South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1835-11-28

telligent scientific friend a more nin
ute and exact description, OF which
we avail ourselves with much plea :
sure. 1t may be remarked that the
color,as called pink by US, was perhaps
more properly, as he says, Of a blood
red, especially the broad masses.
We understand, 10 the Shetland Is
lands, and on the Northern Coastlof
Iselaod, where the aurora is SEGA in
all its sublimity, it often throws up these
blood-like corruscaiioos, which, when
in active motion, look like a terrible
copilagratiop, or os if the world was on
fire. We think the same appearances
are more particularly mentioned by
Captains Parry and Ross.
Mr.. Editor | send you the follow
ing remarks upon the unusual Aurora
Borealis oflast night.
first observed the pale Eight Of the
Aurora soon after sundown.
At about 9 o'clock, P. M. the light
was strong enough to cast shadows,
and extended nearly TO the zenith. AT.
terra display Of radialing pencils oflighl
resembling long white heecy clouds,
the appearances became extraordinary.
The Aurora extended Coy IL O'Clock,
P. ny from the northern horizon as far
as east by south, 81 on the west to west
by south, the pencils reaching beyond
our zenith, and forming centre of ra-
diation a, point in the heavens about
ten or twelve degrees southerIy from
our zenith. The southern upper bor-
ders Of the Aurora we're then ola
blood red color, in broad masses. The
stars shone through the Aurora With
more than usual brightness.
AT midnight there arose common
clouds in the north,which partially as
sumed the pencil radiation.
At two O'Clock this morning the
phenomena had nearly ceased.
The centre formed in the heavens,
ten or twelve degrees southerly Of the
zenith, appears TO be nearly, il not
exactly, the location Of the centre Of
the remarkable me,eoric shower recsn-
lily observed.
The causes Of the shower, and of
this Aurora, would seem to be very
much alike. The temperature OF the
air was 40 degrees.
have never seen such shower
nor such magnificent aurora. ! am,
respectfully, yours, M.
New York, Nov. is, 1885.
going the rounds Of the papers just now,
A man fell from the top of o spire in
Cleaveland, Ohio. Finding himself on
the way down, or just getting under W ay
as the plank tilted-he whipped out a
Spanish clasp-knife, and watching an sp-
portunity when about HALF WAY DOWN,
stuck it into the wood with such SKILL
AND vIoLENcE!" 1.-THE very language of
the story that he was enabled to hold on
full TWENTY MINUTES, when they came
to his relief.
This reminds us of a little incident
within OUR own knowledge. A friend
was pursued by large black snake. all
ct once it occurred to him, just as the
reptile was preparing for a jump at bis
throat, to run around small birch tree,
which stood id his path, as tight as he
could spring he did so till he'd got the
creature in sSARL, when, stopping sud
denly, he threw back somerset, and
the snake trying to follow him, tied him
self IN a HARD NOT.
We didn't believe that one man in
thousand. under similar circumstances,
would have had such presence Of mind.
So says the Cleveland editor-and so say
we.-New-England Galaxy. x 5l''
There appeared few days since in
the Globe poetical moroccan which has
been transpianted into the Argus with
As specimen Of the
whole we quote the last lines
Could your Washington's form,
Rise breathingIy warm, ''''s4
He'd point to THE PILoT THAT Wealth
Erred THE STORM"
And shoat Ger each Mountain and city
and lake,
Awake for Van Buren--for freedom a.
wake!"
Indignant reader, let your imagination
tor moment picture the scene--and I
say ii adulation and absurdity in their
most unmitigated concentration can sur
pass his hight. ghost Of Washing
ton arising from his tomb and shouting
'sHurrah tor Van buren, ALBANY
Daily ADV. &
Free Thoughts for true Whigs.
The Wing Opposition throughout
the United States are an acsphaso"s