Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-07-10
The Noon and the Earth.

From q retf,tc Ia ne London S,oc,Isor.
lmaglEe how GREATNESS the interest with
which we should have awaited Cacn rnveIa-
Hon OF the marvellous instruments VII ich
science employs in the work OF Iunarian a is
c1yery, II our satellite had been inhabited.
ami we could have discovered something like
own human life? TnhappiIv any such i'm
aglnation is out of the question A place
without ar and water, and in which the
temperature passes through range of nearly
UO' within fortnight. must present condf
ions of which we cannot form anv cOncep-
tlon. Another popularity which to our mo-
lions at least, would be UNPLEASANT is Sun-
piled by the meteors. Here they are q nreffy
spectacle; in the moon they cannot he seen
,puJ they must, at times, al least keen I'M n
very prlsK cannonade. LAS there is no at
IEOsIhe.c,~ write 6,.Y Authors :. In consume
the meteors by FRACTIONAL heat or break hy
us resistance the velocity of their descent.
they must strike the moon with "a force to
Wnlch that OF cannon ball striking a tar
get is feeble indeed" If these difficulties
could he removed, the moon would be a most
eligible place for the observation of aStro-
nomical phenO.nena-for finding out, for in
stance, all that we are so labOriOuSly seeking
10 discover about the sun. The earth too
would present a spectacle of great beauty:
:, AT This sunset time, the earth, nearly In
The zenith of us, (the supposed lunar Specta-
tOrS.) Will be at its half-illurninated phase
and even then ii will shed more Light than
we receive upon the brightest of moonlight
nights. As the night proceeds. the earth'S
phase Will increase through the gibbons
stages until at midnight il will be fun ami
our orb viii be seen in its entire beauty 1t
VIII perform at least one of its twenty-four-
hourly rotations during the time that il an
pears quite full, (the night is more than three
hundred hours lOug) and the whole OF its
surface features Will in that time pass before
the lunar Spectators eve Al times tho
northern pole viii bc turned toward our view
at times the southern; and It's polar ice caps
VIII appear as bright, white spots marking
us axis Of rotation. The seas would appear
ydS 'aT as car be- lnieTredl OF pale blue-green
TINT, the continents paTti-colored and the
llh'ed spots would vary with the changing
terrestrial seasons
THE END OF 4 DESPERATE MANI Will
be remembered that FiikinS, the man who
Shot an express messenger at Albany some
years ago, escaped in 1874 from Clinton state
prison, and no trace of him could he found
\ correspondent now sends the following to
the Albany Argus" While men were en-
gagged In cleaning the main sewer under the
llannemOra prison, about two weeks ago
they came upon the skeleton of q human
body lying AT the bottom of the sewer and
quite submerged in fifth. IT was hastily
removed from its position and a close scien-
tIhc examination made of il, when il was
revealed that beyond q doubt 10 was the
remains of FilkinS, the express robber who
had died there after escaping from the CORR
dorS OF the prison down through one of the
water closets, in vain hope of gaining his
liberty by passing through the sewer and out
AT It's mouth, which is strongly closed with
bars OF heavy iron secured at either side in
walls on heavy masonry. The officers con
slider this version of the manner in which ne
probably met his death as the most reason
able, for they are aware that though two men
a short time ago endcavored TO effect an
escape IN lhlS way, no one but Filkins had
disappeared since previous cleaning of the
sewer, and that no one could possibly have
reached the location occupied by the skeleton
other than through the water closets. Ii is
then TeasOnab e to presume that the skeleton
found is that Of the notorious FilIinS who
either met death in reaching the bottom of
the prison sewer by falling, or died there
discovering
without being able tn make known his situ-
alton 10 any one who could have come ~
his relief"
STRUCK ~ LIGHTNING.-On Tuesday al
terLoOn last, during the terrible storm which
ragged near the Sugar Loaf mountain the
house Of Mr.. levi Cooley, who lives about
~ miles from Urbana, was struck by light
ming. From the particulars we ha We recpivt-I
il appears that Mr.. Cooley was sitting on the
end of bed which was on the first floor of
ms house. holding q little child i'm his arms
ms wife seated near him. The side of the
mouse was struck by lightning, which passed
down the wall, knocking out several large
stones, and tearing almost to threads the
shirt upon the back Of Mr.. Cooley. The little
chlid IN ms arms was thrown upon the floor,
and Mr.. &. fell insensib,e and as il was FIRST
thought, dead. His wife escaped unhurt and
after some difficulty succeeded in getting
nelghbor to go for doctor. At II O'Clock on
Tuesday night the unfortunate man was still
living. The storm was very violent trees
and fences were blown down, and shocks OF
wheat scattered in every direction.-FTeoter-
TEX Nd Ctizer, Sth.
~"Latin and Greek are all right" said
Washington county farmer TO his son, a
young graduate, the other day, but gimme
man who can pillow around an apple tree
thOut touching the rOOts.v
r. AT school exhibition in Auburn, y. Y
ON Tuesday evening, chemical preparation
exploded in the coat tail pocket of one of
me professors, and in moment he was in a
blaze. There was great excitement until they
had put the professor out.
EFH, or LEY co.
Wy BANKERS,