Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-26

The Troubles Of an Amateaulr Astreno-
%met. 49,
4 Mfr Simpson, out ON Wrght Street,
is IA amateur astronomer, and has
mounted in the back chamber of his
house a secondhand telescope, which
takes in objects with the greatest pow
er and accuracy. When he saw in the
newspapers, ~a few days ago, that
the ost~~planet,~~Vu leany--had~~bee
discovered again, Mr.. Simpson became
very much .excited, and cleaned up his
old instrument carefully, shut himself
up In Che back chamber as soon as night
came on, and announcedtohis wife that
he was q going To fad Valcan q bustt"
For several lights lie stated up stairs
until 10 oral O'clock sWeeping the
heavens with his instrument ia vain,
and comingto bed at last tired but and
very cold, much to Mrs. Simpsons dis
gust Then Il conn assudden ohange,in
the Astronomers course. He'd come
to bed at 10 or IL o'clock as usual, but,
instead of being cold and depressed,
he'd be warm and cheerful-a change
which, he explained, arose from the
fact that he was certain he'd algIimpse
Or two of Vulcan. andhopea soon to
fix the fellow permanently, though, In
response to the inquiries of his wife as
to how Vulcan looked. his answers
s Wsfs enlFsr " This Asu Condition tito on : Of
things lasted for several nights
and then Mrs. Simpson became&uaeasy.
She didn't like Sin5psens~sctiong. He.
showed after tea, TO feVerish al anxi-'
ETY. to get at his telescope, and after
he'd come to bed he would chuckle in
his sleep and smoker and paw around
and give evidence of some dreaming
vision of q most exhilarating character
Ms. Simpson fesoIyea to solve that
mystery. She felt confident that Simp-
sons condition came fromshis astro-
nomical observations, and she deter
mined to have a look through that teae-
scope herself. circumstances favored
hsr! On fegveFy nexf night after she
had decided to investigate, Simpson was
compelled to %regretfully desert his tele-
sgcopeto attend an important meeting
of the lodge, and Mrs. Simpson, at
about 10 o'clock, went up into the
ehamber 10 doA itfle star gazing on
her own account. Mhen she came to
~inspectthe telescope she was a surprised
woman. '%ltdidn't point toward where
she supposed Vulcan must be. On the
contrary, the instrument was very much
depressedsa9id seemsed aeveledin the di-
Of n light himlv visible three
OF four b1ocksoff. Airs .Simpsan glued
her eye to the thing and a minute later
was dancing about the room
madden than she had ever been in her
life. That telescope just took in the
whole interior view of assessnd-storys
room in a nice boarding house, and
that room Mrs. Simpson Knew very
weIl.It was the one occnpsed hYa bnx-
ON widow with whom She Was acquaint-
Fed. 1t wasn't any wonder that Simp-
son stayed up so late and that he came
to bed so exhilarated, las it were, the des-.
picable old reprobate! Even while.
Mrs. Simpson looked, the widow, Who
had come in the interval, had retired
Cd e downy couch after half a hun
dred little delays and idlings in the
work of disrobing. It was awful, and
Mrs. Simpson gritted herteeth, Broke in
the glasses in each end OF the telescope
with a d~ust-brush, and then went down
stairs to wait for Simpson. He came
in at last, and then his wife addressed
him OF the subject OF Vulcan. What
she said NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. she
said Q bout s iap son,and what she said
about the teleseo ne the world wa ney-
know any more than Il vii nust how
Simpson gota season his Schedk; but
that amateur Astronomer o. hanged
man. Ask him about vulcan adv and
he'll ask if Vulcan isthe nasne of the
horse which is going TO run against that
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