The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-07-24

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the moon was or was not the home. of
creatures moro or less akin to human
kind, nnphiiosophicul folk agreed that
the moon had one inhabitant at least
one Of their own race, whose form was
palpHLlc to all who had eyes to see.
How he attained his elevated position
Was IN this wise: While the. children OF
Israel scjourned in the wilderness. nun
was detected gathering sticks upon the
SABBATH day, whereupon he WAS taken
without the camp and stoned until he
died. Not satisfied with this exemplary
punishment of the offender by his fai-
iow-wnnderers, the ron pcpuI con-
dsmned the unhappy Sabbath breaker
to perpetual purgatory in the moon,
wherein he may be seen, bearing his
bundle OF sticks upon his back, ever
climbing and climbing without gaining
step; accompanied by dog, faithful! in
worse than death to u master whom an
old English eong.writer pictures shud.
derlng III constant fear OF full, and
shlvering with cold as the frosty uir bites
his back through lis thorn-rent clothes.
'Shakspeare's Stephano found Caliban
ready enough to believe he was the man
IN the moon, dropped from the skies to
become king of the enchanted slun,l-"I
have seen thee in her, and I, do adore
thee; my mistress showed me thee, and
thy dog and thy BASH"
In Germany, the story runs that, many
ages ago, an old man went into the
woods to cut sticks upon Sunday morn:
ing. Having collected as many as lie
could carry, he slang the bundle upon .
stick, shoulderei it and .rudeed hone.
wards. Ha had not got far upon his way
ere he was stopped by handsome gen.
tleman dressed in his Sunday best, who
inquired if lie was aware that it yas
Sunday Oh earth, when every one wus
bonnd to rest from labor. ''Sunday Oh
earth or Monday i'll Heaven. il is oil the
same to me" was the irreverent reply.
$50 bn it," said his questioner; ''bear,
then. your fagot forever; and since You
do not value Sunday on earth, ycu shall
have an everlasting iInon -layin Heaven
standing Tor eternity in the neon as
warning to Sabbath -brcakersm AS he
pronounced sentence. the stranger Va.
nlshed, md before the wood -gathercr
could apologize for his rndenehs lie was
seized By invisible hands, and borne to
the moon, pole, fagot and all. According
to another version, he had tbs option OF
burning III the sun or freezing IN the
moon, and chose the latter as the leust of
two evils.
Travelling No,thwards, we fad The
bundle OF. sticks transformed into Il lon,;
OF green Stuil. a North Fsisian, 50 de-
void OF honest ingenuity that he. could
think of no better way Of passing his
Christmas Eve than in stripping neigh.
boris garden Of its cebbages, was de-
seYtrdiy caught by some OF the villagers
as he was sneaking away with his plum
der. Indignant at the theft. they wished
the thief in the moon, and to the moon
he went ins!unter; there he yet stands
with the stolen cabbages on his back,
turning himself round once on the anIi-
versary Of his criEae and its detection.
New Zsalanders, too, claim the man in
the moon as ore of themselves, their
story being. tEat one Roma, going 2ut ut
night to fetch water from we'll. Stun
ble,l. fell AMI sprained his ankle SO badly
that, us he lay unable to move, he cried
out with pai". Then, to his disaay and
terror, he beheld the moon descending
towards him. evidently bent upon cup
turing him. lie seized hold Of tree,
and cinng to it tightly. but it gavo way,
and fell with him upon the aoon, which
carried both away. In SwaLia, not con-
tent with man, they must needs put
nan and woman in the moon; the for.
mer for strewing thorns and brambIes on
the road to church, to hinder more godly
folk than himself from attending Sun
day mass; the latter for making butter
upon the Sabbath day.
The Cingalese transform the man into
hare. and make the animals presence
In the orb OF night Il reward Instead Of a
punishment In Scandinavia, oddly
enough, tradition took the New Zealand.
ers' view of Lnna's character, and made
kidnapper Of her. According to the
Norso legend, Maini. the moon, seeing
two children, named Hjuki aud Bill,
drawing water from we'll into bucket,
which they suspended on pole, for
easy car.iago, seized upon them, and
took children, bucket and pole into tie
upper region. = Chambers Journal,
Yong Simpson, just beginning the
study Of natural philosophy. brcame
fond Of applying technical names to
common objects to impress hearers with
II sense Of his profound knowle3gc, and
tried the game with his father one even
ing. When he mentioned to him TINT
he had swallowed some marire acepllal.
ous moliusks the old man was much