The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-07-14

Jupiter was passing over the lower apsis OF
the earth's orbit. and the minor axis of his
winter. The terribly severe winter OF 1913 49
and succeeding epidemics must be fresh In
the minds Cf many readers. Saturn was
then in longitude 500 degrees, that OF the
minor axis OF his orbit, and entering on his
perihelion circuit The climax of pesti-
lence occurred in those years, cholera,
typhus and scurvy prevailing. In 1851
Saturn was in opposition with Jupiter, and
the foul years and epidemics occurred under
that opposition. In 1853 and 1854 Jupiter
was in opposition with the sun, passing
over the higher apsis of the earth's orbit
again, and the minor axis OF his own aOrbit,
and entering on his perihelion circuit and
in the summer of those years was nearly
200, 600, 600 miles nearer the earth than in the
winter when in conjunction with the sun.
Tie hot, and slckly summers, and the exces-
sively cold winters OF those years, the
YELLOW FEVER IN 1858 IN NEW ORLEANS,
and general pestilence IN 1854 in the United
States, can hardly have been forgotten.
Both Jupiter and Saturn were then making
their perhelion approximation. They made
their nearest approach to the sun-S.turn
in March, Jupiter in December. The yellow
fever ravages In Norfolk in 1855, and the
repetition of its terrible violence In New
Orleans in 1856 as well as the general pesti-
No general pestileDce afflicted the earth
after this until Jupiter's approach toward
his perhelion again in 1865. some three
years anterior 70 his perhelion passage in
1868
In addition to the foregoing exempliics-
tons of planetary attraction, it Is we'll to
remember that the
REACTION OF THE PLANETS on THE SUN,
and their effect on the magnetism and else
tricity of the earth, are now admitted priD-
cIples in science. The periods OF the clus-
tering of spots or centers OF violent
eruption, on the sun, have been OBJ.
served 70 attain their maxims at inter
walls corresponding almost precisely with
that of Jupiter's revolution. 1t is impossi
BILE, in the absence of data, to state positively
how much the maxima results may be
fastened or retarded by the compound
action OF the other planets with Jupiter, or
indeed by the action of comets The max
imum of pestilence seldom occurs on the
very year or Jupiter's perhelion epoch.
The maximum of pestilence during the
Irish famine came in 1S49, when Jupiter
was fast moving into .aphelion. Moreover
the coDjunctions and appositions of Jupiter
should apparently be taken into account.
There occurs either a conjunction or an
opposition of Jupiter and Saturn about
every ten years. A conjunction took place
in 1922, another in 1912. and another in 1861.
Another conjunction will appear in 1881,
and another in 1901; and the two planets
will make their commensurate perihella in
1915
AS has already been stated, Jupiter will
make his perihelia next October; Mars will
follow a year hence, on May %, 1881; Nep-
tune a few months later; Uranus in the
spring of 1882 ard Saturn in the autumn of
1885. In other words.
ALL THE GREAT PLANETS ARE RAPIDLY APP
PREACHING THE GREAT CENTRAL LUMI-
NARY.
Great drifts o! sun spots consequently shoot
athwart his disc. The earth feels the reacts
i've effect of the solar disturbance. Rain is
withheld; springs are dried up; grass is
withered; crops are ruined, and aunt FAM
inc stares Us in the face. With the unpleas-
ant experiences of the past, and the probably
near future before us, the subject of the
striking coincidence IS of planetary perihelia
and pestilence will be likely to receive more
respectful attention from astronomers and
medical men than il has been accorded in