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CURIOUS COINCIDENCE.
LOST CITY O f ¿ETRA.
HIGH VELOCITY STARS.
Th.ir Fearful Rate of Spaed In •pass
ll Somewhat Puzzling.
The iT O iit velocity o f «ten ranees
from about six kilometers, or between
three tad four miles, per eecond for
“ young" etara to «boot thirty kilome
ter» p«r second far “old” ones. But
notable exception» occur. At Mount
Wilson aolay observatory o f the Car
negie Institution some stars have been
found to move with velocities o f 141.
160, 17», » 9 , 810 and even 825 kilo
meters per second, the hlghtst speed
yet known.
la la quality the asms mantel attitude
ha which the Ignorant, Impassive mine
worker walks around la tbs dm damps,
and whan they explode he. too. be
comes a popular hero.
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“ Next highest in tbs world's gauge-
next lowest in the true scale—Is tbs
& THE UNIVERSE.
courage that dares a quick danger In a
sudden emergency. In itself this Is Our Own Stellar System and What
May Be Eeyend It.
in one o f the latest conceptions of
astronomers the stallar universe has a
diameter of KUIOO to lSJXX) light years,
with a thickness o f 2,000 to 8 ^) 00 , and
bu stamina. The man wlio, thottth his
fights he all defeats, still fights, who.
though ha baa baas a failure In tbs
past- and knows himself (aa many a
keenly sensitive man knows klmaelf)
to be a failure and to doomed to be a
tellurs for the rest o f hto life, rleee pa
tiently and Indomitably every morning
to face the Inevitable defeat o f the day
with equanimity and sweetness there
to a courage, my master», o f which the
klnga and victors of the earth are not
courage, the highest o f all to the tros
scale, but so little esteemed to the pop
ular mind that U will hardly be ac
corded a place to the scale at all an
teas. aa 1 said dn respect of the Brat
type, to be aero la to be a part o f the
gauge. It to the courage of cowardice,
the bravery of the man who to afraid,
but who to mortal funk and ah>Ct
fear, with throbbing heart and sweat-
tog brow, forest himself to de the
thing from which he shrinks. This,
which the world sneers at aa coward
ice, la the highest courage o f alL In
fa ct It la the holy true courage, tor It
sets all the agonised effort of a man’s
seal against all the fears and terrors
that the powers o f darkness can faring
upon bias." /
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hams and was a cadet o f the Military
academy from Sept 18. 1817. until July
1 , 1822, when he was graduated and
appointed a brevet second lieutenant to
the Sixth infantry. On the expiration
of hto graduation leave on Dae. 81,
1802. ha resigned from the army to be-
was an Important trading station for
the caravans that moved between
Persia and Egypt, and India and the
holy land and Syria, it la built In a
colossal bowl of pink, and its pdlacsa,
temples and tombs are carved out of
solid rock. Certainly some of Its carv
ings are 0.000 yeara old. Its walla pre
serve the history o f architecture, for
Ita structures date from the days of
cave men to the magnttcent buildings
o f Greece and Borne. - -v r f 1
Today Petra baa about thirty In
habitants. They keep a few goats, go
beyond tbelr city into the desert to
trade with passing caravans and. alto
gether. torn) a miserable Ufa They
have made trouble for many traveler»
who attempted to visit than), for a
legend survives that a Pharaoh of
Egypt bid hie country's treasures In
the Kaxneh. the beautiful building
which Is today known as Pharaoh*#
Por many yanta they tried to keep
white travelers from entering the dtp.
because when the treasure was found
they said it belonged to them. But to
day they welcome visitors. Nominally
the city o f Petra la a personal posees-
alón of the sultan of Turkey, and it la
theoretically against the law to re
move anything without hie permission.
But there la nobody to stand watch
and guard the historic treasures. Every
traveler helps himself, and the natives
assist him in hto search, hoping to da
tive a faw cants for tbelr labor,—
ihnen described aa runaways
they seem to be quite beyond
trot of tbs gravitational powc
universa. At thetr apead tin
tlou of the entire known ate
tern would be wholly tnsuf)
«beck the star’s
The astronomer, Simon Newcomb.
once calculated that the maximum ve
locity attained by a body sterling
with velocity aero at aa Infinite dis
tance and pasting through a stellar
system containing 100 , 000,000 stem
each five times aa maaaiva a i our sun
and distributed throughout a disklike
spheroid o f certain extent cannot ex
ceed 40 kilometers per second. Yet the
star “Groombridga 1880" baa a speed
nearly nine times this value, and the
massive star Arctnrus baa a apded
probably four times this value.
If existing velocities owe tbelr mag
nitudes to the gravitation o f the sys
tem the quantity o f attracting matter
In the whole stellar system would
have to be at least eighty times that
assumed by the calculations of Pro
fessor Newcomb.—Baltimore Ameri
can.
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Scottish divine, before visiting India,
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called on an old highland woman in
Bo far as can be determined tbs stars
Glasgow, says a writer to the Scot
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India.“ be said, “ye’ll be seeto’ ma
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“But Katie.” said the doctor. “ India
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The temperatine
pect to find him?"
rises from near absoluta aero to the
“Oh, bat ye’ll ‘ Just be askin’ tot
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giant Sot stars.
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So. to please the old woman, be prom
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scientiously kept his word. At various
ports he made Inquiry among British
ships, although It m ined vary much
like looking for a needle to a bale of
hay. But It to the unexpected that
happens. Aa Dr. liacleod’s steamer
went up the Hagli river an outward
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Indeed, the boose cannot be consid shouted out:
Ante Are Six Bared.
DUNLAP’S GROCERY
In the matter o f some e f their sense ered aa In any way special to the
“ Are you Donald Mactavisit?"
organs the ants are more* than ordi negro; they were familiar to 8 hake-
To his intense surprise the man an-
narily endowed. Strange aa It may •peare’s Bottom, who declares: “ I have
seam, each ant has at least six ears. a reasonable good ear to music; let us
Dr. Macleod had only time to about
Aside from this multiplicity of oars, hare the tongs gad the boneh.” And “You’re to write (o your mother!“ as
they are located to Just about the the wise recorder o f the words and the vessels drew apart The result o f
queerest place Imaginable—on the legs. deed* o f Uncle Remus declared that be hto-amasing meeting was that the old
They seem deaf to all sounds mads by bad' never listened to the staccato pick lady received e penitent letter teem
the vibration of the air, bat detect the ing o f a bmtie to the negro quarters o f her long neglectful eon.
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slightest possible vibration# o f solid any plantation.
“ I have seen the negro at work,” so
material. This to supposed to be to
Net Quite.
tbelr advantage in that such things aa Joel Chandler Harris once asserted.; “ Young man,” Inquired her father
approaching footsteps tall more of the “and I have seen him at play; I have sternly, “ will yon give her a home like
possibility o f danger than such sounds attended hto corn shucking», his dances the one she has been used to?” -
| G bbm early a mi f«t first pick j
as are transmitted through the air. Bo and hto frolics: 1 have heard Urn give
“ No.” replied the truthful suitor, “for
sensitive are their test that tiny de the wonderful melody of hto songs to there will be no grumpy tether to • ow on on ow on ow on on on ow ow ow b
tect the impact of a small bird shot the winds; I have heard him give bar pome home and make every one mto-
dropped on (be table from a height of baric aim to the quill* (that Is to say, erable by his kicking over trlflee and
about six inches and about fourteen to the Pan’s pipes); I have beard him swearing at matters to general. There
feet distent from an artificial neat scrape Jubilantly on tbs fiddle; I have will be no mother to eoold her from
placed at the other, and o f the table.— seen i>»«n blow wildly on the bugle and morning to night for westing time
bent enthusiastically on the triangle, merely because she wants to be neat
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but I have never heard him play on the There will be no big brother to abase
banjo.” —Brander Matthews In Bcrlb- her for not doing half o f hto work and
no little brother to make enough noise
“I wish, John.“ she said regretfully.
to drive her craay when her heed aches.
“1 bad had sense enough not ttf de
When Toriles Were Big.
There won’t be any younger sister to
stroy all the letters you wrote me dur
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turtles It assy be said that tnstet on reading some trashy novel
ing the year aad a half o f your court
they repassant the moot ancient type of while she does all the work. 8 be will
ship.”
He smiled In a gratified way. “ I knew all vertebrates, resembling closely aa net have with me a home like she has
you would regret that some time;” be they do the reptiles o f their kind which bean need to, not if 1 can help It"—
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“ Indeed T da” she replied. “ I need era. Thai« were sea tortoises during
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