Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-07-16

| five thousand miles thick"
l took it in without quaver and my
astronomer seemed to clipper up, talk.
ing with less hesitancy.
1t has four moons, which you will
observe ranged around the planet like
the bags around the pitchers stand on
baseball field. They have on that
world both night and. day shift moons.
There is enough, so that at least one can
throw off light all the time without too
much wear and tear on the solar sys-
tenn. Moonlight walks on Jupiter have
lost their charm, having become so
common"
1 soaked in that piece of knowledge,
and the astronomer frightened up still
more.
"If you will observe very closely you
will be able to see the planet is envel-
oped in vague and scarcely discerna-
bic nebula hypothesis.
Hold on; say that again"
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to bear on it. just let me gather that
word in, and if / don't paralyze my wife
with it you may call me horned toad. I"
He told me how to spell and pro-
nounce it, and then let him go on
with the show.
"A year on the planet Jupiter is a
very long time" he resumed. 1T is
about as long as eleven of ours.
"Oh, come, now; you can't make me
believe thatp / protested, as l let go
the machine and tried to straighten out
the crick in my back.
UThot,c uvhot DrnotOr oouo 1nn,k
know anything about it myself, but he
stakes his professional reputation on
the assertion, urged my astronomer.
1t was a tough story, but Proctor
settled it. had heard my wife men,
ton Proctor.
"Yes sir. eleven years and nearly
twelve"
o..s..s c,s~Ss.s,
grangers over in Jupiter-only one crop
to three Presidential elections"
Il reckon it's tiresome, but / suppose
they get used to it."
"It must be pleasant for merchants
when farmer comes IN and aalxa to get
trusted, and says he will pay, after
harvest-in the course of eight or ten
years."
"There are some disadvantages about
that, and then there are some advan-
tages, too. 1t isn't so bad if you are
the one who owes the money"
"That's SO. Now give her turn
ahead"
"Some scientists assert that the in
habitants of Jupiter are transparent. :"
"Say-er-er, what's your name?"
Higgins.
"Well, Liggins, I'm cussed if as.
tronomy isn't interesting. Why, it's
great It knocks political campaign
clear out. Gimme some more"
"As / was saying, some scientists,
transparent, while Kepler disputes
this"
II guess I'll tie up with Kepler on
this deal"
"But there is one thing they all agree
on-that the people can only be foot
and half high, and about four feet
thick, sloped good deal like a
mud-turtle with head on top
instead of at the end. You see
the force of gravitation is so
great that O man built like us
would be plastered right down,
and wouldn't be able to stand alone
unless he was several times stronger
than men usually are. Why, it would
break Sullivan's back"
Good deal like your machine, ell ?"
The planet, as l saw it, was hard to
describe. 1t looked more like q big
COB, of light with four spatters around
it than anything / can call to mind.
1t appeared rather scratchy, and was
speckled with some dark spots, as,
also, with some white specks. l asked
Liggins, who was getting pretty cold
by this time, what one of the largest
white specks was, and he gave an opinion
to the effect that in his estimation
scientific men, he allowed, couldn't be
too careful in their deductions-in his
estimation it was the canvass of some
big, first-class show company-the
stance, all spread out, Possibly, it in
cluded the side shows, though he didn't
care TO go on record about the side
shows. Scientific men had to be care
full. The thing looked plausible and
absorbed it.
"When i proposed having shy o.
some other star, Liggins said he had {
sick baby, and must hurry home.
was enthusiastic, in spite of my back
and wanted more, but higgins waveC
his sick baby, so to speak, il
my face, and let him go wher
he promised to have fresh sta
on top the next night. As had no de
sire to make holy show of myself, W.
arranged to have the succeeding seance
come off in my backyard, and / go
we'll started in astronomy.
Every night Liggins lugged his tele
scope up to my house and back again
notwithstanding my offer to keep j
safely. He said he wanted to pursu
J some private Investigations by himself
, Another thing struck me as peculiar
which was that we could have but on
star at time. AS soon as / suggeste,
sort Of astronomical free-sor all, Lig
gins always remembered that his bah,
had swallowed copper or something
/ of that sort didn't believe the yarn
: about the baby, and didn't believ
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