The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-11-09

hanged himself to his curtain rod. Tho Baron being
fat, the rod broke
The vito of senstor David Davis of Illinois. is
lying at the point of death the homo of her sis
ter. Mrs. d. r. Williams. of Stockbridge. Mass.
General Sherman. the Commissioner of Internal
Revenue Raum. and number of other governments
officials will leave Washington on Monday next. to
attsnd the reunion Of the Army Of the Tennessee in
Chicago.
Moody continues to weep for Colonel Ingersol
After ALL the difference between the two is this-
Mr.. Moody feels that he will go to heaven. and
Colonel Ingersoll feels that he will go tho
other place. --,
London World:-"signs of the times. Some months
ago NJ. Katkof the well known editor of the Moscow
Gazette wh,h is celebrated for its hostility to Eng.
land was publicly cut by the Emperor at reception
in Moscow. The Moscow Gasette is now once more
in receipt of . subsidy from the government"
Evening Telegram:-"New York is one of the few
American cities that supplies all it's free school
pupils with free text books. The burden of desig-
mating in the first instance all the books for the
use of the thousands of attendants the New York
public schools is too great to be proftably ito the
public) imposed on the principals Perhaps it would
not be fair to say that the principals not
petent as any authority could be to make judlcous
selection of text books II their unbiased judgment
was always sure to be obtained. In the present
state Of things this ID exnctly what Ii sure not 10 Do
obtain Cd
The rudy planet Mars, now nearly ct his bright
est, is under close telescope scrutiny. The two
moons which for many years escaped telescope
detection have to be newly timed and rated. The
astronomers at Washington hoped to rediscover
these minute bodies about the middle Of October,
but Mr.. Common. of London. caught sight
of them early as September 81, when
Mars was far from being at his bright
est. He used a telescope Of the rejecting
sort. having o mirror three feet in diameter. and
regarded by some despite its inferiority to the
Rosse telescope in size the most powerful tele-
scope in existence. The inner satellite has since
been rediscovered. Phobos for the little moon
is called was about three-quarters of an hour be-
its computed time. judged by the rating of 1877.
OF course astronomers infer. it is easier to sup
pose that the Washington astronomers calculated
period OF revolution few seconds too long. not
that the little has really been accelerated in it's
notions The error the calculated period wherein
this moon circuits around the planet Mars amounts
only to q few seconds. though of course in several
hundred revolutions the small correspond
ingly multiplied has introduced Q much larger
error for precisely the reason that
clock which lost second in day would be more
than am hour behind the true time in ten years It
was indeed, expected by many that the inner satel
lite would be much more seriously out Of place,
especially when it was looked for in vain with tho
most powerful telescopes after the outer satellite
DEMOS had been found. 1t is amusing. by the way.
to notice how readily Phobos seen when Profess
scr Asaph Hall told astronomers in 1877 where 1t
be looked for yet how long the search for 1t
lasted when knew precisely whore to look
for 1t.