The Press., 1885-12-03
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 -. H. Whitehous9, about the time of the November election, brought into town from Brighton market forty-seven heifers, seventeen of them of two and thirty of only one year. Judging them from the specimens on the Sharp place they are an unusually fine lot of cattle.
 The month of November this year sustains its old-time reputation for meteors or meteorites falling stars, as commonly called. Thanksgiving evening, in riding about third of mile, fifteen were count ed. The evening after, in a ride (and while unharnessing) of twenty or twenty five minutes, eighty were counted. Later on in the evening nineteen were seen in about five minutes. Once or twice in the ride two or three flashed out almost at the same moment. Our faces were toward the south, but a glance over head or, with twisted neck backward, for a half minute or so was almost always rewarded with 8 sight of one or more. They commenced revealing themselves as soon as the ab- sence of sunlight permitted, and at hnlf- past seven their numbers did not seem in the least diminished Quite num- Der had sort of fourth-of-July, sky rocket way, of showing themselves, and others more of the starry or meteoric look and while the flight of some in the southern part of the heavens described an arc of several degrees, that of large pro- portion measured only the minutes-in some instances only the seconds-of cir cle. The general direction of those seen in the south was from northeast to south- west of those in the north, our boy says, to the northwest Nineteen in five min utes, seen, it should be remarked, on the south side of our dwelling, where the view is somewhat limited, is, dear reader, two hundred and twenty-eight per hour. When creation was young they must have poured from the sky or there would not be such accumulations of star-dust in the bottom of the oceans as it is claimed is discovered by sounding their depths. Years ago theory was preached in an article in the New Englander something like this, &C., cording to our recollection that the sun when first made was as to it's matter in a nebulous or greatly diffused state, and that when sent from the hand of the Gre ator revolving upon its axis it began to contract, and in that process the various planets, including the earth, were thrown off at various distances, and that the as- teroids, meteors, meteoric stones which fall to the earth, and also the comets, were mark this dear reader, it is worth re- membering-but the dyipnings which flew off, and which, by losing the motion originally impressed upon the whole mass, fell into orbits very irregular and eccentric compared with those of the bodies to which they at first belonged. Were ball of mud of the right consistence sent revolving through the air the portions and particles which would fly off would illustrate this C f1piv, fhc.nry 1at I,ok the power which seems to be in matter is not in it in reality. Tho power to move the body is not of the body but of the mind--of the will. There is in the uni verse no force or power beyond the bound aries of being, and so all force came origi- nally from God. The sun burns and gives heat, planets move in their orbits and roll on their axis, the asteroids pur- sue their cratic way, comets swing in and out, not by any force inherent in them selves, but by the power of the Omnipo- tent. A law of nature Is only the way in which the power of God moves nature.
 MANSFIELD.
 On Tuesday of last week at the home of the brides parents in East Mansfield, took place the marriage of s. Q. Porter, Jr., son of the Hon. s. o. Porter of Un- ionville, and Mary Wood. The newly married pair will live in Iowa, where MT. Porter has spent the last eighteen months ill erecting buildings upon his farm and otherwise getting things in readiness for his present return.
 The Chautauqua circle at the Centre is busily. engaged upon its winter program and propose to add interest to it's work by interspersing few lectures.
 The new reservoir of the Willimantic water works, located in the south part of the town, has had the gates in the dam closed within few days, and the beauti ful sheet of water thus formed adds much to the picturesqueness of that region.
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