of Moscow, six months
since, commenced an investigation
Of the geomotric llnea, groups of io-
ing figures and hieroglyphics wish
which tho interior of this mural
monument is embellished. The first
discovery which awaited Prof Yards
lay was Interesting, but it did not
seem vt all pregnant with promise.
He ascertained that certain charac-
ters, when interpreted by Ike,
which he seems almost accidenlly to
have discovered, represented geo
metric series Of numbers as follows:
0, 3, 6, II, "a, 49, 90, 1872
The Professor was puzzled to con-
lecture why such a simple record
should be carved on the stone in en-
during characters. Satisfied that
some extraordinary Significance was
attached to the series of mbers, he
examined their surroundings with
microscopic mlnutenese. Under
meath each number there was q uni
form mark which an eminent cunei-
form scholar pronounced to be the
syIHUOi uoeu W tuo aHCl0HI oTSlaus
and Baby lonians for the numerAl 4.
Yet. with this further Interpretation,
the geometrcal series seemed de-
void of Significance. Fortunately,
however, the facts were brought to
the notice of Prof Leverrier, the
celebrated French astr homer, who,
aftera most cursory in speotion, dis
covered the clew. add the 4 to
each of tho numbers in tie series,'
said he, "and we have series denot-
ing tho respective distances OF the
planets of our solar system from the
sun:
81, 7, 10, l6 %, So 100 1876"
The planets 10 order being. Mercury.