Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-11-26

country Their minds are acute and their abors truly
praiseworthy their observations give knowledge Of the
past present and future positions Of the spheres and
highly valuable. 1t is the extended eyesight Their
abstruse calculations too Indispensable They make
the courses Of the stars otherwise invisible to be as go
den wires across the heavens.
But this is not ALL There is another department in
astronomical science for other purposespurposes less
worldly utaran but far more valuable and demanding
the use of other faculties of the mind. We want
science shut observatories hidden from the
eye in the absrusites of and comprehended
only by those who devote their whole lives to the study
but astronomy that appeals to cultivated and to
intelligent wemen; astronomy which will bring the
human into connexion with the Divine, which will de-
velop the creative power of man. that he may in
patty with the form and fashion of the universe that he
may be able to place his tiny footsteps in the track
through which the creative power of God has passed
There is power in astronomy which has not been de-
veoped there is light in the science which is yet to
cheer and brighten the mind to elevate it to the
contemplation of the boundess power of the Creator Of
worlds that when look up the heavens seeing
there the almost infinite number of spheres dotted down
boundless space when in the stiffness of the night,
they behold worlds in numbers without end, each one
filed with life, intelligence, and happiness the thought
may rush into their minds that this vast creative
has in action for beings like them not only
that they might eat and drink and die but that dwelling
in the edfce of God they may have the high and the
qusite JOY of hearing the of the glory of God
and Of learning from them Of the simple majesty Of His
handiWork in the heavens. = 81 h. q.
of to-day is article under the signature of sc, to
which note is appended asking whether the AngloSaxon
words hund and tig mean hand and time.
The word time is from tempus, (Lat,) through the
French temps, or from the Swedish tina.
The English word hand is from hond (Anglo-Saxon.)
Thus, in the Pardonere's Tale
g But, sires, 0 word forgate l in my tale:
have rekes and pardon in my male,
As faire as any man in Englelond,
Which were me yeven by the Popes hond "-CAduccr
Humid (Anglo- saxon) signifies hound, dog; but il
means, Also hundred; and when prefxed to numerals
from 70 to 100 it means ten.-Bosworth. Thus hand
eahtatig ten-eght go Hundnigontg, feminine go
Tge from tgan, to tie, band knot also, the thing
which is tied, fastened, closed-as bag or cup
board Our English word tcenty has three Saxon
equivalents, namely, 1s teeng from tcin and tg; 3D.
treong from Tor Immediately from eeo) and ag
and 3d. teong The uncertain photography Of the Anglo
Saxon must be kept in mind
Now may not the word tig, knot tie, be used after
the numbers referred to above mark the completion
of decimal, what is commonly called round num-
Der? Ten is number readily taken into the mind, and
VIXEN things bought and sold by tale their value
might be easily determined by making them up into par
GELS of ten each. ]. NJ.
Nov 10, 1853 Fredericksburg, Virginia.