Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1881-03-30

disturbing points. Neptune passed
through 80 degrees in A. d. ESD, and
Jupiter also in that year.
In A. ID. 43O snch multitudcs were
, swept away that the living were scarcely
j sufficient to bury tho dead. Jupiter VA
In a. u. 658 one Of the greatest plaques
!. ragged and continued for years, extending
over Europe, Asia and Africa. Saturn
was IN perihelion in 55S: Jupiter Led
Just passed through 17O-l6O.
, From 746 to 7A9 was apother terrible
epoch. Jupiter passed through 80 in 745;
\ From 954 to 962 great motality nv
pestilence in England and ireland.
Perillelion of Jupiter in 955, with Saturn
a. 26O, and Neptune near the same mot.
A. ID. l2A was another terrible year.
Jupiter in perihelion.
In l34s the plague ragged with great
fatality throughout Europe. Jupiter
was in perihelion the year before.
! Inc fourth great pestilence Of Ireland
occurred in 1888. Jupiter was in peri-
heiton .n1 and Saturn at 80 degrees in 1883.
thence. Jupiter in perihelion.
1866. terrible plague in Ireland. Peri.
helion Of Jupiter
1n l478 plague throughout England
destroyed more people than the contin-
uai wars for fifteen years before. Peri
helion of Jupiter.
In 1900 the plague was SO dreadful
that Henry VII. and his court moved
over to Calais, in France. Perihelion Of
Jupiter, with Saturn passing through 81
degrees. and III perihelion 1901.
l In 1866 the great plague Of Italy, 4OO.-
oOO dying in Naples in six months. Jup.
tier was in perihelion the year before.
One Of the most awful plaques was
that OF l76O. in Syria. Jupiter passed
In Egypt $4,000 PERSONS w o.. died 8siij in 1852
Ferihelion Of Jupiter.
In IVA pestilence in Persia. Perihel.
ion Of Jupiter.
In 1893 great plague in Africa. At
Fez 25O.OOO died; and 800 daily in Barba-
~. Saturn's perihelion in 1886, Jupiter
IN 1877. Neptune 1893; and Jupiter at
~ degrees in 1893.
In June, 1923, Jupiter passed solar
node 26O degrees. Tie cholera
broke out in Asin, and ragged until 1880,
100000 persons dying.
In 1865 Jupiter was at go degrees and
Saturn passed 80, and was in perhclion.
The cholera ragged everywhere, the Unit
ed States included, during that year with
great mortality.
All other pestilences Of the northern
hemisphere were Of minor character.
What do oil the principal epidemics
show? They are twenty 1--we in. number.
Jupiter waa in perhelion sixteen times;
Saturn in perhelion three times; Jupiter
in solar node nine times, and Saturn
seven times. It is true that the perihelia
of the four great planets did not come
Close together, as they will now within
five years, during which period Saturn
viii Passs through 90 degrees, and Jupi-
Now, what would be fair calculation
Of a serious epidemic being caused BY
Jupiter alone? 1t is very easy to calcu.
late if the twenty-five epidemics were
traceable to his influence. In 265O years
he has had 223 perihelia and sixteen epi.
denies at those periods have occurred.
The chances ore then just about per
i, cent that the perihelion may produce
, serious results. On the node theory it is
much less, az there have been 446 maxi.
mum node passages, and only nine coin.
cidences; or two per cent. Saturn's per.
ihelia have been SO. with three coinciden
ccs, making that percentage az, and fol
, the seven nodes nearly four per cent.
We might foot up, therefore, that n dou
bic perihelion Of Saturn and Jupiter
, would produce only chance OF ten to
100 tor serious epidemic, and double
. solar node passage in the same year at
:, six to 100.
Whether the recurrence Of the soia,
: nodes twice by Jupiter and once by So
q turn, with four successive perihelis with
: in five years will increase the chances o.
> trouble Of serious character, can onl,
be demonstrated by the actual facts.
What effect the other planets may hav,
q had upon the earth. and especially vul
q can, about which 80 little is known, be
;. cause Of its nearness to the sun, has mo-
= been taken into consideration. Tho dis
!. !. cussion has been freely made in pas
4 years in regard to the four great outeid'
y y planets alone. Their perihelia hav'
= as they will do this timo, since the yea
y y 1850 b. q, ii they were then iu exis
tence their perihel.a all occurred within
the same twelve months.
- Vulcan may be an important factor
. Prof. Tice considers this planet to be th
~ ~ most disturbing Of all causes. beng near
= ly as large as the earth, and revolving .
y - distance Of only about ten millions o
" miles from the sun, completing it
), orbit in twenty-thsee days. III th
- celestial circle Vulcan and Jupite
:. "a create more violence than everythin
20 else. The system Of Prof Tice
ar as to calculate the weather by WI
s. s. cans movements in crossing one of til
70 10 nodes every five and three-quarter day
" The passaage Of Jupiter through the 8
;; degrees node ON 3lst October, 1882, WI
=. ;. therefore be an incident of great intcres
=, ~ rs probably the date of remarkable ph,
~, ~ nomena and rhetorical events. Nearl
ls l every great epidemic for $500 years hs
~ been surprisingly IN coincidence Wit
"a this disturbing electrical positlon Of ],
=; pi!er; but more especially at his thir
Fl passage Of ono Of these points-every Il
~ ~ 79-lOO years.
se Men arc egosistical animals, oil
especially those who are infle
B. and WHO enlarged tue intelle
nd of mere mortal to be the nupren
Il. standard in the universe. Such scientis
lar give brilliant imagination Of their brai
IN us facts not to be denied by ordina
M. men, and thus the laws Of geology,
Of astronomy, Of meteorology. OF electricit
.ar magnetism, etc, are all pronounced wi
vn precision, the grnvity and the authori
.he Of a second Solomon. Only in the ps
tar 800 years can it be said that science h
really progressed; and BY means OF
i a struments and patient study the gre
ice intellects of these three centuries la
ble laid bare mysteries which no exist
ion record shows man had ever fathomed
fore,