The Cedar County advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Iowa) 1853-1856, 1856-01-12
A Rich Lee ure on Astronomy.

writer the following letter TO The Portland
Transcript, descriptive of II alters and
things Ia that par, of the country. Our
readers will enjoy his amusing report OF
the lecture on Astronomy;
MIsrER EplroR'-Perhaps in a Letter.
cry pint OF vew cur town haint been So
iorrerd as she had or,er. While Polly
ticks and mllllngtary interest has been
carried aurder perhaps than in any other
place Oh the arth, yet exceptln my own
case, literary hasn't gone beyond coarse
hand writing an the single rule OF three.
Ferlosoly has b en- quoted below pork;
syence haint compared with syder, st1lne
beans has generally sc, higher than sra
nomy, letters led trjgenomelry, and pun
kins was ahead OF poetry. Naow, how
sever, the tables has turned bottom side
under. Sycnce is rIs!
We've got Lie-see-un. The cry Of
letters is begun, the tree Of uolsiLge has
sprouted, interlec, bies over matter, that
are Intellect which has been dormouse Is
naow raoused like a sleepy lien gruln
away from Jordan.
Tn iust lecture OF the season was & n
by Jemes Peabody, who's been one quar-
ter t. an accdemary.
General subject -.froaomy.
reruckIer ditto 90 Comics
halnt time 10 give you more'n d.
ges,ive lacsme.a ol the lecler:
Jemcs begun by sLsarvin that ct eny-
body supposed that the stars warn, heap
! bigger tnan they looked, they was al
mlgh,y behind hand. Way, says he.
there's that ar little sinner called Satan.
says he, don't 10 k bigger ;han a ta,"r,
and yet according 10 Herkiys who
knows heavenly bodies js. as easy as
know iatAer-lls sumwha, larger than
The hui county OF Oxlord! An the leet-
lest star you can pick out is as big as IA
cart wheel Al this point Deacon Elder
terty ris al SAID this wus goln TOO lu.,
twas reglar blasemy contrary to scrip
ture an agin common sense. Then he
tuck has hat an cleared, lu.t spttn out his
terbacker as testimony agin the doc
trine.
After speaking of the milky-way--
which he sad was longer jhan he Gum
beltand and Oxford Cananl-.-an the
/ moon, which the onlarnel considered to
| be a green cheese, bat " hicA science
demonstrated to be laca esanlcrn cn a
large scale, the lecterer proceeded to the
penIckler part Of his subjeck:
COMICS OR BLAZiE sf.Rs.
Comes, says Jemes says lie - are ol
1 L., .4. "A
iust is peacelUle-tother amt. The lust
ones Is made Of old moons as alnl lit Tor
service, and IS called ~ tie oned d,kaled
shoe iug stars, Dut we OF tie schools call
EN- metres. This difference led The speak
er TO remark that larniu Is everything.
The wild kind, says Jemes, Is differ.
en, cIi.tur; beln composed oi lncpclous
matter, hysoutlon gasS, oxslde OF cast
| iron, an -a';s ol har;aonla, makes il high
| " salvage aud onsaitln. The iust ap-
peared abat Dcuterono ny or perhaps a
| llttle later IN the year SIX, and was dis
| ktyered spontaneously from Portland d.
sersators Oh Pompey's pillow In Rooshy.
They are pes~y .ai4gs, says he, oilers
get'In up wars hurry kane=, and aifth-
qaalles &c. Oueasy aud restless, travel
i aDou. faster than ralcrode. but never
reachln any where's oa part.calsr. hln-
der dominated Peter Riggs. Mighty on.
sartn, they ar, can't be depended Oh.
! Father Miller engaged one TO do Il per-
t:ckier JOB IN 'l3, bat !: probably col bet
ter ,elmrs somewheges else an that ere
l5b remains ondone this day.
| But naow, says Jemes, Ne comes 10
consider their tails. Them, says he, Is
raai numerous Talk about Inc moon s
vonjerous tale. Why tho tails OF al
these plant, in the cideral heaslugs
! wouldn't make one lor d lust rate Wild
como, Longer t.an the magnetic plra-
! graph ami wider than Sa.ago pond, they
stretches acnt over the universal kanerpy
in the unlimited nugaclty ot eithcr, now
sweeping down among Tie olongate con
cavities dlurnal cougeXties aud agsl
sorin upwards TIL lost IN the great by
peflon
Jemey was SO used p BY this peroara
ZION that lie had 10 be Cared home on 1
cheer. Tnis morning, however, he VA
as well as could he expected, aud II con
yalescence dosea't set IL, he Il be abou
IN day or 10.