The Day of Judgment.

WILL IT OCCUR DURING THE CUR RENT YEAR?

STAKTLING REVELATIONS FROM THE PYRAMIDS OF EGYfT

THE EARTH'S FINAL THEOES

[Feoh the ''Few York Mebotjey.'] The heavens above, the-earth-beneath, thY waters under the eartlvand the atmosjpher'e which envolops our planet, have | recently exhibited such portentous phenomena as to fill tho minds of all Christendom with wonder and apprehension. Meu of profound,research, like M. Victor Herault, De la Rue, Carrington, and others, who have struggled assiduously to wring the the secret of our world's destiny from Nature, are no longer treated as mere distempered visionaries. Those cosmical changes that the telescope and the spectrum reveal in the heavens, and the terrible meteorological demonstrations that dotted oar coast lino with shipwrecks, lead us, by solemn steps, back into the Infinite. Thore'is not an astronomer; or scientist worth the name living to-day but ■ accepts the statement that 'both the earth and. its inhabitants have passed the prime of their development,' as a self-evident fact. They predicate this condition as respects tho earth just as confidently as we popularly predict a man of sixty is past his physical prime. . i . , ' ' The subject of the death of the earth may not be a pleasant one ; but some of the foremost minds of the age have ' said death inlay-occur to the earth at any moment, just as to the individual who has entered upon ' second childishness ' and ■ mere ' oblivion.' It may be by slow . process of natural decay,'or'it may be sudclen.:- Tho 'fact of the globe having entered into its death period, itf'wili; be remembered, has nothing whateverl to do with tho intellectual developments df man. ' The earthquake,' tho volcano, tho thunder bolt and the hurricane spread havoc' and destruction irrespective of man's wishes or man's prayers, and tho globe's final convulsion, we are assured, will overtake us 'as a thief in tho night.' ' Then ,we which aro alive,' says St. Paul,1 First Thcssalonians, chap, iv, v. 17, ! " and remain shall bo caught up together with them in tho clonds to meot the Lord in tho air.' This does not seem much like a peaceful millennium! In the same belief, Bishop Hebcr writes : ' The Lord shall come! The earth shall quake, The mountains to their centre shako ; And withering from tho vault of night, Tho stars shall pale their foeblo light/ RESPECTING,THE DATE1 Of the iinal convulsion thot will, in the twinkling of an eye, wind up tho human lifo* of our planet, some extraordinary evidence has recently been discovered on tho banks of the Nile, in tho ancient land of tho Pharaohs. The PYRAMIDS OF EGYPT Have justly been regarded among the wonders of the world. Scholars and sa vants of all countries have endeavored to explain their significance, but they have proved almost as inscrutable a mystery as their neighbor the Sphinx. Mr. Tite, the celebrated English architect, measured tho Great Pyramid near Gizeh with method ical accuracy, a quarter of a century since. Its dimensions were 764 feet at the base and 480 feet in perpendicular height, covering over thirteen acres of ground. It consumed 89,028.000 cubic feet of stone. The joints of tho large casing blocks of granite were so fino as to bo scarcely prcceptiblo, not thicker than paper. On ono sido thcro was an opening through which the Pole star of that period is supposed to liave been observed, and Prof. Smith, of Cambridge, England, has expressed the belief that this stupendous pile of mathematically accurate masonry was constrcted for the purpose ofrepording the: knowledge ot a science divinely im parted to man. Prof. Tyndall has often and eloquently commented on the 'service that.the imagination has rendered to science. There was' never a more forcible illustration of this service than in this theory of Prof. Smith. Prof. Jardslay, of Moscow, six months since, commenced an investigation of the geometric lines, groups of living figures and- hireoglyphics with which the interior of this mural monument is embellished. The first discovery which awaited Prof. Jardslay was interesting, but it did not seem at all pregnant with promise. He ascertained that certain characters, when interpreted by a key which he seems almost accidentally to have discovered, represented a geometric series of numbers, as follows :0, 3, 0, 12', 24, 48, 96, 192.'" . ■ . . ;

The!professor was puzzled to conjecture why such ( a simple record should be carved on the stqne in enduring characters. Satisfied that some extraordinary signifi cance wasattachedto the series of numbers, he examined their surroundings' with microscopic minuteness. Underneath each number there was a uniform mark, which, an eminent cuneiform scholar.pro nounced to be the symbol used by the ancient Persians and Babylonians for the numeral <k Yet, with this further inter pretation, the geometrical series seemed devoid of significance. Fortunately, how ever, the facts were brought to the notice of Professor Leverrier, the celebrated French astronomer, who after a most cursory inspection, discovered the clue 'Add the 4 to each of the number in the series,' said he, ' and we, have a series denoting the respective distances, of thel plants of our solar system from the sun:

•4 7, los ig, 28, m, wo, i%:

The planets in order being Mercury, 4; Venus, 7; Earth, 10; Mars, 16; Aste roids (Ceres, Pallas, Juno, Vesta), 28; Jupiter, 52; Saturn, 100, and Uranus, 196. When it i•: remembered that Ura nus, was not oven el jjvered until the beginning of the present century, this record of the ancient Egyptian magii acquires. A MOMENTOUS SIGNIFICANCE.

Here they possessed, to all intents and purposes., an- indestructible astronomical, redo'rdr of th"c sblar system tb,afc/ could, be' referredto by future geneKiti6ns, r eYon as. imperishable standards of weighty and measures are preserved at Greenwich. Observatory, and as we see the standard yard measure of various countries pre served on the inner walls of the City .Hall. Encouraged by this discovery, M. Jar'd slay perserved in his investigation. Without entering into the sceintifis minutiro of the examinations, it may be briefly stated that by analogical reasoning he interpreted, the characters beneath a certain groupo.or figures, whoso appear ance betokened paroxysmal' terror, to signify 469. Beneath this number was the cuneiform 4 accompanied by another symbol, which the Professor interprets to signify the.: sign of'multiplication,'ina^' much as it bear's a close resemblance to the Persian symbol of ' into' as at present used in the Shah Ks dbminions. Whether1 this 'position be well taken or nqfc, we have, of course, no/means of ascertaining ; but the:.. result is sufficiently startling/ Four times 469 mako 1870—the present' year of,grace, wjiilo the human figures^iri paroxysmal attitudes seem to exemplify tho overpowering, dread that suall fall upon mankind in ' that great and] tqrribie day,' impelling them 'to call' uppn the rooks to.fall upon them and to the.hill's .to cover them.', , This inter protation.b'y the famous Bussjan, f savant is, of course, en tirely arbitrary^ and "may bo accepted by the candid, unprejudiced reader for wnat it isworth.i Nobody, however, will pre tend to deny that this so-called discovery is at loast a most extraordinary coin cidence of .scientific investigation, with tho scriptural oxegios which fixes thoond of tho world in the current year. ■ .

THE SUN OF FIRE. The astounding observations. of Pro fessors Airy and Schroter on tjie two majestic planets, Jupitor and Saturn; have already boon chronicled in these.columns, whilo the authority of Father Secctii was quoted respecting the extraordinary in fluences, at present operating on the Sun, and changing his form as well as hie size. Professsor Leverrior has been assiduously pursuing this solar investigation,, and ,he states that these astounding solar protuber ances change their,' forms as , rapidly as clouds, and that,'they sometimes jappear to bo formed as an elevation aboye the surface of tho sun and to descend npon it, as though tko material was driven back ward into the solar atmosphere, and' thero took shape and fell back., Ono promi nence . resembled the smoko of a loco motive as seen on a frosty day. ' Half an hour afterward it had literally ' gone up ' —the highast portion being over 200,000 miles above the solar surface., I saw...it myself,' says tho professor. ) PARTICLES ASCENDING 100,000, , . , MILES

In a very few minutes, appearing^ to go over 200 miles per second, though }t must really havo. be,en some 400 or 500 miles per second. That velocity would throw iron clear off from the sun, so thatit would never return to it.' The Professor . then reviews the constitution of the sun, as astronomers, have hitherto regarded it since the introduction of spectrum analysis. ' First' lie says, 'wi inivo an unknown core, tho Constitution of which must ever re main .to us an nnfiithomable mystery. We havo a layer of clouds from which we get our sunlight—the photosphere—under iv possibly a liquid shell, as Zollnor thought. Then above this photosphere we havo tho solar atmosphere still extending. In the lower strata of that atmosphere we have all the gases of which the jsun is composed, and, here are produced, the dark linos of the solar spectrum, jllising 4000 or pQOp., miles above, we haye the bright.hydrogen which has been .termed tho • chromosphere, or colorsphero ; and outside of and beyond tho whole wo huve tho coronal,atmosphere.' ~, ,

■■' SOLA.R PYJ.IOTECHNIC3. There-is this remarkabhv peculiarity about the location of thd solar pyrotech- nics, that they are situatednear the gun's equator. Former phenomena of this kind were confined to the temperate'zones. To talk of temperate zones in a" body as intensely hot as the sun, seems absurd, but this is the most convenient method of locating the position of the previous action. In other words, the spots or craters of action have hitherto been confined to a zone distant 40° to 50° from1 the equator. Professor Leverrier thinks that this phe nominal solar disturbance is in a large, rnieasure responsible for the extraordinary temperature of the past Winter. 'If,' says the professor ' you touch the hand of ariy.ono.with a pin it-Will bo appreciable in a fraction of a second when the hand will be drawn back, if i had an arm long enough .to reach to the sun, and. should put my fingers in the solar flame and burn theini there, it would be -one hundred years !. before. I should feel the . pain, and another one hundred years before I could remove ,my hand. Such is the distance of the sun ; and yet' across that space, by somo <agency unknown to science,, but what is Vaguely, termed grivity, ~,the earth responds to every impulse of the solar surface.' Prof, Leverrier concluded his remarks with the

remarkable suggestion : 'It seemes to me, if I have approximately estimated the gigantic force of the solar disturbance, that we may expect a series of fierce tornadoes to sweep over and devastate certain portions of tho earth's surface in the immediate future' How accurate this vaticination has proved, our experience during the present monih sufficiently demonstrates.

An Austrian scientist, commenting on Prof. Leverrier's observations, remarks: 'Whether, this extraordinary solar action is due tp the motions' of ; Mercury, Venus and' Jupiter, as De la H r u,p' supposes, or to an organic changp m the sun's constitu tion, does not at' present' appear. The spots near the sun's equator are undoubt edly cavities; but whether they are holes piercing tho actual body of the orb is another^ question. It might almost seem that under thecloudy surface of the sun thero is an ocean of liquid, and1 slags are, formed at present in tliis ocean, and there is . .

A'BLOWING OUT OF MATTER, Which gives rise to th« extraordinary penumbral phenomena witnessed by Prof. Leverrier. There is undoubtedly an im mence under feed from tho outside towards the 'centre, but whether from a1 rush downward from the centrb of the focii of disturbance cannot be determined. The present action, at all events, has had' the effect of showering upon the earth a large 'additional increment of solar heat. . So far the effect has hot been objectionable, but in'the'immediate future the consequences may prove disastrous., 'The sun has omitted an enormous, amount of extra heat, and'this "emission may'jeopardize his very exiistericei as we.ll'as the stability of the 'system he controls. , By comparing; as it were, his own vitality, ( his reciprocal action upon our glob'o ( . wilj be materially' diminished. The 'restraint hitherto exercised upon the .molten ocean, that surges within our, planet has been chiefly solar, arid if this .influence '• has been less ened,'as there, are too. many grounds to believe, a series of terrific earthquakes in regions hitherto comparatively, free from tbem may inaugurate a final and compre hensive convulsion.' '.;..; , _~ An eminent (mathematician this city wiis recently asked what were tho proba-' bilities of th.o coincidence' above alluded to being accidental." .After a long and intricate calculation, into'1 which, the dif ferential and integral ' calculus < largely entered, he announced the result, [in the t following terms,: '^ ( jkV .interpretation, of prophecy places the end of the world, in 187G; tho, inductions,of science,placq the end of the wprici at no great distance of time ;■ the interpretation of the Egyptian hieroglyphics,, which have .correctly exhibited the mathematical laws of the solar system long anterior to theirdiscovery by miii, prefigure.a terrible calamity to the -human .race is 1870. Tho chances, then, against this coincidence ( being accidental, are about four millions tp one.'

Below the Surface.

THE HIDDEN MISERIES, OF GILDED LIFE IN ! WASHINGTON '

■To return to this inordinate love of dis play, which has grown up mushroom-like tho last ten years, let' mo illustrate, to what lengths humanity will run when appearances in society have to be kbpt up no matter at what sacrifice. : • : ■ .

A gentleman went to a pawnbrokers' shop in this city a little while ago, three to meet a friend who was in considerable pecuniary etnbarrrssment, and needed the. assistance of '■ mine unole' to extricate him from his difficulties. The gentleman sat awaiting the arrival of his friend' in a little anteroom off from the main; office,: and while musing upon the uncertainties of private finances, and prayingj for a speedy return to specie payment, as far as he was concerned, was roused from his reveries by the sound of a familiar voice attuned to feminine lips. Gazing through a small loop-hole, he recognized, to his astOnisment, a fashionably-dressed acquaintance."1 His curiosity was'aroused - to know Why she should be conversing so coaxingly and intently with a pawnbroker. His wonder-struck eyes lighted upon ian exquisite locket studded with' beautiful diamonds, which' she was holding an* her outstretched hand,' while his astonished oars heard her^plead with the pawnbroker to give her :a certain amount for it.' '■ My family arc-actually without the necessa ries of life,'said the lady gloved to lierfcct^ tion and1 dressed in silks and velvet. ' Our credit is exhausted and my husband is a bankrupt, but wo musn't let people* know to' what straits wo are reduced,* and we must- keep up appearances at-all hazards, and you mnstgive mo theinioney. I ask' for.' After a great deal of 'talk on both sides, the locket was left, awaiting, like the ancient Jews, the advent; of its redeemer, and the lady left the room' with only half the money: she had hoped and begged "for. The gentleman stunned" at the revelation, and feeling a pity for the unfortnnato woman, kept thinkingiof ■ her the entire day. In the eveningl a grand, party whs given.at the English/Ministers,. and Mr. Blank went with a'fashionable crowd invited to the hospitable rnamion... After making his devoirs to the- hostess,' whom should his ey fall upon but the lady, acquaictanoo who had made her first fash ionable call at the house' with' the three golden balls. He stopped up to her and found' her, as usual,' elegantly, lattired,. easy'of manner, and smiling with) uncon cdrried serenity., .t After, conversing for a while he said, 'Pardon me, my dear madam, but, alth.ou.gu, yqui,' persona j_

appearance is charming, yet I miss some thing from your necklace, that lovely locket I always admired so much.' 1 Oh, yes!' she replied with san" a feoid, I feel so worried about that locket. I sent it to New York to have the gems re set, as some of them were a little loose, and I did not dare to trust them with any of our bungling jewelers. I am really worried at its lengthy detention. It should have^been returned ere this.' And she actroitly changed the topic uf conver sation to safer channels, and no one but Mr. B. knew that the pendant had brought fpod'tb the 'door ', and perhaps kept the bailiff'bn the outside, '■',' '! ,

Children's Fancies.

Care and duty hem us in so closely, during, maturer years, that we should become dry and .desolate but for con stantly recurring to the one period of life when the limitations ;of space and time do net oppress us, and the far off is as the near. The baby who puts out his. little hand for the moon is compelled to draw it back empty, jet he puts it forth _ many times again/ My friend's little daughter, after having the stars for the first time pointed! out to her,, requested next day to have ' two little : stars.with sugar on them for breakfast.' And in their first deal inga'with human beings children iset aside the petty barriers of generation and cen turies in the'same fine jvay.' 'Mamma/ said in my.hearing the little daughter of a certain poetess, ' lid I 'ever see Mr. Shakspea're ?' It was at the; dinner-table, and. between two .bites/of Jan napg(le. On another occasion the sapjechild's^id, with equal jconfidence,.' Mamma/did you ever kuow'Cleopatra ?' Thoto'was no' affecta tion, about it;' she. was accustomed to seeing literary people and ot-libr notabilities a,t her' mother's' house ; and Shakspeare end, Cleopatra mie;ht h,ave come and gone, arm in arm,, without exciting her half as much'as the'arrival-of a "new piper doll. Thus a child, traveling withino, and peeing me salute, .at a railway^ station,'a certain Methodist minister of great'dimensions, inquired with ■ casual interest;, whether that "was 'the Pope,, To' assign to the' Pope'his proper place.in. sp| ace, and to Shakspeare or his heroines their rightful positions in time —wjiafhave1 Children to do' with such' trifles ?/ '''Miafctors more important claim their attention ; are there not' hoops,' and/ skipping-ropes, and puncheon ?—fecßii?NEE rs for January.

Inexhaustible Character.

The.other evening, a ,Very excited man called at the Central S tatiori Detroit, and demanded a warrant for the arrest of his neighbor for slander. . He Was told how to tiring about such, a result, ah'dj then wanted to know, how'much damages he qouid probably r,ecovor. \ . ;; 'What, is the slander ?''asked the captain. .... ~.,, .■ • '. ; 1 Why, ho says I stde two hogs and was sent to jail.' . . , , ' ''' i 'And didn't you steal two hogs ?' . 'idid.' .. ~j,,' J ; ; , ' ' And didn't you go to jail P'

'Yes," Sir.' , " 'Well, then, how'cari.it be a s.lander for him to say so ?' asked the captain. 'Well, I just want tliis town to. pnder 'stand,' shouted the indignant man.i '_th t a fellow.can steal two hogs and go to jail; and stili have a big pile-of good character .left!' '..... .:,■/'■. " vi

Easy Arithmetic.

Tn.Lady "Wood's novel, 'Below the Salt." one of the characters gives, tion in arithmetic, that ;will be qnite accept able, rto our young/iady readers,) (says Harper's Mag-azup!.) Edgar is.speaking to JPleasan6e: < ; < ... : .. I

' Now I kissyou'tfrree times on one cheek, ■and four times onyour mouth. How many dicLthat make-altogether ?' —.- i • Seven/ whispered, ths girl, disengaging herself to breatiiei ,more frseiy. ; '~,.' That „». \ arithmetic,' said the | youth, triumphantly.. , .'; j ■ . . -• ' 'Diarnio,' said Ple'agauca, 'I should not have thought it,' '' Captain Marrya,V ip one of. his j novels, ' Snaeleyow,' maizes one of his characters' ing a song carrying the same agreeable conceit: '• \ ,-, H , „.,, ~.' j , ' Then Harry said,, ' As time i* short, , Additioa you must first ba taught 3 _■ Sum up these kisses sweei. . ' Nowprove : yoar sum by kissing me1. Yes, tUat was right: 'tvvs3 thrd§ times Arifclimefcic's afcroat. r.ttree— - - '' '' r i I 'J " .■« I ' And now. there, is another term. Subtraction you have yet to lear.ii :| Take four, away from these. . ;_ Yes,, that was right : you've made: it out.!- Says Mary, with a pretty pout, !J' ! ' Subtracbibn1 don't me please. I ~Division ; and are itaught in the.same,pleasant way,' and the song ends with—.. , " > ! 'Aaiinowiwc, must leave off, my dear, The obher.rnles are not so clearj,. ,' ■ -, We'll.'^r'y'a.'t thim to-night.' , ; v, Til como at eve, my Heiiry sweet, Behind t)ie hawtbocn'he'tlge we'll ilieet, :. F.or learning's my delign't!' ''• ' ,

A man wjll carry 500" dols. in his vest pooket,. but a, woman must, have a morocco portmanixaie, |too large'and too heavy to be carried in. hoi* pocket, "to hold a filjty cent scrip, a couple of hor'se*-cra'r, tickets and a half dozen-sample's of dress good's, whenever she "walk's out.' ' "' ' ' It may be true, as Mrs. BeecH .says, that a woman may be respectable without a single sUk 4cess j bub ia t^at happiness ?

A Yankee Orator on Civil Punishment.

||M X The following oration Wa , somewhere iv Wisconsin l: %j\ profession, who would seem £ ?* •? i ■ an aversion to capital wSil 'May it please your lorda&S men of the jury, the case i s 1 7 M and sharp to the point as<«. ttJ 7 1{ sweetheart. The Scripture fiSiS shalt not kill;' now, if y *M I client, you transgress the a S a ' slick as grease, and as plum^^i I egg in a loafer's face ? lm murdeTis murder, whether 3 ! tvpelve, l( jurymen,1 Or by;aa W^ vidual ■ like my client. GptX1"18« not deny'the fact of mvpSliJi killed a manjbiit is that why you should do sop N 7, PM gentlemen. You may bruL ?° h *' in 'guilty,' the hangman JiT^ duty, but will that exonerat? such thing: in that case I murderers. Who among yon; *< for the brand of Gain to [*«H\ his brow to-day? Who "f r ™% in this land of liberty and ligfe men, I will pledge, my word IS you has a bowie knife or a J%\ pocket. No, gentlemen, xS^I are odoriferous with the wPoc f cigas-cases and tobacco. Ton eif the tobacco of rectitude iati^-H. peaceful conscience;"but ' : \d .fetunate client, and "the scaf \P* of remorse will.'gallon / internal- principles of. .'ani^? ,! until' the spinal ver.tebrarof *i.? 7 cal is turned into a 5 for the grim and gory eoblirn'nfj l Gentlemenbew a reof y C0 82Etj Beware I say of meddling?* Eternal prerogative !—bewarp t. ) member the fateoftWrnitifti I*1''* to steady the ark, and trembled men, I adjure you,' by the n. ' ghost of temporary **$$&»* deri;iaajureyoiby4 e l^^ hetioklinrtimepieoeoftime'stE. tran ß migr a tiori,todo : no'mtirder!i ! Jou'by^love.youhave'Forth j and Qondim-entat gusto, of our natiS hn.tQ.dono murder,lladjure If the American Eagle, that-whipped' universal game-cock of creatioi, B , sitsroostrng on. the magnetic telei time's il ustnous transmigration, £T mur.der! And, lastly, gentlemen if ever expect, to wear^.long-tailed you ever expect.free^dg^otltobarka if you ever expect to wear boots ma the free 'tide of the Eockv Jfl buffalo, and,' tostorup dpifS* expect to be anything but a get of J mg, • oaEng, rascally, cut-tkroated, hi small ends of humanity, whittled fo into indistmctibility, acquit iny1 clientm save your country .'-The prisoner* acquitted. , , ,

The Eye.

The eye shows character. The eyesc grert.warriors hays almost ■ always fei gray—their-,brows loweriug, like taunde clouds; Inventors have large eyes vei full. Philosophers the most: illustriot have had large and deep-set eyes. Tl poets all have large, fall eyes ; and lus cian' eyes are large and lustrous. Biiffon considers that the most beai tiful eyes' are the black and the bin We think we have seen black and* bin eyes' that were far from beautiful. Byro saysttie gazelle will weep at the sound ( music. The gazelle's eyes have tet called the most beautiful in the worl and the greatest compliment an irate pan his .mistress is to compare,her eyesi a-gazelle's. The power of the eye w well illustrated in Eoberfc Burns. I was taken to Edinburgh very much i •Samson was 'taken to the Temple-; amuse the Philistines. He was bronjl to the palace, where the great mend Scotland were to be entertained, and n put in a- back room until the time hi come when they were ready for tis -When they"were, he was brpiightin,an: ' having measured the company with I Wonderful eyes he recited his mmii poem,-' Is "there, for Honest Poverlj! Carlyle says- that when he finished, ft nobles and gentlemen cowered!Siid skntl before his eyes, We think liip^wordsbi as-much to do with it as his eyes. Cleopatra had black eyas. Mary Qua of' Scots had liquid gray eyes^'ljarkfjii show power j light eves, gentleness ;ii gray eyes, sweetness. There, is $j magnetic power in the eyes of m • low.er, animals. The lion's,; ;tfie tiger'jj and the serpent's eyes are.all r magisfc| It-is well known that theJserpentrl charm birds that are flying abdye'it,» in great circles they will swefep.doffl» the destruction which awarits i uiem. 1 friend of the writer, a docter,' was 03 day walldng in the fields, wheir;hestff adder lying on a rock. Ee'drewneiU examine it, and presently looked■ at Its ejs He was attracted by their beauty, *. involuntarily stepped forward twdorW steps: Beautiful light flowea.ftom» and seemed to bathe the very'coilsot» -serpent. Gradually he drew, .closer, • just as he was almost within the rep reach, he fell, feeling, as he scJld iifterw as though he had been struck by a «J When he became conscious, his head"8 in a friend's lap. His firstI' Wtds «• 'Who struck me?''No one'struck^ doctor. I saw you were cM-medby snake,-and 1 struck it with'-a'sffone. had struck the snake, {uid thV'OOwd 1. felt the blow. ' . i

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