Daily Republican., 1878-12-04
AMO.GsrTVE PLANETS.
Professor QnintOn Before the VIII
mtngtOn Teachers IRsttlnie-Our
Earth n poor little Ansir Cowspar-
ed n Millions which are I.arg.r,

Earth n poor little Affair Compar-
ed n Millions which are Larger.
Professor Richard l.. Qninton was
greeted last evening at four O'Clock
with quite large audience of the la
dy teachers Of Wilmington, and num
her Of citizsps, some Of the pupils of
the boys and girls High school, ana
President Eckr. Of the School Board al
his co workers, Messrs. sp.akman, Ruth
simpson and Davidson. A large nun
b.r Of charts and diagrams giving a
description Of the suns phases were
suspended along the wall of til. girls
High school room where the lecture
was given.
Professor c. 3. Rhoads being present
sung a solo entitled. "A For-st-r's Life
for Me-" A yonns lady from the High
School played an accompaniment, on
the piano. Superintendent Harlan
then introduced Professor Quinton for
whom he requested the undivided at
tention Of the audience. The Prof then
announced the subject Of his lecture to
be "Gepesis Of the sun, its composition
ard its functions. The professor first
gave a scientific -xegssis Of the genesis
md composition OF the sun. He asked
whether til. sun was created a, sun
or evolved into asumn from existing cir
cumstances.
He was inclined to the latter opinion.
God he said could easily have created
the world in ali instant OF time and he
could have told the sun 70 shine forth
and it would have done 50, but this he
did not do, and took six days for the
erection of the world. The bible and
science both teach that fact. Every
thing he thought was against instant
creation. He then passed on and show
cd that the sun was formed from the
nebula that il attracted together and
becon. es a luminous body. These neb-
MA floating through space, was contin-
ually undergoing aggregation and were
finally formed into suns,
In the heavens are streams nf stars,
more noticeable in SOuth.rn latitudrs; :;
| likewise there ar str"aina Of nehula
which are particularly noticeable around
the constellation Of Orion. The Pro
frssor thought l. vas clear that the
stars were suns, hu' the stars are not
all alike, one star ditirreth from an
other star ami some have died entirely
out. The Professor next turned his at
tentiou to the physical nature OF the
sun, and showed its formation a. cal
culated from observations made bv a
powerful spectroscope.
| BY means Of this instrument the
suns temperature was shown to he Az,
036, 900 degrees, and would require a
thermometer six mlles long to deter.
mine its heat. The corona that sur
ROUNDS the sun sympathisiz.> with it
and extends from the sun % 900 miles,
but this year it extended but 10000
miles. The Professor then gave chem,
ical analysis of the sun explained the
different colored lights emitted from il.
and showed the causes Of the dark spots
sometimes seen. AMI showed that the
latter appeared about every eleven
years. ..E
He also showed that hydrogen was
! the base of all matter. and tina: il
can be reduced to liquid state. and lie
was of the opinion that hydrogen was
the one body of which the various
metals We're composed We have not
space to report at further length a
synopsis OF this wonderful exposition
of the functions and composition of the
sun. neither have We sufficient capp,'i-
tv to grasp the subject with only &
limited Knowledge OF the great works
of nature which are hid away from us.
That such progress had been made by
latter day scientists as shown by Pro
fessor Qunton, in tathoNHing the hidden
mysteries OF the plamrt"ry syst N is a
conception which uttefl y "rIipsrs all
that poetry Of my thology have ever in
spred, and the world is becoming in.
fnitply more wonderful by such rela
tions as nov seem to b" brought within
Grasp. The Professor hela his audi
rn"e spell bound by his wonderful re
lations. over an hour, and closing re
ceived the thanks Of all present.
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