Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1885-12-25
Bill Nye on the HerscheIs.
Chicago Daily News.)

HUDSON, Wis, Nov. 1S.-Probably no
two men have done more to promote
knowledge and advance the interests OF
astronomy especially, than Sir John Fred
er,ck William Herschel and Sir William
Herschel, deceased.
Sir John was born at Slough, near
Windsor, in the state of England, March
7, 1892. He breathed the very air of
science at once and ycarned to acquire
knowledge. Thus he fitted himself for
the fatiguing and exhausting labors of
scanning the sky and tracing out the his
tory, location and habits of the stars.
In 1928 his attention was attracted to-
ward Margaret Brodie, the daughter Of
the Rev. DR.. Alexander Stewart. 1t was
about this time that he began to sit up
nights and rummage the heavens. He
never got over it.
In 1899 he married Margaret, but he
still continued to sit up nights, and moth
ing tickled him more than TO ramble
through the trackless void to watch the
antics of his nebule, or to follow skittish
comet through space trying to put salt on
its little tail.
In 1925 he began the stupendous task of
getting out catalogue and price list of oil
the stars. No one who has never tried II
can possibly realize fully the extent OF
this task. Not only that, but the most of
it had to be done ut night, And yet he
never m murmured.
He cat.logued between three and four
thousand double stara, and also passed in
review the nebula discovered and catalog-
ued by his ialher While others slept he
labored On. While the giddy throng
poured into the halls of pleasure, or sought
out the lawn socinble, Sir John, with his
forty foot telescope and ten.foot pole
over his shoulder, would start out to in
vestignte the trackless void. Thus he be.
came familiar with the manners aud cms-
toms Of The planets, and felt perfectly at
home in The sky. He knew at u glance
whether u planet was wobbly or not. Hs
could at once detect il if mn orb go, sprung.
lie had it down line. No one dared adui-
,erate the milky way while Sir Johu had
charge OF the stars.
In 1877 he published the result Of hi,
observntiors from the Cape of Good Hone
covering the hour years from 1884 TO 1888
These were: /. Ncbule, and what to dc
for them. III. Double stars and theil
habits. III. Apparent size of stars, o,
how they look to n man up n tree. Nv
Distribution OF stars, or why early astron-
Onicrs sourcd ON the milky why. V
lIallcy's celebrated comet. with sppendil
treating of boh.lail comets; also hint,
about shying comeis and how 10 evnde I
new lnid meteor vi. Satellites OF Sat
urn. VII. Solar spots, and how TO re
move them without injary to the sun.
There is one thing that the IIerachel
neglected, and wonld like to call the at
tention oi philnnthropi-ts and astronomer
toit, am n philanthropist myself, bu
| have not been successful in that line
owing to lack of means. So wish lhn
those who want to do II kind act, and hsv,
the ability as well AZ the desire, would in
vesligate the case OF the gentlemen win
generally stands IN the middle of the zodi.
nc on the first page of the almanac. w
are likely TO have n long, cold winter yer.
soon, and no man ought to die from ex.
posure in Nh enlightened land where til,
rest OF us have all the clothes we need
Besides, this man seems to he seriously in
jured, and, though am not AT all famil
lar with surgery, il seems to me that h.
ought TO be sewed up, He ought to wea
a vest, ANYWAY. il he wants to preserve hi
health. Who will be the first TO send in
vest7 BILL NYE.