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vcntly embracing chair, worstcd, and wo-
."li"'ry ,mo! Will you marry me ~
said lie. -
"Ycs,' said the voice from amid the
wor>tc,i
"Tircn, hold your head up, anil let me
look upon the face of my wife. st. George,
Mav-l believe I've loved you for years"
"Ani h"o" I've loved yow almost
ever since knew you," said May, yielding
TO the gentle force which drew her from
hc' low seat, and led her TO ono where
there w;,S room for two.
".Ar that's why You never cared about
any o.. r m:.ns company and attention, my
May 2"
"lcs," said May, "you begin to under.
stand it now
"Oh, May ! my beauty, my dear, good
girl ! Why didn't think Of this before ?
Why d@fnt You tell me, May 90
"Icll You | should have looked well,
shouldn't 2"
"lndccd you would have looked well -
charming, in my eyes. What pity that
YOU had not confidence enough in me to
I"'S "'''"Cd ''ic W guess a' t''O .'"'' w
fore. Why, May, | would have marie |
you years ago, and have been the happi
est and most grateful fellow alive. How
stupid men Can be but come, May, we
must go and tell my sister. She will be
delighted, inlecd.'
And he led the embarrassed and blush
ing May, into the presence of his sister, and
admitted her to the great rejoicing !: and,
in few weeks from that day, Iossiter and
May were no more twain, but one flesh.
Nobody knows what month may bring
forth -norto what the simplest question
may lead onc.-N. y. Lcdycr.
- 90
Is THE MnuH INHABITED at has lunr
been known that the moon rcvolvcs OH its
AXIS III the same time in which it rcvolvcs
round the earth, and that it consequently
always presents nearly the same silc to-
wards the earth, while the opposite side is
never seen from our globe. No bodies of
water nor clouds can be seen on the moon
by the aid Of the most powerful telescope,
nor is the apparent direction Of stars close
to lis edge changed 10y rcirac,ion, as would
be the case il an atmosphere cnvclupcd the
moon. Hence it has been inferred bv Whc-
well, the rcpu'cd author OF u late work ell
titled ''pi l'lu'ality Of Worl,ls,' that the
moon has no atmosphere or water, and con-
no inhabitants. -
lhis Inference is shown TO bc inconclu-
slvc by regent discovery Of the astronomer
llanscl, whose study of the moons motion,
continued for many years, has established
the fact that the centre Of gravity Of the
moon, instead of Icing like that Of tic earth,
at the centre Of the figure, is beyond that
centre, and farther from the other side bv
sevcnty-tour miles. The nearer side Of the
moon, therefore, is vast expanded protu-
beranco or mountain, seventy four miles
h!gli; and fluid, whether air or water, would
flow downwarls from the nearer to the far.
thc' side Of the moon, where, fer auyht We
know, Intelligent living beings may exist.
The nearer side of the moon cannot be in
habited, at least by beings to whose exist
cnce air anil water are essential, as is the
case with all Terrestrial, animals.
The late celebrated mathematician, Gauss.
proposed as means Of setting the question:
whether the moon is inhabited, that a huge
monnmcnt should be erected on the stcppcs
OF Siberia, rs Il signal TO the inhabitants of
the moon, i'll the hope that they. might be
induced to erect a similar signal to npprisc
us OF their existence. The discovery Of
uanscl shows that such an experiment could
be attended with no SUCCESS, inasmuch as
the inhabitants Of the moon, if there are any,
being on the farther side, could never sec a
monument on the earth
1t may not be unintcresting to add, that
il has been discovered, within ~ few wears.
by means Of long continued, hourly ohser-
valiols with the barometer, that the moon
exerts an appreciable INFLUENCE on the pres.
urc of the almosrllcrc; and also by means
OF long continued magnetic observations.
that 1t exerts an infllenrs on.thc decination
OF thc lnaghcffp needle: e:&Boston Courier.
The siAMEsE T&.xs.-The editor of the
South Western Baptist, published if Tuske:
gee, Ala., recently paid avisit to Sorry coun-
ty in North Carolina, and among Clc pleas
ant "reminiscences Of the trip, we find the
following account Of his visit to the celcbra-
ted Siamcse Twins.
''Ihey live within three miles of Mount
AIRY, and arc among the best citizens of
that community. We visited, and spent
about two hours in conversation With them.
we were kindly received, and can add to
the common testimony Of their neighLo,s,
that they are much Of gentlemen. They
speak our language very flucntly, and arc
very intelligents~
We areNsoiry that VIC cannot give our
readers more information concerning them {;
they are often troubled by questions of pry-
ing curiosity, and we, out of respect for
their feelings, did not question them, hence
VIC may be incorrect in regard to some of
our statements. They were born in Siam
in 1911, and came to this country in their