The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1881-07-14
THE END OFTHE WORLD.


The public mind has been, aud stil
Is, greatly gxoi.ed over the predicted
end Of the world duiing IA g1ossn
year
The prophecies Of "Mother Ship.
ton" extensively promulgated anC
commented upon, pro aud con, b,
the press, have had much TO do Il
creating this feverish state Of feeling
among the uheducated classes. Tn,
more cultivated people have effected
to sneer at The Shipton predictions
as nonsense But when such scien.
tific men as Prof Proctor, author oI
the Infinite Infnities, and lecturer Oh
the Natural History Of Mars, and
Prof Piazza Smith, astronomer roya
for Scotland, and author Of the Mys
teries Of the Great Pyramid, have
not obseurely declared that in 1881
the solar system was likely to tumble
ell together into conglomerated
bosh Of steam, gas, slush and fire,
even the educated people feel that
the crisis is serious.
Then came the eclipse Of the moon,
which the thoughtless sat up to see a
few nights ago, and looked at as if il
we're a rare show, little aware what
an extraordinary and totally unex-
pecled and unusual appearance that
the eclipse presented to the scientist,
the evolutionist and and the astro-
biologist.
Our heated term next follows, and
makes itself felt by educated and un-
educated alike. The very mules in
the street cars appreciate the fact that
some potent agent in the interplane
tary is at work to produce a state Of
things unknown to the oldest inhabi
tants and prophetic Of a torud heat
yet to come, which even scientific
men regard with the gravest appre-
tensions.
How grave these apprehensions
are, the thoughtless multitude do not
guess. The frivolous cotton broker
of Carondolet street, whose talk is OF
spots and futures, the short sighted
banker, the foolish politician, the
ignorant merchant, absorbed In mo-
mentary interests, is little acquainted
with the sombre aud terrible qnes-
tions now agitating the scientifico-
agnostic mind Of Europe, Asia and
America
Rrof ignatz WOrrenzots ki, Pin.
D., ofthe Astronomical Observatory
of BULGARIA and Buda Pesth Buchu
rest, and royal astronomer Of Bengal
and Trencomulee, passed through
New Orleans, last week, on his way
to the Astronomical station at Arch.
angle, via the Southern Pacific Rail-
road He was travelling incog
but during his short stay in the city,
interviewed by a representative OF
the Times, he gave his views on the
present crisis in the affairs Of the So
lar system, and tie grave apprehen
sions entertained Of an approaching
catastrophe, mainly as follows:
"Do you think, Professor, that th'
crash will come on the 2lst Of July
as Proctor ana Mrs. Shipton say 3
"My friend. one cannot say. Fol
myself I think not. 1t depends OF
Hilda."
"Who is Hilda Z"
"Hilda is an asterOid outside tht
orbit Of Mars. My dear sir, she is
lost All astronomers are agitate,
on the subject ! 60 to Arehangle
to look for her. II | find her not,
then, the professor put on very
solemn look-"she has fallen into
Mars"
"Well, 60 on, il you please
"Then Mars is reflected from his
orbit by bis increased parallaz from
the centrifugal apogee, aphelion OF
the Nebulae, according to Grimon'
law, will caqse Mars, by his increased
mass, to attract all the other asteroids
as he crosses their orbit There are
$50 or so now known, and Hilda is
not the only one that has disappear
ed. He5e, Psyche, Tilda, Anna anC
Laura arc lost, and the supposition Il
Mars has attracted them all. Il hG
bad absorbed Hilda, IS il suspected
be will take the whole ofthese little
female starlets, and there can be OIL
one result"
eWhat is that p
The professor laughed. 'sVenuI
comes next. Mars has always haJ
alterations towards Venus. and We
nus towards Mars. His increased
mass will overcome the orbit of tn
plans of parallel resistance, and We
nus will rush headlong into th
/ planet, and both will go crashing
into the sun. ! need not tell an In
telligent person like you that the IN
creased centripetal attraction of th
sun will overcome the eentritug:
motion, and that the earth viii TO,
Low, and every planet Of the systcT
be hurled headlong into the flame
of the GENITAL luminary.
"You think then that the end (
the world, SO called, will be the fal
| inc OF the earth into the sun "
aUndoubtedly. And 80 nicely
the universe balanced that 4 poun
weight Of matter one side or Il
other would effect this The sun
certainly becoming heavier, its vol
uma vaster, as Witnessed by the 10
creased heat II has been reeeivin
masses from some source. The al
traction is stronger, and tue earth
drawing nearer Should Mars "a
IN, as I fear he viii, the earth woal
follow in hye minutes "
sit would take hre, would il no
before It reached the sun
aCertainly 1t would be all dan
iag gas long before It struck.
eSuppOse this should happen, VII
would be your idea Of the time
swell, ] should say about The nj
die Of August. But say the Goth
larthest. I couldn't predict within
week"
"Would the rest Of the stellar So
TEN be affected by this catastrop
to ours z"
oNot at all The solar systg
wouId still retain the same mass q