The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-08-28

| Oxford and Cambridge. The principal win
dow at the east end is very richly cOlored.
contains emblamatical representations pr
tanning to the heavens, and at the base OF II
fip ure of an astronomical student-fio o roo
it may be taken for-looking at sheet upon
whichis depicted the disc of the sun with
small dark spot at the LETT side, intended fol
the plar ct Venus in a state of transit. An in.
scripton, embodying the feeling of the young
astronomer while he is watching the transit,
adjoins "Ecce Gratissimum spectacular, e'
tot votorum materiem." At the head Of the
window there is representation OF the sun,
with this inscription around it: ''Nenus in
SolesVisa VIII. Kal. Dec. MDCNNXIN."
The remaining figures are founded upon
scripture incidents, but all have an astral sig
MITIGATION. The parts constituting the borders
Of the figures are very rich in color and most
chas,e in formation. Against the north wall
of the edihce is large marble tablet with
elaborate gothic borders with the following
inscriptions Jeremiah Horrocks lsicJ born
at Liverpool, educated at Cambridge, curate
of Hoole, died in the 23d year OF his age,
GOAL" There is as much uncertainty about the
age of Ilorrox as i. is possible to conceive IN
the case OF one man. A printed slip bearing
the signs of authenticity, says he was IN his
18th year when he died. monument in St.
MichaePs church, Toxtelh Park, erected in
1896, states that he was q. Rev. Canon
Parr, of Preston, says he was "a. DANES
Lancashire puts his age down at IS. The
monument in Hoole church says 70. What
TONS Memoirs, quoting the same tablet,
makes it out somehow that he was in his 22d
yea At Cambridge Horrox paid particular
attention to astronomy" and he has de-
scribed the difficulty of finding astronomical
books He regretted wasting so much time
to the works of Lansberghe, but Tycho Brahe
and Keppler he studied devotedly. His &C
connt called "Venus in sole visa," was print
ed by Hevelius at the end of his "Mercanus
in sole visus"-Dantzig, 1902. He was also
the author of a theory that the lunar motion
might be represented by supposing an elliptic
orbit if the eccentricity Of the eclipse were
made to vary, and an oscillating motion given
to the line of apsides. Horrox's words were
published by Wallis in 1872, with an exposi-
lion of his lunar theory by Flamstead.
A pilgrim from the United States is seldom
seen at Much Iioole. Travellers visit Shrlnes
on set routes, and this is not one of them. An
excuse for recording my little trip is ralpable.
Few in Texas know the last rest
ing place Of the discoverer Of the
transit of Venus, and fewer still may care, but
a sad impression was left on my mind. that
man of Horrox's calibre had only $500 a
year as curate amongst the most illiterate Of
country pumpkins.
Our walk was getting tiresome, though far
from monotonous. Chats were had with
stencil breakers, gills were had at the roadside
''pubs''-some of them STEAMERS wild
flowers gathered, pretty country lasses winked
at, cherries and green apples bought and mas
ticated and discussions were held on polemi-
cal and antidiluvian subjects. Then Ruttord
was reached. 1t is indeed a beautiful spot
The cottages and farm houses in it look as if
they had, by happy enchantment,
dropped from some region above, located
amid ancestral trees and fruitful orchards. and
rich garden grounds, and fresh green fields
Everything is essentially rural, purely rustic
and exqusitely pastoral.
With some difficulty we found where the
railroad station was Before taking our tick
cts we put for newly made, gigantic build
ing-looking bigger than the church ahead
with the words "Fermor Arms Hotel in
front Of it, We had some grub and a
squib - in other words a reviver. Con-
sequently we experienced quietude and
serenity, stiffness and freedom, most dis
tinct in appearance and most refreshing in its
influence. "What do they mean," said | to
a little russell hued station master; pointing at
two blue shields, with wheat sheat in the
centre of them, placed at each side
of the station. and he replied,
"They'le Sir Thomas's arms put up
out of respect" | would have argued the
point of utility in them but the tram was APP
preaching. which put stopper on CAB. We
had an American perambula' or a or G with two
wheels in front ('he English have only one
wheeD and the guard or conductor very scurv-
lily demanded three pence for the extra wheel
before he would stow it in the baggage car.
Illuminating on the swindle, it was about as
Joyous and hopeful job to get a Joke out OF
me as to endeavor to extract mOonshlne out
of Somerset watermelon.