The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-09-03

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she started up, shy, trembling, pale, he
saw in her swiftly falling glance the look
his heart thirsted for, and when he opened
his longing arms, Dilly answered him by
simply nesting in them, and hiding het
face upon his faithful breast
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HEm6fs Of the Eclipse.
THr Cincinnati Gqsed. says Of the
eclipse incidents in that city.
TIE Ctcasion was productive enough OF
quiet jokes. At the Sixth street market
house four or five enewsboys raised their
smoky glasses to their youthful eyes and
began to utter exclamations of surprise
and wonder. The eclipse Was Just be-
ginning, and the example Of the amateur
astronomers was soon followed BY three OF
four hundred byslahdefs., Among the
rest, the hHcksters foseook fof q time all
thoughts OF sofdid gain and turned their
eyes and attention to the heavens As the
observation became greater and greater
they gave up everything AID thought Of
nothing but the sublime phenomeon. But
the Arabs we're on other things intent,
and greet coup d dat they had planned
they soon began to execute. No sooner
was tHS esSutioH W tEt pSStanucfS
thoroughly taken up, than The BOYS stole
found to the now vacant stands, and
helped themselves to whatever kind of
fruit pleased their fancy or which they
thought would tickle their palate. 1t was
not until the awe-stricken fruit vendors
had seen the light of the growing SIMS
that they learned at what precious price
tho ot1lf 1,oJ hooM vx;,sx.t a sol
Meantime the boys were eating the fruit
of their strategem.
On Vine street, below Third, some
enterprising merchants managed to get
possession of a huge pipe, and into the ex-
tremity of the monster they fitted piece
of tin, mounted it on some tripodal
arrangement, and then covered the great
fellow with q piece Of cloth. All
who passed were invited to stake
free look" through the telescope,
and, of course, with the laudable
desire which all had, of seeing everything
that was to be seen, the invitation was
generally accepted. But everyone who
looked through the deceitful instrument
saw only tallow candle shining, and
flooding with its dim wick light the word
sold" All seemed to feel that though
they had taken "a free look" they had,
indeed, paid heavy price.
Two printers went out on lark, and
became, TO the disgrace of their craft, be
it said, quite drunk. They concluded to
make some scientific observations; so they
took a station near the Fifth street market
house, and procuring some glass and some
paper, rugged up in an unknown way a
quaint contrivance' that bore some distant
resemblance to thelmysterious instruments
of astronomers. Their preparations soon
began to attract the attention of the by
standers, and by the time they had all
their unearthly arrangements completed,
the crowd pressing and joStling in upon
them was numbering four or five hundred.
With the gravity that comes in a state of
disgraceful intoxicatiOn, these two drunken
fellows soberly went to work and began
to talk in language which was intended to
be astronomical, but which sounded like
the gibberish of the Choctaw. AS the
throng grew denser, they dignifiedly re-
quested it to keep back, gentlemen" At
length they even called in the assistance
of two policemen. But this presumption
proved the ruin of the young inebriates,
for their foul deceit was discovered, and
the young pretenders were sent away 70
suffer the condign punishment of shame
ana mortncatlOn.
A gentleman was fishing near Plainville, |
and there happened to be at the same
place encamped an old countryman, who !
with his family had gone out for a days |
quiet sport. The Cincinnatian began |
about three o'clock to smoke, not his cigar, |
but his glass, and the proceeding was |
watched with curious looks by the man |
from the country. Finally he could con-
troll his desire for knowledge no longer,
and bluntly asked the smoker what he was |
doing. When told that he was making |
preparations to view the eclipse, the mans |
desire for information was in no wise les
sened, and he wanted to know what was
meant by that. The Cincinnatian tried to
tell the old gentleman about the phenome-
non, but it was all to no purpose, for when
at last the moon began to slowly creep
across the sun, and the rustic fisher was
offered the glass, and then saw with his
own eyes that part of the sun had ap-
parently been removed, his establishment
knew no bounds. But establishment gave
place to dread when he was told that the
end was not yet. He shook his head sadly
but earnestly, and then sat down on the
green grass, with the quiet and silent res
ignation of a stole, determined to stand
with brave daring and stout heart all that
was coming. As the eclipse continued,
he still held his place, but it was quite evil
dent his soul.was severely tried. His head
was occasionally observed to be solemnly
shaken, and he muttered once in a while
to himself, but open word never spake he
But when the light again flooded the hills,