Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1829-05-26

about this business. Arrived IN the VII
lace. he posted Immediately to the lawyers
office and introduced his business. Mr..
Wilde. you know l have always been
friend to Gov. Strong" Yes. Wen,
after all / have done for him, only see
here {handing out the paper) ne has
sued me. What must | do :" What
must YOU do 7" said Judge W., why
put the paper in your pocket again, and
go home ii is a Justices commission.
that gives you, from henceforth, the Dig
ni6ed title Of Esquire" The poor man,
chagrined and elated. thanked the Judge
for the information, and retired.
Erening Chronicle.
SpoTs ON THE Sun. 1t has been al
ready mentioned in the public papers, at
several different times, that the solar disk
has exhibited, the present season, an un-
usual number of those phenomena called
spots on the sun. Since the LIST Of April,
we have observed the sun almost daily
througha telescope, and have not found it
free Of spots for more than two or three
days during this whole period. The ap-
pearances were the most remarkable near
the commencement of the present month,
when several large spots mot less than
sixteen) and numerous smaller ones, form
ing distinct clusters, extended on the
northern limb of the sun, a few degrees
from the equator, and parallel TO it, nearly
across the disk :; and when these disap-
peared by the revolution ofihe sun on its
axis, others came into view, indicating
that the luminary was nearly encompass
ed with spots. With power of forty,
some of these clusters presented the ap-
pearance of long ridge of clouds; but
with greater magni6er, they were seen
to consist Of collections of numerous small
spots, having, apparently, common orr
gin. On the Goth Of April, there appeared
a spot of unusual size, visible with the ma.
ked eye, or when merely protected by a
smoked glass. To day MAY leth( we
discover nine spots, consisting of four
larger and FIVE smaller spots.
Although the spots on the sub appear
to the eye as objects of diminutive size
vet We nerceiKe that they take M 4 iggfPei
of that orb is more than eight hundred
and eighty thousand miles, we NAV easily
conceive that they occupy, in reality, spa
ces of immense extent.
BY comparing the time occupied by 4
spot in crossing the central hair of the tel
escope, in the diurnal revolution. with the
time occupied by the whole disk in maxi
ing similar transit, we easily find the ra-
ito OF its diameter to that of the disk, and
hence readily determine its actual size
The largest spots have measured SO. 900
miles in diameter; and those of ten and
twenty thousand miles are of very fire.
quent occurrence. When very large. it is
not incredible that they should sensibly
diminish the heat and light of the sun.
From certain appearances which the So
lar spots exhibit, astronomers have infer.
red that they are cavities; but it is not A.
greed whether they ale excavations in the
solid body of the sun, or whether thew
are partings in the fiery flood of which, in
the opinion of some, the exteriour portion
OF that luminary is composed; or whether
they are openings in the luminous clouds
with which, as Herschell supposes. the O.
paque body Of the sun is enyeloped.
Nese 1-ss0sn Chron.
OLD NEWSPAPERS. Many people take
newspapers but few preserve them. vet
me most interesting reading imaginable
Is a ME OF old newspapers. 1t brings up
the very age, with all its hustle and every
Gay analrs, and marks its genius and its
spirit more than the most Iaboured de-
scriptIon ofthe historian. Who can take
paper dated half century ago without
the thought that almost every name there
printed IS now cut upon tombstone at
the head OF an epitapb. The Doctor.
lquack or regular) that there advertised
ms medicines and their cures. has follow
60 the sable train Of his patients: the
merchant his ships-coud get no securi-
y on ms llfe-and the actor, who could I
make others laugh or weep-can now on
y furnish a skull for his successor in
Hamlet. L
l
II IS easy to preserve newspapers and
ney will repay the trouble, for like that
u VINE, their value increases with their t
ears; and old files have sometimes been Q
old at prices too startling to mention. =
POWER OF CONSCIENCE. The follow c
ng letter was received through the Post a
Jhce by respectable citizen of Balti- n
more, few days since. A five dollar i
tote was enclosed. and the gentleman has a
'ot the slightest recollection of ever hav- II
ng been defrauded of any small sum. h
Inc writer Of this once defrauded h
,ou out Of small sum of money. With a
leep femorse he now returns it to Won
vl.n interest. The stings of guilty CON- G
cience who can bear" l.