The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1885-10-03
WIGGINS' PREDICTIONS.
Peculiar Condition Of the Planetary
BOdies-A Tremendous Storm Fore
told.

E. Stone Virgins. OF Cauada. Is ma
king some very interesting predictions
regarding tho temperature, etc, next
year. The following app+ar>in the DE
trOit Free Press:
In IL recent issue of your journal You
say | have predicted that next winter
will he unusually mild. tli> is news
to me. With the great planets, Jupi-
ter. Saturn, Uranus aud Neptune, all
so near their rerihiIion. Il mild lwinter
| for 1886 Is an absolute impU-sibility.
In fact the extremely cold weather now
prevailing in the Southern Hemisphere
teaches IA lesson of Ill opposite .isuifi-
cation. Unusual proximity of the
n~eishborinS planets to our earth inva
riably means cold. When our moon is
in peri gee. and especially at l.lIe time.
Of her c%onjnnction, the ten ,'cratule
falls aud this is increased When our See
ond satellite has ii similar relative posi-
ton. The old theory that the nearer IL
planet is to the sun the hotter it is is
absurd! The opposite is the fact the
colder it is! All planets must increase
in size and attractive power, either by
met-ors falling to their surface II by
til. increase in the number of their sa
t~ellitcs, which must mean that they
are gradually r-ceding from the sun.
Our earth is much further from the 80
lar orb now than she was at the gla
ciai age. or when our viSibi" satellite
first appeared in the Siluiian eraS, and
Saturn is much more distant than when
he carried but Il single . in his
then smaller race course around the
.uu. Then as the fur great planets
Just mentioned are 50 near to us their
.ttractI"n forces our satellites nearer
our primary, thus increasing the attrac
ton on our earth's surface, and as a re
suit densifying our atmosphere. 1t was
for this eason l predicted in the New
York Insurance Times that the winters
and summers of 1854 aud 1885 would
be remarkable for their coldnes, for the
depth of snOw in winter aud the rain
fall in summer, and how exactly this
prediction has been fulfilled As the
same conditions will, to II certain de-
gree. exist. it is impossible that the
winter Of 1886 can be otherwise than
cold and stormy. This unusual atmos
pheric density is the primary cause Of
the cholera in Europe /; for those nox-
ions gases, consisting Of the poisonous
compounds::of carbon. are more quickly
generated. and rises to a higher atmos
pheric level than usual, especially in
low countries aud in cities badly drain
ed and ventilated.
l have made no predictions as to
storms or temperature excepting the
following storms which l published in
the New York Herald on May 10, 1884.
viz: September % and 80, 1886 :;
March 1920, 1887. and September 10,
1887. The last named will be the great
est storm at Halifax, Quebec and Bos
ton that will occur for the remainder
of the century. 1t is the great storm
of October. 1869. known as the Saxby
storm, which was attended by a tidal
wave and committed such sad havoc
on the Eastern coast of North America.
On the 18th and 18th perfect calm will
prevail over the greater part of the con
%tinent, the air-current at Halifax. what
little there may he, moving from the
west. At four O'Clock on the afternoon
of the 10Th september, 1887. it will
suddenly shift from the southeast. No
one, unless told, would. imagine that
this quiet shifting of the flag on the
mast and tire smoke from the chimney
top indicates the beginning of a storm
which 10 4hours will become one of the
greatest of the century. and one that will
be spoken of by other generations. The
New York Maritime Register stated in
1881 that my prediction of the storm
Of September IA. of that year-the one
in which the Asia was lost on Lake Hu
ron with a hundred souls on board
saved eight million dollars worth of
United States shipping but this will
be a heavier one, and much more dam