Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-02-12
EDUCATIONAL COLUMN.
Edited and Coaducted by
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in the woeful dread then had of it. but
/ remember it, very well, nevertheless
All, what miserable feeling fell upon
me, when the doors closed after lny last
retreatlng comrades, and the big school
room became place of echoes, with one
small delinquent sitting IN its midst, OPP
posite the severe countenance ofthe teach
er? Ny arms were folded, my feet dan
gled little above the floor, l choked
down my sobs, and all the lamentations
of Job would have seemed to me only APP
propriate for the occasion. The janitress
coming in with broom and brush and
Gathering dust-pan, and looking at ME
curiously, was as though the whole
world knew my shame and scorned me
forit. Little John Smith peeping in at
the window, behind the teacher to make a
face, added to my misery. 1t was sort
of insult to the fallen.
The long black hands of the clock
marked the time slowly and solemnly
There were stories current in the school
of a kept child who had been shut up in q
heater and forgotten until next day, when
somebody smelt something roasting.
Billy Brown said it was true. To be sure,
Billy told fibs.
Why, Oh why did / speak? 1t was an
awful temptation but why did L. There
at home lunch waited-tile delicious
lunchl There was apple Pie, ] knew.
There was my top, hoop, bow and arrow.
There was the place wLereI could talk,
and run and be myself. Could it be only
five minutes. Could it be only quarter
of an hour? Wasn't it nearly midnight .
Oh, how long the time was At last
came the-'you may come here. VIII
you ever do SO again? Are you sorry +:
You may go.'' And l was free. The
school.house with its sitting smells, the
stern face of the teacher, the horrible old
clock, were all left behind; but new tri
al awaited me, the butcher looking out
of his shop door, knew had been kept
in. The little candy store woman knew
it also. Peace only came within the
walls of home, where people knew that
'auss speak now and then. or hurst
All, it makes ME laugh now, but it was
real trouble then.
HAS THE MOON ANY ATMOSPHERIC.
Physical astronomers are usually agreed
that the moon has no afmosF here; but
Prof. Challis. of Cambridge. once fancied
that he saw evidence of al atmosphere al
the bottom of a lunar valley; and now
another suggests that the appearances
seen at new moon are also evidences of
atmosphere. We see the bright crescent,
and dimly the disk of the moon made WIS.,
ible by earth-shine; and at the same
time the edge which is farshesr from the
bright crescent shows itself slightly il
Illuminated. This faint illumination it is
which is regarded as affording proof that
the moon has an atmosphere The ssme
observer offers an explanation of the rea-
son why the moon appears larger when
low than when high. ION fine night,
he says, "the vault OF heaven never ap
pears like half globe, but is very much
fattened overhead and the effect of the
atmosphere is to make the stars in tht
zenith seem nearer to US than the siars
in the horizon. This may be easily veri
fed by diagram. Draw half circle
and within that f1attened vault. Ther
draw disks on the outer line to represent
the moon, and lines from these to an OBJ
servers eyes in the centre, and at once j
will be seen why the lowest moon appear
to be the largest.
There is considerable diversity of opin
ion among astronomers as to the exis
tence or nonexistence OF spots on tn
surface OF Venus, and the favorable posi-
ton of that planet for observation, at tn
present time, has led to renewed discus
sion of the subject. The Astronome
ROYAL of England states his own expert
ence to be that there are no certain mark
ings visible, and in this opinion he
corroberated by the President Of Roya
/ Astronomical Society. DR.. Higgins ha
seen dusky spots. but considers them a
; very uncertain or illusive. Bright az
pearances, howevrr. like those of crater
on the moon, have been distinctly ob
served by him and others.
1 The present bells of Cologne Cashedrn
which were cast as early as any other i
the fifteenth century, weigh, one 1900
lbs, the other q, 2,400 lbs. The @Ksisel
/. glocke," which has recently been cast,
the largest swing ng bell in the world
for those at Pesing and Moscow, whic
, are larger, are fixed bells. The diamets
on. the lower rim is Ii feet; the height
, feet, and weight 80 900 lbs. The follou
ing are the weights of some of the large.
: bells in Europe: Vienna 5000 lbs.; S
g Peters (Rome), $4,000 lbs.; Notre Dan
n de Paris, 1900 lbs.; big Ben," 80.
: lbs. and Erfnrt, 27.936 lbs. Accordir
q to . German paper, the Emperor sent