The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-12-28

and Eugene were snugIF tucked IN
bed IN the s1a1[ ;ns nursery mp stairs,
Mrs "a A1dley told her husband WI
she was so interested in the fate Of q
man whom she had not seen for twen-
ty years. -,
That's right, my little wife, re-
piled her husband, holding her fondly
to his breast, when the simple tale
was concluded. ssNever forget one
who was kiud to you in the days when
You needed kindness most =
Ralph Moore was setting in his poor
lodgings beside his ailing wife's sick
bed when q liveried servant brought
a note from the rich banker Charles
Audley. - - $; ...,..sss ss., i
aGood news, Bertha . he exclaimed
as he -ead, the brief words. We shall
not sta-ve; Mr.. Audley promises me
the situation. - <
~ on have dropped something from
the letter, Ralph said Mrs. Moore,
pointing to 2 slip of paper on the !,
Moore stopped to recover the es-
tray. 1t was fifty pound note, neat
ly folded in piece of paper, ON which
was written, -uA1z 1IsEsG
SIN grateful remembrance of half
crown piece that a kind stranger be-
slowed on d little chestnut girl over
twenty yeafs ago f1siS sttE .heei
Ralph Moore had thro wni his NOR
sci oE bread upon the waters, and aft
ter many days It had returned to him.
A SOLAR ExPLOsION-WoND
APPEARANCE OF A HYDROGEN
On the 7th of last September Pro-
fessor Young, of Dartmouth College,
was examining, by means of his spec
troscope, an enormous fame or hydro
gen cloud on the eastern border of the
sun it was formed of nearly horizon
tai filaments, with its lower surface
1900 miles above the visible border
of the sun, to which it was connected
by three or four vertical columns
The length of this cloud was 100000
miles and its vertical thickness 81, 4,000
miles, 81 .sae 7g % ~ 1da
It had presented this form and these
dimensions at noon of the preceding
day; he left the telescope at IL 80 in
the afternoon, and on returning in less
than half an hour he was surprised to
find that during the interval" the
whole thing had been literally torn to
shreds by some incenceivable uprush
from beneath" In place, he saws, of
the quiet cloud / had left, the air, if L 1
may use the expression, was filed
with flung debris mass of detatch-
ed, vertical, fusiform filaments. When
1 first looked some of them had al
ready reached hight of nearly one
hundred thousand miles, and while /
watched them they rose with motion
almost imperceptible to the eve, until
in ten minutes the uppermost were
more than two hundred thousand
miles above the solar surface.
AS the fiiaments iose they gradually
faded away like dissolving cloud, |
and at Is in the afternoon only |
few dimsy whisps, with some lighter
low down near the chro-
mosphere, remained to mark the place.
But, in the meanwhile, the little thun- |
der head" before alluded to, had grown
and developed wonderfully into a |
mass of rolling and ever-changing |
fame, to speak according to appear /
ance. First, it was crowded down as |
it were along the solar surface; later
il rose almost pyramidally $4,000 |
miles in height; then, its summit was
drawn out into long filaments and /
threads which were most curiously I
rolled backwards and downwards. /
like the volutes of anlIonic capital and |
finally it faded away, and by 2 80 in
the afternoon had vanished like the /
other. =
Whether the fine aurora borealis
which succeeded in the evening was
really the earth's response Che refers
20 the supposed physical connection
between the disturbance of1the earth's
and changes in the atrnos-
ohere of the sun) to this magnificent /
outburst of the sun is perhaps uncer-,
ain, but the coincidence is at least
and may easily become
more, if, as I somewhat
expect to learn, the Graen-
Vich magnetic record indicates a dis
precisely Simultaneous with
he solar explosion.
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