Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1890-02-22

actually engaged III any work Of iudustry Of
art, and, % fsr a. we could Judge, they sEsnt
thsir happy hours 10 collecting various fruits
h the woods, In eating, dying, bathing and
icltssing about upcn The summits Of prsci.
ticsa But although svidsutly ,ths
iiHhsst orsief cf animals In this rich valley,
they vert fot ~ only oceupautA. nose Of
the Other animals which Ne had discovered
elsewhere, In very distant regions, were tcl-
lected here, and also at least eight or nine
new species of quadrupeda Tho most at
tractivs Of thess was tall white stag with
lofty spreading antlsrs. black - ebony We
several tiriies eaw this elegant creature trot
up TO the ssatcd parties u tHe sescihuman BE-
ings have described and bfowss ths hefhaes
Close beside them, without the least manifest
alton Of fear on Its part or notice ON thelrA
The universal stats Of amity among all classss
Of lunar creatures, and thS apparent absence
Of every carnivorous or ferocious epecies,
gave us the most refined pleasure, and doubly
eudsared TO us this lovely nocturnal compan-
ION Of our larger but lcss favored world.
Ever again when ''eye the blue vault and
bles tho useful light shall Irecall the scerss
Of beauty, grandeur and felicity I have b.
held upon her surface, not "as through .
gias darkly, but face 10 face" and never
shall think Of that line Of our thrice noble
post,
esis through the azure cir. an island Of the bleeA
without exultinG I'm my knowledge Of ~
truth
Or. HRRscHKL ExrLokks ofaRh PLANRrA
Here ends the detailed statement Of DR..
Grant as to lunar discoveries, a. at this data
the moon ceased TO be visible until . late
hour In the night, and thereafter Dr. Her
schel directed his labors to tho primary
planets Of ths systcm, especially 10 Saturn
and his ringa As Is we'll known b all read
err Of The Journal Of Science, this planet 10
100 O0O, 600 Of miles from the sun, and having
diameter Of 79,000 miles ID 10 moro than 600
times as large n this earth. Nevertheless u
revolves upon its axis In ten hours and six-
teen minutes, which, a. Dr. Herschcl has
demonstrated, causes the smoke OF its many
volcanoes to stream back ward, % 70 speak,
thus creating those yellowish and purple
belts which thwart the surface Of the planet.
OF its wonderful rings tho outer is 204 600
miles In diameter and the inner i64, 600 milea,
the space between them being $4,000 milea
Sir John Herschels most interesting dis
covery Is that these rings are tho fragments
OF two destroyed worlds, which, on being ex-
ploded, gathered around Saturn by the at
traction Of gravity and yet were prevented
from falling ON his surface by his extraordi-
nary rnpidity on his aka Later the astrono-
mers resumed their lunar surveys, and CON-
pleted mapof the moon, indicating the In
habited portions. timber. water. mountains,
| etc.
This concludes tho Supplement-, with the
exception Of forty pages OF illustrative and
mathematical notes, which would greatly en-
hance the size and price Of this work, with
out commensurably adding to Its general
interest Ed Sum-
Such are tho most salient portions Of tho
article as IL appeared In Tho Sun, and tho
reader Of today can scarcely conceive OF the
interest II excited. One writer says that tho
mass Of -radcrs accepted the document un-
hesitating.y, and among those Of a scientific
turn thers was the widest enthusiasm.
Even those with more technical knowledge
were staggered, aud some who decried tho
article waited with anxiety for the next
| European mails Several editors confessed
their faith, but many more sneered at The
| Sun as sensational" Those, however, who
took jocular view Of II came out with the
most credit, and a good specimen Of that class
is the opinion OF William Cullen Bryant In
| Tho New York Evening Post,
ut is quite proper that the sun should TO
the means OF shedding so much light on the
moon. That there should DO winged pcople
| In the moon does not strike US a. more won
| derful than the existence of such race Of be.
ings ON earth; and that there does or did ex-
list such race rests on the evidence OF that
most veracious Of voyagers and circumstan-
tial Of chroniclers, Peter Wilkins, whose cello
brated work not only gives an account OF the
general appearance and habits Of most In
tcresting tribe Of flying Indians, but also Of
all those more delicate and engaging traits
| icl. tkx.a nth nj hs1 10 hv
reason Of the conjugal relations he entered
into with one OF the females Of the winged
tribe.n
1t Is certainly matter OF interest that o
longing to penetrate the mysteries Of nature
has distinguished the Aryan branch Of the
human race from the very start, as was thui
beautifully expressed by Virgil 1900 year,
ago;
Ye sacred muses. with whose beauty Hrd.
My soul Is ravish'd, and my brain inspir'd.
Whose priest am whose holy fllets wear;
Would you your poets first petition hear;
Give me the ways Of wandering stars to know:
The depths Of heav'n above and earth below
Teach me the various iabors Of the moon,
And whence proceed tn eclipses Of the sun
Why flowing tides prevail upon the main,
And In what dark recess they shrink again.
What shakes the solid earth what cause delays
The summer nights, and shortens winter days
And, similarly, through oil these year
fanciful writers have played upon this long
ing, the result being such productions u
"The Arabian Nights" Sir Thomas More
"Utopia," Bishop Berkeley's Adventures o
Signor Gaudentio Di Lucca," Swifts "Gulii
ver's Travels" De Foes Robinson Crusoe
and Lord Erskine's "Armata," besides nu
merous others OF similar character. An,
as the moons surface has naturally been 80
lected a. the scene for vagrant fancy Il
disport itself, it is well to add here n fev
actual facts on that luminary.
OF volcanic origin, tho moon Is full Of vol
canoes, which, however, perhaps from con
viction Of the uselessness Of further action
there being nothing TO destroy, and no on
even to see their explosions-are now silen
and torpid. But they wrought out their des
tiny 80 long and 80 faithfully, that the sur
face Of the moon Is frightfully dislgured an
uneven Switzerland Is q prairie compare
to the snoothest part Of the moons surfact
II Ia nothing but incesant mountain and no
low. Lunar Alps aud Rocky mountains inteI
sect every few miles Of the surface. The Hin
alays would be unnoticed among the gganti
ranges which ornament the lunar superficie
And the projections, mighty as they are, al
but trifiing in comparison with the hollow
1t would seem as though the moon, wit
apish weakness, had tried TO initiate III
earth IN throwing OH space Tor rivers an
oceans-forgetting that 1t contained no wate
to I'll the cavities Astronomers have mad
the most extraordinary discoveries In refe
ence to these lunar hollows Some Of theI
appear 10 be about fifty miles deep, aud
, hundred miles or 70 wide, with precipitoI
sides.
There are no linen in the moon" Thei
cannot be, for they could not exist witho'
air and water. 'Tis pity, for the sight
this planet Of ours thirteen times the s
which the moon appears to us, as fair, al
bright, and shining as our nightly luminar
would he sight worth seeing. This articl
|, being a me!ange OF science and fiction, b'
, still aiming 10 direct the reader towards Il