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Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-06-10

One of the irregularities 30 closely cor.
responds to the new nebula that no
doubt can exist in regard to its origin.
1t must represent light photograph
ically perceptible in the vicinity of
Maia. The other markings on the
Cambridge photograph have acquired
a new interest. There seems to be in
dications of nebulous light about Mer-
ope, and faint, narrow streak of light
projecting from one side of Electra.
Thus American astronomers came near
winning the honor that was won thir-
teen DAYS later by Paris astronomers.
Although the Messrs. Henry have thus
far been unable to detect the new neb-
ula BY the aid of the telescope, other
astronomers have been more successful
Nj. Perrosin, of the observatory of Nice,
where the atmospheric conditions are
far more favorable than in Paris, an
nounces that he has seen the famous
new nebula. The observation was
made February %, and the feat was
accomplished by masking Maia. The
nebula was again observed March 3
and 4. not only by NJ. Perrotin, but by
his companions, Messrs. Thellou and
CARLOS.
The Importance of photography in
exploring the heavens can not be too
highly appreciated. 1t is claimed that
with the telescope now in use the
human eye can detect no stars smaller
than those of the fourteenth magai.
tude. Photography then can pierce to
depth of space beyond the power of
the sense of sight. What wonders may
be developed through its agency in the
future! Mapping the starry heavens
is but one department of astronomical
photography, but its value words may
not calculate. The astronomers of the
closing portion of the nineteenth
century are thus enabled to bequeath
to those who come after them an exact
picture of the starlit sky. When these
maps are referred TO one hundred
years. or even fifty years, hence every
departure from the records, every dis
appearance of star, every appear
ance of new star. every change of
position will mark the occurrence of
some stupcndous event in the economy
of the material universe. Observation
piled upon observation is the only
means by which at present the inhab-
itants of this little planet may hope to
discover the secrets now hidden in the
star depths. Providence Journal.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-06-10
A FRANK MAN.
Why He Became an Inmate of the State
Penitentiary.

Why He Became Inmate of the State
Penitentiary.
The superintendent of the peniten-
tiary, while conducting party Of la
dies and gentlemen through the estab-
lishment, renarked:
1T is proxerbial, you know how
many innocent men you find i'm the
penitentiary- Even after being con-
victed, men do not like to acknowledge
their guilt. Say" he called. address
ing convict, '.what were YOU put in
here for?"
IL was accused of stealin' hoss,'
''But you didn't do it, did yoaa"
mo, SIR"
There are a few of them" added
the superintendent, ''who will tell the
truth. Now yonder comes fellow
who can't tell the truth. Now note
his replies to my questions. Pillgree.
you were innocent, were you nOtT
innocent o some things, yes. sir. -
"Will You answer me truly if ask
you question:"
"Yes, sir"
Why were you put in this place?
Tell the truth, now"
Because couldn't help myself
'Ah." exclaimed the superintendent.
lyon shall be rewarded for such frank
ness"
That day at dinner the frank man re-
ceived two extra teaspOonfuls of bean
sOap.-ArEnnsdU Irareier.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-06-10
RELIGIOUS READING.
LISTENING.

In the crimson of the morning, il the White
In the amber glory of the days retreat.
In the midnight, rObed i'm darkness. o. the
cleaning of the moon.
listen for the coming of His feet.
I have heard His weary footsteps on the
sands of Gaiiee,
On the temples marble pavement on the
street,
Worn with weight of sorrow. faltering up
the slopes of Calvary,
The sorrow of the coming OF His feet.
Down the minster-aisles of spendOr. from
betwiXt the cherubim
Through the wondering thrOnS, with mo-
ton strong and feet,
Sounds His victor tread, approaching with q
music far and dim
The music of the coming OF His feet
Sandaled not with shoon of silver, girdled
not with woven gold.
Weighted not with shimmering gems and
Odors sweet.
But white-winged and shod with glory in the
Tabor-iigi,t of old
The glory of the coming of His feet.
He is coming o my spirit! with His everlast-
ing peace,
With His blcssedness immortal and COM
plcte.
He is coming, my spirit! and His coming
brings rcease.
listen for the coming of His feet.
Lyman ". Alien. in n. I. INDEPENDENT
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-06-10
WELCOME NEWS.
Vegetables Taking the Place of Birds In
the Trimming Of Hats.

Vegetables Taking the Place Of Birds In
the Trimming Of Hats.
The small birds now will be given a
rest and the insects will no longer be
left TO increase so disastrOusly to the
crops and fruit trees; for the fashion
has changed, and the bodies and wings
of bright-colored bipeds are no longer
''the style" for the trimming of ladies'
head-dresses and hats. This is pleasing
news which the late fashion notes
bring from the capital. In place OF
birds and parts of the little useful Great
ures, heretofore slain by millions to
please barbarous taste savoring more
of wild Indians then refined persons,
the new fashion has adopted the fruits
and vegetables of the garden. which
will make well-dressed lady appear
much like peddler loaded upon her
head with lunches of radishes. strings
of onions, garland- of tomatoes,
wreaths of turnips ana potatoes. sprigs
of beans and peas and heads Of cab
bages. 1t is vast improvements. and
If the trimmings are only real and not
artificial will amazingly help the in
dustrious and honest farmers and mar
ket gardeners. A lady can then turn
her daily supply of marketing into p
means of fashionable adornlnent b.,
carving it home upon her head:-N.
T. Times.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-06-10
A NEW NEBULA.
Tho Wonderful Results of an Experiment
Recently Made in Paris.

Tho Wonderful Results of an Experiment
Recently Made in Paris.
The Paris observatory has in success
ful working order an ingenious and CT
fective apparatus for celestial photog-
rsphy. Messrs. Paul and Prosper
Henry, able and earnest workers at the
observatory, photographed, by means
of this apparatus. the well-known clns-
ter of stars called the Pleiades on the
10th of last November. Greatly to
their surprise, a new nebula made its
appearance on the Photographic plate.
This wonderful agent pictured an OBJ
ject which their closest observation
through the large telescope of the Paris
observatory failed to detect. In order
to make assurance doubiy sure, the
cluster was photographed three times
subsequently, on the Sth and 9th of
December and on the 9Th of January.
The result was always the same. The
nebula was plainly discerned in the
photograph, and refused to appear to
the eye of the observer in the telescope.
The Messrs. Henry have published
drawing of the new nebula. 1t has a
curious and weird appearance. 1t
seems to start from Maia, one of the
seven sisters of the group. moving at
first toward the west and then turning
suddenly toward the north and at last
fading into invisibility, and at dis
lance of about three seconds from the
star. A more distinct and ill-defined
portion of the nebula makes its way to
the south. The nebula is very intense
and takes on plainly marked spiral
form. bearing resemblance to a gro
tesGue and one-sided solar corona. and
suggesting the great nebula of Orion
on a small scale.
The discovery of the nebula in the
Pleiades has revived the memory of
mysterious objects that have been seen
from time to time among the stars of
this group. In 1879 Jeaurat published
q chart of the Pleiades on which a
nebula appears near the star Atlas. In
1859 Tempel discovered nebula in the
same cluster, near the star Merope.
which was seen by several other OBJ
servers. Both of these nefule have
disappeared. and the nebula discovered
hy the Henrys occupies an entirely diff
t,rent place, apparently branching out
from Maia. Three, therefore, of the
stars composing the Pl,iades either are
or have teen surrounded by nebulous
masses.
The meat Interesting fact concerning
the new hatula is that related by Prof.
Pickering, of the Harvard college OBJ
servatory A photograph of the Plei-
AIDES was taken at the observatory on
the Sd Of November that developed GER
tain Irregularities. 1t was exhibited
on the 10th of the same month at the
Albany meeting of the National Acad-
envy OF Sciences. These irregularities
were discussed, and supposed to be due
to defects in the Photographic process.
The photographs have been re-cxam-
insA since the discovery of the Henrys.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-06-10
A Stone Giant in Florida.

While digging in the mound back Of
the garrison in search of Indian relics
some gentleman discovered petrlfied
Indian giant-as natural as if chiseled
from a solid block of granite by a
mastery hand. and free from single
blemish except an indentation on the
thigh made by the pick. In close
proximity were number of flint ar
rowheads and other implements of In
dian warfare. A stone jar was also
discovered under the giants head,
which, upon being opened. was found
to contain calumet, lot of brass
jewelry and number of copper and
Spanish gold coins. which were black
with times corroding breath. The
discovery mas created quite stir. The
value of the gold coin, as near as can
be ascertained. is about twenty-three
hundred dollars-quite snug lissle
sum tor these hard timcs.-1dxapa
(Fta,) Tribune.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-06-10
CHOICE EXTRACTS.

Never leave your way to seek a
cross, nor 60 out of the way to avoid
one. Appointed crosses are seal bless
ings.-Baptist Heehly.
Though you may have known
clever men who were indOlent, you
never knew great man who was so;
and when l hear young man spoken
of as giving promise of great genius.
the first question ask about him is al
WAYS, does he uork?-Ruskin.
That fortitude which has encount-
cred no dangers. that prudence which
has surmounted no difficulties, that in.
tegrity which has been attacked by no
temptation, can at best be considered
but as gold not yet brought to the test,
of which, therefore. the true value can
not be disqualification.
"A derout thought. pious desire, a
holy purpose is better than a great
estate or an earthly kingdom. In eter-
nifty it will amount to more to have
given a cup of cold water. with right
motives. to an humble servant of God
than to have been flattered by a whole
generation.-Dr. Canning.
Wanted. patent umbrella war
ranted to turn Sunday rain and pro-
tee. the owner from a Sunday sun. The
ordinary umbrellas are ample for all
the other days of the week: but then
you know, reader, that Sunday rains
and Sunday sunshine are much more
trying. Such an invention might swell
the attendance at many of our churches
on rainy and hot Sabbaths. and might
bring out the very people who most
need to '.renew their strength" the
weak saints alabama BaptiSt.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-06-10
HUMOROUS.

ii call my wife dear" said Bagley,
refiectivcly, ''because she is. "-Phila-
deipbia CAL.
Can YOU sell me love philter?'
she asked Of the handsome drug clerk.
--No. ma am" said he. Don't keep
filters here; have to go to q tinsshop.'
-Cbieaqo Tribune.
What She Wanted
The moon shonc softly down on them
And life seemed more than words coufh
He sad: We'll live on love. nv GEM"
She said she wanted bread and butter
--Mercidnt TraDeier.
An old sea captain says he gets,
sick every time he crosses the OecaD4
1t is inferred that although he may
never have written any thing for the,
Century, he contributes to the. 1iia,uic
monthly.-Pucs.
-''What produces feeling Of pros
tration in the spring?' asks u CORES
pOndent. Two things will do it
doubling the veracity OF a pugilist and
trying to coax IL bicycle Oser stene.---
Burlington Free Press.
You have to CALI for sakerheh-
standsticker in Sweden when youw:ns
match. Usually it is daylight before.
you &c: through and You dom need
one. The Swedes are very economical
people. -Somerrilte Journal.
1t is very easy matter for a per-
son to be in two places at the same
time. even though those two places be
thousands of miles apart. One fire.
guently hears of man being in a
strange country and home, sick
Texas Sytings.
10 mamma. yDu'd be surprised to
know how dumb Bessie Barton is. She
took ME into what she said was the
apiary. What DO you think saw
therc?" II don't know. dear"
"Why. nothing bnt lot of. heehiyes.
There were no apes there: not even =
monkey. "-Phi!adetphia Call
There's good deal in ahe papers
now about seadlng dressed beef from
Texas to England" observed Mrs.
Snaggs. YES, noticed it." answered
her husband. listlessly. s-Well, now I
in cold weather. But what kind of
clothes do they put on themp''-
Pittsburgh Chronicle.
III looks like vain cid fellaw. I
guess we'd bettaw have hansom.'
~ hat do you want a hanson for?
It's only half a dozen blocks and you've
got your umbrella .AYaas. deah boy.
But it's my walking umbweiIaw. I
cawn't use it faw vain nmbwellaw.I
could nevaw wap it up again, don't
you know. '-I0Sn Topics.
BASS is not only very polite man.
but he IS man who never loses his
presence OF mind The other day he
was standing in horse-car 1t sud-
denly struck coal cart and Baes was
sent to grass; in short. he was xnockcd
down. As he rose. he saw lsAy stand.
ing. His spirit of gala ntry was
touched. Bowling politely, he said:
Take my seat. madame It's nre.
sumed that she prefere;a to standby
7. Sur
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-06-10
CHASTiSEMENT.
When 1t Is Good. and what 1t Yields to
Those Properly Exercised Thereby.

When 1t Is Good. and What 1t Yields to
Those Properly Exercised Thereby.
One ounce of moral and spiritual
good outweighs. in real value. thou
sand pounds of physical good in the
sense of merely agreeable sensations.
If we lose the latter. as the necessary
means of gaining the former. We have.
in what We gain, far more than COM
pensation for what we lose. The loss
NAV involve severe trial, and may
even break the heart with anguish; but,
in the discipline and culture of char
acter which it secures it will leave
more blessings behind it than it takes
away. What it takes away is some
transient good, perhaps some unhallow-
ed good which itself is curse to the
soul, and would ruin it if retained.
What it leaves is the gem of Writ, G be-
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-06-10
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

The only ordained clergyman In
Congress is Representative Anderson,
of Kansas.
&C. K. Lord, the general passenger
agent, is said to be the best-paid officer
Of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Com
pany. His salary is $4,000.
Hugh Conway's story Living or
Dead, was, it has been discovered,
written by enc Joseph Williams, Lon
don scribbler. Chicago Inter Ocean.
Mrs. Lew. aged eighteen years, Of
Columbus, o., is the heroine of two
marriages. She was first married when
but fourteen years old.-CleUeland
Leader.
The Baltimore american has in its
career of 113 years been defendant in
fifty-tive libel suits, and in only one has
it ever suffered verdict for damages,
and in that one case the damages were
tritfing.
DIR. William H. Mather, of Suffield,
Conn, has been convicted of libeling i
dead man, and fined twenty-eight dol
lars and costs. He wrote letters to
Mrs. Ephraim West rejecting on the
character of her dead husband.
The new secretary OF the Chinese
legation at Washington is named Mr..
Lang. He is civilized enough to know
how to make pun in English. At q
reception the other evening he told q
lady that ''Auld Lang Syne" was ono
of his ancestors.
John Ruskin confesses that he
would rather please the girls than do
any other one thing. My primary
thought" he avows, lis how to serve
them and make them happy; and if
they could use me for plank bridge
over a stream or set me up for post
to tie swing to, or any thing of the
sort not requiring me to talk should
be quite happy in such promotions.
Ulysses S. Grant. JE, has been
out in Colorado attending to the De-
tails of settling up the estate of his Ia
ther-in-law. the late Jerome b. Chat
fee." says the Washington Hatchet.
1.-The value of the property which is
left to Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant can hot
be determined, as the bulk OF it Is In
mining interests. Carefully nurssd,
however. it will probably aggregate
about 100000. All this will remain
in Mrs. Grants name"
Charles A. Dana is sixty-siN years
old. but looks fully ten years Younger
He goes to the San office at eleven in
the morning and leaves at four in tle
afternoon All his editorials are de-
tated to stenographer. When dlcia-
ting he allows no one to interrupt him.
though usually accessible to al per-
sons, thus preserving his line of
thought unbroken. His office is PLAIN
" furnished, the walls being covered
with photographs of dead friends. His
health is almost perfect.-N. J. Mail.
One of the most striking figures
seen in Washington is the son of cS-
President John Tyler. He is now IN
old man bent with the weight of wears.
His long, white. patrarchal beard
sweeps down from his venerable face,
nearly covering his broad breast. lis
wears soft hat slouched well down
over his deeply set eyes, and is dressed
generally in careless suit of badly cat
black He is rarely noticed. and WALKS
the street to most people unknOwa.
Yet in his day he was considered one
of the handsomest men who ever graced
the society of Washington.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-06-10
international Sunday-School Lesson.

SECOND QUARTER
May 3O-Jesus Feeding Five
Thousand John 6:1-2l
June 6-Jesus the Bread of
Life John 6: 22-40
June 13-Jcsus the Christ. 49,. John Z: 3i-52
June 2U-Jesus and Abraham
...J ohm s: 3l-3s. and A 50
June 21-Review Service of Song; Mission
airy, Temperance or other Lesson selected
BY The school
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-06-10

II have often seen men driving
horses when the tables sAould be
turned and the horses drive the men,
they showed so much NOR; good sense.
Midland Farmer
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-06-10

Birds at Tampa. Fla. are said tt
get tipsy by over-eating berries from
chinaberry trees. the ground under tht
trees often being covered with hirG
unable to fly.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-02-20
ABOUT IMMORTALITY.

We notice disposition in the news
papers to indulge the inference that
all English society is totally corrupt and
rotten to the core because Of the recent
revelations in the Crawford-Dilke case.
Those Of q pesimistio turn 20 further
and draw from this isolated instance the
revolving augury that London is fast
becoming Sodom, and that English
morality will soon be a thing of the past
that the depravty of the great British
metropolis will be leaven from which
the whole world will be infected with
vice and iniquity.
This is wrong, altogether wrong, and
justified neither by precedent or com
mon sense. English morality is in an
exalted state now compared to what il
has been atseveral periods IN the coun-
try's history, even 50 late as George ".
A parallel case ut Columbia, Tenn,
has led to some local comment OF like
nature and there are those who effect to
believe that laxity OF morals exists in
our very midst.
This is morbid sentiment and who'll
ly unjustified. There is purity and vice
here and everywhere as there always
has and always will be butpurity is in the
ascendancy. The woman in scarlet has,
in all times past, and 80 long as human
nature remains the same it is now, will
continue to smile before men; bat these
same men always have and always will,
demand that she retire from the pres
ence Of the woman in white. Virtue
commands respect and will contue to dc
so.
In comparatively rare instances
lovely women will stoop to folly and
there are alway men who will betray
but the tendency is no greater now il
England, here or elsewhere than it has
always been. To the contrary, il sta
tistics could be resorted to, a genera
improvement would, no doubt, be
shown.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-02-20
--+=-z=--
Mr.. MlLLER'S POLITICS.

After four weeks consideration OF the
natter and sundry attempts to dodge
the issue, Mr.. Miller publishes in the
Democrat this morning what purports
% be an explanation OF his political po-
,ition. We wish to call the attention of
he public to the fact that Mr.. Miller
still makes no explicit denial that he is
4 Republican in principle.
Ii he really wishes to make himself
clear in this regard will he answer the
following questions:
Did you ever vote a straight Demo
cratic ticket ?
Did you not declare yourself as favor
ing Blaine for President in preference
to Cleveland during the last Preslden-
tial election?
There is something queer about that
appointment in the mail service. Since
the last publication in the CHRONICLE
in this connection, we have heard OF
Mr.. Miller making an explanation of this
matter to the effect that he really never
had an appointment in the mail service
but served as a substitute for another
man who had the appointment.
How is that?
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-02-20

SoNE of the good Democratic Prohi-
bitionists OF this State have been inquir-
ing of the Nashville Union what the
national platform OF the party had to
say on the subject The Union answers
that the following is all that by the
most liberal construction could be tor
tured into reference to the subject -
'We oppose sumptuary laws which vex
the citizen and interfere with individual
liberty" II that don't refer to prohi-
bition what does it refer to-? 1t was
undoubtedly put in to catch the Ger
man vote, but after all it is Of no conse-
quence. The Democratic party is not
essentially an anti-prohibition party,
and that clause in the Chicago platform
didn't make it so. 1t only goes to show
the absurdity of holding up these tenn
porizing clauses in party platforms on
side issues as, party doctrine.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-02-20
GLADSTONE.

Some of the London correspondents,
as well as American editors who deliver
themselves ol wise prophesy concerning
the political outcome in Great Britain,
affect TO believe that Gladstones policy
will be to strengthen himself so he can
be independent Of ParnelI and eventual
ly discard all home rule projects, and is
only acting a part in his pretended
friendship for the Irish cause. II this
be true, he very little deserves to DO
called "The Grand Old Man." and is
about to wind up long and honorable
career in way that will forever dim the
lustre OF his fame.
Gladstone is too old to temporize, and
OF too high an order OF statesman to in.
dulge in political trickery. His name
must soon pass into history, and the
manner n which it will live there will
be greatly affected by his action in the
important issue which the world is
watching with SO much interest.
The Lass acts of a statesman's life are
like the last chapters in a novel, and the
value OF the whole story is greatly affect
ed by its closing. To crown his career
with political chicane would be to tar
nish his entire record. To close life
hat has won golden opinions from all
sorts OF people with stroke oil states
manship that is at once great and mag
unanimous, he will go into history with
few superiors.
Whatever may be the best British
policy on the Irish question, tits neither
great nor noble to act double part. II
Gladstone is working to crush out Par
nell by professed friendiness to the
cause that Parnell supports, then he is
no statesman, but simple trickster and
his character is in no way admirable.