Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-12-23
A NEW WORLD NJ
The Sun is About to Throw Oh q
swirling Mass 100000 Miles in
Length-Now Moving at a
Terrific Speed.

NEW YORK, Dec. 18.-A new world
is being born am any person, with the
aid of a smoked glass, can see it
ready to break away from the sun and
launch itself into space, Just like the
earth did hundreds of thousands OF
years ago.
. Prof. Garrett P. Serviss predicted
such a birth on Sept. II. He said:
"The great sun spot which astrono-
mers have been watching for years
has now formed into a fisry, swirling
mass about to burst. from the SUMS
surface"
Prof. Corrigau, director of theGood-
sell Observatory, said:
"The bullying globe of molten mat
ter will be hurled out into space and
will perhaps some day destroy the
earth"
Prof. VIM. r. Brooks, of Smith OBJ
servatory, telegraphs to-day that the
mighty solar disturbance is about 1OO,-
900 miles in length.
According to this statement this
new world, which the sun is sending
out into the universe, is more than
three times the size of the earth.
If this vast world of matter is en-
tirely broken from the sun, as astron-
omers say it is to-day, it is whirling
in space and creating an atmosphere
of It's own, which will make life posi-
BILE on it's surface as soon as it cools
sufficiently.
This new world can be seen travel
ing away from the sun at a terrific
rate.
1t may not seem to be going 80 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.
1t may take 1000 900 years before it
strikes the earth, and Prof. Serviss
says:
"Prof. Corrigan is probably right in
recalling us to a realization of the fact
that, just as we depend upon the sun
for light, heat 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.
"The idea which he suggests that
the birth of a new world should have
the effect of destroying the life of an
older one has a peculiar Significance.
Granted that a planet may be born
from the sun in way he points out,
the consequences indicated might
well result.
"Life on this earth is possible only
through a very delicate balance OF
conditions and forces, and the evil
dence is daily accommodating that even
comparatively slight disturbances in
the sun are capable OF effecting thai
balance in various ways.
"The mysterious sun spots which
have puzzled the astronomers since
Calico saw them with the first tele-
scope, the tremendous upheavals
from the solar surface, to which ref.
erence has been made the up-gush-
ing of vaporized matter from the in
terror of the sun, and the unexplained
periodical character of all these correl-
ated phenomena, like the ebbing 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.
"The spots, the blazing faculae
s~treaking the solar surface at inter-
walls, the violent outbursts followed by
subsidences, all these are regarded az
indications of the straining of the
giant in its birth throes."
AS long as the sky remains clear
this wonderful birth of a new world
can be seen by all who take the
trouble to look toward the SUE
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 OF
two, be able to tell at what rate ani
in what direction it is travelling to fine
its home.
Mr.. Elisha Berry, of this place, says