The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1880-03-03
For THE RECORD.
TIE OLD SQUARE ALMANAC.

Sunday in Lent, or Mid-Lent Sunday. IN
England 1t bears another name, strange
enough TO call for an explanation. Among
the simple practices thas relieved the dizziness
and harshness Of peasant life in the old times,
was that Of young people, who lived from
home at service, to visit their parents at mid
lent, carrying TO them some little presents, as
u trinket or cake. The youth making such
visit was said to have gone d-motheTng, and
hence the day itself came to be called :. Moth
ering Day" On this Sunday the Pope, at
Rome, blesses the " Golden Rose" which he
then bestows upon the royal lady who has
best deserved the honor by her zeal for the
Church, manifested in pious deeds or inten-
tions. If no one is judged to have merited it,
it is laid up IN the Vatican. The Empress
Eugenia, of France, once received it. But
what shall we think of the moral and politi-
cal Judgment that awarded it, in 1868, to lsa-
bella of Spain, !" in reward for her faith, jus
tice and charity, and to foretoken the protec-
ton of God to his well-beloved daughter,
whose high virtues make her shining light
among women li' The "Golden Rose" is
thus described = A cluster of roses and
rosebuds growing on one thorny stem, all of
the purest gold, chiseled with exquisite
workmanship. In its cup, among its petals,
the Pope, at every bened lotion he pronounces
upon it, inserts few particles of amber and
musk"
1t is one hundred and twenty-five years
since Thomas Wilson died, Bishop of Lodor
aud Man March Z, 1867 and his Saera
PrsOata is still the closest companion of de-
vout Christians of every name. His was a
goodness that overcame all differences of
creed, so that i" Catholics and Dssenters came
to hear him preach, and Quakers visited at
his palace" He died at the age OF ninety
three, having been bishop for 5s years. His
entire diocese was the little Isle of Man, 10
dor being an unknown land and he was the
Father of all his people. He found them ig
norant and poor ; he taught them to read to
farm, to make roads WAS their physician in
sickness and supplied all the aged with spec
tacles. He provided schools, libraries and
chapels aud it was said of him that he kept
beggars from every door in Man except his
own. Cardinal Fleury invited him to visit him
in France, saying he believed they were the
two oldest and poorest Bishops in Europe !;
and he obtained an order from his govern
ment that no French privateer should ravage
the Isle of Man.
Such man as Thomas Wilson belongs not
to the Church of England only, but to hu-
manty and here is another that the whole
Christian world may claim-St. Gregory the
Great, who died March II, A. d. Goa. We do
not much think of his being Pope, but re-
member him as the hnmble unselfish, toll
Grant and enterprisng missionary, who wish.
ed, himself, to carry the Gospel to the poor
Anglo-Saxons, but, because he could not be
spared from Rome, sent Augustine aud forty
companions.
If the age of the planets be rcckoned by the
time that they have been known on earth, we
should say that Uranus was about to enter
ON his one hundredth year. This is an inter-
esIing account of the discovery of the Planet
Uranus. " 1t was on the evening of the 18th
of March, 1881, that the patient German
(William Hersche), while examining some
small stars in the constellation Germini,
'h"ihNu 'Ho thhb was INV W nlUl. TIC dppDeu
different telescopes to it in turn and found
the results different from taose observable in
fixed stars. Was it a comet ? lie watched
it night after night, with view of solving
this question and he soon found that the
body was moving among the stars lie cou-
tinued his observations till the 10Th of April,
when he communicated to the Royal Society
an account of all he had yet ascertained con
corning the strange visitor. The attention of
astronomers both at home and abroad was
excited and calculations were made to de-
termine the orbit of the supposed comet
None of these calculations however accorded
with the observed motion and there arose
further question, Is it a planet p This
question set the computers again at work !.
and they soon agreed that new planet re-, H.,
had been discovered in the heavens. IL WAS
duly recognized as the outermost Of TIA men
bers of the solar system, and 80 remained mn
the planet Neptune was, discovered AS n
compliment to his royal patron, George III
the discoverer name9 the planet Georgiua.
9'@@S DINERS suggested HerseheI but .Uraz
nus was MAI y resolved upon, to accord with
'he neurological names given to the other
planets, x.
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