Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-26
Written for the Cincinnati Times.J
ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS.
BY "dRIS.h
THE STARS.

LII GOAclueIAuR Lit 5ldAnJ VIC NdA AdAAAl
be expected to take them individually, as
there are several millions of them, accord
ing to the computation of astronomers,
who have set up a good many nights
counting them, and the observations of
lovers the world over, who have set up
oftener and a good deal later than the
astronomers have, especially on Sunday
nights.
The larger order of planets are called
fixed stars; shooting stars are unixed.
Comets are the tutors of the sky-they
teach the young stars how to shoot.
Forrest, the great tragedian, is a fixed
star, and mighty well fixed he is, too.
1t has been conjectured that each one of
the stars is a world in ITSELF inhabited,
like the earth, with men and women,
every n of whom is playing a star en-
gagement. Ny stars!
The stars show to much better advan-
tage at starlight than at any other time.
They are rarely seen in daylight, except
apon the coats of the day police. The
police have been called "stars" since the
days of Shakespeare. He makes allusion
to them in a beautiful passage in Mid
summer Nights Dream" We quote from
memory:
al heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back
Utter such dulcet and harmonious strains,
And certain Stars shot madly from their sphere
To hear the merrimaid's music"
1.-THE italics are our own. We bought
them at the type foundry, with a lot of
other printing MATERIAL.
1t would seem from the above lines
that the police were accustomed to the
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v~olvers, even in those early and chivalric
days of Midsummer Knights, whose
dreams Shakespeare has immortalized.
What had those "stars got against the
mermaid, that they went and shot madly
from their spheres" whatever they were,
though we take spheres to be a sort of
watch box.
Was it out of sympathy for the dolphin,
whose back was undergoing a series of
" strains" from carrying around a mer-
maid, that might have been disagreeable,
however "duleet and harmonious ?"
While ungallsnt in the extreme to at
tack an unfortunate female, the shooting
in this instance was cowardly in the ex-
treme, there being several of them, while
there was only one mermaid of her party.
They showed themselves less civil than
the crude Sea" There is nothing TO
show that the dolphin entered a complaint
either.
"Stars" look ~unfavorable upon even
the choicest music, particularly at night.
We have observed that. a case in point:
We remember vending our winding way
homeward late at night once from a social
gathering. We were alone. Suddenly
we heard a voice of singular penetration
and power, singing, "The boy With the
hair" The wall of the disconso-
late damsel who incurred the absence of
her darling JOY" was rendered in a way
was truly heart-rending. Nothing
could equal the pathos with which the
delivered the lines:
"Eow if my Johnny was but here
He'd save me from all harm.
He's on the field of bat-chu-el,
Dressed in his u-ni-corl.
To me hi, to me ho-oh-oh-ohi-oh &C.
On about the last "oh" we felt an iron
grasp upon our coat collar, which caused
US to throw in an additional "oh' ourself.
We had a confused sense that the grasp
in some way connected with a blue
coat with a star on it that was visible to
US. In fact, turn which way we would
here were blue coats and stars.
"Do you know" said we, as soon as we
could speak, "where we can find a police
man ?"
The iron grasp jerked us very gently
across the sidewalk and back a couple Of
lines before the voice replied
what yer want of a policeman p
Some f%eller,' we said, sis singing loud's
lie can boiler in the street, he'd ought to be
TO-"
We were Immediately tended to-.
From very ancient times it was sought
o discover future events by studying the
tars. Astrology, the science is called.
It is still practiced as a profession to a
limited extent. In all the larger cities
Istrologers and fortune tellers may be
ound who read the stars, though it is
arely that they can read anything else.
A friend of our the other day visited a
ortune-teller to have his fortune told.
'he took his fee and then retired to an
'ther room "to consult the stars" as she
aid. When she came back she brought
odor of whisky with her, which led our
riend to infer that she and the stars hsd
zen taking q social nip together during
he consultation. He was enabled to
.ather from her rapid and at times some
ineoherent revealings that he was
.'sssionately loved by a pink girl in a
ight completed dress, with red eyes and
lue hair, the which she didn't know it.
ut that a tall Completed dark man was
to leave q vast amount of prop
rty to her, mostly in gold and postage
which oppressed her very much
q her dreams.
He would be in great danger from the
all Completed man, who would try and
orrow money of him, and about this time
g is threatened with great peril on the
ca, but mis- good star, the which it is in
ecliptic, in the focus of the zodiac,
all for to save-he is laid low with
fever, keeping him on land and his mind
Toud wander, and he would talk of the
girl with the tall completed ]
air, and she would know that he loved ]
er, catch the fever and be happy. He 4,
Tould recover, be elected treasurer of a {
'enian Society, and live in opulence and {
ase all the rest Of his days, surrounded
y a multitude of little pink Completed.
blue-haired children. f
Our friend had his fortune, and she had T
Is dollar, al told.