The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1856-01-16
Dunr0r0as.
RICH LECTURE ON ASTRONOMY.

RICH LECTURE ON ASTRONOMY.
Ethan Spikes, Esq, of Horribly Maine,
writes the following letter to the Port
land Transcript e. Electric, decriptive
of matters and things in that part of the
country. Our readers will enjoy his
amusing report of the Lecture on As
tronomy
MEssRs EDITOR Perhaps in a let
terery pint of view our town haint beer
so formed as she otter. While Polly
ticks and millingarty interest has been
carried furder perhaps than in any 9th
err place on the airth, yet except in my
own case literatoor hasn't gone beyond
course hand writing on the single rule
of three Ferlosofy has been quoted be-
low pork, syence hasn't compared with
Syder, string beans has generally set
higher than stroDomy, letters led trig-
ernometry aud pumpkins was a head of
poetry. Naow, haowsever, the tables
has turned bottom side under. Science
is risl
We've got a Lie-seo UNI The cry of
letters is begun, the tree of nolidge has
sprouted iuterlect biles over matter
that ere intellect which has been DOR
mouse is naow raoused like a sleepy Ii
on gittiu away from Jordan.
The fust lecture of the season was gin
last night by Jemes Peabody, who's
been one quarter to an academary.
General subjeok-Stronony
Pertickles ditto-C0s
L haint time to gin you more'n q d.
gestive facsimela of the Letter.
Jemes begun by observin that eff any
BODY supposed the stars warnt a heap
bigger than they looked, they were al
mighty behind hand. Wy, says he,
there's that ar lettle sinner called Satan
says he, don't look bigger than a tatar,
and yet according to Herklys-who
knows the heavenly bodies jist as easy as
I know father-tis sumwLot larger than
the whole county of Oxford An the
ectlest star you can pick aout is as big
as a cart wheel. AT this point Deacon
Elderberry ris and said this was goin
too fur, twas regelar blasfemy, contrary
to scriptur and agin common sense
Then he tuck his hat an cleared, fust
spittin tout his terbacker cud as a tes-
timony agin the doctrin.
After speaking of the milk-way-
which he said was longer than the Cum
berland or Oxford Canawl--an the
moon, which the ont larned consider to
be a green cheese, buwich science de-
monstrated to be a jackern-lantern on a
large scale, the l~ecterer proceeded to
that pertickler part of his subjeck-
COMICS OR BLAzIN STARS.
Comics, says Jemes-he says-are of
two kinds. the Tame and the Wild. The
fust ones is made of old moons as amt
fit for service, and is called by the oned-
ikated shooter stars, but we of the
schools call EN- metres. This difference
led the speaker to remark that larnin is
every thing.
The wild kind, sayes Jemes, is a diff
ferent %critter; bein composed of kneb-
lous matter, hyfolution gaas, oxside of
asst iron, an salts uf harmonic, makes it
highla salvage and onsartain. They
fust appeared about Deuteronomy or per-
baps a little later in the year six, and
diskivered spontaneously from Port
land observators on Pompey's pillow in
Rooshy. They are pesky things, says be,
oilers gittin up wars, h~urrykanes, and
earthquakes, &c. Uneasy and restless,
travlin about faster than a rale rode,
but never reaching any where's in per
ticker. Kinder dominated Peter
Rugs. Mighty onsartin, they ar, can't
be dependen Oh. Father Miller en-
gagged one to do a p%ertickler job in '43,
but it probably got better farms some
where else an that ere job remains on
done this day.
But naow. says Jemes, We comes to
consider their tails. Them, says he, is
raal numerous. Talk about the moons
4" wonderous tale.n Why the tails of
all of these plants in the cideral heav-
ings wouldn't make one for a first rate
wild comic! Lenger than the magnetic
paragraph, and widur than Sabago pond
they stretches aout over the universal
kanerpy in the unlimited nugacity of
either, now sweepin down among the
elongated concavities of diurnal convex
tiles and agin sorin upwards till lost in
the great hyperion !
Jemes was SO used up by this peroara-
ton that be had to be carried home on a
cheer. This morning, however he was
as we'll as could be expected, and if con-
vylescenee doesn't set in. he'll be about
in q day or two. ETHAN SPIKES.
THE TEEToTAL TOAST BOOK.
Though there is nothing very jovial
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