Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1856-02-22
Mistrllunrous.
Scientific Lecture in Hornby

the columns Of the Transcript.
Bu, abont the richest thing he has lately
got offs the following report Of an as.ro-
nomical lecture:
MisrER EDITOR - Perhaps in letter.
cry point OF view, our town ha'nt been
so formed as she otter. While Polly
ticks and millingtary interest has been
carried furder perhaps than in any place
on the arth, ye. except in my own case,
litera,oor hasn', gon beyond course hand
writing and the single rule Of three.
Ferlosofy has been quoted oelow pork i;
syence hasn't compared with Syder. string
beans has been generally Sc, higher than
s,ronomy letters led uisinometry, pump
kins was ahead Of poetry. Naow, haow-
sever, the tables has turned boltem side
under. Syenee is riz!
We've got Lie see um /! The cry
Of Letters is begun. the tree Of nolidge
has sprou,ed. ,n'eIlec, biIes over matter
that intellect, which has been dormouse,
IS naow, raoused like sleepy lion CITING
away from Jordan. The fus, lecure Of
the season was gin last night by Jef cs
Pesh1dy "ho been one quarter 10 AZ,
.c.d. -..
s.,s nije Stsonomg.
feHrt--. ate.. Com!
| IL. i.Lss.s- +-aGt-t'H , a!le>-
~ iecs,z5, .. ,.e zl,.5li---
Jem.s - ), - T., o0svtvrn shas ct euS-
b1ds sDga6>-t tcdt the STATS " mt a eeap
blgg,t thsn ,ae, locked they We're ailul-
gh,y bcmndhand Wy, says he, thar's
that leet. sinner called SATAN. says he,
don looh bigger than a tater. and yet &C.
eardlng 10 ilefklys who knows the hea-
senly bodies JUS, AS easy as kno" falner
It's sumwha, bigger than the hui! eoun-
" ot Oxford. An the lectlest star you
can pick aout is as big as car, wheel.
A, this pom, Deacon Elderberry rIz, said
this was going tu fur twas regular blasfe.
my. Contrary tn ScfiDtur, and agln com.
mon sense. Then he tuck his hat and
cleared, fus, spittln aont his to, baeier cud
as a testimony agin the doctrine.
After speaking Of the mlk-way-which
he said was longer than the Cumberland
or Oxford Canawl-an the moon, which
the onlearned consider 10 be a green
cheese, bu, which science demonstrate
TO be a jackern-lan,ern on large scale
the lec.erer proceeded to the perickler
part Of his subJeck-
CoNIcs OR BLAz,S Stars.
Comics. says Jemes-he says-are OF
two kinds, the Tame and Wild. The
fust ones is made of old moons as Amt fit
for services, and is called BY the onedica-
ted shooter slars, but we of the schools
call EN- metres. This difference led the
speaker to remark that lArnin is every
thing.
The wild kind, says Jemes, is different
critter; bein composed of knebelous mat
ter, hyfolution gases, oxside of cast iron,
and salts Of harmonic, makes it highla
savage and onsartain. They fust appear
ed about Deuteronmy, or perhaps little
later in the year six, and was diskivered
spontaneously from Portland observators
an Pompeys pillow in Rooshy. They
are pesky things, says he, oilers Citing
up wars, hurricanes, and earthquake
Oneasy and restless, travellin about fast
or than rale rode, but never reachin
any whares in perticklar. Kinder lumi-
mated Peter Rugs. Mighty onsartin,
! they are. cant be depended on. Father
Miller engaged one to pertickler job in
43, but it probably got better tarns
somewhere else. an that ere job remains
ndJnc tuesday.
Fut uaow. saws mes, we comes to
/ co. aia -aeir talis. leIn, says he,is racl
NUM- Us. iaih ABOUT the moon won.
derou> tale. Nhy the tails OF all these
plants IN tae oidereal haaHinss woaidn
make one tor lust rate comic! Longer
than the magnetic paragraph, and wider
than the Sebago pond, they stretches out
over the universal kanerpy in the unlim-
tied nugacity Of either now sweepin down
among the elongatc concavities of dieunal
convexities, and asin sorin upwards till
lost in the great hyperion!
Jemes was so up by this peroration that
he had to be carried home on a cheer
This morning however, he was as well as
could be expected, and if convalesence
doesn't set in, he Il be about in a day or
two. ETHAN SPIKES.