The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-07-19

are diligently comparing observations,
notes and differences on the still undeter-
mined influences of Neptune and Herschel
in their various aspects with the other
planets. Probably Prof. Oliver Ames
Gould's reissue of James Wilson's "Dic-
tionary Of Astrology' has done more than
any other one book to command the re-
spectful attention of reasoning aud inqulr-
ing minds, and in 1t are smashed without
mercy whole basketfuls OF the over-ripe
eggs of superstition laid by Ptolmy. Pa
cidus aud their successors down to Sibley,
Coiey aud Lilly. AT the same time the
dealers in old books find that they have no
stock which commands surer and better
prices than the ancient works OF astrology.
Students seize them eagerly. partly from
curious interest in their vagaries, partly
from the good grains that they believe may
be sifted from the bushel Of chaff they
contain.
CURIOSITY, IF NOTHING MORE.
in students of astrology, has also led to the
opening up of the Hindu astrological sys-
ten. From the Brihdt-Jdtdid Shdtpdnchds-
ikd and other Hindo works on this science
recently done over into English and now
finding large sale, it appears that the ORR
entail system is infinitely more elaborate
and apparently more empirical than the
western, particularly in the department
the western world has very little conf
dence. In view of the fact that a thorough
understanding of Hindu astrology would
seem to be almost hopeless for any body but
a Hindu who could give his whole mind to
ii and was sure of long life, its popularity
among our students will doubtless be as a
fund of amusement rather than serious
use.
In the course of an article on the planet
Venus, in the May issue of the leading
American astrological magazine, Signs of
The Times, published in Boston, occurs the
following:
"Venus is said 10 be friendly, by sympa-
thy, to every planet except the leaden star
Saturn. Indeed, it is his malevolence, es-
pecially when powerfully affecting Venus,
that gives US our epidemics of violence to
females and suicides and death from poi
son. Poisonous medicines administered
through mistake, or polsous administered
or taken by inhalation or by way OF the
stomach, with murderous or suicidal intent,
always testify to the severity of affiicton
suffered by Venus from Saturn in the lives
of the victims, but especially in those days
when
SATURN is IN EVIL ASPECT WITH VENUS
in the heavens at the same time. Saturn
was in opposition to Venus in the heavens
in the middle days of April this year, and
the press has teemed with accounts of
slaughters of women and children, and
wholesale poisonings. The New York
Sun, in its issue of April 81, notes the
amazing record of murder and suicide,
AID well asks the philosophers to account
for the great crime wave We have had
two poisonings from the Inhalation of gas
in the Grand Union hotel in New York
city and one at the Parker house in this
city Boston we have had a Jack the
Ripper butchery; the poisoning of thirty
guests at Louisville wedding, resulting
in the death of b. f. Guthrie, millionaire,
and dangerous illness to several others I;
the poisoning Of a number of laborers in
Burlington, Iowa; and several poisonings
in Denver, including that of Mrs. Barnaby
which is furnishing press comment by col
umns at the present time"