Show A NEW astronomical THEORY M 31 tre fremaux maux laux author odthe of the origin of the transformation of man 11 has haa addressed a paper to the french francu academy of sciences in which he says that new tons system which does not explain the cause of the motion of heavenly bodies and which moreover only establishes tab lishes an inconstant equilibrium 7 is not sufficient f to account for the many perturbations which influence these bodies and that consequently some principle ciple must be sought after that will give constant equilibrium this principle the author feuds in the antagonism of heat and cold the former expands melts transforms into vapor and therefore repels the latter condenses solidifies contracts and therefore should be easi cAsI considered dered tle the the force of attraction suppose now two heavenly bodies to be brought to together ether considering ini them in an incandescent state they must repel each other in proportion ro portion to the intensity of but at the same time the attraction of their masses will counteract the force of repulsion to a certain extent and the distance of the two bodies from each other will be determined by the difference of these two forces in other words these two bodies remain at such a distance that the force of repulsion or heat and the force of attraction will exactly balence each other he adds let the two bodies be motionless that is uninfluenced by any force of rotation round their axes in that case the two sides that are turned away from each other are necessarily cooler than those which stand face to face because the former radiate their heat into space while the latter are constantly exchanging calorific rays with each other hence the tendency to repulsion in the latter and the contrary one in the former the cons consequence is that the slightest force being applied sufficient to break the equilibrium a motion will be com unica ted to each of the bodies in order to bring those hemispheres face to face that have a tendency to attract each other now this thib motion once begun will continue eternally and thus through the mere inere agency of heat and cold two of the most remarkably astronomical trono mical phenomena are accounted for viz rotation round the a axis x s and a cons constant tang distance between the pa planets neets 11 til tin FORT PHILIP KEARNEY MASSACRE the commissioner of indian affairs has received the following telegram fort laramie dec 29 1866 hon lewis bogy commissioner of indian affairs an indian arrived from tongue river eiver reports that a large party of tenneco bous bates Ogal lallas crows happas blackie et and sa left tongue river eiver on the dinst for vort port fort forb philip kearney and on the the indians indiana were discovered near the fort brevet ool col fetterman cal capt t brown and grammond with ninety enlisted men men med left the fort to give rive five sive them battle nothing more was heard card from them until a party sent out from the fort found them at a distance of four miles all lying dead col fetterman and his entire command having been massacred by the indians signed at T PATRICK pateick upper platte agent adam in his capacity as gardener was undoubtedly the inventor of the well known phrase the dignity dig of labor 11 |