The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1868-03-19
A Rich Lecture on Astronomy.
= We take the following from
AN old ;papsrlI N .EAU D..

she orter. While Polly-ticks
and the millingtary interest
has been J carried turder per,
haps than in any other place
on the airth, yet excepting my
owncase, ,litteratoor hasn't gone
beyond coarse hand writing on
the single rule of three. Fer
losfy has been quoted in this
market below pork; syence
hasn't compared with Syder,
string beans has generally sot
higher than stronomy, letters
led trigernometry and punkins
was ahead of poetry. ENaew,i
haowsever, the tables is turned,
bottom side under. Science is
risl
We've got Lie.see-um! The
cry of Letters is begun, the
tree of nollidge has sprouted,
interlect biles over, matter.
that ere intellect which has
bin dormouse is naow raoused
like a sleepy lion gittin away
from Jordan.
The fust lectur of the season
was gin last night by James
Peabodys who's bin one quar-
ter to an academary.
General subjek-Stronomy.
Partickeler ditto-Comics.
l haint to gin you more'n a
digestive or fac.simelar of the
letter-uehs i.sR
Jemes begun by observin
that eff anybody supposed that
the stars warnt a heap bigger
than they looked, they was al,
mighty behind hand Why, sez
he, there's that ar l@tle sinner
called Satan, says he, don't
look bigger than a tater, and
yet according to Herklys--who
knows the heavenly bodies jiSt
as we'll as l know father-tis
sumwat larger than the hull
county Of oxford! An the lee
tlest star you can pick aout, is
as big as cart wheel. AT this
pint Dea. Elderberry ris an
said this was goin too fur, twas
regelar blasfeme contrary to
scriptur an agin common sens.
Then he tuck his hat and clear
ed, fust spittin aout his terbak-
er cud as a testimony agin the
doctrine.
After speaking Of the milky
waS-which he said was longer
than the Cumberland or Ok
ford Canawl-an the moon,
science demonstrated to be a
,jackerlantern on a large scale
the lecterer proceeded to the
pertickeler part of his su5Jeck.
COMICS OR BLAsIN STARS.
Comics, says Jemes-savs he
are of two kinds, the Tame
and the Wild The fust is
peaceable-tother aint. fust
ones is made of old moons as
amt fit for service, and is called
by the oneddikated shootin
stars, but we of the schools call
EN- metres. This difference
led the speaker to remak that
larnin is eyerythin.
The wild kind, says Jemes,
is a different crittur; bein COM
posed of nebulous matter, hy-
folution gass, okside of cast
iron, an salts of harmonic,
makes it highly salvage and
onsartan. They fust appeared
about Deuteronomy or perhaps
a little later in the year six, and
diskivered spontaneously by
Portland Obseryators and Pom
pey's pillow in Rooshy. They
are, pesky things says he, OIL
lers gittin up wars, hurrykanes,
and earthquakes, &c. Oneasy
and restless, travelin about fas-
ter than a rale-rode, but never
reaching anywhere in pertick
eler,. Kinder dominated Pc
ter Riggs. Mighty onsartin,
they ar-can't be depended on.
Father Miller engaged one to
do pertickeler job in '43, but
it probably got better tarms
somewhere else, and that ere
job remains ondone to this day.
But now, says Jemes, we
come to consider their tails
Them says he, is raal numer-
Gus. Talk about the moons
'wondrous talep Why the tales
otgsaH the pants ln1lhe c'ueral
heavings wouldn't make one
for d fust rate wild comic =
Longer than the magnetic par
q oranh and wider than Seha po