The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1892-05-28
STELLAR GLORIEs.
The astronomers soul should be stepped
in perfect delight these evenings when
The armament with stars is decked

The astronomers soul should be STEPPED
in perfect delight these evenings when
The armament with stars is decked
And sparkling gems aglow.
Out in the western heavens the mag
nificent planet Venus blazes like Il celes-
Kooh-i-noor. Venus is now at its
best, and sparkles with a resplendent
beauty that thrills and enchants. Close
to it are the "twins," and futher down the
golden tips" of the horns OF "Taurus."
To the northward of Venus, glittering in
the northwestern sky, is "Capella, the
royal wolf that sucked JoVe." About
twenty degrees above the horizon, at 8
O'Clock, in the northwestern heavens, is
the beautiful star, Vega, which, astrono-
mers tell us, was once the pole star of the
earth. Some great cataclysm disturbed
u position, the polarity OF our planet
was changed, and now all mariners set
their compass to "Polaris," whose con-
slant light is ever visible in the northern
sky. Vega is a white star, yet viewed
through a telescope seems to change its
light with the moments, now blazing
with a pure brilliant white, now becom-
ing a light blue.
Nearly overhead, but south and east of
the zenith, is Arcturus, the brightest fix
ed star of all the glittering hosts now
visible. Arcturus Is a yellow star, which
means that it is much older thar either
Capella or Vega. Arcturus is one of the
few fixed stars whose distance is meas
urable. 1t is one and one-half million
times more distant than the sun; which
makes it las, SOC, OOO, 900 900 miles distant.
IL you don't know how far that is step it
off.
What an immense star Arcturusi is. Were
it to change places with our sun, whose
diameter is about s52 800 miles, and whose
light is a perfect glory, that member of
our celestial host would appear as one
of the minutest of minute stars, and the
intense heat from Arcturus would melt
our earth and cause it's elements to boil
as water In a cauldron.
Near the horizon in the southwest sky
is Procyon, and nearly mid way between
it and Regulus is the planet Saturn. East
of Saturn is Spica, the cornear, another
glittering glory of the innumerable star
host.
j. ID. Brown, one OF the parties inter-
ested in the Catron compound interest
case, decided some time ago in favor of
Lafayette county, was here Thursday,
perfecting an appeal to the Kansas City
court of appeals.
Rarus, once the king of the turf, with a
record of 2:13A, died Of old age a few days
ago, at Robert Bonner's Tarrytown farm.
He was 20 years old, and MI. Bonner paid
$50, 900 for him in 1879.
John Morrison and Tom Fletcher placed
themselves and a fishing outfit, including
bait and a lunch, in a cart Wednesday,
and ven fishing to Helms lake.
Axtell is said to be getting into great
shape at Terre Haute, and Doble is conf
dent that he will not trot below the re-
cord when he meets Allerton.
Mrs. w. B. Steele's residence, at the
corner of Main and Thirteenth streets, is
being reprinted.
The steamer Mason was to have left st.
Louis at 6 O'Clock Thursday Afternoon for
Kansas City.
DIR. Fredendall rides in a new and hand
some buggy.
The river at Kansas City is falling
steadily.
The merry-go-round still draws well.