Volcano weekly ledger., 1856-10-25
+ NUMBER /.
A Rich Lecture ON Astronomy.

Ethan Spike, Esq, OF Hornby, Me. writes
the following letter to the Portland Trans
cript and Eclectic, descriptive Of matters and
things in that part Of the country. Our
readers will enjoy his amusing report Of the
lecture on astronomy.
MISTER EDDIrER:-P Perhaps in letterary
| pint OF view our town haint been so forred as
she ortor. While polliticks and the milling
tary interest has bin carried furder perhaps
than IN any other place on earth, yet excep-
tin my case, itteratoor haint gone beyond
coarse hand ritin' an the single rule of three
terlesofy has been quoted in this market be-
low pork; syence haint compared with syder,
string beans has gneraliy sot higher than
stronomy, letters led trigernometry, and punk
ins was ahead Of poetry Naow, haowseyer,
the tables is turned bottom side under
Syence is ris
We've got Lie see um? The cry of Let
ters is begun, the tree Of nodge has sprout-
ed, interlect biles over matter--that ere In
telect which has been dormouse is paow
raoused like sleepy lion gttln away from
Jordon.
The fust lecture of the season was gin last
night by James Peabody, who's bin ono
quarter to an academary.
General Subject-Stronmy.
Pertickeler do.-Comics.
haint time to gin you moren digestive
or facsimelar of the lecter
Jemes begun by obsarvin that ef any body
supposed that the stars warn't heap bigger
than they looked, they was almighty behind
hand. Why, says, he, there's that ar leetle
simmer called Satan, says he, don't look bigger
than letter, and yet, according to Herklys
who knows the heayingly bodies jist as
easy as l know father--is sumwhat larger
than the hall county Of Oxfordl An the
leetest star you can pick out, is as big as
cart-wheel At this pint Dea Elderberry rs
an said this was goin too fur, twas regelaf
blaspheeme, contrary to scriptur and agin
common sense. Then he tuck his hat an
cleared, fust spitten aout his terbacker end,
as testimony agn the doctrine.
After speakin Of the milky way-which he
said was longer than the Cumberland and Ok
ford Canawl-an the moon which the un-
larned considered to be green cheese, but
which syence demonstrated to be jacker-lan-
tern on large scale, the lecterer proceeded
TO the perticeler part on his subjeck:
Comics or BIazin Stars.
Comics, says Jemes, says he, are of two
kinds the Tame and the Wild The fust
| is peaceabe-tother aint The fust ones are
made of old moons as amt fit for service, and
is called by the oneddikated shootn stars,
We Of the schools call EN- metres. This dii-
ference led the speaker to remark that larIr
IN is ylhn
The wild kind, says Jemes, is different
crittur, being composed of kinebelous matter
| hyfoluton gass, oxsidc OF cast iron, and salts
OF harmonic makes it highly salvage an on
sartin. They fust appeared about Deuteron.
omy or perhaps a little later in the year six,
and was diskivered spontaneously from Pori-
land obseryatnr an Pompeyspillow in Rosshy
They are pesky things, says he, oilers gittin
up wars hurrykanes and airthdakes, &e.--
Oneasy and restless, travelin about faster
than raleroade, but neaver reachin any
where i'll pertckelar. Kinder dominated
Peter Raggs. Mighty onsartin, they ar, cant
be depended on Father Miller engaged one
to do partckerer job in AS but it probable
got better tarms somewhere lese, and that ere
job remains ondone to this day
But naow, says Jemes, we comes to CON
slider their tails Them, says he, is rae nu-
merous. Talk about the moons wonderous
tale Why the tails of all the plants in the
cideral heavings wouldn't max one for fust
rate wild comic Longer than the magnetic
paragraph and wider than Sebagopond, they
stretches aout over the universal kanerpv
in the unlimited nugacity Of either, now
sweepin down among the elongate eancayities
OF dlurnal conveXities, ane agin sorein up
wards till lost in the CRATE hyperion
Jemes was so used up by this peroaration,
4 he had to be carried home on cheer This
morning, however, be was as well as could be
expected, aud eff convalcscence don't set in,
he'll be about in q day or two.