Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-11-02
Our Educational ColuIn n.

We claim no credit for knowledge
IN science or letters. 1t is enough
for us to know that we are editors,
as will appear by the following lines
from the pen of our editorial cores
pendent, He says:
| wish were an editor,
really do indeed
It seems to me that editors
Get everything they need:
They get the biggest and the best
OF everything that grows,
And get into the circuscs.
And other kinds of shows
And when mammoth cake is cut,
They're sure to get slice,
For simply saying, that Mrs. Smith
Knows how to make it Hice.
The largest punpkin. longest beet,
And other garden stun
Are blown into the sanctum
BY an editorial pun.
So, my good and worthy, sir,
IN try to become an editor
Instead of your contributor
] really niH, indeed.
Let us hope that the matter of our
educational column, this week, will
be found interesting and instructive,
and that its perusal will be calculated
to give an educational impulse to the
readers of the tribune.
Answers to queries:
|. st. James Palace, London, is a
large brick structure facing Pail
Mall. On the destruction of White
hall---the former residence Of royal
ty--by fire, in the reign of William
ILL.,, the palace of st. James became
the residence of the British sover
eigns, and has remained as such It'll
1910, when he royal household
was transferred to Buckingham pal
ace, London, where it now resides,
except when holding its receptions,
levees, and drawing-rooms at st
James. 1t is called st. James from
being originally used as an hospital
dedicated tc its patron saint, st.
james Being so long the residence
of the English royal family, the
British court is called the court Of
st James
:. A transit, in astronomy, is the
passage of plane, across the suns
disk, or of satellite across the disk
of its primary. Also, the passage
of heavenly body across the merid
ian of the place of observation.
The transit of Venus is utilized
by astronomers for determining tn,
suns true distance from the earth,
which until lately was considered
95,000,0U0 miles.
3. The last transit took place De
cember sth, 1874, by which the suns
distance was found to be about o.
100000 miles. Transits occur, Oh
recur AT alternate intervals of s and
1861 and : and l2l4 years. As
Venus is nearer Tie sun than the
earth, she performs her annual revo
luton sooner thar the earth. In or
der therefore that circumstances
favorable TO another transit may
prevail a period of time equal to tn,
common multiple of their annual
revolution must elapse. The last
June transit took place in 1860, ane
as our next transit after this, will bt
4 Juuc transit, 235 years must elapse
before it recurs, a too distant period
for an, one now living to consider
SO let us all thank our lucky stars
for the rare opportunity we will have
in December, and with the VIZ .c'
say:
But 4 thirst for knowledge urge us ON,
We car see Venus transit across the sun,
Which VIII rccur, MS we must remember
Upon the sixth day of next December
I. The United States occupied
stations during the last transit Of
1874, Siberia, China, Japan, tn,
Hawaaau Islands, Northern India
Persia, Turkey and Egypt, as wei
as a number of islands in the Indial
and Southern oceans
Only the planets Mercury and We
nus, having orbits within the orb
of the earth, can present what WI
call a transit.
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cavalry, coming, brave, gay naughty. proud
from the French as they appear on he rseback
an o sur oval. round Ike an eng.