The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-09-20
WIGGINS ON HIS TRIPOD
JACK FROST TO KILL YELLOW
FEVER BETWEEN OCT. 3 ANDe.

The Prophet thinks the People of Mars
Know a Heap More Than We Dole
Unfolds a Fine Lot OF Grand New
Scientific Facts-A fraid to ell All He
Knows for Fear OF the SCATTERING
Effecl Upon the Nerves of a TOO
Contlding World.
From the New York sun
OTTAWA, Sept. l6-I called to-day, by
appointment, at a pretty cottage on the
outskirts of Ottawa. A plump maid serv-
ant admitted me to a dusky library, ex-
amined freckle on her nose in an oval
mirror, tucked in a spray of her back hair,
and withdrew humming an air from LA
File de Madame Ang9t.n 1t rained with a
roar without. waited in stolid patience
for a while. Then the maid fell up stairs
noisily and ceased humming The house
was still. l rose after a long time and
CROPPED about the dusky room. Suddenly
ran into large and nebulous person who
was, and evidently for some time had been
standing in the middle of the apartment.
He wore cotton gloves and a pleasing smile,
Pardon me-" | said; II was looking
for" -
Virgins" said be, removing his gloves
~ am he; sit down"
Then there was lorg silence, punctured
by the long-drawn breaths of Virgins
Presently he said, slowly:
Can you tell me why should give the
Sun this interview, when | can write it out
myself and get 800 for it?"
mo, except that it will very likely an
rear on the first page, and it will go by
wire"
by telegraph"
Dear me-" said Mr.. Virgins, inter
estedly; "would it now, really. What did
you wish to ask me. for instances"
How soon," l asked, may the yellow
fever sufferers in Jacksonville expect
frostp
The professors face came to sudden
resolution. Lamps were lighted, charts
brought out, and note books opened.
I'm tell it all to you," he said, briskly
"lYe been very hard at work, which is Just
completed, and l feel like giving my OBJ
servations publicity"
''-}y telegraph" l observed
"By wire," said the professor, promptly.
"Well, theu," he continued, Jacksonville
will certainly have frost between Oct and
8, and not before. The autumn will be cold
oil through Septembef, and very cold
weather will occur from the Sd to the 9th of
October throughout the whole of North
America. This lowering of the tempera-
ture will 10 caused by the moons junction
when in perigee and the peculiar position
of the planets Mars and Jupiter. The cold
weather will wiDe out the yellow fever in
Jacksonville i have a strong suspicion
that serious seismic disturbances may shortly
OCCUR on this continent, but on account of
the alarming results which have followed
other predictions of mine on this subject, |
refrain from giving my predictions to the
public.
My. system, may tell you, is based
upon certain meteorological data that |
have arrived at, aud largely upon the posi-
ton of the earth relative to the planets
Here is one conclusion have come to in re-
gard to scientific matters. The old theory
that the nearer planet is to the sun the
greater is the amount of heat it enjoys is
incorrect. On the contrary, the nearer a
planet is to the sun the colder it is owing to
the increased solar attraction. The GOODNESS
of the last few seasons is really due to this
cause, for the conjunction Of the planets of
June 10, 1881, forced them, in a small de-
gree, at least, nearer to the solar orb.
Hence the cyclones, storms, and earth
quakes almost unprecedented that the
earth's inhabitants have experienced since
that period. The planet Mars seems to
have suffered equally with our own. for if
its continent, Lydia, has not actually dis
dpptdi GU, IL II OFluclib bLc dlulOskpuoI6
of that planet has become more condensed,
more capable of holding vapor, and there
fore presents a more cloudy area, causing
objects on the surface to be obscured.
"That is the reason" continued Mr.. Wig
gins, "why Lydia can no longer be seen.
The planet is too far from the sun to per-
NIT of any cataclySnl causing the subnerg-
ence of continent Besides, am doubtful
if there is sufficient quantity of water on
Mars fn anhmarOa q rOntinanf "a his
must be excessively shallow l am strongly
of the opinion that the canals recently OBJ
served by the Italian astronomers are really
the work of human beings much more in
telligent and capable than ourselves, and
for tue purposes OF navigation and irriga-
ton. For their steam power must be COM
paratively greater than ours on account of
the greater density of their atmosphere. In
addition the soil is more easily removed on
account of the smallness of the planet and
its distance from the sun, which, of course,
increases the lightness of all substances on
its surface"
"You say that the earth is slightly ap-
preaching the sun since June 10, 1887 What
is likely to be- the effect of this derange-
ment"
The effect will be that in very few
years the earth will resume her old position
in her orbit, and this is true of all the
planets. The fact Is the earth is constantly
receding from the sun, ana always has been
since It's creation. The huge bones of the
great saurians that lived in the ooiitic age
clearly Indicate that objects on our planets
surface in these early ages were much more
powerfully attracted than now, while the
glacial periods Of the past plainly indicate
that the cold was then intense The astro-
nomical proof that the earth is receding
from the sun is the moons secular accelera-
ton; that is, astronomers in all ages have
perceived that the moon is constantly in
creasing her speed in her orbit. As the
earth recedes from the sun the moon ap-
proaches the earth, thus increasing her orbit
motion.
TINS idea is now presented for the first
time" said the professor, land is my pecu-
liar discovery. The earth's orbit" he went
on, sis therefore constantly enlarging, hui
man life is becoming longer and longer, Hnd
cyclones, storms, and earthquakes are grad
ually but surely decreasing, so that iu time
even our great mountain chains will disap-
pear, which means that the temperature of
North America will become salubrious
as that of Italy and The south Of France"
When will that happy time arrivep |
asked
II cannot at this moment tell you" an
swered the sage. Indeed, if we were to
sink or blow up the Rocky mountains (and
anything cau be done nowadays), our eli
mate would become similar to that OF Great
Britain only purer and clearer