, 1865-09-30
A CELESTIAL SENSATION.
HOW q Chicago Nelghborhood Got IL
Astronomy ~Knoeked Higher
' Than A Klte.ss

On Thursday eecn1ng About nine o'clock, several
hundred residents Of th{e city, in the vicinity ol
Twelfth street, near the Lake shore. might have
been eecu initiating the mcn Of Gali1ee in 'tgaNng
steadily up Into heayeu." One and another Joined
the street groups, Parties Juvenile eeuile or In.
valid, sent early to bed. cnueht the emotion and
ept haetfly ont nto tho night air In sueh dishnbe
as the gray moonlight sufficiently cloaked. All were
awe struck, serious, and with heads thrown back
sazed into the cmpyrtau al point little southeast
or tho zenith. F1rstly, there were mysteriou.
sounds lint chained those razcrs. found OF rush
ing and nuttc1ing and pattorIng or cracking, all
and either. Drops Of water On hot etoye will pro-
duce II. So will scattered grains Of powder, 80
will nut cakes in hot tat So Will pop corh. sowill
The laundry lines In a s1nacking breeze on Mon.
day. Combine these sources Of sonnd and you have
the result
But stand In moonlight and firmly believe these
eoupds 70 come from among the stars. because you
have no means Of dIsproEtng It'll And then use your
eyes. There, don't you sec TINT aash Of Light
cgainet the clondless aEye that darling hamei that
meteor! and another, and anothes1 Connect these
and II fs dropping, caGkl,ns shower Of neteoT,
aple. It Is an omen, and now the women turn pale,
and the Aestera, who will have their little
jokes, are troHnea down. The suggestion that
generals Just being mustered ont; that the celestial
Bodies nom late aiough, have fllen to rattinS Ike
dry peas; that the Seven satars arc
playing at Caetanets,. or running Sewing Ma
chines, not the Doiscless kind; all these
were The eugres1ons Of the iocose. And then, such
science as was hastily unfo ded md shaken ont;
cage remcmbrances ot having scen The Thing before
whcreat The women grew more cheerful again. And
still the cracking ard rattllng kept on overhead.
II Ia easy 10 get up m nfter laugh md declare
The case and the crowd very slmple. II was
not 60 easy 10 read the route Of these Eeyetul
hundred aftonishea sky gazefs out Of the rnyatery
that kept them IN The stIeetA for good half houf,
earnestly stretching thelr necKs and visions q
II they knew that all thelr fellow inhabianfs OF th1s
knee1ng in tenor Before the apPartion Of terror in
the aky. The number Of the domestic sufferers
frc this celestial vititaon makee our item respect
able among sensations.
What was 1t! Simply boy'a Kite, sn17ept3dons.
y Rent up after dark A huge, sc1awny, baEgy
kftc Of white paper. not hraeed against Its sticks,
that II Tapped and elattered IS paper will do.
An lily balanced kite, crazy-headed. With tall at
odds with itself. beetleheaded kite that for al
uneasily at tts tWina tethcr andswuns and whir1ed
in grat circles, and Il wkfsled flashed clattef
3pcly Its white broadslde tn the mo1n1ght-henre
the faf hes OF Hight nnd the cAtar Of SINAI! sounds
But The meteurs Eoth1n. unusual at this eeAson.
Gazing Upward as steadily did these atrect Eaz
ess On any 6tarlit night about this time you wonld
be suye 10 sec them. and with this tapping md
cnewhat more natural than to believe, all fearfuly
new spectacle come 10 light fn the heavens? Iht
| uncontcious hoy took In his kite and wtnt to bed
| and then the wonders In heaven ceased. Gradually
The groups dispersed. Clergy1uen. 1awyers ane
doctors, matsons and maids and all-you shnll no