New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-10-15

naked boys, but chiefly to visit the tent OF an Old
woman, whose niece he loved as only the young
and the good can love. The young gipsy girl was
no less enamored of him. Indeed. it was happy
SINE for both Elmy and Hardy. The sweet world
seemed to teem with flowers, and the glad heaven
to blossom with angels. Who has not felt the
ephemeral Joys of the passions?
Once, when Hardy returned from Strasburg,
where he had spent the vacation with his parents
he brought s golden bracelet for his gypsy love-
She accepted il ioyfully as sign of his tender re-
gard for her, and delighted theneeforward in sit
ting on the banks of clear brook, and letting the
beautiful bracelet reflect itself in the smooth water
1t was on such day that her old aunt turned to
her with prophetic mien, and said;
Tkis bracelet represents thy future luck, child;
if yoa lose this, do not hope for another glad
hour
HaVdys love, guarded the Jewel closely. But
tiEe efaced the first impressions of the prophecy,
and soon she again adorned herself as before.
One day she plays thoughtlessly with the brace
let, lifting it and again allowing it to roll into her
lap. Suddenly she hears rushing sound, black
wings strike her, and when she looks up raven
flies off with her braceetin his heak. She watches
him. and sees him bear her Jewel to his nest in the
assures of high, steep rock. Weeping, she
hastens away to meet Hardy, to whom she relates
the of her distress, together with the proph-
phecy Of herlaunt. He endeavors to console her in
vain. His 1atterng caresses together with the
promise Of new bracelet, do not lessen her grief.
She longs for the lost bracelet and that alone
can cure her sorrow. Moved by her distress,
amounting almost to despair, he promised to re-
gain the lost toy, and left her. He returned to the
convent, and then, accompanied by two friends,
climbed the rock in the ssure Of which the ravens
nest hung, intending to let himself down by rope
to the level Of the nest. Elmy had not asked him
\ by what means he would endeayor to regain the
bracelet. Suddenly she hears a noise above, and
looking upward she pereeves Hardyhaugng by
rope midway between heaven and earth She
endeayored to call to him to abstain but her voice
refused; her limbs trembled with terror. Already
| he was upon a level with the nest-already he ex-
tended his hand for the rng-when the rope broke,
and the unfortunate youth was dashed into the
/ abyss with indescribabe quckness. At the same
moment terrible cry burst from Elmy's lips and
she sank fainting upon the grass When she re-
| covered, her mind and memory were obseured by
madness. No words ever passed her lips again.
| AsrRoNoMIcAL.-The New York World publishes
letter from the Dudley Observatory, Albany,
from which we extract the following interesting
| items:
! The Equatorial Telescope.-This great instru-
ment mounted in the dome, at an almost in
conceivable height, when Professor Mitchell as
sumed the direction of the observatory. With his
bold and almost daring courage he lowered it four
| feet without dsmounting the ponderous tube from
the pier, actually pushing out two lateral stones.
weighing together four tons, and then depressing
/ the pier and its precious burden down to its
/ base. The dome now relieved from its incubus of
the iron shutters put up some three years ago,
wolves easily, and single hand wheel it round
and point the great tube through the roof opening
to the planet, the star, the nebulous depth OF
space.
saw but the full moon, which, through such an
instrument, is
| Flat, stale and unpronable,r
as compared with the crescent satellite, when she
! fiings the black shadows of her appenine hills
across the line of illumination. more interesting
sight than the full moon the ruddy Mars, fierce
glowing, the prsmatic and dazzling Arcturus, or
the beautiful binary system in the Great Bear
stellation. new equatorial is in preparation for
| the observatory, with Il inch object glass.
| A Mean Sideredl Cgock-Let not your scientific
| readers condemn my title until they read my story.
As was leaving the great hall Of the observatory,
Remembered that my watch was out of time, and
I took it out to set it right by the great marble
clock dial in the yestibule. That same evening
was engaged to take tea with the astronomer at
given hour and having to watfo ladies failed to
be punetual by my watch. We were not behind
time, however, and was laughed at numerically
for taking the time from sideredl instead of a
mean soia, timep piece. Have no reason for trans
ferring the appellation mean from the dial to
the star dial 1t was too nigh the autumnal equi-
nex for the difference between the two clocks to be
great enough to arrest my attention, and SO got
my watch forty minhtes too fast.