Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-06-01
DAY OF j UDGMI1IV Z
VIII it Occur This Year.
Startling Revelations from the
Pyramids Of Egypt-I'he
Earth's Final IhrOes.
From the New York Mercury }

The heavens above, the earth be-
neath the waters under the earth and
the atmosphere which envelopes our
planet, have recently exhibited such
portentous phenomena as to ELL the
minds of all Christendom with Won
der and apprehension. Men Of pro-
found research, like Victor Herault,
De la Rue, Darlington, and others,
who have struggled assiduously to
wiring the secret Of our worlds destiny
from Nature, are no longer treated as
mere distempered yisionaries. Those
cosmical changes that the telescope
and the spectrum reveal in the heavens
and the terrible meteorological demon
strations that dotted our coast-line
with shipwrecks, lead US, by solemn
steps, back into the Infinite. There
is not an astronomer or scientist worth
the name living to-day but accepts the
statement that .'both the earth and its
inhabitants have passed the prime of
their development, " as a self evident
fact They predicate this condition
as respect the earth, just as confident
ly as we popularity predict man Of
sixty is past his physical prime.
The subject Of the death Of the
earth may not be pleasant one but
some Of the foremost minds Of the age
have said that death may occur to the
earth at any moment, Just as to the
individual who has entered upon ''sec-
ond childishncss and mere oblivion. :"
It may be slow process Of natural de-
cay, or it may be sudden. The fact Of
the globe having entered into its death
period, it will be remembered, has
nothing to do with the intellectual de-
veloDment of man. The earthquake,
the volcano, the thunderbolt, and the
hurricane spread havoc and destruc--
tion irrespective Of mans wishes or
mans prayers, and the globes final
convuIsion, we are assured, viii over
take US ''as a thief in the night"
Then we which are alive, says St.
Paul, First Thcssalonians, chap. iv, V.
II, land remain, shall be caught up
together with them in the clouds to
meet the Lord in the air" This does
not seem much like a peaceful millen-
MUM In the same belief Bishop
Hebcr writes
The Lord shall come The earth shall quake,
The mountains to their center shake;
And whitening from the vault Of night,
The stars shall pale their feeble light"
Respecting the date of the final con-
vulsion that will, in the twinkling of
an eye, wind up the human life of our
planet, some extraordinary evidence
has recently been discovered on the
banks Of the Nile, III the ancient land
Of the Pharaohs.
The pyramids Of Egypt have justly
been regarded among the wonders Of
the world. Scholars and savants of
all countries have endeavored to ex-
plain their significance, but they have
proved almost as inscrutable mystery
as their neighbor, the Sphynx Nr.
Tife, the celebrated English architect,
measured the Great Pyramid near
Gizeh with methodical accuracy a
quarter of a century since. Its di-
mensions were 764 feet at the base and
4S0 feet in perpendicular height, COW
ering over thirteen acres of ground.
Il consumed S9,028,00 cubic feet of
stone. The joints of the large casing
rocks of granite were so fine as to be
scarcely perceptibIe, not thicker than
paper On one side of it there was
an opening through which the Pole
star of the period is supposed to have
been observed, and Prof Smith, of
Cambridge, England, has expressed his
belief that this stupendous pile of
mathematically accurate masonry was
constructed for the purpose of record
ing the knowledge of science divinely
impaired to man. Prof. Tyndall has
often and eloquently commented on
the service that the imagination has
rendered to science. There was never
a more forcible illustration Of this ser
vice than in this theory of Prof.
Smith. Prof Jardsloy OF Moscow,
six moths since, commenced an inves-
tigation of the geometric lines, groups
Of living figures and hieroglyphics with
which the interior of this mural monu-
ment is embellished. The first discov-
cry which awaited Prof Jardslay was
interesting, bat it did not seem at all
pregnant with promise. He ascertain
ed that certain characters, when inter-
preted by key which he seemed
almost aceidently to have discovered,
represented geometric series of num-
bers as follows:
0, 3, 6, u, "a, As, 90, 1872.