The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-10-26
LETTER FROM ALBANY.

ALBANY, Oct. 25, 1875

ALBANY, oct. 20, 1915.
Editor Rutland Globe Funeral pro-
cessions still go robed in somber black,
though nature shows us in these beautiful
autumn days that the great painter makes
use Of the gaudiest and most brilliant coors
to mark the decay and death of her sum
mer children. She teaches as by her gay
coloring of leafand lawn that even death
should be productive of joy,an his cortege,
trimmed with pleasing hues, be the symbol
of anything but gloom.
| At this season Of the year Albany de-
serves the title of City of Smoke, so filled
are the streets with the fumes of burning
leaves which the omnipresent small boy
takes the duty of collecting and burning.
| If this is not cremation it is at least fumi-
CATION, and very disagreeable at that
! DUDLEY OBSERVATORY.
This is one of Old Prob's branch Offices
and sends weather reports TO. quite large
surrounding country, think extending in
to Vermont. A three quarter mile ride on
q Pearl street car takes us to within a
quarter of mile of the observatory. This
last part of the distance is up hill that
would do credit to Plymouth, but the view
at the top amply repays the trouble of
climbing, taking IN, as 1t does, the whole
of this city, Bath and Greenbush, across
the river, and part of Troy. This station
is supplied with two good transit
instruments and monster equatorial
wit, power of 800 diameters,
the largest in the United States at the time
of its manufacture. Ones feelings are in
describable as he puts his eye to this in
strument and beholds common sized star
transformed into gigantic orb surrounded
by two immense rings and attended by
eight satellites, some of them plainly visi-
BILE. or when, taking spot in the heavens
that appears to the naked eye destitute of
stars and finding 1t so rich with them that
it looks as though sprinkled with the dust
of diamonds. After the eye is tired with
stellar views, we look at some of the other
objects of interest, chief among which is
the
BABBAGE CALCULATOR. t
This is the most complete piece of ma
chinery we have ever seen. 1t is the size
of a small piano aud will perform all the
operations of arithmetic, including powers
and roots of any degree and logarithms.
There are only two instruments of the kind
in the world-the other of which is in Lon.
don. They cost small fortune and the
life labors of two men, and are, therefore
not likely 10 come into general use or ever
to be again duplicated. ..
TWO LEGGED HORSE
There is one thing on exhibition in thi.
city for few days preparatory 10 gong tc
Europe, that am sure would interest Yer.
mont jockeys. 1t is the two legged horse
the only living one IN the world. Thii
animal is a bona fide specimen, of average
size, five years old and has no tore legs OIL
semblance of them, the skin and parts be
meath being as smooth here as in ethel
parts Of the body. Jenny is very intelli.
gent and with very. little help stands ant
walks erect. Her motions are somewhat
peculiar looking as | should think kan
CARGO might when suffering from an attack
of bilious collie. When supported by 9
sling in front she makes lively work witt
her heels, to make up, suppose, for the
inaction to which they are doomed the
greater part of the time and generally sue
ceeds in making large hole in the crowt
on short notice. s. slH3 I'VE
To casual observer everybody seems tc
be running wild Oh the subject of music
No young lady's education is complete
these days unless she can thrum a piano
and in many cases this constitutes her only
claim to education of any sort. And even
young men who have not tho brains OF
chance to distinguish themselves in any
other way find, in the performing of very
cheap class of music, a claim for talen,
which society is only too ready to recog.
niZe. And so Raft and Schumann are in
demand while the psrlor audience is ex.
pected to overlook small liberties with the
tempo and occasional missing quavers
BY far the best sacred music in this city
10 to be heard at the cathedral (RomaI
Catholic) where there is the largest organ
In the city with a master to play il
and large paid choir. Here may be
heard every Sunday at vespers the works
OF Hadyn, Handel, Mozart and othei
classical masters, rendered In a manner
that makes all other music sound very
tame indeed. Won Bulow is coming here
this winter when We may expect to hear
Beethoven and Lsiz properly rendered Ii
will certainlv he a great treat Inn all loyers