Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1876-02-26

heads SO nearly balanced that below
them that the weight of their bodies
amounted to nothing compared with
what it was on the outside of the earth,
and with their well-developed muscles
it was small matter to jump to mar
vellous height. The experiment Of
jumping was soon being repeated by all
the men belonging to the little company,
and nothing could be more comical than
the antics displayed during the first
hour after the discovery of their loss
of weight. -. 3sl4ss >e-s
But there were hundred other new
things to take, attention; a few only Of
the many can lie described in this place.
Strange birds, with long wings and
long slender bodies, darted by with
great velocity; strange, broad-leaved
vegetation foated in the water about
them; horrible-looking animal of the
seal kind poked their noses aboveuthe
water close to them. asa.-Y,3 ~ sea
Then arose the cry of I" Land in the
distances" and great as was the joy,
the suspense was greater still. What
would they find? Or would the ice
berg ever reach land at all? Would
tAe strange looking animals devour
them if they were left to the mercy Of
the waves? The anxiety and suspense
which these and o hundred similar
questions caused was all the greater be-
cause nothing could be done toward
shaping their own destiny. They must
simply cling to the cold iceberg, SO long
as enough of it remained to float them,
unless it should strand somewhere
where they might hope TO reach shore.
Amid all these strange phenomena,
nothing was more curious than certain
moving stars OF lights in the sky above
them which were first observed on the
same day that the peculiar action OF
the law Of gravitation was discovered.
These lights were about the size of stars
and except for their irregular and un-
accountable motions might have been
mistaken for stars. That is, they might
have been SO mistaken by one who did
not know or had forgotten that thous-
and miles of solid earth interyened be-
tween him and the outside sky aud the
stars. .e.
The true sky and stars we're visible
at each aperture in the earth at such
times as they were not hidden by clouds
and through which they had passed
was far larger than that one that first
appeared as an enlarged moon, the two
were OF the same shape now and through
the southern one it was plain the sun
was shining, striking with slant rays
the inner surface of the southern hemis-
phere and lighting land and sea in q
manner that was beautiful, wonderful
and worthy of study. But in the inky
blue above them shone the false stars.
Were they lanterns carried by men on
the concave above them? Were they
gaslights in the streets Of great unknown
cities? Everything was thought Of, and
but no theory was Immediately satisfac,
tory. .......
While all these strange sights were
crowding at once upon the observation
of our heroes, while life and, death
fame aud fortune, fear and dread, hope
and agony, hung in the balance, oil
eyes we're turned upon something stran-
ger still and near at hand. Was it on
angel? The form seemed human and
yet it was loisurely floating in the all
above them. And it had wings, ,'or what
appeared as such, as it eircled slowly
about the iceberg examining from safe
distance of five hundred feet the com;
psny ofhalf-staryed, half-clad half-crazy
men upon it, :;
Then as a hawks descends upon it
prey, only more slowly and with all The
grace of motion which Imagination i'm
parts t. the dissent of an angel, the
creature, the being, with half-furled
wings dropped into their midst, anSts.
the first time in the history of our plan
ct the inhabitants of Outside and Inside
met face TO face. + .H
Ito be continued.
PowER OF IMAGINATION. Tho Other
day petroiter took home book con-
taing several anecdotes showing the
power Of imagination, and after read
ing them to his wife, he tenderly said
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