COMING CLIMATIC HORRORS.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 7 June 1880, Page 2

COMING CLIMATIC HORRORS.

♦ \ ore are trying times close it band if Prof'-s tor Grimmer, of the United Slatef. sto bo believed. He is reputed one of ,be m >t celebrated American astrologer md a ronomers, and he has jasfe pab« Uh^d a very startling brochure. It ippears that, after an internal of 1800 rears, four planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, will pass eoiny eidently through perihelion periods or when they are closest to the son. The immediate consequences will be very serious to the world's atmosphere, in which there will be extraordinary disturb banee, followed by great extremes of heat and cold, the loss of orops, and the growth of epidemic disease in man. The coming horrors which are predicted are certainly sufficiently terrifying. Every drop of drinking water is to become poisonous, the air we breathe will be fonl with the oiours s a nt forth by the earth and sea, fearful earthquakes, storms, and tidal wbti s 9 re to visit and to destroy cities. Thunder and lightning are to fa continuous. All trade and commerce will be ■it a standstill. No part of the world is to escape. The evil days may be ex* peeted 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 chance will be the habitually &b« stemioua— • the flesh-eater and the ako« hol»drinker will go hand-in-band to the grave.' Happily the terrible years— fire, in number— will 'c the prelude to a tnil« lenial period, when the fortunate sar* < iyors will find their capacity for the enpynipn's of life greatly increased ; nature will prove more prolific, and human life will be greatly prolonged. Let m hope that we may some of us survive till 1885.— Home News.