Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-02-28

70 nave great blue eyes like mar1aS.
told them Maria was the one to be
DesdemOna; Desdemona was dark,
haired and pale, and not like me,
blushing, bluShing, blushing, with
every word say!
Jan. 13.-Took an abstract of the
three sermons, learned q hymn and
quarreled with Sophy. 1 never can
help quarrel ng with that girl if I'm q
long time alone with her.
Jan. 14.-We rehearsed our tableaux.
Miss Leroy, the tall French teacher, is
to be Othello. If in the part where she
becomes a murderer she is too earnest,
I'm sure shall scream.
Jan. ID did. did scream when
we were rehearsing. Miss LeRoy'd no
business to do it so awfully in earnest.
The professor came stalking in, and
that frightened me so after my scream
ing that l burst into tears, and first
cried and then l laughed. and 1 thought
l should choke.
The professor picked me up and
dashed some water in my face, and
said, very sternly, BE quietr' But
presently he sad, IN quite another
tone, Poor thing! poor childr' and
left me on the sofa in the teacher S
room.
heard him saying TO Miss Palmer
that he never did approve of these
things the girls we're already subjected
to sufficient strain, and, if not, it mere
ly took their thoughts from their work.
There's Helen Barnes" said he;
"she hasn't had a perfect lesson, nor
one approaching it, for five days, and
of course she will not now for five days
more"
Just think of thati "rm so sorry,"
said Miss Palmer "She's very anxi-
Gus to have a perfect report sent to her
father at the close of the week. didn't
mark her at all for few days, know
ing her anxiety and hoping she would
mend; but this week | have felt obliged
to do so, and l am little afraid of the
effect on her if send the report to her
father as usual; l am afraid it may
make her reckless. l am sorry. There's
something very winning about her."
The professor looked up. "Veryr'
said he.
Think of that, Helen Barnes.
"Veryr' How mean was to keep on
overhearing! l suppose 1 should do it
again.
"WeD," said the professor, "per-
haps you better not send report this
week, and have little conversation
with her."
Miss Palmer nodded. s'Perhaps
that would be best, Mac" said she.
''Macw I couldn't believe my ears.
"MacP' Did you ever9 1 wonder-I
wonder-what it means!
Jan. 16.-It can't mean ANYTHING;
she's too old. She's awfully old. But
I'll be perfect to-day. I'll have that
ring, or die ip the sttemRt. Pm going
down noYtell. Appesl
Maria4. IA examining the spec :
n him, lithium, iron and other ~ gaiI
Jt different temperatures, change
YanalogOus to those observed when hea
is breaking up known compounds, ar
D seen; and these changes are in som
3 cases even greater than those brOugh
about when known compounds are uu
: der examination. Certain strong line
? of calcium are rarely seen in the ehro
mosphere, though always present whe
, the spectrum is obtained in the labors
tory; other lines, faint and short in tn
| laboratory, are greatly intensified i
1 the spectrum of local storms. On
Q hydrogen line, which is never seen i
> the laboratory except under very higl
> temperatures. was wholly absent from
the solar protuberauces during tn
0 eclipse of 1875, though the other line
were seen; and this line is coinciden
with the strongest line in the spectrum
of iridium.
The above are merely specimens of
= large number of facts which Mr.. Lock
: yer has collected. It need not be SAT-
r that they do not singly or unitedl,
3 prove the compound nature of what W
: have been accustomed to term element
3 beyond question. They certainly max
1 the supposition that they are compount
3 not unreasonable, and no other suppo
sition yet brought forward accounts 81
! fully as does this for the changes OBJ
. served. A mere argument from anal
r ogy is Mr.. Lockyer's theory. Certain
substances known to be COMPOUND
: yield changed spectra under changet
; conditions. Other substances, hereto
: fore supposed to be elt mentary, act il
: tie same way when subjected to tn
? same treatment. There is the fac
( which chemists must explain. And w
: may add that it Is the only fact tha
! requires explanation, for the previous
, announcement that the spectrum of ont
! metal has been obtained by the
! spectrum of another metal wa.
} wholly incorrect. Nothing at al
, resembling a transmutatiOn of met
, ais has been accomplished, even i
it should prove that they are more
nearly related to each other than mod
| ern science has taught. But Mr.. Lock
: yer's discoveries have opened highly
/ interesting field for research, and the
future is full of possibilities.-BostOn
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