The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-12-18
NUMBER 13.

set time. The Greeks long time ago,
called it 'Hesperus,' or the evening
star, and also Phosphorus or the
morning star; for part of the year it is
seen in the morning. 1t is about as
large as the earth and sixty-seven mill
ions of miles from the sum-
"When does the earth come in,
papap'' said Harry.
"Next to Venus, my boy" replied
his father, land then comes Mars,
which is only half the size of the earth,
and yet is one hundred and forty-one
millions of miles from the sun, and
takes two of our years to 60 around it;
so if you were born on Mars you would
only be six years old, instead of twelve
of ours. You can tell Mars from the
other stars by its shining with such a
red light. About two years ago an
astronomer in Washington, Prof. Hall,
was looking at Mars with his telescope,
and he found it had little bit of a
moon, only about fifteen or twenty miles
in diameter, and pretty soon he discov-
cred another little larger, SO that
Mars has the two smallest moons ever
known"
"Have the other planets any moons,
papa?" said Harry.
Yes; Jupiter, the next planet, has
four. Two of them were discovered by
Galileo, who lived long time ago. No
one would believe he had seen any
moons, and one old astronomer wouldn't
look into a telescope for fear he should
see them and be convinced. He died not
long after, and Galileo, who was as
sharp with his tongue as with his eyes,
said: hope he saw them on his way
to heaven Jupiter is much greater
than all the rest of the planets put to-
gether, and is thirteen hundred times
as large as our earth. 1t would take
rod 5000 miles long to run through it
from opposite sides. I can show you
with the telescope great belts across it
which are supposed to be made of
Clouds"
What comes after Jupiter?' said
Harry.
"Saturn," said his father, (which,
though only one-third as big as Jupiter,
is three times as large as the other six
planets put together. 1t has eight
moons and two rings around it. So, if
you could make flying trip to Saturn
some fine night, you would have a mag
niticent sight, when you arrived, of the
sky lit up by these eight moons-some
full, some new-and the two glorious
golden rings reaching from one side to
the other, and all the rest of the stars
beside"
so! I'd like to go therer' said Har-
ry. Cant MIR. Edison make a flying
machine, papa, he can do every
thingP'
"Even if he could" said MIR. New
man, "you would have to be several
hundred years old, before you could
reach Saturn, and, besides, you could
not live outside our atmosphere. Be-
yond Saturn comes first Uranus, with
four moons, and then, away beyond
that, Neptune, which was discovered
by two men about the same time-an
Englishman and a Frenchman.
"But we are now nearly home, SO I
shall only have time to tell you about
telescope that was so big a whole fam
William Herschel, and after a good
many years, when it was no longer
used, he dismounted it, and, with a
up the tube. On New Years eve the
whole family-father and mother and
all the little children-climbed into the
tube and sang this song, which learn
ed by heart several years ago:
THE OLD TELESCOPE.
In the old telescopes tube We sit,
And the shades of the past around us fit;
His requiem sing we with shout and din,
While the Old Year goes out and the New
comes in.
Chorus-Merrily, merrily let us all sing,
And make the old telescope rattle
and ring.
Full fifty years did he laugh at the storm,
And the blast could not shake his majestic
Now prone he lies where he once stood high
And searched the deep heaven with his broad,
bright eye.
There are wonders no living sight has seen,
Which within this hollow have pictured been;
Which mortal record can never recall,
And are known to Him only who makes them
all.
Here watched our father the wintry night,
light;
His labors were lightened by sisterly love,
And united they strained their vision above.
He has stretched him quietly down at length
To bask in the sunlight his giant strength;
And Time shall here a tough NOR sci find
For his steel-devouring teeth to grind.
He will grind it at last, as grind it he must,
And its brass and its iron shall be clay and
rust;
But scathless ages shall roll away,
And nurture its frame and its forms decay.
Chorus-Merrily, merrily let us all sing,
And make the old telescope rattle
and ring.
As Mr.. Newman finished, and they
entered their gate, Harry ran to his
neither. who was waiting for them on
the piazza, and exclaimed, go, NAM
ma! / have had such nice time, and
when 1 grow up mean to be an as
tronomer and have telescope myself"
Since then his papa and he have had
many good talks about the stars, and
Harry never wearies of hearing about
them.-N Y. Observer.