The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-08-24

about the fate fortunes OF her pale imperial
majesty OF the starry heavens. Men and women,
married and single, young and old, rich and poor,
fairly moonstrucE. They nlled the housetops
aud the western bearing WINDOWS aud usea all
imaginable aids catch glimpse Of the grand trans
formation going on In the western skies. Opera
glasses telescopes eye glasses. aud glasses that
to ego before were put In the occasion.
Everybody, however, didn't sec tho sight, and many
mus, be content 10 wait Tor tho next entertainment.
.'There she isl" young man In mock earnest
tone cried TO his companion both suddenly up
at the corner Of Chambers and Broadway, the ono
pointing toward the sky above the Hudson. aud
both looking up very hard. 'Therc she Is again! !" he
exclaimed presently, IN still more earnest voice. as II
he had lost sight OF tho object for Tho pair
mad q crowd OF about twenty people around them,
all looking in the direction TO which the index finger
OF She young mans hand pointed
"What Is II ?" was tho inquiry all sides
18th eclipse, th' eciipse; m eclipse OF the moon"
vas tho quick and snappish reply US II the query vas
embarrassment and calculated disturb HIS obser
vatons.
where is ~" the next saeor interrogatory.
"why there.-right thoro ~ empha ASKED tho young
man angrly, as II astonished that anybody with a
pair OF could fail TO see the phenomenon. The
gathering had accumulated TO about u hundred, and
spread the street to the formerly
pied by Delmonico, when TWO policemen cams up from
opposite directions and told the crowd to move on
The originator OF tho hoax considered this was hts
supreme moment and darling his arm forward with
vchcmence right over the poncemsn's nose, said,
Good heavens! see how she turns blackl" This
enough capture the officers OF the peace ana while
they the crowd were sranng their gaze all over
the western sky the perpe.ra'or Of tho sell slipped
away.
All the itlncrant astronomers ~ the city
vii their single and double barrelicd escopes, with
reracos and lenses Of window and bottle glass They
scooped in the stamps at tho rate OF ten cents look
and nity looks 10 tho minute There rs harvest
before Them, Mars ana his satellites promise TO be
hons OF the season and then the moon will DO
eclpscd in earnest
"Whnt's an eclipse anyhow" asked one OF a group
at tho corner OF tho Aston House.
"Why, IFS tho old man tho moon a tarc, :" ro-
piled aSothc 'and gets SO derned plugged that he
can't keep his lights aSon'. and consequence IS u
eclipse" - 49, ~
accounts these eclpses Is goin to be putty common
after awhile tor they say there's moro water lett IN
moon an ftnerc hain I'D like TO know how tho Old
man Is ever Gon' 10 got on temperance foundation
"wel, IL there's no moro water lett" innoccntly
asked me rst speaker, now VIII Tho old man mix his
drinksy"
replied tho more knowing OF the company. "Hc's
been to Congress anu knows how 10 take his whiskey
straghL'
Glasses were IN great demand, especially beer
glasses. People who profess TO know say that If you
look often enough through tue bottom OF beer glass
you soc not only the satellites of Mars but stars
OF all magnitudos. II Is all folly, then, for the
govern 10 60 TO the expense OF twenty SIX inch
relracor Tor tho accommodation OF Professor Hall,
when Bowery beer schooner properly hlcd can
lind satellites IN night than Clark largest teic
scope III year. An entcrprsing and acetious Third
avenue lager merchant had tuis idea iorciby i'm
pressed upon his mind and hung out sign front OF
his establishment "A Look At the Moon and Schooner
OF Lager, all Tor Five Csnts!" His uhsophiscated
patrons, after polishing OF their beer, looked around
for Telescope, and heu the jolly slabsded beer seller
had his laugh by telling them to squirt out OF the
door through the empty schooner
SCIENTIFIC KS0wLEDGE SEEKERS.
"W OTIS this yer talk, Badly, about the stacloots of
that Teller Mars ~ asked OF the b'hoys the City
Hall steps OF a companion.
dunno I" said the other. with air Of perplexity
sunless be IN the Dcestrck Attorneys Office about
that yer o. Pat Mahers and his straw bail sposo
this thing statcoot, or sattetoot, as yer calls IT,
new name for bali hxins. Bettor ask the Alderman
there"
'.Say, Alderman, cried the first speaker to a mem
Der Of the Board who was just about passing down tho
steps, .Wots all this in the HERALD about Mars and
his saddlcJagsf Guess MS IA fly, 20
.Oh, that fellow, responded the Alderman, as duff
fer they found in Washington, with Il SC ond vile
named Sally Lite, or some such name. lbs ouy case
OF bigamy, boys. )"
In the Central Park, where there thousands Of
young couples love and pleasure bert, tho sior-
10 tho moon lamented. Tor the Park night
without the moon is "a banquet hall deserted. Tho poor
fellow up there had great deal OF iun poked him,
but the chances he VIII 1t all ana come out
bright and SHINING as ever.