Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-07-10
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Luna. Strange Actions ms Seen by
an Editor an n Kansas Town.

Luna. Strange Actions ms Seen by
AN Editor an n Kansas Town.
New York Tribune.
A gentleman who is Of the head Of
large private school in this city, and who,
We may add, Is deeply interested in scien-
tito matters, sends the Tribune recent
copy of the Jhomas County Bombshel, an
enterprislnR, eight-psge weekly news
paper Published in the town of Grass
land, Thomas county, Kan. This gentle
man kindly calls oar attention to an
account in the local columns Of the
Bom6shen which he thinks wonld be Of
interest to scientists in general and to
astronomers aud meteorologists in par
ticular, and we gladly comply with his
request to lay it before eastern readers.
II appears from the article In the
Bonbshell, which is couched in popular
language, that on Thursday night of
week before last, or, rather, on Friday
morning, as 1t was about 8 O'Clock, o. m,
its valued editor was returning to his
nome, "having been detained much later
than usual owing to an accident to the
fly Of the Washington PRESS" when he
Witnessed a most remarkable heavenly
appearance. "We WERE" writes the editor
of the BonsJshell, ''prooesding quietly
along Grubsiake avenue, considering
the sub act OF our leader this week on
The Tariff AID the Farmer when our
attention was suddenly called to
strange actions on the part Of the
moon. II seemed 20 be revolving
rapidly and throwing out sparks like
certain Fourth of July fireworks. We
could not have been mistaken, ss we ad-
| (.,,k. hox
| been forced to wear for the lsst year
when reading or writing, owing 20 the in
Jury to our eyesight brought on by our
close application in making Tho Bomb
she'll the best family paper in Thomas
oounty)-we adjusted our speotacles, we
say, and made careful examinat on Of
the phenomenon. While we were look
| ing we suddenly saw three other moons
| appear. We had heard of such things
being observed in the Arctic regions, but
never before in Thomas county. One OF
tho new moons, which was of bright
red color, was revolving rapidly around
the original moon. Another, Light
sseen moon, was wandering aimlessly
about the sky, seemingly looking for some
smaller mooa with which to pick q quar-.
rel The third of the new moons,
which was slender blue crescent, was
about four feet from the old moon up.
parently, and was engaged in first stand
ing on one end and then Topping over
md standing on the other. The quarrel
come moon Ut last ran atoul of this little
,eiiow end chased it down below thu
horizon near the Thomas County Horat
Racing Associations track, which, by the
way, Ia the best half-mile raoe track wesi
of the Mississippi. Carefully stesdyinE
ourselves by tree, and without remov
log our speotacles, we closely and aceur
ately observed the strange, weird phe
nomenon for upward of 80 minutes, wher
IL suddenly disappeared, and we walket
20 our home with Dave Dunham, oul
popular and efficient night Waterman
who, probably owing to the thick foliage
ot the trees had fslled TO observe any
ching out Of the ordinary"
We have quoted the substance Of thu
account as it appears in the Bombsaell, al
suggested hy tue able instructor wht
favored us with the paper. Regardint
ts value as a contribution to scientific
literature, we are not prepared to npeal
we leave that to the eastern scientists
fer whose benefit we have reproduced it
There is another item In the same cop.
Of the Bonsbshell which, perhaps, in justic
to the moon, we should also quote. 1t j
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