Year: 1877

Aho Woiiu VI Jupiter Is tue mOst WI
luminous of all the globes of our system !;
IT is only 1000 times smaller than the
sun, and by itself alone is equal to ], 400
terrestrial globes. So, although it re-
wolves in circuit that is almost 20O,-
100000 leagues distant and receives a
light very much fainter than that re-
ceived by the earth, its bulkness is mani
tested through the brilliancy with which
1t shines during our starlight nights, a
brilliancy equal and often superior to
that which Venus sparkles.


His is ravishing world, at least. so
far as one can judge from a distance,
without having been there. In the first
place, perpetual spring time radiates
DER his surface. If he is bedecked with
howers-a circumstance of which we en-
tertain no doubt, save as to knowing of
what such flowers may consist-they do
not live only "pespace DUN matin" (the
space OF morning) as your roses, but
enjoy al existence infinitely more length
ened. Scarcely do the older ones begin
to show few wrinkles and wax wan ere
they are replaced by charming buds put
ting forth their bloom before the first
have withered.


Not only does every year on the Je.
Wan planet equal twelve of our years,
but we further hardly know when the
annual period begins or ends. There are
nosummers, no winters, but always the
spring. Then the world of Jupiter pre-
sents surface 126 times more extensive
than the earth's. l say surface and not
volume. Now, 126 earths, one placed
along side another, and over which man.
kind might spread at will, would consti-
tute an exceedingly fine country, would
it not? We ought not, then, to doubt
that such an empire was formed to serve
as dwelling place for some human fam
lily worthy OF our respect. Because we
end, through observation of the Jovian
planet, excellent reason for believing its
inhabitants greatly favored, it does not
follow that the said inhabitants should
make the same reflections respecting us.
A good reason confronts the sapposition
of their bothering themselves there
ab0uts-the fact that they do not so
much as suspect our existence. And,
indeed, should it ever, in future more
or less distant, happen to you to dwell on
Jupiter, you would have no little trouble
to find your future home. You would
have to get up bit before sunrise land
take note that there are but five hours
between the rising and setting of that
orb on Jupiter) and, five or six minutes
before the suns appearance, seek in the
east for very tiny white star. With
very sharp eyes you might chance, per-
haps, to perceive it. In such a case you
would know that our earth is in the
world.


So again six months later, you might
make the same search in the west few
moments after the day-king's retiring.
Such are the conditions in which the
dwellers of jupiter find themselves as
regards us.


Earth is never seen from there during
the night, whilst it is precisely the calm
night time that we, from here, can best
observe that magnificent planet. As for
the planets which follow-Saturn, Ura-
nus and Neptune-they can not have,
respecting thereto, any conception what
ever. Jupiter is, in sooth, world,
splendid world, beside which ours is
verify but moon, and were we to OBJ
serve it close at hand, to grow accus-
toned to its nature, to live awhile amidst
its surrounding and to appreciate its i'm.
portance, we should regard our globe as
very modest when coming forth from
such place of sojourn. We should be
like those good village folks who come
once in their lifetime to Paris, and who,
if they have the i'll luck to remain there
a month only, no longer know what to
make of their village--it is eclipsed by
the mere recollection of the splendOrs
caught sight of.