The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1843-02-11

"l'm off, answe rcd VI. Josiah Flower
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Ard, it is said, that he never after could
be prevailed on TO visit Edinburgh. The
lame pig" he would murmur, "the jelly
and the milk-n it and out of it. IIca-
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WONDERFUL SIGHTS IN THE AIR
The venerable American photographer
has thought it worth while to notice, in
the New Haven Herald, the use which
appears to have been made in recent pub
ications Of certain atmospheric pheno-
mena, in reference to the great change
which, i, is said, is TO come over the world
this year. lie says:
TO persons not accustomed to see any
unusual phenomenon in the heavens.
such fiery appearance Of the clouds
must be very terrific. ignorance in such
cases is a calamity. | had seen more
wonderful appearances IN the clouds or
heavens, and was not in the least disturb
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SIN the dark day, May 10, 1850, the
heavens were covered with dense cloud
for three or tour hours; the Legislature
was in session at Hartford, and such was
! the darkness that business could not be
| transacted without candles. During this
time the clouds were tinged with yell
low or faint red for hours. for which no
cause has been assigned. stood and
viewed this phenomenon with astonish
ment, but had not any fear that the world
was coming 10 an end.
sin the evering of March Goth, 1882, an
extraordinary ligh; spread over the whole
hemisphere from horizon to horizon. north
and south, cast and west. The light was
ola yellowish cast, and wavy. The wav-
ing Of the ligh, was visible, and some
persons heard, or imagined they heard,
slight ruslling sound. I.then resided in
Goshen, Orange county, New Y ork, and
stood half an hour on a bridge over the
Wall Kill, to witness this extraordinary
phenomenon, but saw no person that
was ft.htcned at the sight.
an the year l7S3, great part OF Eu-
rope was for weeks overspread with
hazincss OF atmosphere which caused great
CONSERVATION. The churches were crow
ded with supplicants. The astronomer
I.alande attempted to allay the fright oy
cndeavoring to account for the appear
ance, which he ascribed to an uncommon
exhalaton of watery particles from the
great rain of the preceding year. But at
last the cause was asct rlained tc be smoke
| fro, Il, nf tlo
Ileca, in Iceland, which covered more
than three thousand square miles with
burning lava, in some places to the depth
of forty feet. had this account from
Doctor Franklin, who was in Europe al
the time.
"In late paper, published By the Mil
ler,es. ! saw an article stating that the
northern lights foretell something terrible.
The writer seems not to know that in the
high northern latitudes, in the sixteenth
degree and norlhward, northern lights
are of daily occurrence, and SO have been
from time immelnorial. So illuminate d
are the heavens that persons may often
see TO read in the night.
"These lights occasionally come so
far South as to illuminate tie sky in our
latitude. Sometimes they do not appear
for many years. A, the close Of the sew
enteenh and beginning Of the eighteenth
century those lights were not seen for "a
long period, and when they re-appeared.
about the year 1917, our ancestors, who
had not seen or heard of them, were all
alarmed, and actually supposed the day Of
judgment had come.
"During my life have been so much
accustomed 10 see northern lights, falling
stars, so called, and fire balls, that tl.ey
have long since ceased to excite my curl
osity.
NEARLY thirty years ago read an ar,i-
Gle in Vermont paper, stating that the
northern light, on certain evening, was
so low as TO be visible between the spec
tator and distant mountain.
N. WEBSTER"
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