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Show A POLYCAVOU8 PLANET. While our respectable and orderly' planet, the earth, always has been content with one life companion and helpmate, the moon, whose pure aud estimable character bis made her the very emblem of chastity, aud while his fidelity to her h:is beou as habitual habi-tual as the rising and hilling of tho tide, other members of the aim's family have bueu rather irregular in their domestic habits Jupiter and Saturn, foi example Mars, following these bad example, was convicted of bigaoiy a short time ago, and ever since bis two moons have been a reproach to him and a ucaudal to the whole system. He has, indeed, often been under a cloud in consequence of tbe shameful disclosure. dis-closure. When he Iiub appeared sometimes before the celestial public with a very red face, the rising color has been Liken as a sign that he was ashamed of himaelt and meant to do better. On the other baud, inie hopeful exhibition has been offset by the disiiournging faL't that l.o hue shown no disposition to reform hit establishment by dismissing ono of bin tiiiamuus moons. In this state ol MlUirs it is easy to imagine what an outbreak of disgust and indignation will bo occasioned throughout the tiriiniment by the announcement, which is now male, that Mars ia openly consorting witb a third moon How lon(j thiH 1ms been going on it it impOPHibic to say. .Enough is kuowti, however, to prove not only that tbr morals of Mars are no bettor than they should be, but that they are uo better than they were wnen be wa-first wa-first found out. Tim signs of re mors--and reformation either were straDgely misunderstood or were deliberately and hypocritically put forth lo deceive the public. Tbe question naturally occurs, how fur is this had couree ol conduct to be toleratcd? The pro'-abihty is thai i Lhe polygamous planet, going thu from bad lo worse, will presently rnaiutaiu a whole seraglio of satellites. The result cannot fail to be injurious to stcilur society; and the example will tend especially to cor rupt its younger members tbe new asteroids, for instance, of which Professor Peters is furnishing such large numbers. We respectfully direct the attention of the sun to this matter, if, indeed, he has not been winking at M urs's irregularities all along. New York Eve. Post. |