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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Signal, 1882-02-10, Page 3THEI DOG STAR. RPDA". r't.Y"0h. $,r. •r'';s tt :,. ter*^•^{f;ts k"T.rs€ THE HURON SIGNAL. FRIDAY. FEB. 10, 1882. panton. At Lot a tine teleawl.u, with a Odes eighteen and one-half inches iu /.rhea. tarts a►4at sere.. aad 1414 Attract• diameter, made by the celebrated opti- cian, Alvin Clarke, of Cambridge, Maas showed a taint star close by Sirius —that is' seemingly close, for in reality it was found to be at the very least two thous- and Million of utiles from hint. Later the French astronomer, Guldschmidt, with a much smaller telescope, claim.,d to have detected five other companion stars, and I was recently told by Profes- sor I'ritchott, of Glasgow, Mo., that with a fine twelve -inch telescope, manu- factured by Alvin Clarke, he had wen two of these. He could not understand, however, how Goldschmidt could have seen them with a smaller telescope, as they were among the faintest stirs he had been able to detect with his power- ful instrument. If these companion stars wore really worlds attending Sirius and shining only by reflected light, they must be enormous bodies. The system of Sirius must in this case far surpass in size and magnificence the system travel- ing round our sun as the sun himself is surpassed in glory and in might by the splendid sun we call the Dog -star. sat Weetes. Richer 1 .t. Pr.,, -tor In Youth's Compsnioa. Durin4 the winter months nue star can be seen to the right of the glorious Orion, but Lower down, which shines more splendidly than any other star in \the heavens though not quite equal in brightness to either of the twb planets, Jupiter and Venus. It is Sirius. the dog star, and has in all ages excited the admiration of all observe s. It as sup- posed by some that this splendid star nes changed in color during the put two thousand years, for ancient Greek and Roman writers spoke of it as s red star, :end Seneca e.eu said that Sirius was ruddier than Mars : But must probably the red light referred to by those older writers was simply the occasional Clash- ing of red light from the star which you can see whenever Sirius ie cheese to the horizon, when, as Tennyson writes: "The fiery Situs alters hue And b,cker. into red and emerald.- 11'htn you have learned what Sirius real.' is, you will see how unlikely it is that he can have chaitged color within two thousand years—a period which seems lung to us, but is really Nothing in the life -tune of a star. But what is Sirius' Does the teles- cope, which 'wenn to bring fdr objects nor, toll us anything about hili, :ts it dues abut Jupiter, Saturn and the other planets ?'The telescope scarcely tells us anything. The largest yet made by min only shows Sirius as a very bright star. Sir William Herschel tells us that when his great telescope, with its four -foot .mirror, was turned toward Sirius the approach of the star toward the field of view reminded him of the approach of day -break. But when the star was fully in view it showed no globe like that of the sun. It was still a mere star, though, of course, very much blighter than any star in the sky. And it is pretty certain that inen will never be able to make a telescope which will show the real body of this splendid star. Yet, fur all this, we know quite well what Sirius is. He is a sun hke ours, only very much larger. He lies about eight hundred thousand times farther from us than the sun; and we know that if the sun were set eight hundred times farther away than he, he would only look like • star, and not a very bright star either. In fact, hs.wuuld only just be fairly visible on a dark and clear night. He would be very faint indeed oompared with Sirius, shining only with about ane -two-hundredth pert of that star's light. Now, this does not exactly tell us how large Sirius le, because his great brightneu may be partly due to the greater splendor of his surface. A square inch of iron at a white heat gives out much more light than a square mph of iron at a red heat, and yet it is not larger. So it may be that, though the surface of,Sirius gives out so much more light than the surface of the sun, it may yet not be much larger. Still it seems reasonable to suppose that a sun which is so much more re- splendent than our own has a much greater surface. I do not thii.k we shall he very far wrong if we suppose that the surfaoe of Sirius is not more than twice as lustrous as our own sun. Now, in order that you may see how large Sirius is compared with the great earth on which we live, I may mention that the planet Jupiter is the giant of the solar system, exceeding our earth in size even more, but not much more, than the sun exceeds Jupiter. Suppose that Jupiter is represented by a hall one inch in dia- meter, then the earth on which we live would be rept-tee .cod by a ball neper ! public meeting will be recorded as leu than a tenth of an inch in diameter, Jpnvrleged and it will be a sufficient the sun by a ball ,acme ten niches in dia- ;libel cattaawunon in t ofwler oan an elireport- Meter, for and Sirius by a globe nearly three any language yards in diameter, according to the small ed to show that the words were used at a size I have given him, but more than i public gathering and that the party ago rive and on. -half yards in diameter, ac- i grieved was accorded the opportunity to i publish a correction cording to Sir John Herschel's esti- ..f any misstate - cording , manta. There is yet another way of forming an idea of the vast size of that globe, which yet, owing to its enor,nous dis- tance, looks like a .oright point in our skies. The noon travels at a distance from the earth of nearly 240,000 miles. Now the diameter of the sun is about 540,000 miles; w that if the earth were net at the centre of the sun and the moon traveled at its present distance from her, the whole of the moon's orbit would lie far within the globe of the sun. [t may seem surprising, but yet it is true, that although astronomers have not leen able to see, still leu to meas- ure, the globe of Sirius, they have yet learned what it is made of—at any rate they know home of its materials. For instance they know quite certainly that there is iron in it (in the form of gas), and sodium and tnagneaium, and here and there enormous quantities of the gas called hydrogen. How this has been learned I could not very -well explain here. I shall only say that the study of the light given out by this glowing orb is cut off by certain vapor —much as part of the sun's light is cut off by vapor to our air when the sun is rising or setting; and just as the ruddy color of the sun at that time shows him to be shining through the vapor of water in the air, en do certain peculiarities in the light of Sinus show that the light has pained through the vapor of iron. sodium. mag- nesium and hydrogen. It has been learned also that Sirius is rushing through space at the rate of from twenty to thirty riles in every second of time. He carries with him, no doubt, all the worlds which travel around his globe. But 0 must not be suppoeed that this rapid motion changes his place among the stars in a way we can eerily recognize. On the onntrery, so enor- mous is this sun's distance that he change of place can only be detected by a very powerful telasoope. nr else after long periods of time And this leads me to consider a curi- ous discovery that has been made shock this glorious son Of course it is to be suppeest+ that Meats, like .ser sun. has a kinkily of worlds traveling round hien. M est observers looking for any com- p{+e.nnion body which might travel round Sinus For they saw that any use body, to explain the movements of Sir- ius. must be very large, though Of o(ol'S& they expected only to find it mach faint- er than Sirius himself. However, for a {on1 time they could firm much eent- mew a *latessaaa t'eatrelled Sits Temper. tt hen M. de Persigny was French Minister of the Interior, he received a visit one day from a friend, who, on sending up his name, was shown into the greet man's sanctum A warm dis- cussion wee between them. Suddenly an usher entered and handed the min- ister a note. On opening it he at once changed the tone of his voice, and as- sumed a quiet and urbane manner. Puzzled as to the contents of the note, and by the marked effect it had suddenly produced on the minister, his friend cut a furtive glance at it, when, to his aston- ishment, he perceived that it was simply a plain sheet of paper, without a scratch upon it. More puzzled than ever, the gentleman, after a few moments took his leave and proceeded to the usher, to whom he was well known, for he him- self had oven a Minister of the Interor. "You have," said he, "just handed to the minister a note, folded up, which had a must extraordinary effect upon him Now, it was a plain sheet of paper, with nothing{ written upon it. What did it mean r' "Sir," replied the usher, -`here is the explanation, which I must .beg you to keep secret, for I do not wish to cowi- promise myself. My master is very warm and very liable to lore his temper. As he himself is aware of his weakness, he hes ordered me, each time that his voice raises sufficiently to be audible in the ante room, without delay to place a sheet of paper in an envelope and tat it to him. 'That reminds him th.t his temper is getting the better of him, and he at once calms himself. Just now I heard his voice rising, and immediately carried out my instructions." The Law et libel. The bill introduced by Hun Mr.Fr>i'aer for the amendment of the. law of libel assimilates the law to that now in force in England. At present in this Pro- vince a newspaper,reporting a meeting in gond faith, ;a held liable for libellous language that may be used by any of the speakers and embodied in the report. By Mr. Fraser's bill a fair report of a A few days .igo • farmer came to Belle- ville fell in with a woman he had never seen bef ire, and within twenty minutes agreed to marry her. He went for a license, but had to return to the woman s residence to get her name, which he did not know. A clergyman was procured, and the couple were married within an hour of their first meeting. The hus- band went home that night, promising to call for her within two days, but has not, yet done so. PROFESSORS CONNOR AND LYONS, of the Detroit Medical College. says: "We have used Dr. Wheeler's Com- pound Mixer of Phosphates and Cal sayawltb great satisfaction, and think It will aocom- pllab chat for which It is recommended. We have exhibited It to our Academy of Medi- cine, and. In other ways have brought it to the notioe of a Large number of physicians. it being a good thing, we are pressed to do mom than is nor custom to tears its virtues and exhibit them to ethers " flISTM�S� GOODS KNOCK'S JUSTkIRECEIVCD 1 ROE STOCK OF TOYS ND FANO Y 000D8 FOR iHC HOLIDAY SEASON. FULL LINES IN MILLINERY. SEE MY STOCK BEFORE BUYING YOUR HOLIDAY Glary. MRS- WARNOCS, Hamilton -at 500 RENTERS N*IANTED. Lyon and Osceola. Counties in Northwest Iowa, are conceded to be the most beautiful and fertile in the State. This sum- mer we have opened upwards of 300 new farms, sinking a well, building a convenient house and roomy barn, and breaking from 00 to 100 acres on each farm. These farms are to let on terms that no industrious man can fail to make profitable. Immediate possession given. We will, if need- ed, furnish seed for next year's crop. We will also furnish break- ing to be done, for which we will pay the regular prices. Tenants not having teams enough to break with, will be supplied with a horse or horses for that purpose, at mar- ket price, and the pay taken in bf eaking. These Harms are all sit- uated within a few miles of the railroad. Apply personally or by letter to CLOSE BROS. & CO., Sibley, Ososola County, Iowa Aro 11/MOM U11111111 Ari POUND ON nen Northern Pacific R. R. e s MINNESOTA, DAKOTA, an. MONTANA. BIG CROP AGAIN IN 1881 Low Pmoss ; Letts Tom : Ream row tarso,[ - sort: RawUOs smug M. Peeticert TO tETrtnra Foo stilt. NwSATteN AeeRas R. M. NtwPORT, Del taus Acv. ✓ um. MO era ST. PAUL. MINK SEEGMILLER Chilled Plow —AND— AGRICULTURAL WORKS, (laving purebased the Ooderich Foundry, 1 am fitting the promisee for the maautlscturl of CHILLED PLOWS and AGRIJULTURA IMPLEMENTS on a large wale. Mill Work. General Repairing and Jobbing will be con- tinued. AU work guaranteed. Mr. D. Runeiman Is the only man authorised halt of the late firm of line men R Co., and collect llect payments and give recelpta on be- all persons indebted are requested to govern themsel res accordingly. S. SCEOMILLER, Proprietor. AFTER 4 SEASON'S TRIAL. ,JAMES HEALE'S Condensed Fire Kindlers are the best in use. doing away with coal oil or shavings Each kindler will burn seven minutes, tong enough to Ignite hard wood. They are made from the best white resin and will not Doll ladles' hands. Sold at TWENTY CENTS PER HUNDRED. No different* In prioellor quality. To OUR SUAPCRIBEhN. The address -label on the first page will show each subscriber the state of his account with TIM Stoiat, and (it may be hinted) that this is an ap- pmpriate sleasoin for makine an al- teration in the figures. There are other figures in our books, also. which might very appropriate- ly be adjusted before the end of this month. "Owe no man anything, has been wise- ly enjoined upon all, and this in• junction is especially binding upon all who do business with newspaper men. A word to the wise is sufficient, and we will say no more at premed , for w. doles' dueeie g. Cord Wood Ranted 1500 CORDS OP WOOD. Delivered unsafe Railway will ti. pad. Nee which JAS A. McINTORH. ?Hear,. 0ederteh Nem. 11‘. 'Ml. lit t -i u 1 C7') A WICL $tf s day st home .. tg D i. made Cawtly sidle Rp. Addrps ars t re.. A n*Wit* alaie. James Heal°. Maker and seller, Goderich. 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PULL TIL ATm1 SW Fitt HOLMAN PAD 00., 71 )fwd STREET wase, 10101110. fisesslisase O 0rr0- f)seseMWe. thaw ews►hle resew Mr tie new 1N..4 rOy ,.erose NCLE TOM JOHN PASMORE, Manufacturer of ¶aous, Carnaffes, VICTORIA -St., Corner of Trafalgar. gent Nor tee Celebrated SEEGLILLER CHILLED PLOUGH Aid Agrleeltaral 1>aplemeats. loo, agent ?Grille Queen's Fire 8 Life Ins. Co. This 1s one of the best Perris ales 1n etlst- sere, being prompt and reliable. informattoa furnished cheerfully nn sppllcatlas. 7111sn MOMS PARreMA. GOOERICH BOILER WORKS. 0111711W Black. F. JORDAN, Chemist and Draggist• Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Drugs, Chemcals, Paints., Oils, Dye Stuffs, A rti.t Colors. Patent Medicines. Horse and (cattle Medicines. Perfumery Toilet Articles. arc. M' Pbysiciaa. Prescriptions carefully dispensed:Mt TAT.PlailS E Wit, TOILET SETTS, cso Combs Brushes and P1ii f all hiods Cheap, RHYNAS'tfe Druggist TO WILL MEN steed SAT W ELL KEN Prescriptions a Speciality - - Night Bell on the Front Door Holiday Presents At BUTLER'S Photo and Autograph Albums in great variety, Work Boxes, Writing Desks, very suitable for presents for Teachers and Scholars. PRESENTS FOR' EVERYBODY. ALL CAN BE SUITED. Stock is New, very complete, and consists of Indies and Gents' Parses, Chiu Goods of all kinds, Ruby Goods, Vases in many patterns, Tlnwer Pots, Cups and Flowers, China and Wax Dolls! A Large Assortment. Smokers' Sundries—Mer.chaum Pipes and Cigar Holden and Brier Pipes -100 Different Styles. New 11011.CR.1 and 51. T P NS eanuflse- tnred en sttert,et solace. School Books, Miscellaneous Books Bibles, Prayer Books, Church Sermons, W sesoex's Hymn Books, Psalm Books, &c., &c. --Subscriptions taken for all the best Eseuss, Scor -u, IRasa, Axulcare and CANADIAN Papers arot filtarines at Publishers' lowest rates—now is the time to subscribe. A full stock of School Books, for Teachers and High anon' odel Sch of Studentsl All will be sold cheap, and Patrons suited. I have a choice and large selection of t Christm't t and New Yeari s' Cards THE:A!Il• B•EST EVER SHOWN, 'Hta'!a TI/AN S♦ta, At BUTLER'S_ Dominionr');rt1' tel 'c:tir, 3.1 n 0 glee. 17^1 HOOTS AND SHOES DOWNING. I have great pleasure in annouucing to my customers and the public at large thal my stock of Boots and Shoes for the Fall Trade is now complete. and 1 would in vite inspection of the sone. I have been especially careful to purchase goods which I believe will give the customers satisfaction, and oo Credit to myself lion will FDf 1 ,' Price Iowa' t1iiii ilii �uwe� fl As 1 buy in large quantities, and for Cash. Doing the largest shoe trade in th Town, I can Sell at closer prices than those who do a smaller husinese. I would especially call the Attention of Farmers to My Stock of Long Boots and Sho Which is one of the largest to be found in any retail store in the Provtnco I ha on hand several cases of the celebrated "K. R. B." Long Boots, which have given such 7.m m_en.Se Satis+a :tier. In the past 4 1r. e es ve I ORDERED WORK We are still abreast of the times, and having a large staff of tint -clams inechanies, 1 lira prepared to manufacture anything in my line to order, at the shortest notion', in first-class style, and of the very best material. In conclusion. i beg to return my sincere thanks to my customers for their liberal patronage in the past, and rest aasurel 1 shall do my utmost to deserve a oontmt:tnce of the same. Yours respectfully. Cur. Eas Street and the Square.ti.ider cosh E DOWNIN GET YOUR AUCTION SALE BILLS I )F EVERY 1)Frlt'lttPTiI )K, 11 k,nds of Repairing prorated ands th. T /��� may peransa! eup.rvldon of the Proprlet ore who i ea_i��N/tisN.r�+1�►ii.ioi� ���•� Ann Practical Workmen 1' I o Rot 1(Vi I7N^ E PRINTED A T THF. I qFT"F "1r TAE HURON SIGNAL Kortb arrest. On4iivte