Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-06-20
HIGGINS DARK MOON.
10 the Earth Accompanied by Two
Satellftesf-Thc Canadian weather.
Seer Says It Is and Tells the Reason
Why.

| IL the Earth Accompanied by Two
! Satellitesf-rhc Canadian weather
Seer Says It IL and Tells the Reason
Why.
| For many years it has been my be-
lief that our planet is accompanied bv
| two satellites, visible aud dark one.
the distance of the latter from the
earth being probably double that of
the former, writes the irrepreSSible
Prot, Wiggius TO The New York
| Tribune. The librations of the moon.
the irregularity of her motions in her
orbld, and the fact that her perieee
! seldom takes place immediately ON the
orold of our earth in advance of the
! earth's course, are strong evidence of
the distributing influence of sister
| satellite. The variation in the time
! nd height of the tides, occasional
| udes of excessive height without an,
parent cause, and the frequent occur.
renee of double tides, can not BE- ex.
planned on the hypothesis that the
earthiS attended by only enc >econ iary.
Earthquakes which are caused by un-
usual planetary attraction frequently
occur when II would appear that the
force which produced them had not
yet reached lis climax, and could not
till after the moons conjunction with
the sun. The recent earthouake in
England occurred two days before the
moon was III conjunction with ths
solar orb, and before she was in peri
gee, showing that her attractive power
must have joined with another and
very nearly equal force before she
reached the line of her solar coniuuc
ton. This earthquake, l predicted,
would return with Increasing violence
on May 20. 1t did SO. causing the
destruction of many villages aud the
death of hundreds of people. On the
same day occurred the disastrous cy,
clone In British Burmah. The earth
quake, however, did not appear III
England, and am convinced il was
moved eastward by the influence of
this dark planet The recent cold
wave which passed over America
must have been due 10 this source.
and as nearly the same conditions will
exist on the 26th and 9th Of the pres
ent month, the same cold wave would
appear were il rot for the changed
position OF this dark horse Of the
heavens.
All great storms should occur after
certain planetary conjunctionS,
whereas they frequently precede them,
and II is for tins reason that many
meteorologlstS- them SIR Vii.
liam ThcmpSon-has denied that the
moon has any influence whatever in
producing storms on the surface of
our gloee. Years before | published
predictions found that some of my
storms would be delayed for several
days, others would appear ahead of
time, and frequently the heaviest
would be annihllated altogether
There were no known planets which
could possibly produce the effect, and
was at length forced 10 the conclus
ion, as | have said, that our earth is
accompanied by dark satellite. 1t
would further appear that the dark
days" of which frequent mention is
made In hlStory-so called because
they could not be traced to an ordin
ary solar eclIpSe-were OF such
character as TO justify the belief that
they We're caused by an opaque body
intervening between our globe and
the sun, for the suddenneSs and brevlty
of the darkness could not be interpre
ted as due 10 smoke or vapor III the
earth's atmosphere.
| am confident that the moon and
this dark satellite were in conjunction
with the sun, or nearly SO, on March
8, 1854, which produced the eruption
of the great Java volcano, and caused
the storm which predicted would be
and The London Times says it was
the greatest storm of the present cen
tury. On March %, 1884, this planet
was somewhere III the neighborhood
of her interior or superior conjunction,
and heightened the storm on the 2Sth
of that month Strange TO add, |
have Just received letters frou Michi-
gan saying that solar eclipse was
visible IN that state on May 16, 1884,
at Z o'clock in the evening, when fully
one-third Of the solar disc was III
darkness AS the moon Mt that mo
ment was twelve degrees south of the
celestial equator, and the sun was as
many feet north OF ii, this pheno-
menon could not have been caused by
our visible satellite. Doubtless it was
the passing of this dark planet across
the suns disc.
| have little sympathy with Prof
Proctor and others, who, with the
prejudice of the old school men, per
Sist in declaring that our moon IS Il
dead planet, and is not possessed OF
an atmosphere. Anyone who will
take the trouble to look when she is
Il thn Nj
eye on clear night the whole lumin
Gus annulus or ring of light that sur
round her orb, which is proof positive
and complete that she IS envelopcd N
an atmosphere similar to our own.
The same arguments We're used long
ago by DR.. Dick and others 10 prove
that Jupiter and other primaries are
destitute of an atmosphere, while the
very fact that they s;re visible is evl
dence that they are endowed with
atmospheres like that of our own
globe, for surely no one Is now anti
quated enodgh to believe that light
exists throughout space but only IN
the atmosphere OF the planets The
non existence of second satellite To
the earth is therefore not proved by
reason of its invisIbllity. It's position
can only be ascertagned by noticing
the sudden quenching Of stars, and |
trust that astronomers, both in Amerl-
ca and Europe, will aid in obtaining
the magnitude and motions of this
lonely wanderer in the sidereal heav
ems.
ChIoraI and Bromide OF Potassium.