The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-12-25
A NEW WORLD NJ
The Sun is About to Throw Off a
Swirling Mass 100000 Miles III
Length-NOw Moving at a
Terrific Speed.

NEW YORK, Dec. PA new worit
is being born, and any person, with tb'
aid of a emoked glass, can see It ready
to break a1ay from the sun snd Iaoncf
itself into space, iasJ liko the earth dc
hundreds OF thousands OF years ago.
Prof. Garret z. Serviss predicted
such q birth on September ~. Hs
said
Zine great sun spot which astrono'
mers have been watching for years has
now formed into u fiery, swirling mass
about 10 burst from the SUMS surface
Prof. COrrigan, director of the Good
sell Observatory, said:
s.The bullying globe of molten matter
will be hurled out into space and Will
perhaps some day destroy The earth. .
Prof. VIM. r. Brooks, of Smith
Observatory, telegraphs today that the
mighty solar disturbance is about lOO,-
600 miles in length.
According to this statement this new
world, which the sun Is sending out
into the universe, is o than three
times the size of the earth.
II this vast world of matter is entirely
broken from the sun, as astronomers
say it Is today, it Is whirling into space
and creating an atmosphere of its own,
which will make life possible on its
surface as soon as 1t cools sufficiently.
This new world a be seen travelling
away from the sun at a terrific rate.
1t may not seem to be going so very
fast according to the observation OF
mortals not versed In astronomical
science, but nevertheless it is, so to
speak, finding a home in the universe.
II may take 1000, 900 years before
It strikes the earth, aud Prof. Serviss
says:
.'Prof. Corrigan is probably right In
recalling as 10 q realization of the fact
that, just as we depend upon the sun
for light, heal and life itself, so we
should look to the sun when we try to
lift the curtain that hides the future fate
of the globe we live on.
ssThe idea which he suggests that
the birth of q new world should have
the effect of destroying the life of an
older one has a peculiar Significance.
Granted hat a planet may be born
from the sun in way he points out, the
consequences indicated might we'll
result.
ssThe mysterious sun spots which
have puzzled the astronomers since
Gailileo saw them with the first tele-
scope, the tremendous u%pheavals from
the solar surface, to which reference
has been made; the up-gushing of
vaporized matter from the interior of
the sun, and the unexplained periodical
character of all these correlated phe-
nomena, like the eboing and flowing of
a tide, are regarded by Prof. Corrigan
as proofs that the time is near and
perhaps just at hand, when another
planetary birth is to take place.
1.-The spots, the blazing facul@
streaking the solar surface at inter-
walls, the violent outbursts followed by
subsidences, all these are regarded as
indications Of the strainiDg of the giant
In its birth throes."
As long as the sky remains clear this
wonderful birth of q new world can DO
seer by all who tate the trouble to
look toward the sun through a smoked
glass.
No one knows just when the new
planet will strike the earth.
Astronomers all over the world are
watching the baby world with intense
interest, and may, within a day or two,
be able to tell at what rat and in
what direction 1t is travelling to find its
home.