Daily south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1881-18??, 1885-10-01
SUN SPOTS.
A Suggestion That the Orb of Day Is AZ
fccted w th Measles.

A Suggestion That the Orb of Day Is AT
fcctcd w til Measles.
A fresh spot has appeared on the face
OF the sun, very large one humanity
speaking. 1t measures about twenty
thousand geographical miles by seven
thousand. Perhaps the sun does not
think it excessive, having such very
broad face, aud being able to accommo.
date great number of pimples Of the
same size. But the extent sounds con-
siderable, all the same. Besides, there
are ever so many smaller ones, about
the size of the earth, and, taking all
together, we shall hardly be exagger-
at ng the situation ii we say there is
'qu TO Il rash" For much less we
should call the doctor in. Indeed,
We terrestrial atoms could not rise to
the dignity of such an eruption, not
even ii we put all our faces together
and went shares in the same spot. We
talk of having "the measles" nobody
thinks of counting them or asking:
"How many?" But they are mere pin
po nts dots, spcaks. II is very differ
ent, however, with the orb THAT rules
the day Astronomers keep u egis-
ter Of its crupiions, and book each new
'mcasleh as it comes. They diagnose
the phenomenon, and conjecture Us to
its causes and results, just as the doc
to's do over the baby's red-speekled
boly. And, like doctors, they can not
stop the process. 1t must run its
course, they say. Some day, perhaps,
they will prescribe for the sun. If
they nj cady know its weight, its tenn
pe'ature and constitut on, why shoIld
they not find out all about its digest on
and habits9 Is it temperate and adj
dictcd 10 regular lifeP There is Il good
deal to be said on both sides. In a
general way it Is irreproachable,
a model lumnary, and pattern
to everybody else doingperennial work
conscieniiouslv and regularly. Moral
ly. too, no fault can be found with a
body which is all things to all men--an-
swcrS the negro accor ing to his black
ness, and never throws pearls before
swine. Early to bed and early TO rise,
it ought to be healthy, wealthy, and
wise, But is it9 There is another side
TO the sun. When it has got out of our
sight and beyond the scrut nizing
VISION OF civilization it conducts itself
immodcrately. An excessive warmth
characteriLes its conduct. II bages
out, gets furiously hot over nothing.
People beg the sun TO keep cool,
to cam itself. But this only
seems to make it get all the hotter and
be all the more intolerable. From
other quarters, again, we have very
different reports, There, they tell us,
and the evidence is trustworthy, it will
not show itself sometimes for weeks to.
gether. The knew it is there, or
thereabouts, from the reflections cast
ON the sky. Blt, as for melting q gla-
cier or liquifying an iceberg, no such
effects are forthcoming, This gratities
Polar bears, no doubt, but can not be
styled impartial behavior After all
the EsQuimaux are human beings,
watch even the best of bears are not
Still, rs the homelv saying goes. we
should talk of men only is we know.
Report is liable to be biased in the tran
sit, or unreliable Mt the source So, for
ourselves, we ought to speak well OF
the great orb That it does not as a
rule take much notice OF us, and that
when, as an exception, it does we
grumble, is neither here nor there.
Our temperature is the finest in the
world, our climate second to none, and
the security of our country from plague,
pes Hence, and famine from drought
and flood earthquake and hurr canes
is the envy OF all the inhabited earth,
And for all this we have to thank the
sun. London Telegraph.