COMING CLIMATIC HORRORS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXII, Issue 8112, 12 May 1880, Page 2

COMING CLIMATIC HORRORS.

♦ There are trying times close at hand, if Professor Grimmer, ofthe United States, is to be believed. lie is reputed one of the most celebrated American astrologers and astronomers, and he has just published a very startling brochure. It appears that, after an interval of 1880 years, four planets— Tupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune — will pass coineidently through perihelion periods, or periods when they are closest to the sun. The immediate consequences will be very serious to the world's atmosphere, in which there will bo extraordinary disturbance, followed by great extremes of heat and cold, the loss of crops, and the growth of epidemic disease in man. The coming horrors whioh are predicted are certainly sufficiently terrifying. Every drop of drinkiug water is to become poisonous, the air we breathe will be foul with the odours sent forth by tho earth and sea, fearful earthquakes, storms, and tidal waves are to visit and destroy cities. Thunder and lightning are to be continuous. All trade and commerce will be at a standstill. No part of the world is to escape. The evil days may be expected in the Arctic regions and at the Antipodes, although the worst effects will be at the most crowded centres of life. The only people for whom there will be any chances will bo the abstemious, "the flesh-eater and the alcohol-drinker will go handin-kand to the grave." Happily the terrible years — five in number—will be the prelude to a millenial period, when the fortunate survivors will fiud their capacity for the enjoyments of life greatly increased ; nature will prove more prolific, and human life will bo greatly prolonged. Let us hope that we may, some of us, survive till 1885.— Home News.