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Show Flat. Copernicus was severely taken to j task yestenlay by a gentleman upon the public thoroughfare. Said he: "People arc fools to believe tho j world is round. Where do the books i get it? From Copernicus. Who was 1 Copernicus? He was an old lunatic. The whole system of astronomy, j founded on the aberration of that man ,s intellect, is false to the core, i I tell you thc earth is flat. . These doc- trincs of ifc lotundity, and revolution with such fearful velocity through space, are a delusion and a snare. You have been taught that thc world is round, and you believe it. If you i had been taught that it was conical or spherical you would have swallowed ; it with equal avidity. Tho professors I say Copernicus discovered that tho , earth is round; then he made the sun stand still; thou ho set the earth to revolving at tho rate of thousands of miles an hour. This is all stuff and nonsence. If you were riding on the cars at 60 miles an hour, and put your head out of the window, tho "force of tlie air would almost tear it ofl; yet you believe you are going at 63,000 miles an hour and feel not a zephyr. Who knows that wo arc traveling thus? Who knows that the earth weighs 0,000,000,000,00,000,-000,000? 0,000,000,000,00,000,-000,000? Is there any one with all of his familiarity with the price of tallow and cotton that believes tliesun's r.iys have an illuminatine; powvr ot S.-rtXV 000 1X).000 .UOO. 00i. Ot'O OOO.OoO can dles? Our philosophers lat.-ly hav become wiser than the maker of the earth. Tne Bible speaks ol the ends of t-.e earth and tlie length ;;.id breadth of it: of its being a sea o; glass, but never of its diameter or circumference. cir-cumference. Talk of the dark aeo! We arc in the dark now!" Our reporter by tins time brains o Uidly coafuaoU tl. 'imas.ilKx; n standing on his head taking notes. Willi a tremendous effort hi recovered his equilibrium arid niahev oil at a tangent, at race horse speed Ocliug that he never was so badh |