The Savannah morning news., 1903-10-25

day become when the prophecy snail
have been fulflled-"the earth shall
melt as with fervent heat, ana the
heavens be rolled together like
scroll"
MY ignorance of scientific terms for
bids a minute description OF all the
wonders one may see here, but this let
ter is designed more to so excite your
curiosity that when you visit wash
ington you will not fail to make a
special pilgrimage to the observatory
and investigate for yourself. There
are the rival planets, Mars,-red and
frey as with anger, and Saturn with
pale greenish complexion, as though
desperately jealous, or about the de-
YOUR another of Rheas children. 1t is
difficult to believe that Saturn is near
ly twenty times as large as Mars, be-
cause the latter, being nearer, looks
much larger The slow and dignitied
Saturnus, the NEUROLOGICAL granger
and chief among the dieties, is superb
when viewed through the great tele-
scope, it's broad fiat rings and seven
moons being distinctly visible. 1t mas
been ascertained that this planet
about 1000 times larger than our little
earth--is not self-luminous, but shines
only by the reflected light of the sun.
Astronomers say that to an inhabitant
of Saturn, If there be any such, the
rings rotating in their plane, must pre-
sent a magnificent spectacle; appear
ing as vast arches spanning
the sky from horizon to horizon and
holding an invariable situation among
the stars. On the other hand, in the
regions beneath the dark side, as Sa-
turn revolves upon it's axis, there must
be a solar eclipse of fifteen years du-
ration. the only light received being
the faint illumination of the satellites.
On the whole we believe that our own
little earth is preferable as place or
residence. Another turn OF the wheel
brings Sirius into the field of the great
telescope, and the mild little star that
looks so insignificant to the naked eye
glows like a great calcium light. We
are told that If the old story of the
morning in the Garden were true, the
inhabitants of that distant world, had
they possessed the range OF vision nee
essary, might have seen the marvel or
the making of Eve from Adams rib
and our early ancestors walking about
their estates on that first perfect day.
Imagine if you can ray of light 5000
wears on it's way from one planet to
another! Suppose on its journey 1t
could gather to itself and bring to our
infinite comprehension all the vast
stores of knowledge it had acquired;
the myriad worlds in process of for
nation the baby planets whose glories
shall at some future day delight ma
lions yet unborn after we shall have
passed-whither?
Then there is Jupiter. an immense
jolly old bull. rollicking along among
the stars, the Del Pater of the spheres
like his namesake among the gods
the largest of our solar system next
to the sun. Its mean density is sup
posed to be one-fourth that of the
earth, and it's distance from the sun
only the snug little journey of 494, 00O.-
900 miles. 1t is surrounded by several
belts of a dirty color, which look as II
Mother Ophs or Sister Juno sadly neg
lected the family washing. Astrono-
mers differ as 10 the cause of this ap-
pearance. but it is generally conceded
to arise. from the presence of dense
masses of cloud lowering about the
planet. This aristocratic illuminary Is