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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1889-11-7, Page 7WOI DFRFUL JUPITER'. Some Surprising dcoue Taking Place In the Huge Planet—An Interesting Oneect Which ail Should Study. Aetronomers have ot late been making some exceedingly interesting disooveriee about the huge planet Jupiter, whioh is now visible in the evening sky. When we aro thinking about worlds it iepet aswell to think of Jupiter, for that is a, globe worth ponder- ing over. Thirteen hundred times es large as thio big earth of ours, and illuminated by four obedient moons, Jupiter has uncommon claims to oonsideration. Bub it is not so muoh the gigantic size of that wonderful planet as the extraordinary appearances and occurrences upon its surface that command partioular attention at present. Most readers know that when Jupiter is lookeeia,t with a telescope certain bands, or belts, jure seen extending in parallel lines acre?, its disk. We ordinarily see the great planet thus represented in illustrated bucks' of astronomy. It is among these belts of Jupiter that the astronomers have observed some very surprising things. The most oon• epiouous belts lie on either aide of the planet's equator, in what upon the earth we should call thetropioal latitudes. Jupiter's, equator, however, is so slightly inclined frost the plane of his orbit that hie tropical circles do not extend as far north and eolith as the belts lie. The first explanation that natural. ly occurs to the observer who watches these belts is that they must be ENORMOUS BANDS OF CLOUD encircling the giant planet on each side of its equator. If he has a powerful telescope and a patient mind he discovers that changes of form and poaltionoconr in the belts, which strengthen the probability that they are composed of olouds. The various colors that they show, and in partioular the prevailing rnd tint which characterizes the largest belts may excite wonder as to the nature end oon- tlition of masses of vapor that could present such an appearance, but upon the whole there seems to be nothing to seriously dis- credit the idea that the greater number of these phenomena really are clouds, And now we oome to the most surprising facts. It is evident that a tremendous current is continually sweeping right around the huge globe of Jupiter over its equatorial regione. The cloud belts are all in motion, but not all with the same velooity. The nearer they are to the equator the faster they move. The observations of Mr. Stanley Williams and others show that in the north temperate zone there is a broad light band enoiroling the planet whiuh may possibly be the actual surface of Jupiter's globe. Byoom paringthe rate of motion of clond-likeobjeote seen in this region with that ot the adj anent cloud belt it is found that the latter is moving muoh more swiftly. The general period of Jupiter's rotation upon its axis, notwithstanding enormous size of the planet appears to be a little short of ten hours. But the 'iquatoral clouds go around in about nine' hours and fifty minutes, while the clouds 30 ° north and soubh of the equator require five minutes longerto co mple te a circuit. In other words. the equatorial part of the atmosphere appoare to be flowing past the regions on either side of it at the rate of some 240 iii LES AN HOUR 1 n'his as M. Flammarion has remarked, is i % omparably faster than the most violent cyclone upon earth. And this gigantic cur- rent of wind, if so it may be called, forms a perpetnalihurrioane, blowing around Jupiter as unremittingly as our trade winds, but with inconceivable power and energy. The result of the varying velocities with which ilig adjacent portions of the Jovian atmosphere appear to move should naturally be the formation of enormous whirling storms, myotones, and tornadoes of incredible fury. It is probable that, looked at in a vertical section, the atmosphere of Jupiter would present an equally remarkable contrast and l conflict of motions. There is evidence that the dark colored spots, or clouds, are at a greater elevation than those of a lighter hue and it has been observed that the dark spots move more slowly than the bright ones. Ib follows that the deeper you go into the at. mosphere the faster it is found to be moving and hence it may be that the actual solid surfaces of the planet, if any solid surface it has, rotates within its shell of clouds consi- v derably faster than the shell�cself turns. Another' very singular phe omenon of the strange and tremendous planet Jupiter is the great red spot which bas been seen upon its southern hemisphere ever since the sum- mer of 1878 INCREDIBLE AS THE THOUGHT SEEMS, and difficult as its explanation upon any analogy drawn from terrestrial geology un- doubtedly would be, there are certain facts which suggest the possibility that this phenomenon may be an elevated region of the planet thrust up through its environment of oloude. It mast be remembered that the so•oalled red spot, which really appears only as a small oval blotch upon the disk of Jupiter, is in reality some 30,000 miles long and, 7,000 broad. Think of a mountain of those dimensions raised above the clouds ! Then, to add to the startling suggestions of the hypothesis, the color of this gigantic elevation or protuberance is a fiery red. Perhaps the strongest reason for regarding the red spot as an ele?ated mase is the foot `abet the clouds of the southern cloud belt, oloee to whioh it liesnever pass over it, i but on the contrary, n passing by it, are driven out of their course and curve around its southern border, just as clouds in the earth's atmosphere glide along the shoulders of LOFTY MOUNTAIN PEARS. whose summits rise above their level. It might be urged in behalf of this view that, inasmuch as the force of gravity on Jupiter is nearly two and a half times as great as on the earth, the major portion of its atmo. sphere must be pressed close to its surface, and that consequently its clouds do nob float at such a height as the gigantic propottions of the planet might otherwise lead us to expect, so that the elevation of the red spot need not be supposed unduly great in order to place it above the general level of the :f cloud strata. Then there is the commonly accepted theory that Jupiter is yet in an early stage of development to support the hypothesis of the elevation of a large region of its surface in the manner in which parts of the earth's crust were thruet up, folded and crumpled in the fiery ages of its history However we look at them, these strange discoveries on Jupiter indioate that but a very small part of the energies of oreation are centred upon our own little globe, Jupi- ter has winds and storms and clouds and geological convulsions that make the great events of terreetrial existence seem but a miniature repreeontation of planetary fife. After all, the man who ib said to want the earth doesn't appear to be so very grasping. If he wanted Jupiter his ambition would be truly gigantic. Singers, and public speakers, chew Adams' 'Putti Frutbi Gum, to preserve and 13frong th• en the voice. Sold by all druggists and confectioners 5 oenta, oi The Links That l3ind Us, BY JOHN IMRIE, TORONTO, Oh 1 the fond links that bind as to thie earth, Strong as betide of iron—yet fine as gold ; Partings and tears oft mingle with our mirbh,— If loving much love never oan grow cold 1 Ah i were it not for partings now and then, Love of home and friends were never test• ed,-- Hardehip and trial make the noblest men; Present pain is future joy invested 1 The patriot's wistful eyes are dimmed with 'tears When parting from his muoh-lov'd native soil, His heart doth throb with many doubts and fears, Yebppoints FORWARD though hie soul recoil ! But when the weary years have come and gone„ And o'er the eea he homeward ploughs his way, He finds his former doubts and fears have fi own— Midnight with him bath changed to dawn of day 1 A mother parts with one—her only son, Each shows bub half the anguish that they feel,— The voyage flubbed, or the battle won, What depths of love the meeting doth reveal 1 Methinks such joy is ours when God, at last, Shall find us gather'd 'neath Heaven'e azure dome ; Onr journeys, tears, and partings of the past Will be as naught if we bub reach our homer Would We liieturn ? Would we return If once the gates which close upon the past Were opened wide for ue and if the dear Remembered pathway ebretohed before us clear Ino lead ue back to youth's lost land at lash : Whereon life's April shadows lightly oast Reoalled the old sweet days of childish : fear With all their faded hopes, and brought .near The far-off streams in wh lob our skies were glassed ; Did these lost dreame which wake the soul's sad yearning But live once more and waited our return .11 Would we return ? Would we return If love's enchantment held the heart no more And we had come to count the wild sweeb pain, The fond distress, the lavish tears—but vain ; Had cooled the heart's hob wounds amidst the roar Of mountain gales, or, on some alien shore Worn out the soul's long anguish and had slain At last the dragon of despair—if then the train Of vanished years name back and, as of yore The same voice called, and with soft, eyes beguiling, Our lost love beckoned, through time's gray veil smiling, Would we return ? Would we return Once we had orossed to death's unlovely land And trod the bloomless ways among the dead Lone and unhappy ; after years had fled WIth twilight wings along the glimmering strand, If then—an angel came with outstretched hand To load us baok, and we recalled in dread How soon the tears that once for us are shed May flow for others—how like words in sand Our memory fades waking Might vex the living with the dead heart's breaking. Would we return— Would we return? away—how oft our Love the Conqueror. O love, if life should end to -night, How ehort our life would seem 1 One little flash of summer light ; One brief and paesionate dream ; One glimpse of roses on the wall, Or blue -bells in the lane, Then, love, the end, the end of all— Aye, buds might awell, and leaves might fall, But not for us again 1 The stream we need to watch and love Would ever onward flow ; From the dark pines the grey wood -dove Would call —we should not know. Ah 1 not for us pinesthe would wave, For us no stream ould run ; We should be silent in the grave, Unable even to hoard and save One little glimpse of sun 1 Yet is not this a sone ber view Of lite and all it brings ? Thank Heaven, the bright waves still are blue And still the bhroetle sings 1 And on, before love' s conquering song Death's voice sinks quite away ; For lif a is short, but love is long, And death is fierce, but love is strong, And love shall win the day ! —GEORGE BARLOW. . If Love Were Life. If love were life and hearts more tender Were ; No growing old or dying would there be ; No eyes from too muoh weeping fail to nee ; No more the brow be the interpreter Of oare beneath, nor soul a prisoner Within a Dell, but like a breath that's free,, Would spread itself through all eternity; If love were life and hearts more tender were. It is nob hard to understand God's plan, Nor be submissive when enbmission'a sweet ; A flower simply lives to bloom, and man Should simply live to Live, or glee defeat The Maeter'a will, whioh Me has made so olear, That love enough would make ue angels here. President Elfob, of Harvard College, is in favor of pensions, not only for soldiers and sailors, but for ,;Judges, teachers, fire- men, policemen and all public Servants who have deserved well of their country. " If pensions are to be granted for all kinds of policeservice, why exclude tho mots who clear the country's forests and build its houses ? Any kind of honest work is public service," OF F 'FOR AFRICA. Eclipse -Fitment Make' Their WilesiIiefore Bailing to the Deadly coast.. The American solar eclipse expediton, of which Prof. David P. Todd is in charge, sailed on the sloop-of•war Pensacola from the Brooklyn navy yard, She will go direct to the Cape de Verde Islands, and there refill her bunkers with coal. Thence she will go to Sierra Leone for more coal, and then stet at Fernando Po to get ooal enough to carri her to St, Paul de Loanda, leer destination There the astronomers will disembark and g to Maxima, on the Qaaezi River, with e guard of marines, and there prepare for the eolipee which is to take plane on De.lembet 22 Maxima is about 109 miles inland. It is a Portuguese trading station. Mrs. Todd had been helping her hnsband in his preparations. She worked up formul- ae and acquainted him with many details of geography and climatic peouliaribies on the west ooasb of Africa. She has read every bock concerning that part of Africa that elle could obtain, and read to him selected pas. eages every flay. Before sailing Prof. Todd said : " We have a large equatorial, twenty camerae, and other instruments necessary for astronomioal obeervatione, photograph ing the phases of the eclipse and deep sea discoveries. We, unfortunately, have not Prof. Agaesiz with us, but he says he will try to get away in about three weeks and meet the chip at Cape Town after she hes landed the others at St. Paul de Loanda, Thee total eolipee will be visible in a path about 5,000 miles long and 100 miles wide. The path begine in the Caribbean Sea and skirts along the northern coast of South America. It then stretches eastward and southward to Africa. An expedition from the Lick Observatory of California will view the eolipee at French Guiana, in South America." Prof. Todd gave the following facts about his companions : Prof. H. F. Bigelow is hie chief aseistant. He is Professor of Mathe- matics at Ranine College. Ho has devised several of the instruments that will be used by the astronomical observers. He was assistant astronomer at the National Ob- servatory of the Argentine Republic at Cordova. Prof. • Eben J. Loomis, for forty years in the Nautical Almanac Office in Washington, is the naturaliet. He also will assist Prof. Bigelow. In 1879 he discovered the leaf -like forniatione of the maidenhair fern, which was pronounced by Prof. Asa Gray one of the moat wonderful of botanical phenomena. J. E. Carbnte is the photo grapher. He also is an analytical chemist. His father made the negatives of the eclipse of 1869 for Prof. Henry Morton, who, in appreciation of those services, presented him with the camera and enlarging lens, and the electrical exposing apparatus, which he had used, and which will be used again at Maxima. Some of the dry plates used will be orthochromatio, and moderately rapid, seneitometer No. 16, and some will be eclipse orthochromatio, seneitometer No. 27. The former will be used for takirg the partial phases, and the latter will be used during totality, with the intention of obtain- ing a more perfect image of the oorona than has ever been obtained. The diameter of the sun on the photographs will be four inches, a greater diameter than ever before taken. The great mirror to be used in connection with the photography was made for Prof. Langley of the Smithsonian In- stitute by Prof. J. H. Brashear at a cost of $10 000. E.J. Wright is the assistant photo grapher. Prof. L, N. Jacobi is assistant astronomer and meteorologist. He will also make in- vestigations in natural history. Prof. Cleve- land Abbe, attached to the Army Signal Bureau, is the meteorologist. E. B. Pres ton of the Crest and Geodetic Survey will make magnetic observations and gather in formation about gravitation. W. H. Brown of the National Museum at Washington is the osteologist and naturaliet of the oxpedf• tion. His aeeietant is A, H. Brown, hie bro cher, H. S. Davis, of Princeton, is one (,f the assistant astronomers. He will give attention to the instruments, at whioh he is an expert. G. E, Van Guysling will study the winds and clouds, and on the voyage will send up a lot of little red balloons"). A. Orr is the ethnologist and ornithologist, Heli Chatelaine, master of a dozen languages, in. eluding Portuguese, is the interpreter, George T. Flint is the stenographer and type. writer. Dr. Bartlett is the apothecary and professional nurse. Oa the coast the party will drink water that has been boiled and filtered to preserve them from the deadly African fevers. Nevertheless, Prof. Todd and all the rest have made their wills. DOG -S AS BOR EB. Tho Country'Where They Aro the Beasts of Burden. A Paris correspondent says : I have met M. Nhnteb, the Belgian author, who follows the usage of his country in utilizing the dog as a draught animal. He has a little phaeton drawn by dogs in which he drives about when at home, and in whioh he has come from Brussels to Paris. M. Nantet things that Belgium. with her cheerless sky and sadden soil, is able to hold her own, and be among the most proepercue nations of Europe, be- cause the dog is not only the friend and comrade, bub the carrier of the poor man. The oostermonger and his wife in Paris or London are broken down prematurely from fatigue, and stabling and fodder for a don- key is a heavy tax on their profits, but their Belgian brethren can house their dogs with themselves. The dogs, after being unbar- neesed, dine with their masters, and in winter sleep before the kitchen fire. The strength of a good draught dog is marvellous. He does not spoil roads like a horse and when tired he asks to lie down, a favor always ,granted ; and, on being rested, goes on again cheerfully. The pair whioh drew M. Nantet is of aver- age size and strength, and had a long line of ancestors, who did good work in their time as carriers. When at an inn their master used to unharness them and take them with him into the coffee room, where they lay at his feet. He drove all the way, unless when there was a steep hill to climb. At a place called Louvroil the Mayor heard ho had oome into the town, and informed him that hie equipage name within the reach of the Grammont Law for the Protection of Anil - male. " Very wolli" answered the Belgian, who was preparing to start, and he ordered the dogs to get into the phaeton and sit on the seat, while he drew them, They obeyed, and stayed there until they were beyond the bounds of the commune, where they descend- ed to be harnessed. To avoid crowds, who might think well to take part with the dogs against their master, M, Nantet kept clear of large towns. At fiiompeigne he telegraped to a number of Belgians here at what time he was likely to reach Paris and they went out to moot him. When he was sighted the dogs were going at a brisk pane. 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