Show RED SPOT thought to ite a lahe of fire thirty long the mind of terrestrial man is not capable of forming an idea of alie awful grandeur of a lake of fire thirty thou sand long and seven thousand miles wide yet lucli a fiery body is ex-actly what the astronomers believe was wilhm view on the surface of the planet jupiter during the year 1893 at about that time atcy for alie cu-rious contained an article on the mys-tery of Ju lied spot but no for ohp gigantic spot biad then been assigned since that time alie as-ttrroonnoommeerrss huc been busily engaged comparing notes and figuring on the matter and it is now pretty generally conceded by them that the phenomenon was nothing more nor less than a con-vulsive rolling back of the upper or cooler portions of the great planets surface which exposed the red hot molten matter lying just beneath such an idea of the iotte astronomical enigma may be regarded as somewhat fanciful but it seems very suggestive in view of alie probability that jupiter is a planet yet in an intensely heated condition Ju wonderful red spot was first discovered in 1878 and has been in view times since that date rome jimca it is much smaller than ai others anil whether large or small may be seen to enlarge and contract just as such a lale of fire would be apt to do when immense volumes of steam and heat were being forced through a hinl aning overlying stratum of a world which may even now properly be said tobe in if |