The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1881-01-12

ners to refuse your New Years gift, am
content to take your gloves, but as for the
lining, utterly refuse it,"
Eighty years ago, January l, 1901, is mark
ed by TWO very different events but both hav-
ing historic interest. Que concerns mundane
matters, in that much, abused, perhaps i'll
deserving corner of the world" the most
afflicted country that ever l have seen." 1t
was incorporated, on that day, with England
aud Scotland, completing the i'll matched
| Union, known ever since as the United King
dom Of Great Britain and Ireland. Now, at
the end of four. score years, the world is ready
to ask whether its span of life is not about to
end. The Green Isle is evidently on the eve
of great events, tor veal or woe, and the end,
whatever it be, it is greatly to be feared,
must be reached through violence and blood
And the other, above this sphere, was the
discovery of Ceres, the first known of the
Asteroids, or small planets, (Planetoids, some
call lhem,) whose orbits lie between those of
Mars and Jupiter. How fast we have of late
been tindng out eur little celestial neighbo
Forty years ago but four were known now
they count up nearly two hundred, with
NEARLY every month new additions. Aud
then, once in awhile, ON bright November
nights. we rush into he,society Of thousands
more of them smaller yet than Ceres or any
that bear names, mere bits o. stars for the
Imetepls, so the astronomers tell us, belong to
the same crowd with the Asteroids, aud are
all so many fragments Of one grand planet
that once rolled majesticaly along the path
that is now iravelsed by these mytiads Of
tiny starlets, its scraps and uust. How,
when, why, that great explosion occurred
has not yet been written. But we may be
sure that those inquisitiye, far sighted fellows
mp in the observatories, with their long tubes,
lose no opportunity for questioning as closely
as possible these degenerate descendants Of
that magnificent ancestor, concerning the
truth of their assumed pedigree, and the par
ticulars of their family history. There is one
thing abont those PARKWAY fire flies, the
Planetoids, that we greatly admire their
manifest respect for our own terrestitl sphere,
The good, round, healthy ball which we call
Mother Earth. For, don't you know, those
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maybe ten thousands of years, and for aught
we know, singing as they go for why should
NOT they, TOO, bear their little parts in, that
sublime Oratorio, the Music Of the Spheres
/ But singing or not, they fly on IN perfect
darkness, rayless, Invisible, until they come
into the regionspf our own atmosphere, the
very air that Mother Earth brenthes, you
know, and quite within sight of her mountain
domes and towers, and her lovely carpeied
floors and sparkling fountains aud lakes the
geyscrs, the Pacific and the other fine things
that mark the dwelling Of that splendid lady,
Earth and then, in true courier style, they
! light their lamps, to do her homage, glow
with the ardor of entire devotion in her ser
vice, consume themselves in the act, CLEAN
brightly in the fire that feeds upon and de-
yours their own bodies, and 10 a moment are
burnt up I One of a thousand escapes COM
plete snnihilation, rushing in eager haste to
the very soil on which their Lady treads, and
bures iiselfdeep in the grave of its wild de-
voliop, aud some ploughman digs it out, and
some Savan gets possession Of 1t, and some
Museum or Cabinet Of Science pays good
sum for the odd shaped lump of iron, which
it guards as its choicest specimen and
labels as AeroBate. and explains to be the
cinder Of Que of those billion Of minute star
kins that have been SO long flying around
loose. Happy little stari . we should like
tolcalIit; but IL sstwinklcsg not, aud isynot
up high above the world it is not bit
like "a diamond . it has none of the char
actefistics of the nursery star, except that it
puts tho human mind IN the appropriate,
long confessed condition ofignorance and in
quisi,iveness-.s How l wonder what you
are f" ~ t718 x.
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coughs or colds. For sale at Shamalia's
Drug Store, As Bridge street, Lambertville.