Show 15 SEWTHEOPY Or COMETS sr -i election song of which we subjoin the first verse: “rl hearkened in tlu east and I lieark- - out an a cneil in the west f heard aiiing 'ind And And 'niv Heart bobbed up a" drumming middle in the ' niybivtiT For I knew that the people were a- - v coming Then pull off year coat and M ' 'r’i ' roll up your sleeve ' 'Abe and the people area- coming Oh pull oix your coat and ' 'roll lip your sleeve For Lincoln and tin people area-comin- g I believe!’ OF COASTS HEW THEORY Arranged from the l: Press” The belief iri comets as omens of distress and’ calamity possibly had the same origin as astrology — namely: a belief that a certain harmony and sympathy pervades 'all parts of this divinely framed disUniverse and eonseueiijhy that-turbance of its physical condition must bo followed by a distuibaree of its moral state Increased scientific knowledge con- cerning comets did not at aildo a Way with the dread occasioned by their apSome have thought our placpearance et would be smashed to atoms by coming into collision with them as they rushed across ourorbit on their way to the suu and that earth might some day in consequence be split up into a number of or astefragments like the roids circling already around us Others have simply- thought their attractive influence might some da v when too near the earth draw the great mass of seas out ot their place and drown as all This was the cold water catastrophe O thers as masses' of in ten' sly our fate heated vapour be scalded or stilled to death tobe iilight batli a liar of late' years in fust vapour the fashion lias been to regard comets as vd hall their which imposing humbugs part-worl- have'-though- possess strength sufficient were made which showed’ clearly enough that the Whole of n good sized comet ‘might be to kill a lly : for calculations compressible into one square inch of solid ifialter and therefore on the go and of a collision not very terrible Tiiis settled the matter fora time but the query has fence been suggiuded if they bo mere vapor how do they shine and how is it they ure so wonderfully transparent seeing that common clouds or vapors generally Thuniige to obscure sky and stars We have now a new theory— they are masses of ’electric mutter Ill fact great repleuisliers of the vital force of t tie universe This agrees it is thought with the phenomena of comet appearances FlectrieiTy for instance is a most lumiu-ou- s substauee and the stars can lie seen ’through the Vlectric streams of theauro-T- a J banMlis Tt a has comet been Ob?crvcd that the speed of lightning rapidity approaches when gelling hear to the sun and ilmt it decreases ton rate not wonderfully faster than an express railway train when at AU furthest removal their density and therefore be immensely in- creased and they must act moot power- fullv as u stimulus upon the Ban when near’ to it and iu proportion upon the naplanuets as they approach them dfiie ture f this rtimulus cannot ot course bo ksira but u lectrieliy is of various kindsfomo comets may exert a di HerElecon t'kuul of an ihlluenee to others tricity is pur exepdiencc the life power of the universe’ It is to malterpmd the worlds of matter what the nerve force The approach of is to the human frame a comet therefore must stimulate — gener-nll- y benetieiallv— the vital action in sun and planets enduing them as it were with greater lifts and power of producing life furnishing a probable explanation of tin doctrine ot the development of species that mining of one type of being inton higher which is the creed of niuny philosophers of the 'present dayh There being probably no agency employed by the Creator iu raising our planet from one platform of animated "existence to successively higher ones more calculated for the purpose than the embrace of one of those eratic orbs of the electric lluii When the comet of 1777 came in contact with one of Jirpiters satellites the comet was evidently attracted by it and hung arouhd the satellite enveloping it in its electric mass and was 'so affected iu turn that on parting fiomit the comet Hew off in a different orbit to that which it previously had — and this if true of the tail bedv of a comet will be true of-itA planet passing through the tail of a comet will doubtless retain by attraction a portion of the fjyrsu electric' mass The planet being lours electrified will of course attract and become saturated with the electric fluid The mere approach of a comet it is believed will impart to a slight degree increased electric action — a planet passing through the tail of a comet will experience this physical exaltation in a greater degree— and a planet which comes into actual contact with a comet although the planet should be unaltered in its course would experience such an accession of ay would tend to produce a higher animated state of existence on its surface and probably also new forms of existence This is the theory— If it be true our change from our present (lijemnforfcs to the physical joys’ and pleasures of the Millennium m y all depeiulupon our run- -' ning headlong into a comet some ofthese days' Until this point is settled it will not do to slight the running of comets in future Anyway the idenVheflier wholly true or not may lend to truth — Hildas such we give it Pun? O’ Day v dnus aud §Ui U) cy v ITlOTOGlt AlTI Y— A Spanish photographer has ’discovered a varnish which’ gives nn astonishing brilliancy to the prints to which it He keeps his4 invenis applied tion a secret but the varnisli is believed to consist of albumen M 1 Matthys however ' lias produced a similar result by means of a layer of eoloclion Spread over the finished piiut The result is said to be very pleasing AVimting Ink— At the last meeting of the Chemical Society Mr Iiilcy in speak” staing of the mctal“ vanadium ted that it had lately been found of great value in the manufacture of writing ink and that the very finest black inly perfectly iiulclli-bl- e by chemical reagents or by ‘ exp'-kur- e to tin? combined influen jg ces of air and moisture is made by adding a minute proportion of acid to water containing tine- ic of nut gallU f IMPROVEMENT IN WORKING S ilivki P UAIPSh — A llarbart T own paper speaks of a new machine (the invention of Captain Christie) for working the pumps of a ship in the event of her making a largo quantityof water The machine is on the principle of a child’s roundabout but where the horses are placed in that apparatus masts lire fixed in this— which are six in number Sails are attached so arranged That they must always bo full of wind from whatever direction it may blow the other tlireo ture ( being edge bn consequently powA1 strong motive erless power is said to be thus obtained "which cause the centre shaft to revolve and this in turn works cranks communicating with the pumps The' 'machine can be constructed easily out of such materials as are always to be found on' board a loaded ship Captain Christie also thinks of applying bis idea for the purpose of raising water oil the firm for irrigating ' ' - gems Tiifi Jtms r rnoii OCEAX THE authg±is If IK ' ' Roll on tliou clccp and dark bluo ocean — roll I Jtioets a weep over thee iu vaiu q'eu tliout-auMan marks the earth with ruin— his control with the shore — upon tlie watery plain Stops rrhe wrecks arc all thy deed nor doth remain shadow of man’s ravage save his own A When lor a moment like a drop of rain sinks into lie thy depths with bubbling groan Yv'uhput a grave Uuknell’d uneoilin’d and ua known Thou glorious mirror where the Almighty’s form Giasscs itself iu tern puds iu all time (Jaha or convuls’d — iii breeze or gale or storm leing the ‘polo or in the torrid clime botuiuless endless andsublimo— Dark heaving The image of Etenlity— the thmnc Of tit? InvisiuLe even from out thy slimo ' The monsters oi the deep are made citch zone Oleystliee thou goest forth dread fathomles alone Uy mil's Childs IluruU ASPIPATIOXS OF THE SOUL “Past tlie high clouds floating round Where the eagle is not found choir Pad litc mil Through the midst of foul opinions' naming passions sensual mire To the Mind's serene d Jiniaions I aspire ” ETAIt3 ' H AMOVE (Fo’vers ANT) Hie STAKS BELOW stars of Earth) i ' Wondrovs trutlis and manifold as wondrous (iod h itli wiirten iu tiose stars above : But not less in tins bright flowerets under us fjtands the i evolution of his love An I the Poet fethl'ui and (See alike iu stars ami flowers a part Of t!m self same Universal Being hleli is throbbing in Ids brain and lienrt Lonnfdlovs Agents AVa xtmd Everywhere for the sale of this Paper to whom a liberal 00 this Magazine will be sent ceipt of for One Quarter (IB No’s) to rmy — Astaya to ba paid by aubiori- - |