The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-08-17
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The Man In the Moon.

Two great events led, during the sew
enth century, to renewed efforts to ascer-
tain the precise nature of the man in
the moon: the improvements in tele-
scopes which enabled astronomers to as
certain the very striking nature OF the
moons surface, and the discovery of
new continent by Columbus. These en-
cOuraging circumstances led to the pub
lication of quite number of voyages to
the moon, of which Goodwin's "Man in
the Moon," published in 1888 in London
is probably the most important.
The pious Bishop of Llandaff repre-
sents a young gentleman from Seville
setting out on his travels, and reaching,
after many adventures among the an
tipodes, the island of st. Helena, where
he can not get accustomed TO men, be-
cause there are none. Having amused
himself with the tanning of wild geese,
which he taught to bear burdens on
their broad wings, and to carry their
master on single stick through the air,
he escapes, by their assistance, from a
wreck, rises to the top of the peak of
Teneriffe, and then sets out on trip of
twelve days through the air. He man.
ages to make friends with the evil spirits
lowering about in those regions, who at
first try to frighten his team and to keep
him from proceeding, but finally change
their mind and furnish him with the
needful provisions.
At length on Tuesday, September II,
he touched the moon, landing gently on
a high mountain. Soon number of
lunar men gathered around him they
were twice as large as himself, and had
an olive brown complexion and pleasing
manners, but the most extraordinary
costumes. These differed in rank ac-
cording to their size, and thus formed
three classes of men-ten, twenty, and
thirty feet in height, respectively.
Their language was musical, and of great
sweetness. Gonzales was Immediately
brought before the local prince, who was
subject to higher dignitary, while
finally king ruled over the whole
globe. The Spaniard was much pleased
with the Man in the Moon as he ap-
peared so far. Only one feature in the
daily life troubled him sorely: the air
around the moon exercised so little pres
sure on the surface that when a man
jumped for joy or for fright he reached
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could not come down again, being there
beyond the sphere of attraction. His
friends had to 60 to work with huge fans
to help him down again.
AnOGher feature which struck him at
first unpleasantly was the length of the
lunar days and nights, which lasted each
fortnight. The Man in the Moon,
moreover, slept soundly during this long
day, unable as he was to endure the un-
broken brilliancy of the sun. He awOke
only when the earth rose to light his
globe during the long night. For
tunately he was virtuOus, knowing
neither theft, nor falsehood, NOS murder;
and, after long, happy life, he dried up
and disappeared, to the sincere delight
of his friends, leaving his body to his
family, who kept their ancestors forever
with them. The Spaniard, howeve
soon became homesick, and as three of
his geese had already died he took leave
of the king, who made him many curious
presents, and flew off in the presence of
large crowd of spectators.