Show ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER astronomical influences and BOB A special dispatch to the boston herald dated ottawa ont sept 27 contains the following report of an interview with the famous prof wiggins in relation to the causes of various epidemics past and present ask log leg his opinion as to the source of the yellow lever fever in the south I 1 the anterro gator received the following reply the cause is purely astronomical you yon remember Profi prof i grimmer predicted that the earth would fall fail into the sun june 19 1881 there was a particle of truth in what grimmer said that is that when the planets were in the same line there was a tendency to approach the sun true the earths advance could not have exceeded a few miles from her normal orbit still the effect has been so marked that even the most illiterate perceive that nature is temporarily demoralized whoever heard beard of such disasters as have occurred since that period cy clones earthquakes floods cholera yellow fever and what Is to come who can tell I 1 all this is exactly what would happen it if the earth were forced a few miles nearer the sun when you squeeze an orange the juice is forced th the rind toe the increased solar attraction would contract the earths mass toe the laud land surface would become smaller ud ted the water would flow dow over ever it hence floada and the reports report of rivers in all the continents overflowing their bau banks s then this shrinks shrinkage e would not be uniform and hence bence earty earthquakes then again the atmosphere would become denser and would consequently hold bold more mere carbon and its compounds in solution producing mi clobes and thus cholera and yellow fever since 1881 cholera has done its terrible work in europe especially in spain and italy and now the fever is deso desolating latin 9 the south 1 smallpox two tw 0 years ago carried off hundreds in general and last year typhoid fever ottawa the southern cities may be said to have no drainage any more than those of india or the soudan and are always in a condition to breed disease it is well the e people live largely on fruits fruit tor for if they murdered animals by the minions millions as we do erected slaughter h bouses 0 a sea around their cities like we have around ottawa with their horrible stench cast the offal in the river or feed it to swine and sell the pork full of in the market in all ali proba bi ability lity the yellow fever would by this time have invaded canada did the planets ever produce such diseases as these at any former period 9 ysa yes several planets were in perihelion pert bell at the same simein time in the years and 1665 sud hundreds of millions of people then perish perished bd by the plague and black death you remember how the plague nearly de populated london in 1601 1664 and not only but almost every city in the woral the planets approaching pro aching us de resifted sifted our oar atmosphere contracted the earths bod yand forced the fluid carbon from every chink in her surface to breed disease and death rev bev dr wild of toronto preached a sermon in his bis church in 1888 calling attention to the diseases which were coming upon the earth and pointed to the tact that several Q of the planets were then in the perihelion 71 you think then that the earth to is passing through a severe ordeal besand Ye yes sand and so are all the planets mars which is moving jp illions of ef miles farther from the van bun and to is many bund hundreds reds of years older finds his bis atmosphere so dense and full of clouds that we can scarcely see some parts of his surface through the telescope but they have no yellow fever there JU it they had bad such a place as florida they would so cultivate it that ll it could not breed fever or would hew it down and let the sea flow over it no doubt one object of the num berless canals on his bin surface is 18 to 16 absorb the carbon and to prevent disease in a few hundred years the whole tide of human energy and skill will be turned to our digestive system teto Is there a 6 gentleman or er lady living that doea not leel that abe human intellect is far in advance of his or her physical system and that our bodies with their filthy digestive systems are a burden to us as and were only made for the long past animal age no wonder the old theologians thought we would some day have a resurrection and get anew a new body do you mean to say that man will ever be aple able to change hits physical being yes certainly but of course it will wig be a slow process you know darwin shows that we have many rudimentary muscles that we once used showing that nature changes with circumstances the viscera of domestic animals are more e enlarged n and elongated than those these of their wild progenitors mens minds and too will be bent on pro producing those fruits which contain only elements which compose the blood what is the sense of taking into our stomachs a great quantity of material that the digestive organs can not use none whatever look at the trees they hanono unnecessary organs as we have in time so well will we have cultivated the vegetable kingdom we use and so well wel I 1 will we have learned to manufacture our food that nothing the system cannot utilize will be taken into the stomach what willbe the use of a digestive system then no use jall all those breed catching organs below the second at stomach and probably below the first will be absorbed from disease and will dis depear ar the same as the gall has dis bared from the horse and then disease will flee from the face of the world what then will be the human intellect here we have a vast digestive machine consuming through t the h e action of our cerebellum or pol posterior brain the greater part of our mental energy we cannot think after a hearty meal such is the demand of the stomach on the brain then this mental energy will be stored up tor for thought thong t contemplation amusement anda and happiness never till tall this change takes place place will mankind rank among the lofty beings of the universe like for instance the inhabitants of saturn and jupiter A great storm will originate in the northwestern territories near regina begina on october 6 this will divide into two currents or wings wing one ranal running southward through the mississippi ap valley to the mexican gulf the other striking eal eaf nvard over the great lake a system and the river st lawrence on october 8 and 9 0 there will be great danger of cyclones at the mouths of the mississippi and rio grande and the gulf guif of st lawrence where these currents pitch into the sea while there will be slight barometrical depression the temperature will be remarkably low on account of the moons perigee and t the he peculiar position of mars and jupiter this will be a cold and storm autumn with probably great life on land and the sea |