The Dickinson press., 1891-10-24
Children DISCOVERIES.

As in many other OF discovery
that OF the telescope appears to have
been the result OF u playful accident.
Several stories are told about it, but
all similar.
The one most generally accepted
tells how, about the year of159O, just
800 years ago, the children Of Zacha-
riah Jansen, q spectacle-maker, resid-
ing at Middleburg, in Holland were
in their fathers workshop and OBJ
served that when they held between
their fingers two spectacle glasses, one
some distance before the other, and
looked through them at the weather.
cock OF the church it seemed inverted,
but very much nearer to them and
greatly increased i'll size.
Their father, when his attention
was called, saw that of the glasses
was convex and the other concave.
He made experiments and ended by
fixing such glasses in wooden tubes
few incheslong and selling them for
curiosities. Another account tells us
how II Lippersche1m discovered the
telescope in a similar Des-
cartel, however, a contemporary, gives
the credit to James Metius, a glass
cutter in Holland, whose brother, a
professor OF mathematics and q ma
ker OF burning glasses and mirrors,
hit upon the discovery in the same
way chat Jansen's children are said
to have done.
What Was inside.
Georgie lives with his grandpa and
grandma, and he sleeps in the room
with them. One night he was very
restless, tossing about and kicking
anything that came within reach OF
his small feet This disturbed grand
pa and grandma very much, and
finally grandma arose and prepared
some medicine for the little boy,
while grandpa awakened him.
"Here in some nice medicine" said
grandma, "Jo make you sleep better.
Open your mouth, George, and take
"Whas is it?" queried George.
cit is moiasses," answered grandpa.
"And what you like so we'll in the
turkey-stufing," added grandma.
"But-what is it?" asked George,
drowsily.
"It's molasses," said grandpa.
"Molasses," added grandma, "and
-
ri know it's molasses," broke in
George, half-asleep by this time. "but
Notwithstanding molasses?"
"Sage, my boy, sage!" cried grandpa,
And George took the medicine with.
out another word.
PunctuaIIty.
A distinguished warrior, who was
noted for mis- p~unctuality, C sale
that he would just as soon have @
man come five minutes behind time
as five minutes ahead OF time. What
he wanted, was for the man to bt
there to the minute. We may not al
agree with the warrior, but surely
there is no one who cannot see thu
advantages that are to be gained by
being on time.
"P~unctuality is the soul of bust
ness" reads an old adage; and no
only does this apply to business-life
but to our everyday life. "Time i
money!" and it is no more just tt
waste q mans time by not bein'
punctual than it is to take away hi
money or his clothes.
Be punctual, boys and girls, ant
you will find yourselves better salts
, fled and your fellow-creatures will ap
preclate the efforts made.
Keep out of Debt.
Every one who has q fixed incom
OF any kind can and ought so to regu
, late his expenditures as to bring Their
, within it. This is a habit whic
should be inculcated in the earlies
years. The child. with an allowanc
!. for its pleasures, be it ever SO small
' should never be suffered to exceed
' or to draw upon the future. Th
i youth should be taught to underg
self-denial rather than to borrow tn
. money to obtain a qualification
There is more true independence
this lesson than in hundreds of shout
Z or boasts Of libert which too ofts