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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron News-Record, 1894-12-19, Page 21lel iiil:irn tot gq„Il..emeleami,e I unt1 mutteletilie 11W1ti WATCHING FOR SANTA CLAUS. They crept from out their oozy cots, A white and barefoot pair ; What made the little trembling tots Sit ehlvering on the stain? The•only living things awake Within the silent house - They simply thought they'd like to take A peep at Santa Claus. -London News. t hr,e m 1s Com n;; (- ONLY ONE •• �oRTILL C�►Ri5T1'KS. •411'14'Atmlf. Christmas 18 coming! Oh, my! Oh, any! Look out, little man, don't aryl Don't cry! For Santa Claus loveth a brave little boy, And surely remembers all such with a toy Or a crone or a book Or a long candy cr000k- ,Nevor mind, if your tunable did hurt, don't Ory. phristmas is coming, and my little lad Will forget every troubldeome hump he has had; Itbringeth a balm for each bruise, and the smart, Of the saddest of griefs will for the time depart, The joy of the hells, . • In each bosom swells For the goodness of giving makes every heart glad. tits, 'Christ is coming. That wonderful day, The childre light in is not far away, Then cand td cookies and wagons and elede And jumping -jacks, whistles and dolls' little beds Are scattered abroad And the children applaud Each treasure from• Santa Claus' wonderful sleigh. 4t "Fools Bush In," Eto. The Poet -"How beautiful she looks Standing there beneath the mistletoe ! I will approach her softly, t ncircle her with my arms, look longi and lovingly into her eyes, and then" - But just:then John Smith, who is not a poet, stepped in and did it. A Quaint German Custom. Ae soon as she is able to run about each daughter of a German farmer's family is presented with a linen bag, marked with her own name, into which At puts all the feathers she can pick up. Net the slightest downy bit escapes her, and the sooner the baa is filled the greater praise she gets from her par- ents. The bag being full, it is emptied into a larger one, which hangs in the garret o elsewhere and when there are feather' enough they are made into pillo' e ' ' bolsters or beds or cushions for eas Lairs. We waste a great deal in this" eiktntry. Although we do not keep so many geese as Germans keep, thielten feathers aro plentifully strewn about most farms and make good beds. The Borrower Has No Show. There isn't so much reason for being neighborly as there used to be. People ' these times can rent dishes of a crockery Store 'When they give a party and un- dertakers furnish chairs for a funeral. There isn't much left to borrow except .61Mona and trouble. --Atchison Globe. THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM. Probably It Was 'Venus at Its Bloat Brl1. 'Dont stage. Some time ago various newspapers of Europe and America'r contt}ined the startling intelligence that the star which guided the "Wise Men" would again appear. This star was connected with that celebrated one which, 318 years ago, suddenly disappeared from the con- stellation of Cassiopeia and it was found that this star of 1572 had pre- viously appeared in the years 1264 and 945; and, if counted back, must have appeared in the year of the birth of Christ. If these facts were well estab- lished, we must certainly expect the star to appear again in our days. We should then see a now body in our heavens, entirely unlike any fixed star, to be seen in full dayli'ht, which would in a short time again aisapnear. Every astronomer in recent times has asked hundreds of questions on the subject. Is it true that the Star of Bethlehem will again appear ? Is it periodical ? Is its place in the sky appointed? The next question is, What really happened in 1572? It was a few months after St. Bar- tholomew's night; Tycho Brahe, the great observer of those days, tells us that: "One evening, as I was watching the heavens in my accustomed manner, I saw, to mygreat astonishment, in the constellation Cassiopeia, a brilliant.etar of unusual clearness." This was on November 11, 1572. Three days before the star had been seen by Cornelius Gemma, who spoke of it as 'this new Venus.' In December of the same year its luster began to wane ; and in March, 1574, it had entirely disappeared, leav- ing no trace. As to the stars of 945 and 1264, we have no authority except that of the Bohemian astrologer, Cyprian Lowitz. No historian mentions them, and the Chinese chroniclers, who watch- ed all appearances in the sky with great care, do not speak of them. Even granting the appearance of these stars to have been a fact, their resemblance to the Star of Bethlehem is doubtful. It is true that by counting back we come to the year 680, 815 and 10 ; but the star should have again appeared some time between 1880 and 1891. With regard to the Star of Bethlehem there are hve assumptions : (1) It had no existence, and the entire statement is a beautiful oriental fairy tale. (2) The fixed star, seen by the wise men, was Venus, at the time of its greatest splen- dor, (3) It was a periodical star like that of 1572. t4)' The phenomenon was occasioned by a conjunction of planets. (5) It was a comet. Of these assumptions the most probable is tete second. That it was a periodical star is scarcely like- ly, for Ptolemy and Matuan-lin would have spoken of it. The fourth state- ment was suggested in 1826 by the Ger- man astronomer Ideler, and repeated by Encke in 1831. In the year 8, B.C.. there were conjunctions of the planets Jupiter, Mars and Saturn on May 29, September 3 and December 5, but on none of these days were the planets nearer together than a degree, so that the wise men must have been very near-sighted to take them for ono star. The fifth assumption is also not to be considered, for people already knew how to distinguish a comet from other stars, and besides, we have no know- ledge of a comet at that time. For all these reasons we have not the least oc- casion to expect the return of the Star of Bethlehem at the close of our century. And even ff such atsstar should appear, it would simply be the twenty-sixth such case observed in historical times,andthe interest attached to it would be purely astronomical. -Camille' Flammarion in Deutsch Levu. The Man Wit the Iron Mask. The mystery of the man with the iron mask, imprisoned at Pignerol in the time of Louis XIV., has tempted the in- Penuity of a hundred writers, from the ore Griffet and Voltaire to M. Func- Brentano, who writes in the Revue Historique that the famous victim was Manttioli, secretary of state of the Duke of Mantua,Charles IV. M. Func-Brentano eliminates Dumas' romance about a brother of Louis XIV., the Comte de Vermandois, the Duke of Monmouth the Duke of Beaufort, the Count of K'eroualze, Nicholas Fouquet, the Armenian patriarch, Avelik; Old- endorf, and Molier° to adopt Mattioli• died at 68 years ofd age, and the docu- ment upon which M. Munck-Brentano's case rests gives 45 as the year of his age at his death. Paul Lacroix, more than sixty years ago, exhausted all the resources of the legend, which had perhaps little foun- dation in fact. The iron mask, if mask there was, was made of velvet, Lacroix says. 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