Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-06-19
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left This money was raised in the old
and new worlds alike. Besides. all they
had TO do was to exhibit themselves and
their projectile in America and they
could always realize large amounts of
money. They had earned all the glory
which the most ambitious mortal would
look for. Impey Barbicane and Captain
Nicholl would have been well able to
keep quiet and idle if this very idleness
did not torment them. And it was
simply no doubt to do something that
they had gone to work and bought this
part OF the Arctic region
But it must rot be forgotten that If
the purchase cest $4,000 and more,
that twas Mrs Evaugelina Scorbitt vho
had put tstc ttfeess,ev amount into this
affair. Thanks to this generous woman,
Europe had been conquered by America.
Since their return President Barbicane
and Captain Nicholl enjoyed a supreme
celebrity But there was another man
who deserved credit in the matter. Ii
Is easy to guess that J. 7. Maston was
the man of whom We speak, the tenn
porary secretary of the gun club. Did
all the mathematical formulas which
enabled US to tell the story of the voy-
age to the moon2 If he did not accom-
pany his two associates on their terrible
journey, it was not fear which kept him
back. No, indeed, il was only the in
iuries he had received during the war.
For really il would have made a bad i'm
preston on the inhabitants OF the moon
TO see him in his disabled condition as
representative Of our people and the
noon only our humble satellite. To
his extreme regret Mr.. Maston was com
PEELED to stay at home. Nevertheless
he had not been idle. After having
constructed an immense telescope, which
was put on the mountain of Longs
Peak, one Of the highest mountains OF
the Rocky range, he went up there per-
sonally. and after he had received the
signal that the cannon ball had been fired
/ he did not once leave his post From
/ his place OF observation he essaYed
the task of following his friends firing
across the vast space. One mightreadily
believe that his friends would BE- lost 10
/ the world; that Ii was very easily pos
siblc that this proiectile could be com
/ PEELED by the attraction Of the moon to
become sub-satellite. a deviation
which one might call providentia had
changed tile direction of the proiectile,
and after having made one trip around
/ the moon, in place o. touching it. it was
carried away in terrible fall and re-
turned 70 Us With speed o. $4,000
miles minute to the moment when it
/ was swallowed mp BY the ocean. Happy
it was that the great liquid mass had
1eadened the fall and that the Ameri-
can frigate Susquebanna was present at
the fall As soon as the news reached
Mr.. Maston. the secretary Of the gun
club, he rushed with all possible haste
from his observation point at Long Peak
to begin operations 70 save his
friends. Divers we're sent 70 the place
where the projectile had fallen. And
MIR Maston even did not hesitate TO put
on a cork jacket to save and find his
friends again II was unnecessary to 60
to 50 much trouble. The proiectile was
found floating on the surface of the Pa
eific Ocean after having made it's beauti-
full fall And President Rarblcane,
with Captain Nieholl aud Michel Ardan,
we're found playing dominoes in their
floating prison on the surface Of the
ocean
To return to J. r. Maston, il is proper
TO say that his part in the affair de-
serves a good deal Of credit 1t is GER
tain that he was not pretty with his
metallic arm. He was not young, fifty
eight years old at the time We write
this story. liut the originality Of his
character, the yivacity Of his intel
ligence. the yigor which animated him,
the ardor which he had in all such
things, had made him the ideal of Mrs.
Evangelina Ssorbitt. Ills brain care
fully hidden under his cover Of gutta-
percha was yet untouched, and he would
still pass as one of the most remarkable
calculators Of Els age.
Mrs. Eyangelina Scorbitt, although
the least figuring gave her headache,
had yet great liking for mathemati-
clans, even If she had no taste for math-
ematics. She considered them a higher
and more endowed race Of human be-
ings. Heads where the Y, Y, u were
mixed up like nuts in a barrel, brains
which played with signs Of algebra,
hands which iuggled with the integral
triples, these We're what She liked.
Yes, these wise people seemed 10 her
worthy OF ali admiration and support.
She felt herself drawn strongly towa@s
them. And J r. Maston was exactly
that kind Of man and ono She adored,
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