Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-04-23

all the other light pass. Hence we are
enabled to get the exact spectrum Of
tue gasses that surround the Sun, and
10y comparing With gas on earth. we
identify such ss we know here, and
we also identify the bright lines of
metals In the same, or & similar man.
ner. That this may be understood |
Will suppose that dame nature makes
present to all nations of the earth.
OF blank gold coins which exactly cor
respond in weight with their estab-
lished usage for money. In this i'm.
mense hoard of nature are blank coins
ranging from 90 cents up to fifty dol
lars France weighs them one by one
and picks out FIVE, ten, twenty. and
litty franc pieces. The English rum
mage the pile and pick out all the
pieces Of proper weight for sovereigns
ana half soveraigps. The United
States pick out their fifty cents, one.
two and half, FIVE, ten, twenty, and
fifty dollar gold pieces, and an expert
IS then called without any knowledge
OF the transaction to tell what nations
have picked it over. Looking at &be
piles the task seems hopeless, but he
causes them all to be placed in rows
OF corresponding weight, and where
there is too great differences in weight
for the regular progression to leave a
space. After this is done he has but
to look upon the rows to see the gaps
and as he knows the standard weight
of the various coins, he as well knows
that France, England, and the United
States have had their share-so it is
with the spectrum.
+ CA fine spectFoscope was here pre-
sented and its use explained.)
This little instrument tells us that
hydrogen gas is there in great abun-
dance, also many other gasses.-It
tells of immense heat; of the vapor
of iron, silver, nickel and many other
minerals. 1t in fact tells US that the
whole body Of the sun is glowing with
a heat which we can give no concep-
ton of and we may we'll ask, what fire
burns in its vast censor?
Some suppose its heat is kept up by
meteoric bodies which comeingin into the
sphere of its attraction full to it
causing heat by conclusion, but this
to my Iaind is inadequate. Some sup
pose that the shrinllage occasioned by
the cooling of this immense mass by
the radiation of heat into space, forces
up the immense jets which we fire.
quently see upon its surface when we
look through a telescope, thus cover
ing the surface which gives us light
and heat with liquid fire, but reason
comes to our aid and we believe that
it teaches us-that as it is the largest
part of our solar system, - the Sun be-
ing seven hundred times at least, larger
than all the planetsput together AMI
as it comes from the hand of God heated
to an immense degree, as were all the
planets, when created. Then the plan
cts being smaller, have some of them at
least cooled down SO as to be habita-
BILE, while the Sun so large has as yet
lost no appreciable amount of its
heat, and will not for millions of years
to come, but by and by, as time goes
on, if unchanged by God, it will cool
down and become like our earth IL
solid globe. AS it is, it is in density
only like air or gas, and the extreme
heat keeps it SO without union of its
material substance. That this theory
may be true, comes the facts of I'M
mense eruptions craters or Sun spots
forming larger than all earth. Tor
nadoes upon its surface moving at the
rate of $50 miles a second which are
electrical, always causing electrical
disturbance on the earth, often of a
marked characteristic low density
or in other words its extreme rarity,
that allows such immense velocities.
If we had such q storm on earth it
would sweep along all things, even the
solid ground itself, and such q velocity
would cause all inflammable substan-
stances to burn. In fact would pro-
duce chaos here.
But lot us not speculate, we are in
Gods hands.
Most glorious orb; that vert n worship, ere
The mystery of thy making was revealed ;
Thou earliest minister of the Almighty,
Which gladdened on their mountain tops the
hearts
of the Chaldean Shepherds, till they poured
Themselves in prisons; Thou material God ;
And representative of the Unknown
Who chose for this shadow; Thou chief
Star.
Centre Of many Stars which mak'st earth
Endurable, and temperest the hues
And hearts of all who walk within thy rays
Sire of the seasonsi Monarch of the climes,
And those who dwell in theml for near or
far,
Our Unborn spirits have tint OF thee,
Even as our outward aspects; thou dost
rise
And shine, and set in glory"
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