THE WEEKLY 1IEKAL1): riArrSMOUTH.XKlUtASKA. MARCH !), 8M 1 V i V i i JHE VERNAL EQUINOX. The Sun Due March 20th at That Point. THE NEW EVENING STARS. The Flrmanent on Clear Evenings Presents an Interesting At tractiveness to the Star Cazer In March. TH K SKY IN MARCH, (ilnlii lioiiioirat . m. i.,:.... j .. i,:, .1,1,- p ,'ldl l LI u I I II ti .1 -'W I I 1 jiiliij nil f portant event in the career of the sun. On the 'JUtli or 21st day of the month every year the sun is said to enter the vernal equinox, or "cross the line." In b'.M this happens on the 20th. A few days before Christ vmaB, or around the '21st of Decern Ynrj the sun rose, culminated and 'set In its farthest point to the south and since then it has been moving toward the north. About two anil a half months ago it rose in the southeast and set in the southwest, but the places of its appearance and disappearance at the present time are much nearer the true east erly and westerely points respec tively. The northward swing eon--linuing the raising and setting will be at their most northerly points on June 21, when Old Sol's advent and extent will be about as far north of the real east and west as, around Christmas, they were south of those points. Then the swing in the opposite direction will begin and be completed on December 21, to be repeated on be fore, each oscillation taking up about six months. The points in which the sun appears on these two dates are called the solstices, or the sun's standing places. Mid way between these two dates, or about March 20 and September 22 each year, the sun passes through the equinoxes, or half-way houses, in its course, the earlier one being ailed the vernal equinox and the latter the autumnal equinox. The term equinox is formed from two Latin words meaning "equal night." This backward and forward swing ing of the Bun is due the apparent revolution of the sun around the I earth which occupies about a year, lor to the real revolution of the earth, around the sun, for it is the earth and not the sun that does the moving, the earth being a planet like Mars, Jupiter, Saturn Jand the rest of its companion bodies of the soder system. It is more conven ient, however, to consider that the earth is stationary and the sun in motion, and this motion is deferred to in popular inscriptions of astron omical phenomena. On March 20, when the sun, sweep ing along its course to the north ward, dashes accross the equinoc t iol, the sun's rays for the moment will extend from pule to pole, the days and nights all over the globe will be approximently equal, the spring, as astronomers mark off the the seasons, will begin north of the equator, and the autumn will set in south of that line, ami the six months' day at the south pole will end and the same length of day at the north pole will commence. The day's length tr e period between sunrise and siinsct--wasabout nine hours ami twenty-seven minutes in the latitude of St. Louis at the win ter soltice on December 21. In the same latitude it was nine hours and thirty minutes on January 1, ten hours and sixteen minutes on February 1, and eleven hours and twenty minutes on March 1. The day's length increased one hour and four minutes in February, forty-six minutes in January, and three minutes in the ten days of De cember succeeding the solstice, a gain of one hour and fifty-three minutes from D"cemler 21 to March I. In more northerly lati tudes the gain will be greater; in more southerly, less. The difference ' in time between now and Christ mas will be larger in Chicago than jit is in St. Louis, still larger in Jue fbee, and larger yet in St. I'eters f burg. It will be smaller in Havana i than in Crescent city, and smaller still at the Isthmus of I'anama. Our old acquaintances, Jupiter and M irs, are still with lis. but neither seems to be neighborly. The angular distance separating the two orbs has increased rapidly sincethey were in conjunction near the end of January, before which time the giant planet was east of his warlike brother. Since then they have changed places, Jupiter now being the father westward, and widening his distance from Mars. Jupiter is bright enough still to be seen before the close of the evening twilight, but his dimmer compan ion can not be discerned until later Moth are west of south when they come into view. J tipiter disappears in the southwest these evenings shortly after 10 o'clock. Mars re mains with us half an hour later. March is the last month in which the giant planet will be seen to ad vantage this season. Hy the be ginning of April he will be so low in the southwest at sunset that he will lose the the greater part of his interest for star gazers. On the 2"th of April he sets with the sun and takes up the role of the morning star, which he will retain until near the end of November, when he will once more take his place in the evening sky, where he will be divide the honors with Venus, whitth will then be Jnear the end of her ap proaching engagement as evening star. Mars stays with us until Sep tember, but he lias lost the glories which made him a conspicuous ob ject to both the professional and the causal sk ga.er last August and September. An important event in March's astronomical annals is the advent of Saturn as evening star. The planet will attain this distinction two days before the month ends. It is now in fair view in the east about "o'clock, and it will appear earlier on each succeding evening. On 'arch 2!it will raise just as the sun sets, although it will not be high enough to be in full view on that day until half an houror more later, depending on the obstruc tions to the prospect toward the east. Saturn will partly compensate us for the loss of Jupiter, which will be felt about that time. The ringed planet will remain with us until October, when it will disap pear from the evening sky to be come a morning star just as Jupiter whom he succeeds now, is prepar ing to make his advent again as an evening luminary. Saturn now, after lie comes in view, is visible un til surise and is the only conspicu ous planet except Venus, which ap pears just before sunrise, that will be in the field of vision after 11 o'clock at night. Mercury ranks as an evening star at the present time, and will continue in the role until the end of March, being in the southwest at sunset, but he will not be far enough away from the sun to the east until the 8th or 10th of March to be readily traced out by the un aided vision. Uranus raises in the southeast about an hour later than Saturn, but like Mercury, he is or dinary a somewhat difficult object to find by the naked eye. Techni cally Uranus is a morning star, and will remain in that category until, several weeks hence, it raises at sunset. Venus is drawing near er and nearer to the sun prepara tory to her passage to the east side of that luminary, when she will become an evening star. This event occurs early in May. She is a beautiful object as she raises south of east.these mornings a little more than an hour before the sun's appearance. As an evening star she will make her debut the 2d day of May, when she in the west and Saturn in the east will be the lead ing attractions of the evening sky. Her appearance, in combination with Saturn, will repeat the tplcn did spectacle of the autumn mouths of 1S(I2, when Mars in the south and Jupiter in the east divided the honors of the tiruiLiicnt in tin- early part of the night. February had no full moon, but March comes near having two of them, but fciuisscs this honor by a few hours, the second of them striking the opening day of April early in the morning. There will be some interesting meetings be tween the moon and planets during Maich. .Several times those orbs approach and pass each other on the celestial highway. On the 'Jmli of March, when the moon is about half way between her new and tiit quarter stage, she will pass close to Jupiter, both beingin the southwest at the time, the moon being a little over a degree north of the planet when they are at their nearest. A day afterward, or on the 21st, Luna pays her devoirs to Mars, approach ing within a degree and a half of hi.Monthe north. On the last day of March the moon greets Saturn again. This will be the.closest ap proach of the month, the two bodies being just about a degree apart, the moon, as in the earlier conjunction, being south of the nlanet. On the clear nights in this part of theyear tin. lirmanent presents a picture of rare attractiveness. About 0 o'clock in the evenings of the opening days of March the brilliant first magnitude star Cap ella, of the constellation of Auriga, rhariotecr, is in the west, and Aide baran, of the bull in the southwest Fast and south of Capella are Cas tor and I'olox, of the twins. In the south are Hetelguse ami Kig,., ,,f orion, Kigel being nearer the hori zon than its companion. Also in the south, but farther to the east than the other two stars, is the peerless Sirius, of the great dog. Higher above the horizon in the same quarter of the sky is I'rocyon, of the Lesser Dog. Jupiter ami Mars, the planets, are west of these four stars, and the planet Saturn is east of them, and m situated south of. but not far from the true easterly point. Higher above the easterly Viii'jn-A 4li!a annuMt IKi t.A I 1. : , . . I I . . . . , " " ' 11 M , horizon than Saturn is Regulus, of the Lion, Regulus being the larg est of a stream of stars arranged in the form of a sickle. Lower than Saturn is Spica, of the Virgin, Further in the north thau Saturn and Spica is Arcturus, of the Hear Keeper. In the northerly part of the sky at that hour tht (ire.it Hear and Kipper, is of the Dole Star, and mounting toward the zenith, while Cassiopeia, the Lady in her chair, is on the west side of the Pole Star and sinking toward the horizon. Tut t" work. Dills don't interfere with PEOPLE AND AFFAIRS. Till- AMERICAN CIKI.IN WASHINGTON And everywhere is the American girl the pride of prosperous house holds from the Atlantic to the Pa cific; the girl of the period from New York or Philadelphia; the ex quisitely tinted Puritan of New Kngland; the Vasar or Wcllesley college graduate --determined upon compelling voting cavalry officers ... i . .. .' . I., i . to ursiow upon nieir vaiuaoic. opinio as to Drowning's place in literature, or the future of the American woman, or the relative merits of women's colleges and men's universities. There are other girls frankly ignorant, impetieut of anything that sounds literary or scientific, but who wear the dia monds bestowed upon them by pa rental affection with a proud con sciousness that there is money in the parental bank to buy many more of them. There are simple rural maidens who are redolent of the soil from which they come. All of them are sujected to a certain forcing process in this atmosphere, All of them will feel the ecstasy that tills each true woman's heart when she imagines that she has been a participant in the highest and brightest of social glories; and the echoes of their delight rever berate from one end of the land to the other, for in nearly every town and hamlet there is some exuber ant young being who has shared in the festivities of Washington, who has seen her like from all quarters of the Union gathered to gether under the roofs of great men -of the president, of cabinet officers, of law-makers, of foreign ministers. She has mt t young men of different mould from those wdio make evening calls on her in her own retired village, or small city, or back street. She has felt that there are powers within her which she never recognized before, and which may be waisted in the dull and spiritless place in which she dwells, and where men and women are engrossed by the sordid and confining cares of business and housekeeping, creating and devel oping the life of which she has teen part. She has associated with all that is great in the national life. She has talked familarlv with strange people from the Orient. She has ventured on a little French an attache of the legation of the young republic, or perhaps even with the minister himse lf. She has seen a real Hungarian hussar, and, what is more she has seen the kind of men she knows at home, the leading lawyers, the principal mer chants, the respectable, self-respecting Americans, standing on an even footing with all that controls and direct the countiy. This fact may not be very impressive to her simplicity, but she feels that she has been among the best there is in all humanity, and that if the men whom she co'ntroN can hold their own in these surroundings w hy should not she stand on equal terms with presidents ami minis ters and senators and judges, and even with their wives and daugh ters':' From "Washington Society," by Henry Loomis Nelson, in Har pers Magazine for March. KI-STRH TI Mi ( ; H R Nl A N ICN ICR ATlo.N. New York I nli'iciiiriit. The new German emigration bill is intended to prohibit the emigra tion of men between the ages of 17 and 2.", who are liable to military service, and it puts large power in the hands of (he government offi cers In limit the departure from Germany of those who wish to set tle elsewhere. A similar agitation is going on in Denmark and in Scandinavia. Now these are the most desiraole og all the classes that come to tljis country. They are well educated, steady and in dustrious people. They do not weaken us, they strengthen us. It will be only the most desirable emigtaiits whom this action will affect, while we may be sure that the less desirable ones will he freely allowed to emigrate. We are among those who have any especial fear of injury com,. t country by an excess of immigration. We only desire that care be taken to exueute the laws which prevent the introduction of paupers ami criminals. !K( link oi mi; w ASP WAtsr. I- ruin the New i ink .t ili;er It is oneof the most hopeful signs of the future that the waist of the' averaga woman is growing mii.di larger. There has been not a little speculation as to the reason, but it would be a much more fertile field tit. . . oi ueoate, tne question w hy they should not grow larger. With physical culture, Delsarte tennis and advanced ideas in diet and hygienejihe woman of the pres ent day is far ahead of the woman r .. i...if . ... ii n.iii t niHin ao. Mie is email, cipating herself and getting out of all narrowness, physically and mentally. It is not too much to s.iv that with physical iuiproiieineut mental gain is sure to follow with great rapidity; and once let the sisterhoodth.it they may grow and nn.iin i-, mi move an. I lake their position in the limit rank of the world's workers, and it will take stronger force than tradition whalebone and buckram to cons train their powers. It has been said and with great show of reason, Hut women will never he at their best until they have yrown out of the v " ' ''onni.ie I costume. Once freed from hih-Ii . i u I i-l.ii: I I. . t r i- i narrow environment, me heart, as well as the head will find room for development. It's curious fact that most generous-spirited, broad -minded wom en have fair- sized waists. Those with disproportionately small waists, hands and feet are apt to be narrow minded, parsimonious and uncharitable to a very marked degree. Nature rarely makes mis takes, and others things being equa' she is not likely to put No. 7 tem. perainent into No. U shoes. No. a glove and ID-inch waist measure If the clay tenement is of the aver age heiirht of well-developed womanhood tha close student of human nature will never be cap tivated by extreme smallncss id the extremities or a crainped-in figure. They are an unfailing index and one in which no sensible wom an should feeling degree of pride." SWAI.I.OWKI) A CIIII.Ii. Harauoo, Wis., March 1. A most thrilling incident occurred here this afternoon. A circus, which is wintering here, was putting a lot of pythons and boaconstrictors into iK-w quarters. In some way a little Norwegian boy stepped into the cage of a boaconstrictor thirty-two feet long. The snake sprang from the cage with distended jaws and gobbled the youngster The atten dants were hoirified to descry a fast disappearing pair of legs stick ing out through the monster's jaws. The great serpent's eyes were allanie with excitement, anil in another second or two the poor little Norwegian boy would have disappeared from view lorever. It happened that Henry Mingling, a giant in, strength and statute, was present. He is a man of quick impulse, and without counting the coat or foreseeing the danger, he grasped the serpent around the neck and commenced shaking it. With one swipe of its tail it sent Mr. K'ingliiigsiMirrying heels over head across Die floor. Al Mingling took in the situation at a glance' and grasping a long chain lying on the floor, he passed it around the body at a point about six inches below where he thought the child's head would be. Directing several attendants to grasp either end of the chain and pull with all their streiight, he was gratified to notice a relaxation of the snake's effort to swallow the chilil. Then this chain was made fast. The snake's tail was fastened around post and the whole body drawn to it greatest tension, render ing his majesty inert and power less. He still continued to gulp but his game was up. Two men inserted a wagon jack between his jaws and by degrees they pried them open and the boy was pulled out. His head and body were covered with a thick saliva of a peculiarly offen sive odor. Tin boy will recover un less blood poisoning sets in. The wounds are about his shoulders. "A Stitch in time saves Nine." Vim need a blood purifier. Why not take Gering A Co. s. Compound Kxtrnct of Sarsaparilla'r it will do on good. If it. does not we will refund the money, tiering .V Co., Iri.ggists. Nonce. Having sold my slock of jewelery and business to M. S. Hrigg's and C. II. Jequette, I desire to extend to my patrons my thank's for their ;ast favors and assure them that they will receive the best of treat ment from the new firm, and cordi ally invite them to continue their patronage. I am preparing to handle the largest stock of pianos and organs ever brought to Plaits, mouth, ami will make my head quarters with the firm of Hriggs A Jaquelte where I may be found of them that diligently seek me to settle theiraccoiints, Respectfully Gi;o. Vass, Kx-Jewclery and Music Dealer. Try ttie"C'rowii" cuiitli cure. Rtirret iruiiruiitec It. Iinwi A The flying years. Ai a drrmii mlion nlicht I dnun. An nhailmr Hits 111" nun, As a al.ip nliiM while tails nkiin Ovor the liorlioti iliiu, A a lilt- iiimiilt'tt' of iluy VHItUlK'tll fmiii n tort u 1 HT, A Ji"P'' lluil imli'n to li tr 1b tW d) m,f uf tliu jinr, A the f1rt pilil nlmft of linht Slihais ilimiiuh t li wreck rl night. Ah I tn- Lit ill unit stir (but lirinij 1'roiMnc vt t lit buililiii Niriu(, is v nkti of life that ri MlvVircd Iniii-li k imin's cjci, A J ' iiM'.'e juy In lii-nrl fiirliirii -If o t lu r )fur Ik Ink ii. I, hid or --.el. a ilwluillliiu mn I. Ihi lillle hie uf mail, I in r mi l lieiie ami wni'k luid tcnr M k fl'IV III!- lUilltf WHl-H. -t s.uill ii eiulnii- tirn i in un tlil- All the .!,.! is it. r Mil - l ur Hiiuind IVi it a hi a Spn n.U t IuiI'm uinil eternity. -I'liiiitlnli Iturkf. A linnet iihioii 1 nclilcnt. A well known local carpenter tells a story that is intended as a good joke on his wife. When they were married, they rented apartments in u block, tin-rear of which overlooked ono of the rivers, and among the wife's curliest culinary efforts was a hatch of bread. Tin young husband sampled his wife's contribution to the worl.l's stock of the "staff of life," nnd arising lrom tlio table playfully remarked : "iMy dear, cast your bread upon the waters." The wife lookofTcnsent the injunc tion, mid as her husband left the hoiiso she flung tlio remaining loaf out of tlio window intotlia river. It struck n passing liont, crashing through the bottom and sinking in tlm water's murky dcptlm. The next she knew the boatman, dripping wet, made a tour of the block, beutonilis cuvering who (lumped the hod of brick into his craft lUiigbamton Leader. A Writer of Slorle. Just, n few years ngou sharp nosed, hhgkt eyed young man used to haunt the seootidliand hook uteres of this city. 1U would buy uml eagerly de vour all the cheap novels, blood and thunder stories, etc., exposed for sale. One day ho astonished nn old liookscller whom he found reading an interesting story by informing him that ho was tho author of it. Oiih day ho disappeared, and later it was rejMjrtetl that In? was writing for tht) weekly story papers in New York city. Tho other day camo tlm news that ho was at tho head of a novel pub lishing company and wrote about Kill cou tinned irtories himself ytmrly for his weekly story puiiers anil library publications. Ho is suid to have an income of alioiit 1.10,000 a year. He has concealed his right name, it is de clared, and writes under any uumlier of uonis de plumo. Cincinnati Times Star. One ThliiK lllnliop llrik Illil. On one occasion Bishop Brooks re reived a letter from a man in New Yoi k saying, "Will you please send mo a list of nil tho publications in your diocese?' On receiving it the bishop did not even smilo ut tho al surdity of the request or seemed an noyed that a man should trouble him upon such a siinjilo matter. Unac cepted it as something to fulfill. "Do you think you can find what this man wants?" said he to his see retary. "I guess so,"ciiine the reply, and tho secretary, who knew the noble hearted hishopso well, spent half the night completing tlio task. Boston (Hols. M i in in it CuiiKht NupphiK. "Am I thin or fat, maniiiiai'" She had nli ttdy been lu-king too ninny questions, but her mother nu swered her once more. "Why, dear," ue said, "you are not very fat. but you are fat enough for a little jjirl who is growing." This reply was certainty diplomat ie, but it did not apparently satisfy the child, for a few seconds later she caiiii; out with this terrible poser: "Say, mamma, are there any little girls who are not growing?" Boston Herald. Sellli'il III Ailvanci'. Mr. Ilunniuiiiiie Now, as we are going to start housekeeping, Klhel, we should begin right. Order, you know, is hen ven's first law, ami there must he a head to every house, so Mis. Huniiiiiiune That's ull pro vided for, George. Mother's coining to live with us.- Exchange. Kleptomania, which is so often used nowadays asa cloak for resjs'ct able stealing, is a form of nionouia nia. Dr. l'ritchard mentions n typ ieal case of a madman who would never eat his food unless he had pre viouslv stolen it. The templo of Ypsainbul iu Nubia is cut from a solid rock, and its en trance is guarded by four statues, each (i."i feet l.igh. left across the shoulders, the face T feet long, the ears over ;t feet. The total annual loss from insectu ill t lie United States is estimated by the I test entomological authorities at alxiut. fiMi.niHi.nim. The Greeks sometimes buried t'nefr dead in the ground, but more genu ally cremated thein, in imitation of the Unmans. The average weight of the Chinese brain is said to be heavier than the average weight of the brain of any other latjo. noin lain m ihlbot. dial phi y tlmU no pi nee In ThllxtAa character. It l.i no uncommon thinn for a Mm to turn liln fitt Iter, whrn too oM to wnrk, eut, of tliNir, and to leave him to irr sh In llit .-old. The niwrtilli(m that th vinlstif tht hncl can, if they will, hiiiint he 1 i v i ti vc driven, their hardened imturea m Kin by tlm exerelso of cruelty tlia firimiiso of the tlyiiijf that they will not re turn to earth. A death approaches t l a ilyinj; perMdi Is asked, "Will you come hack nr will ynii not?" If he replies that In-will thcvi'iH a leather hi over lii lieml nml sni'i; In r biin; if he hay he wiK "l, he in allowed to dii in peace. A Dug Hold a llnrnx. A Ki ntlenian iii ( 'liiciiinal i lias a nwittiflf rained to hold his horse. When he tlrivif tip Ut tin sidewalk and iiliifhtH theiloB fakes n seal on the ciu lititie. His mantel places the end of the hitching sirup in hi mouth and leaves him in clune. The dm nits liken Mat lie, holding' tlm strap until bin master returns. Cricket us I'rli. A Keniielilitik (Me.) lady ha made pctf of live Held crickets. Kadi lias a iimne and seems to know it, when spoken. Tln j are peculiarly sensitive to music, ala I'hirpiiiK while, any musical he t ruincul it iu Use. 11 li -I Mil ! It. HnnliiiK. Thomas C. Vcacr, of llanville, Ky while out, hunting was finally woiiinlei 'iy an accidental discharge from his ki His d jumped upon It, striking lint lri icr, rmiHiui' I Uv charge to explode. Miiilcrittitin In i:ierrln. We may well rejoice that tho day has vanished when a pule face, dull eyes and n week chest were the signs of knowledge, but we will do vvll to guard ag 1st tho other e.vfreinea which re -d physical culture as tho most lportant thing iu life. Tho young .tuple- who attend our iu ktitutioiis u' learning should bo en couraged to take plenty of physical exercise. Their inclination toward outdoor games should notKifrowned tits'ii, hut they should 1e held to moderation anil to such a wise divi sion of their time as will enable them to devote proper attention to their studies. Altooim Triburo. The A lie of Turtle. The age of turtles, like tho ago of some excellent women, will never bo known. In many parts of tho coun try boys cut their initials ou tho shell of tho tortoise, with the date, ami then watch for thein in later yeatu. At Ilatlioi'o, in Pennsylvania, one was found with "L. V., 1833," cut on tho shell. Mr. Levi Walton, who cut the lettering, is still living, but the slow going turtle will probably outil) him in tho race of life. Meehan'a Monthly. Irrlgatliin In Colorado. There are 6,000,000 acres of land In Colorado subject to irrigation, but only two fifths are under cultivation as yet. About 2(1,700 acres are in fruit, and 7.1100 will lie added very soon. Water is conveyed through 12,000 railcsof ditches. Boston Tran script. How the I'mbrls Saved it Suit. In tho caso of tho big Cunnrder Umbriii, which limped into port un der her own steam and her shaft in splints as it were, and which wan towed by tlio Hamburg liner Bohe mia for soino hours before her cables parted, her owners would have been liable to a salvage suit from the Ik beinia for several thousand dollars had she not managed to get in with out assistance. New York Evening Sun. HeliN Their IliiHlneHit. Fiit Foot pad -Wasn't Judge Dig houd the man who sent you to the penitentiary i Second Footpad Yep. First Footpatl -Then, why are you soglti l he'slieen given another ternif Second Footpad - lie allers gives good citizens th' full 'xtento' th' law w'en they gits caught carryin con cealed weapons. New York Weekly. of the present fceiK-mllon. II Ufor If rnreaii.i tin MnulmilN. Mrk II end- ells, Cons! Ipullou ttutl 1'llea, Cut. I tiaT heroine no fninonti. They art iellljr ami in It on the rliifeMlva orcant, felt Inic lhm Ion uml lior la Initiate fooil. 0(rlliiKr uuuvva. Sold Everywhere. Office. llOloimYaslii'iirton SUN. T. SUBSCRIBE Dyspepsia is ttie Dane bits n for the WEEKLY HERALD, $1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE.