The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1894-09-14
Man First from Mars
by Comet Express
So Says Prof. Wiggins,
the Canadian Oracle.
The Serpent That Beguiled Eve Was
Fiery Comet An Interesting
Scientific Argument.

tail of comet.
There is, in addition, the professor
says, overwhelming evidence that Eve
found her way here in the same man
ner.
II have no time now ito enter into a
detailed discussion of this point" said
Professor Virgins, "but I believe the
serpent who beguiled Eve and caused
all our woes was a comet"
The professor was found in his little
observatory at Britannia, his summer
home, by lake des Chenes.
You know he said, 1.-The greatest
power in nature is electricity, and it
is a law that like electricities repel
and unlike attract. In other words.
if two bodies are highly charged, they
repel each other; but if one is charged
and the other is not, or is slightly so,
they attract each other. If you were
to charge two common balls to high
degree of tension and place them apart
in pure space they could never fall to-
gether, but if one were positive and the
other negative they would rush to-
gather and become one.
1.-The earth as planet, and all other
heavenly bodies, are positively and
their coming into collision with one
another. Melpomene, Nissa, and sew
eral other asteroids cross and recross
the orbit OF Mars, but never fall upon
that planet. Professor Won Nissel in.
vestigat I'd the path Of the great meteor
seen at the same moment in Austria
and Italy in July Z, 1892, and found ii
was directed upwards and away from
the earth, having been shot off into
space by the electric force of oul
globe.
THE SUMS ATMOSPHERE.
"The suns atmosphere is the mos
powerful electric force in the solar sys
tenn. When a comet is near to hin
and has be come charged, it is driver
away into space at the rate of mil
lions Of miles an hour, and is some
times absent a century; but when i
has parted with it's electric force suf
ficiently to become negative to the
sun, it is al tIacted back again by thu
law of unlike electricites. A highly
electrified comet will gather up mega
tive neteoric stones near its path ant
force then after lit through space.
Here is a black thunder cloud com
ing down from the mountains. 1t
electric power is very great, and it il
almost perfectly isolated by the dry
non-con 1ucting air between it and thu
earth. If it meets with no conductor
stretch ed across its path it will trave
hundreds OF miles and water the fields
beneath it. Push wire from tht
earth upward into the cloud and th'
latter will fall to the earth like a lumI
Of lead. Stretch wires across it's patti
and it will dissapate and disappear il
few minutes.
'This is why telegraph and telephone
the cloud to retain it's electric powe
and to pass over shallow marshes ant
low grounds. What will happen? 1t
electric force will attract negative
small bodies like fishes, frogs. small
shells, and worms and force them III
into the cloud, where they remain un
til the cloud loses its electric powe
when they will be distributed over th'
fields below. This is why these littl'
animals are found ON pavements ant
in water TANKS after a shower, ant
which accounts for the presence O
trout and all sorts Of fishes in Lakes
and brooks hundreds of miles from
the sea.
A SHOWER OF SHELLS.
"a few months ago there was {
shower near this city Of minute shells
which are Only found in Florida, ant
on March 10, 1890, during a thundel
storm near Dijon, the grass was Gov
cred with black and yellow worms
from one to thi ee inches long, thai
had been brought, savanits supposed
from some tropical cline. AT al
events they were foreign to Europe
Now, if a thunder storm could trave
from Mars to the earth might it MOI
carry similar animals from that plane
to ours?'
Yes, but thunder clouds do not
travel from Mars to the earth
"Quite true; but there are other bod
les that do travel between Mars and
the earth that are a million times NOR.
highly charged electric eNy than a
thunder cloud-comets.'
"How do you know they are highly
charged?''
II know it because Biela's comet
was seen to burst into two parts in
1S47, and since that period the two
hemispheres have gradually receded
from each other, and they are entered
in the catalogue as two distinct COM
cts. Ephorus, Greak writer before
the Christian era, mentions a similar
phenomenon. This recession of the
parts could only have been due to
their being highly charged with like
electricities. Then, when comets cross
the earth's orbit near the earth, shoals
of meteors fall through our atmos-
There, showing that they have followed
the comet through space by electric
attraction. A body ait one time far
away from the sun and again near him
must undergo enormous expansion and
contraction, which would generate pow
erful electric action.
A MILLION METEORS.
''In 1872 aid 1886, when comet was
crossing our orbit, millions Of meteors
fell to the earth. Some of them were
examined by DR.. Hahn, the eminent
German geologist, who found that they
a series Of organic remains,
as crinoids, sponges, and corals-in all
fifty species. These must have come
from another world possessing an at
and producing animal life,
for we have nothing like them on the
earth.
"Our frog is certainly a land animal
brought from another planet, when 1T
fell into the water and was reproduced
by an aquatic animal, for before it
has lungs 1t Is in the form Of fish
with gills. II an enormous comet
We're to pass close to Mars there is
nothing more certain than 1t would
carry away the land animals on the
Hemisphere next to it, and would prob