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I may prape seta ark without storms of a violence proportionate improprsty that

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ad of the san, büt of what nature and need to study the wines how caused we do not yet know all. Five minutes with with certainty, though they have the Nauliza Alman.ck Waitsker wou'd put wey of un

been the subject of steady in-

in possession of every fact about vestigation for many years. Not the position of these bodies which infrequently they are large enough he says his studies have revealed. to be seen by the naked eye, in These positions are calculated which case they cannot be much years ahead in the great observa. less than some 60,000 miles in tories and are at the disposal of diameter. navigators and the general pub

I have seen such when a city

lic at least a year in advance. It fog has so dimmed the sun that is no revelation due to Professor one could look at it, and there are Prata's studies that about the few days perhaps upon which middle of the third week in Decem- larger or smaller spots may not be ber of this year the revolutions of seen through even a small tele- the planets around the sun will

scope. Speculations as to some

sun.

have brought six of them-Mer connection between sun-spots and cury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Satura terrestrial weather have long been and Neptune to a position on one made, some of them very curious. side of the sun, and another;

Even so great a man as Sir Wm. Uranus, opposite them on the other side, with our earth pretty relating their variations to the Herschel thought of having tables much at a right angle to the line- hy no means a straight line- fluctuating price of wheat, but which runs from the six to the one, that must have been an exercise of passing. of course, through the playful fancy rather than & seri- The position, assuming that pus notion on his part. The most the Professor has given it correct- careful examination of available; ty, is interesting and remarkable., data in recent times has failed to But why has it occurred to himyield decisive results in the mat- alone to predict these fearful ef-fter; indeed, precisely opposite con- fects from it upon the sun and the clusions have been reached by dif] ☀ earth. The reason is that theferent investigators. G. H. Cham- moment he begins to draw infer-bers in one of his test-books on ences from his facts, he quits the Astronomy, for instance, cites a region of mathematical certainty well-known Swiss observer, Wolf, and enters on the unproved and as considering that he had found conjectural. His "league of plan-decisive evidence that years rich ets," he says, will send magnetic in solar spots are in general driez į currents between the group of six and more fruitful than those of on the one side and Uranus on the other side of the sun which will an opposite character, while an- "pierce the sun like a mighty other Swiss observer, Gautier, dis-

a sun-spot, cussing observations

spear" and produce

extending that is a "gigantic explosion of over 11 years and taken at various flaming gases leaping hundreds of places in Europe and America, con- thousands of miles out into space." cludes exactly the opposite.

with a crater large enough to en- I do know a writer of repute who gulf the earth much as Vesuvius would dogmatise upon the subject. It is well-known that sunspots ap- might engulf a football.

Other writers have employed pear and disappear according to picturesque expressions to sug a cycle of about 111⁄2 years be- gest the magnitude of large sun- tween their maximum and mini-. spots. Worlds like suns, says W. mum frequency, also that a similar E. Maunder, for instance, might crcle is traceable in certain elec be poured into them of fact like tric and magnetic phenomena, peas into a saucer. In point of such as the aurora, on our earth. fact spots have been observed as There can be no doubt that these much as 110,000 miles in diameter, two sets of phenomena, in sun and but they have not been accompani-, earth respectively, arise from a ed by anything more serious on common cause, but beyond that we the earth than a display of the

are in ignorance and perhaps al- aurora borealis" and some pass-ways shall be.

Professor Prata ing disturbances of the magnetic

goes beyond the book needle, interfering with naviga-

sure that plane- tion and occasionally disorganis. making so ing the telegraph service. Flames tary influences are the causes of leaping hundreds of thousands of these phenomena.

in

miles from the surface of the sun It is true that surmises to that have also been observed before effect have been put forward by now, and no one has been wiser, distinguished astronomers, but it except the man at the telescope is also true that these have not who was fortunate enough to be met with general endorsement. watching at the moment.

The whole subject is complex and as yet quite uncertain, yet it is upon grounds so insecure that we (Continued on Page 6)

The sub, as all must know by this time, is an enormous globe of glowing gas surrounded by an

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