The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-01-13
FACTs-A PERIHELI.
ON pRRIOn

ASTRONOMICAL FACTs-A PERIHEL1.
ON PERIOD.
It seems that b6&h astronomersand
astrolpgers agree HHthat~there ito be
from 1881 to 1888 such a commissioned
IT, planets 3 wasnever knownsbefore.
! "A writer III the L0ndot Tiu6 of May.
18th last, says:
C0incident with the theory of the
SUMS cycle, another reason why extra
ordinary atmospheric phenome,,H may
of notice, namely, tho perihellcn peri
DDS, or nearest to the sun. of the four
largest planets, Jupiter, Saturn. Uran-
us and Neptune. Tie poriliellOn Of all
! these planets c0incidently. has not &C.,
Cured for more than 1880 years.
DR.. Knapp, in the New York Medi-
cal Journal, last yeat said:
At former periods it had been obser-
! we'd that the approach of one or more of
the great planets of the solar system oc.
casioned disturbances in the atmos-
phere, causing great heat, cold, rains,
drought, blighting Of crops and fruit,
epidemic diseases among the human
race, and epizoOtics among animals,
I consequent upon the interference with
| Or abstraction of the usual amount of
light and heat.
AS a good reason why the approach
ing planets may affect Us, Mr.. Proctor
says:
That not one atom in the remOtest orb
can move u hairs breadth without pro.
ducing III every other atom through
out tine universe, all effect infinitely
minute to our percr ptions, but rs man
ites' to the Almighty rs the MONDAY
! sun to us.
Prof Grimmer, in a work published
i'll 1873, entitled THE Voice of the Stars.
Or the effects Of the Coming Perillelia,"
says:
| 1t is we'll known that the perihelia Ut
the f0nr planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Ur;.-
nus and Neptune, will be coincident in
the year 1881, and rs this is the first
time they have been in combination
within our knowledge, great things may
he expected. The perihelia ami con-
junction Of any of the large planets long
known to us have always been atten-
ded with fearful experiences on the
earth. For instance, in the year 545,
and again in 1865, three of tho planets,
namely, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn,
were thus III conjunction, and those
were the worst plague years, or rather
eras, of which the world has amy record.
From the year 542 to the year $40, it
has been calculated that nearly l2O
millions of persons suffered death by
the plague. Gibbon, in his history, vol.
3, chap. Ii, is our authority for this,
and Cousins History of Rome, vol. :,
page IT'S, confirms the statement.
In the year 1920, Mars and Saturn
were in perihelia, in the sign Virgo.
and tifty,two thousand out Of the seven
tv-tive thousa I'd inhabitants Of Mar
settles died within the space of five
weeks. In the year 554, death reigned
III Constantinople, 50 THAT above one
thousand persons died each day. for the
space Of several weeks. In the year 542
Alexandria (Egypt) lost ut least fifty
| thousand of its inhabitants from pes.
| thence visitation. But, turning from
past to the future, the coming perihelia
being so much greater, and therefore of
much longer continuance, extending as
it will from the year 1880 to the year
Of 1883, more deadly influences may be
looked for. One thing is worthy of
special notice that about the close of
the dreaded conjunction of those plan.
cts, that is to say, about the middle Of
the year 1877, the Star Of Bethlehem
| will once more be seen in Cassiopia, and
be accompanied with total eclipse of
| the sun and moon. This star only
makes it's appearance every 315 years.
| 1t will exceed even Jupiter in brillian-
| cy, and quite illumine the heavens, it's
| brightness being seen even at MONDAY.
| It will shine with a quick flashing
| light during the entire year and attract
tile attention of all beholders. At it's
last appearance, this star was thought
to he an entirely new one, but the COM
| putations Of the last few years. have
shown that it is the Identical star
which illumined the heavens at the ma
tivity Of the Saviour. 1t has appeared
every 3l5 years since then, and rs it was
! last seen in the year 1872, it may Ger
| tainly he expected in the month of Au-
gust, 1887. And coming as it will in
| connection with the eclipse aud perth
ia, portentous things are sure to fol-
| low.
| EFFECTS OF THE PERIHE LA.
The following is an abstract of pre-:
dictions from the same work:
The author of the pamphlet in ques-
ton seems to have no doubt whatever
that the approaching combinations of
the heavenly bodies must exercise a
very injurious influence upon the at
mosphpre of the earth. That under
this influence, plaques. pestilence. and
famine shall prevail, no place on earth
being entirely free from them. That
every drop Of water will becou,e more
or less poisonous. That the air we
breathe will be foul with the od.rs sent
forth Ly tile earth and SEA. That all
those who are constitutiOnally weak.
or addicted to intempereEce. or glut-
tony, will have no chance of escape.
That such will go down to the grave in
! thousands. That ancient races will be
blotted out. That Asia will suffer
frigl'tfully from the scourge. That Rus
STA will he the first European country
that will suffer. That America will he
devastated unless speedy attention is
paid to its sanitary condition. That
the drainage OF every city must he put
tens on foul matters, and feasts on the
ut bay. That vaults and graves filled
up to within a few inches of the surface.
will serd forth deadly exhalations,
and help on the awful scourge.
That. in addition to all this, there
will he other visitations over which
mankind can exert no restraining intlu-
ence. There will be storms and tidal
waves that shall destroy whole cities.
That there shall be fearful earthquakes
in divers places, and volcanic action
which shall change much of the geog-
raphy OF the globe. That volcanoes
which, have been dormant for centuries
will awaken to fresh life, ard send
universal misery. That islands viii ap.
pear and disappear 50 as to render mar.
iners' charts of no real value. The
birds of the air, the fishes of the sea,
and the beasts of the earth, will each
and all be the subjects Of disease, and
dying in millions will tester and impreg-