NONSENSE!
9 A EECENT ASTRONOMICAL PRO- ■ PHECT. Sneaking on a recent astronomical prophecy (from America), published locally, that dire trouble was due on December 17, owing to the pull of six plnnets acting in conjunction, Dr. Arthur D. Carpenter, tho lecturer 011 astronomy with the Chautauqua, said that the only effect of the planets bfing in conjunction might be to draw the contro of gravity some distance from the sun. As a matter of fact, there were always spots on tho sun. It was by observing tho spots traversing the face of the 61111 that they first knew that the sun rotated. There was now no doubt that tho existence of abnormal spots did influence tho weather, accounting for drought or great rains, but to say that they meant anything vitally detrimental to tho earth, such as explosions, earthquakes, and other dire calamities, was, in his judgment, nonsense, and 110 one need have nightmares over tho matter.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 61, 5 December 1919, Page 6
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157NONSENSE! Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 61, 5 December 1919, Page 6
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