The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1878-11-22


If there is anything in astrological eri-
ology," we are approaching one of the
most pestilential periods of the earth's his
tory. Since the commencement of the
Christian era the perihelia of the four great
planets of the solar system-Jupiter, Uru.
nus Saturn and Neptune--havs not been
coincident. But this is about to occur,
and, in the language of DR.. Knapp, who
has traced the history Of the greatest epi-
denies that have ever afflicted the human
race to the perihelia of these planets, there
will soon be lively times for the doctors. -
The theory is that when one or more of the
large planets is nearest to the sun the tenn
perature and condition of our atmosphere
are so disturbed as to cause injurious vi
cissitudes, terrible rains, prolonged drouths,
ETC., resulting in the destruction of crops,
and pestilence among human beings and
domestic animals.
DR.. Knapp has collected mass of sta
tistlcal data, ali gong to show that perhel-
ion data have always been marked by unu-
sual mortality, and that sickness and death
have invariably correspondent with the plan
cts in perihelion at the same time. The
revolution of Jupiter around the sun is ac-
complished in little less than twelve years;
OF Saturn in little less than thirty years
of Uranus in about eighty-four years. If
it be true, therefore that the perihelia of
these planets occasion atmospheric condi-
tions unfavorable to life, pestilenJial peri
DDS should occur once in a dozen years
and aggravated aud still more widespread
epidemics at longer intervals. In tracing
the history of epldemics for more than
1900 years, DR.. Knapp finds the facts in
all cases to validate the theory. Thus
in the sixth, and again in the sixteenth
centuries, three of these planets were coin
cident in perihelion, and those were the
most pestilential times of the Christian
era.
But soon we are to have, for the first
time in 1900 years, all four of these plan
cts against US. They will be at their near
est approach to the sun in or soon after
1880, SO that for few years, say from 1880
to 1885, the vitality of every living thing
will be put to o severe and trying Or
DEAL Some persons think they see in the
signs of the times evidences of the great
disasters in the immediate future. The ex-
cessive heat, the unexampled cold, the |
prevalence Of flood and disasters at sea,
the general failure of the potato crop, the !
wide-spre ad chili-fever among human be-
ings, and the equal presence of the epizoot-
&c among animals, are mentioned as among
the premonitions of the rapidly approaching
Well, "ro be forewarned is to be foIc-
armed" Accidents excepted, we know
very we'll that the persons of more vigorous
will have the better chance
% survive whatever adverse influences the
perhelia will occasion. 1t is
to physicians that, in all pes
licences, plague, typhus, smallpox, cholera,
nurrain, etc., the Incorporate, the dissipa.
ed, and those whose sanitary conditions
Vere bad furni he'd the Victims s::se--,-----ff +
mako a sensation. We state the facts
which all history attests. Readers can
udge for themselves what importance to
ttach to the subject. That the conjoint
oerihelion of all large planets of the solar
ystem, one of which, Jupiter, is 1000
lines as large as the earth, must disturb
,ur atmosphere and temperature is consid-
red probable f.; that this disturbance must
,e injurious to health and life is certain;
md that these periods have heretofore
,een pestilential, is matter of record.
low much we shall suffer during the next
lozen or fifteen years depends very much
lpon how nearly we live in accordance with
he laws of health.-Science Of Health.