Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-09-27
AsIARRY STRANGER IN SPACE.



Comes as the Star OF bethlehem.
NIshrHe american.
Professor l. T. Barnard, Of the Wander
bilt University received yesterday q telegram
from Professor T. c. Pickering, Of the
Harvard College Observatory, announcing
a phenomenon in the Andromeda nebuls,
observed on the night Of August 81 By Hart.
wig, at Strasburg, with instructions to look
out for it. The location of the nebula is
Oh. 36m. N. 400 80 and is one OF the
prandest in the heavens. In shape il 10 .
long oval, or irregular triangle, i'll bounded
and Frightening from The outer edges toward
the centre. 1t is plain TO the naked eye
when the skies are clear.
No telescope has been able to deal with It's
nature Bonds ii Is 20 inch arch found
no revolution, through it was seen through
a rich stratum containing about 1900 stars
Ii detected, however, two curious dark
streaks, both beyond any ordinary instru
m.nt. The darker o. the two forms in
reality the boundary Of one side Of the
uebula as seen with email aperture. This
nebu,a il referred TO as familiar object by
the Persian Astronomer Sufi in the Ninth
Century
The only information Furnished Profes-
sor Barnard by the telegram, 10 addition 10
the discovery, was that thers wss star-like
object wi hin the pebula. Alto last night
he turned his small instrument IN the direc-
ton Of the nebulous object, at once found
the object mentioned, and made record Of
bis obrervsiions In The centre Of The oval
Shared nebuls q star Blamed brightly,
iollcving which il a stream OF light ia the
lorm e an arc The star seems 70 HAM
ate the nebulosity, and under fhe hiGhes.
pow.r retains its star. like form, snd doe not
diff &c itself in macs az Q comet gecersly
DOS The light following the ser 10 vssy
bright and runs into glow, aud - i Ap-
proathes the outer edges fades gradually
away.
TIE ct dden appearance Of this star In DE
nebula il regsrc ed ss mos. wonderful pbe-
nomenon, % there is no star in that locality.
The professor is familiar with the point OBJ
served and has examined il probably hun
bred times. and il surethe object Is stranger
in the heavens but is not prepared 10 believe
that the star is nucleus OF condensation
Of The nebula, and, while he has as yet no
opinion TO give, be 10 rather inclined to the
object is star beyond the nebnls, or one
on tbs side Of It That It is nsv star sud.
denly burs, forth in the heavens there ID no
doubt. and II remains for observations, which
are doubtless being made at oil the principal
observatories in the world, TO determine the
mystery.
The Old Man Has Probably Had the Fifth
Surprise by this Time.
scranfon R,ynJfsoaa.
A quite vell-knovn man IN Shickshinpy
rad long been importuned BY his dsushtsf
70 buy Fer silk dress for her birthday. BE
had refused 10 promise It. She and her
mother were ons day looking Tor eggs in the
barn. and found, under heap o! straw, .
neatly done up package. Investigation
proved il TO be handsome silk dress pat
tern. and both concluded that the father 10.
tded 10 surprise the daughter with !, on
her birthday The second surprise vss the
failure If The father 10 produce the dress on
the birthday. The third surprise came when
mother sLd ugbir found the package
gone from under the sfrs~. The foarfh and
eliminating surprise came later, ute1 30
mother and daughter we're shining upon the
front porch one afternoon. they say . lady
of their acquaintance 90 BY the house wear
ing o new silk dress Of precisely the SANE
pattern as that which had been examined
in the pscksge under the strss in the barn.