Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1856-07-02
A Rich Lecture on Astronomy.


of view aour town haint been so forrerd as
she orter. While Polly-ticks and the mil
lingtary interest has been carried furder
perhaps than in any other place on the
airth, yet exceptin my own cas- iitieratoor
ha, Mt gone beyond coarse hapd writing an
the single rule of three. Ferlosofy has
been quoted in this market below pork =
syence hasn't compared with sydcr, string
beans has generally sot higher than strono-
my. letters led trigernometry, an punkins
was ahead of poetry Naow, haawsey er,
he tables is turned bottom side ander-
Syence is ris
We've got Lie s-e um! The age of
Letters is begun, the tree of noliige has
sprouted, interlect biles over matter-that
ere intellect which has bin dormouse is
naow ranased l....e sleepy iiyn gittin away
from Jordan.
The fust lecture of the season WIS gin
last night by Jemes Peabody, who's bin one
quarter to on academary.
General SIbjeck- SironOnly.
Pertickeler do Comics
l haint time to gin you more diges-
tive or facsimelar of the lecter-
Jemes begun by obsarvin that eff any
body supposed that the stars warn't heap
bigger than they looked, they was almigh-
ty behind hand. Why, says be, there's
that ar leetle sinner called Satan, says lie,
don't look bigger than a letter, and yet, ac-
cording to Kerlys-who knows the heaven
ly bodies jist as easy as | know father
It's sumwhat larger than the hull county of
Oxford An the leetlest star you can pick
out is as big as u cart-wheel. At this
pint Dea Elderberry ris an said this was
goin too fur, twas regeler blaspheme, cor
trary to scriptur an agin common sense
Then he tuck his hat an cleared, fust spit
ting aout his terbacker cud as testimony
agin the doctrine.
After speaking of the milky way-which
he said was longer than the Cumberland
or Oxford canawl--au the moon, which
the onlarned considered to be a green
cheese, but which syence demonstrated TO
be a jackcrlantern on large scale, the lcc
terer proceeded to the pertickeler part Of
his subieck,
Comics or Biazen Stars
Comics, says Jemes-says he-are Of
two kinds, the Tame and the Wild. The
fust is peaceable--tothcr aint. The fast
ones is made of old moons as aint fit for
service, and is called by the oneddikatel
shootin stars, but We of the schools call
EN- metres. This difference led the speak-
er to remark that larniu is everythin.
The wild kind, says Jemes, is different
critter; bein con posed of kiuebelous mat
ter, hyfolutions gass, oxide Of cast iron, IN
salts Of harmonic, makes il highly salvage
an onsartin. They fust appeared about
Deuteronomy or perhaps little later in the
year six, and was diskiy cred spontaneously
| from Portland obscrvatOrs on Pompey' 5
pillow in R?oshy They are pesky things,
says he, oilers gitten up wars, hurrykanes,
and earthquakes, &c. Oneasy and rest
less, travelin about faster than rale-rode,
but never reaching any where's in perticke-
ler. Kinder, loon mated Peter Rugs
Mighty cnsartin, they ar, can't be depen-
ded on. Father Miller engaged one TO d.
pertickeler job in 43, but i probably got
better terms somewhere else az that ere ipb
remains ondone TO this day.
But now, says Jemes, We comes to con-
slider their tails. Them, says be, is raai nu-
morous. Talk about the moons woudrous
| tale Why the tails of all the planets il
the clderal heavlngs wouldn't MAKE one for
fust rate will comic Longer than the
magnetic paragraph and wider than Seba 70
pond, they stretches aout over the univer-
sal kanerpy in the unlimited nAgacity Of
ether, now sweepin down among the elou-
gate concavities of diurnal convexities and
agn sorcin upwards till lost in the CRATE
! hype ion !!
Jemes was so used 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 eff convalescence
don't set in he'll be about in day or two.
ETHAN SPIKES.