The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, July 23, 1908, Image 7
A COMET'S TAIL
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The Way This Filmy Dust Train Is
Tossed About by the Sun.
No bridal veil was ever so filmy r.s a !
comet's tail. Hundreds of cubic miles
of that wonderful appendage are outweighed
by a jarful of air.
By means of the spectroscope we
have magically transported this fairy
iiiim*. t.. <vr 1'iiiornforii's find linve
>v
discovered that it is akin to the blue
flame of our gas stoves: for the pas
by which we eook and the delicate
tresses of a comet both consist of corn- |
binations of hydrogen and carbon, appropriately
ca'led by chemists "hydroit
tirst appears in the heavens.
" -moved from the sun. a comet is 1
a dless bloteh of light.
a coinet swi.ns <>n toward the :
(rruu the hydrocarbons of t!te tail split
up under the increasing heat into l:y- i
<V*op^n pas and 1;v !rocarbons of a
, higher boiling point. With a still
, < ioser approach to the sun. these more
t resisted hydrocarbons eventually yield
i to th-' increasing heat and are d.^composcd
in the form of soot.
Interplanetary space is airless; hence
the soot cannot burn. It must pursue i
the comet in the form of a dust train.
The particles constituting that train
are small enouph to l?e toyed with by
the pressure of sunlight
No matter where the comet may be
In its orbit, whether it has just entered
the solar system or is speeding away,
*1 ' If hlv fAccail r* Tl'il V !
I Hill JliUUJf 10 luctuuvj; M .? M%.
from the sun, just as if a mighty wind
were blowing It from the central luminary.
The appendage of shining dust is the
symbol of the triumph of light over
Eolar gravitation.?Harper's Magazine.
THE PLANET JUPITER.
What the Man of Science Has to Say
About Its Wonders.
The jolly Jovians are said to be realities
and not myths. Not only are
there said to be inhabitants on Jupiter,
but also on some of bis moons, in the
midSt of which the vast planet. 1,300
tltnW the size of the earth, spins at
such tremendous sj?eod that it causes
around the equator a furious wind that
blows perpetually at the rate of 230
miles an hour. Those who believe in
the Jovian say that bis height runs
from fifty to fifty-five feet and that
he exists for about 800 to 1.000 of
earth years. The Jupiter year, how
f ever, consists of 144 months. The I
I oceans of Jupiter, torn into fury by the
f hurricanes, would pay no attention to
r one moon such ns moves the tides of
f our earth, and it takes no fewer than
five of these satellites to perform this
work for Jupiter They travel at various
rates of speed, some flying close
to Jupiter's surface, others far off.
They have atmospheres like ours on
earth, and a moonlight on Jupiter is
Indeed a glorious sight, for these
m*ons have a variety of color; two are
jpue, one is yellow, and one red. Jupiter
needs all her moons at night for
Illumination, for without them her five
hours of darkness would lie black indeed.
So distaut is the sun that broad
daylight is hardly brighter thau twi
light on eann, ana one June muuu
would not reflect enough of the sun's
rays to guide the Jovian footsteps.
The Human Touch.
"Janie had a doll that would say
'Papa' and 'Mamma.'"
"What became of it?"
"Jane's mother is an advanced person,
and she said the doll was an inexcusably
childish rcmiuder of a grossly
benighted period."
"And what did she do?"
"She threw it in a dark closet where
Janie didn't dare to go. And then a
d^y or two later she happened to step
on it in the dark and it shrieked 'Mamma
r so naturally that she fell over in
a faint and bumped her head and had
two buckets of water poured over her
before she recovered consciousness."?
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
An Anticlimax.
Sir Henry Irving was frequently a
victim to the Interjections of gallery
crulc Whon nlnvlnf* *'M neheth" one
" mvm f *Mo ?? ?
night he had reached that dramatic
moment in the banquet scene when In
dreadful fear he bids the ghost of
Banquo to vanish:
"Hence, horrible shadow,
Unreal mockery, hence!"
he exclaimed and. shuddering convulsively,
dropped to his knees, covering
bis face with his robe. As the ghost
vanished a shrill voice In the gallery
broke the momentary silence: "It's all
right now, 'Euery; he's gone!"? London
Bellman.
Achill Island.
There are few people who once having
seen the Island of Achill can forget
its beauty. The island lies close j
to the west coast of Ireland. When
the skies are blue, mouutaius green
and smiling, bogs clad in purple and
piafc heather and the whole picturisland
in sunshine, the place is
a wonderland.
Consistent.
"The people who say that women are
inconstant and inconsistent," declares
Eof fqlly, "are dead
>ars ago a girl told me
twenty-two, and she
lnie figures today."?
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His Line.
er?I was out so late !
my wife wouldn't let
tall Player?Well, you
; "out at home."?New
:wo days to live. It Is
while to spend them
outemptible rascals.?
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THE FOREHEAD.
What Its Size and Shape Are Said to I
Indicate.
A bicrh foreho.nl to be very good
should Ic well developed about the
eyebrows.
Breadth of forehead is always favor- '
able. It is distinctly connected with
breadth of character.
A forehead that curves back reveals
a poetic temperament, a fondness for
the arts and n talent for either music
or painting.
Of course a broad forehead may be j (
part of a weak faro, and a weak chin 1'
and mouth will naturally give a truer J
impression of character than even a
c< ibination of a narrow forehead I
with an otherwise Strom; face.
If there is quite a perceptible bulge
of the eyebrows, combined with a high
forehead, the sign is of a calm. cool, i
deliberate thinker. '
If with these eyebrows is combined
a forehead that slopes gradually back,
a sensitive, poetic temperament is dis- !
closed. If. again, they are combined
with a short, narrow forehead, the
subject will 1 e successful iu business i .
and in everything connected with |
worldly matters, but lie will be in- i ?
capable of appreciating to any extent ! .
or of creating anything connected with :"
the arts.?New York American.
SAW IT IN A DREAM.
A Lost Check and the Peculiar Way It , i
Was Found. t
A wealthy New York lawyer sat up ' \
: . . ... ... . . _ .
late one nigiit wriuug letters ne uau 11
not been able to finish during the day. | (
It was past midnight wheu he went out j
to mail them, and when he returned ! f
and was undressing he paused in dis- ! ^
may. missing a cheek a large sum i
received during the day and taken \ 5
home with him. In vain was the house '
rausacked at fliat late hour. lie went
to bed convinced that the lost check ^
must be in the house. An hour later >
he fell into uneasy slumber and beheld
as with his eyes of the tlesh the pink /
check curled about an area railing four *
or five doors from his own house.
So real was the dream that the trou- /
bled man woke tip. dressed and. slipping
down tlie stairs into the street
walked along the sidewalk to a spot f
still seen vividly in his mind, and there,
sure enough, standing edge upward and
partly curled about the iron, was the t
missing check. "I think," he reported
to the Psychical Research society, "my
subconsciousness must have noticed it r
M " ?- t lb ~ J 4Ra
mil i rum my [?u*.*ki*i as 1 iy iuc
mail box and my subliminal self point- 1
ed it out to me in sleep."?William G
Fitz-Gerald in New York Tribune.
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The Dogs of Constantinople.
There are at least 235.000 dogs in
Constantinople, which lias a population ]
of 1.150.000. They are the vilest of
cowards and are the scavengers of the ,
city. It is said that scores of people '
are bitten daily by the dogs of Constantinople.
but that a case of hydro- ]
phobia was never known there. Three
centuries ago Nassuf Pasha, grand
vizier to Achinet III., transported all 1
the dogs to Asia and would have had 1
-*t .1 4Ur> ciiWnn 1
lllL'IIi ut'?ll U%> I'U lUt'lc, uui iuc OUJIUU,
on consulting the mufti, was told that I
every dog had a soul and consequently t
forbade such wholesale destruction.
After the slaughter of the janizaries
Mahmoud intended to get rid of them,
for he caused an immense number of
sausages (!) to be made and. having
poisoned them, gave the dogs a feast.
Many thousands were thus killed in
one day. but the people murmured so
much that he was afraid to begin a
second day's work. He therefore ordered
them to be expelled to Asia, but the
order was very indifferently executed,
and in a short time the dogs were as
numerous as during the time of thejanizaries.
The Dog Morland Painted.
Of the many stories of the seemingly (
unconscious heroism of Newfoundland j
dogs none is more interesting than the
one concerning the noble dog which
Morland afterward painted.
When William Thillips, bathing at
Portsmouth, ventured beyond his depth
and was drowning, two boatmen, instead
of setting out to his rescue, haggled
about a reward from the bystanders,
who were urging them to go to
Phillips' rescue. In the midst of the
controversy a Newfoundland dog
leai>ed into the water and brought the
exhausted bather to shore. Mr. Phillips
bought the dog from its owner, a
butcher, and yearly gave a festival in
honor of his rescuer.
It was for Mr. Phillips that Morland
painted the dog's picture, and Bnrtolozzl
engraved it
A Dream Warning.
A strange story comes from Calabria.
One Braecala, a resident of Fizzo, had
a dream In which he saw his sou,
twenty years of age. being attacked by
two men, who were stabbing him with
knives. Braccala awoke and, arousing
his wife, told her what he had seen.
She tried to calm him, but while they
were still discussing the matter a
noise was heard in front of the house,
and. hastening down, Mine. Braccala
opened the door just in time to catch
her son in her arms as he fell swooning
to the ground. He had been attacked
and stabbed and died shortly
afterward.
Too Easy For Him.
'"Sir, I want work."
"Here's a penny. Buy yourself a
newspaper."
"But I know nothin' about runnin' a
newspaper," protested Tired Tiffins,
who really wanted alms.?Louisville
Courier-Journal.
To thine own self be true, and it
must follow, as the uicht the day, thou
canst not then be false to any man.? ,
Shakespeare.
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