The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-05-07
No. S..
GIMME a RIDE"
Young COyilIe Goes into the Country
ON u SIeighiEE Expedition.

with him, and wanted to fasten it to a
horse-sleigh. An opportunity finally pre-
sented itself 1t was a farmer who was
driving, and he had two good horses. His
son was pale boy, with broad fore
head, and soft brown eye. Noone can
read character so well as children, and
when Master Coville looked into the
open countenance of the farmer lad, he
put after the sleigh with all his might,
and catching up to it, threw himself on
the tail-board, keeping his eye on the
boy. Then the farmer boy suggestd that
young Coville get on his own sled and he
would hold the rope for little while
The offer was accepted at once, and Mas
ter COville mounted his own sled, where
he rode in triumph, to the envy of every
boy he passed. Getting toward the sub
urbs the farmer, who was quite deaf,
hurried forward his horses, and Master
Coville tried to look ahead without smil-
ing, but it was impossible, the speed was
so exhiliarating. When the party got
by Granville avenue, young Coville told
the farmer boy that he guessed he'd be
going back, and if he'd kindly drop the
rope he'd confer favor. The farmer
boy smiled a rural smile, but didn't relax
his hold on the rope. Young Coville
smiled too, but rather feebIy, and again
repeated his request. But the soft brown
eye was musing, and the rope still re-
manned in the owners grasp. Young
COville began to look scared. 1t was af-
ter five O'Clock, and would be dark in an
hour, and there he was sailing out into
the country at the rate Of eight miles an
hour.
''Let go of there, why don't you27 he
asked.
The farmer boy smiled-one of those
blossomiug smiles, which told of green
dells and mossy brooks. re-
'Tf you don't let go of that rope I'll
just get into that sleigh and smash yer
darned old snoot" said Coville, which
was very imprudent statement in view
of the fact that every muscle was engag-
ed in keeping his seat.
But the farmer lad did not let go. He
kept his hold on the rope, and kept up
the smiles; the waving grain and bloom
ing daisy smiles.
''Oh, I'll make you smile on the other
side of your mouth, if you don't let go of
that rope" shouted young Coville, as he
saw the paved sidewalks give way to foot
paths, and gardens dissolve into broad,
snOw-clad fields
On they went, the farmer lad smiling
so beautifully, and young CoviIle grating
his teeth, and shouting The awful things
he'd do in the future.
About four miles out of town, and as
they were passing through the woods, the
farmer boy smiled broad smile, and let
| go of the rope, and as the sleigh darted
away, the rope passed under the sled,
bringing it up so suddenly as to throw
young Coville heels over head into the
snow. When he got up the sleigh wa'
going over hill, and his tormenter wa
throwing kisses at him.
1t was late at night when Master Go
vile reached his home, but when he gOt
into bed there were thirteen snowballs
soaked with water, freezing slowly on &
board in the back gard DanJ1Ty Ne1cS
| ~
SCIENTIFIC PRoPHECY.-New the
| grandest scientific man the world has,
perhaps, ever seen, and the founder o
the laws that led to the prophecy JUS
narrated, in his investigations on light
| predicted the fact that the diamond wa
from its very high index of refraetion
| The combustion Of diamond is now al
ordinary, though expensive, lecture ex
| pertinent Light has given us one OrtwC
other scientific prophecies. Poisson, from
theory, pronounced that, in the case o
an Opaque circular disk, the illumination
of the center Of the shadow caused b!
diffraction at the edge of the disk wOulC
be precisely the same if the disk wer'
altogether absent. Arago proved this t
be true. Again, Sir William Hamilton
predicted that in biaxial crystals ther,
were four points where the refraetion o
the crystal upon an incident ray pro
dueed a continuous conieal envelope
DIR. Lloyd took a crystal Of aragonite
and, following Hamilton's directions, dis
covered what the mathematician ha'
predicted.
Whewell predicted from theory tina
there must be a certain point in the NOrtl
Sea, midway between Lowestoft and tn
coast of Holland, where there was n
rise or fall OF the water, because the eres
or high-water mark of the tidal wave
and the trough or Iow-water mark of tn
same wave, reached the same point a
the same time, but by different routes
Captain Hewitt, r. N, found that ii wa
so.-P9gular Science Monthly.
STATE TREASURER WEIGH PERSONAL
requests us to say that he Will not be
candidate for denomination before til
Republican State Convention on the 2
of June next. His impaired state {
health requires that he should seek r,
lief from official cares, and he prefers th
privacy OF his farm to any farther dutie