Show THE UOLUsSUd OF WORLDS In one of the exchanges we find credited to CAMILLE PLAJTMARION a long but interesting inter-esting article on the subject of the planet of JuPITER An occasional publication of this sort is a good thing to recall attention to the fact that this little speck of a world we live on is not by any means the biggest part of creation To be suro we possess a great many things here as to which no other planet can compete with us so far as we know and it would really be astonishing astonish-ing if any whirling giant of the sky could compare with us for instance in the kind 11 of men and women we have One thing comforting about it is we are not likely to be confronted with denials of any merits we may lay claim to Like ALEXANDER SELKIRKS title our right there is none to dispute JUPITER is not what one might call a very near neighbor since traveling at the rate of a mile a minute it would take one more than one hundred and sixty years to get there and we are not particular par-ticular about few hundred thousand miles either Whereas the earth is 25000 ain a-in circumference JUPITER is 88000 miles through the circumference being 275000 miles at the equator JUPITERS excels of volume over ours is 1234 times At the same distance from us that the moon is it would appear 1600 times bigger than that pale inconstant luminary How much larger it was before the war FLAY JIARION does not tell us JUPITER is no slouch of a traveler himself 1 him-self With his retinue of four satellites each one of which has its special years and seasons and perhaps sessions of Congress it passes its orbit of more than 1000000000 miles in 4332 days going at the moderate gait of 700000 miles a day In this respect JUPITER is not in it compared with our planet since the earth trots along at three times that velocity But on its axis JUPITER swings with terrific speed knocking off a complete day In ten hours minus one minute This observance of the ten hour law chops daylight including twilight into in-to five hours of real day or about enough to comfortably get through reading the JUPITER SCSDAT HERALD If1I says KANT an inhabitant of JUPITER should die in childhood a year old on that planet ho I would be as old as one aged eleven years and 314 days on thist But the greatest shock to our vanity that the article from which we are picking out these cold facts contains is that if JUPITER and the earth were to exchange situations the inhabitants of the former would see our globe as a pale star of the sixth magnitude magni-tude and scarcely perceptible to tho naked eye Not as large as a balloon or an orange or a marble or a pea or as a No 6 t squirrel 1ot Why to JUPITEU we are as indifferent as diplomacy is to FONSKCA or the Utah commission to the Toters in the Sixth ward I Was there ever could there ever be such a defiance of the mind of man to comprehend com-prehend the majestic architecture of the universe as tho uncounted and innumerable innumer-able worlds present with their brilliant beauty and harmonious paths of light |