PLANETARY INFLUENCE ON THE EARTH.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3505, 19 March 1880, Page 2

PLANETARY INFLUENCE ON THE EARTH.

According to a German professor, all the late bad weather, and, more, might hare been expected from the position of the planets, one of which, namely, J.upiter, is a thousand times larger than ' the earth; and, what is worse, we are not even ye( fairly at the beginning, of evils. The bad times, whatever cynical people may say to the contrary, are to begin in 1880, and to last until 1885. We are, he says, approaching one of the most perilous and malefic periods of the. earth's history, for since the commencement of the Christian era the perihelia of the four great planets of ! the. solar system—Jupiter, Uranus, Saturn, and Neptune—hare not been coincidental. -But this, is about to ocean 1 Soon after 1880, for the first time in 2COO years, all four of these planets will be at their nearest approach to the sun, or in perihelion. So that in a few years, say from 1800 to 1885, if the profession is right; the vitality of every living thing will be put to a, severe and trying ordeal. His view is, that when one or more of the large planets is nearest to the sun, the temperature and condition of oar atmosphere are so disturbed as to cause injurious vicissitudes, terrific rains, prolonged droughts, &c, resulting in the destruction of crops and pestilence! among human beings and domestic animals.«-San Fran* cisco News-Letter. -