The Baltimore County union., 1883-06-02
THE SUN.


The centre OF our system, that glori-
Gus orb "kindled by God on the morn
of creation TO cheer the dark abyss and
TO pour his randiance on surrounding
worlds" is $50, 600 miles in diameter,
and five hundred times larger than the
aggregate of all other parts of the
system, and moves in space with a
velocity of $4,000 miles an hour
Mercury, the nearest planet, is distant
from the sun, $1,000, 900 OF miles; its
hourly motion in its orbit os,ooo.-
Venus is &c, 600, 900 miles distant, near
ly 5000 in diameter, and moves $4,000
per hour. The Earth is $4,000, 900
miles distant, 5000 diameter, and moves
6S,ooo per hour. Mars is las 900 900
miles distant, upwards of 1000 diameter,
and moves $4,000 per hour. Jupiter is
+O., 900 miles distant, 90, 600 diam
eier, and moves 80, 900 per hour. Saturn
is 9oo, ,ooo, 900 distant, So, 900 diameter,
and moves -, 200 per hour. Herschel
or Uranus is I,Soo, ,ooo, 900 miles dis
tant, IS, 900 diameter, and moves IS, 900
per hour. These distances being grad
uated by mathematical law, the new
planet Neptune or lie Nerrier is found
TO be 800, 900, 600 miles distant from
Uranus, thus by its addition doubling
the radius and consequently the diam
eter Of the Solar system, and making
them respectively 5000, 900, 900 and ~
zoe, ,ooo, 900 OF miles.
Now if we look at tha, sublime law,
by which the two forces that appertain
TO these worlds are exactly balanced,
and find them all moving on in har-
mony in their orbits and still sustained,
together with with their sustaining CEN
ter, as the whole solar systems moves
on in its vast orbit around some far
distant central sun, yet as 4 part only
of myriad system forming one great
whole, TO us inconceivable vast il we
find ali controlled by immutable law,
and still more, if We cannot believe
these worlds to be barren wastes, but
inhabited by mortal beings, and that
this grand whole is prevailed by moral
affinity, this subject has sublimity which
no seraph can measure.
r4-The name of Judah p. Benjamin,
as painted on the door of his London
Office, has a tremendously elongated
81" introducing the first word, soli-
tary looking "P" in the middle, and
the whole Is brought to an ungraceful
termination by a gigantic an" A
quaint knocker which has done service
for over 100 years, hangs over the sign.
Mr.. Benjamin says that in this Office he
has earned s606, 6,o44 since 1867. Talk
ing with a Boston Hcydkf Correspondent
about the rebellion, he remarked: $50
far as the war contributed to the aboli-
tion of slavery, believe i, was for good.
So far rs it shed the bad blood which
had always brcwed between the North
and South, and brought final settle
ment to these quarrels--a business which
could have been concluded in no other
way-it was for good; but il is not to
be so readily admitted that, had the re-
suit been different, the prosperity which
the North enjoys would not have been
possessed by the South. Her position
could scarcely be worse. IL is folly to
say that North America, or that part Of
il, at least. which is embraced in the
territories OF the Federal States, is not
large enough for more than one nation.
On the contrary, there is room for As
many as are in Europe, and prosperity
for every one Of them. ! believe from
my heart that the structure called the
Federal States OF America will tall apart
some day from its very weakness.