BEAUTY OF MARS. .
Wonderful Color and Grandeur Re
vealed by the Telescope.
Viewed under suitable conditions,
few sights can compare for instant
beauty and growing grandeur with
Mars as presented by the telescope.
Framed in the blue of space, there
floats before the observer's gaze a
seeming miniature of his own earth,
yet changed by translation to the sky.
Within its charmed circle of light he
marks apparent continents and seas,
How ramifying into one another, now
stretching in unique expanse over
wide tracts of disk and capped at their
poles by dazzling ovals of white. It re
calls to him his first lessons in
phy, where the earth was shown him
set ethereally amid the stars, only
with an added sense of reality in the
apotheosis. It is the thing itself,
stamped with that all pervading, in
definable hall mark of authenticity in
which the cleverest reproduction some
how fails.
In color largely lies awakening
touch that imbues the piAre with the
sense of actuality. And very vivid are
the tints, so salient and so unlike that
their naming in words conveys scant
idea of their concord to the eye. Rose
ocher dominates the lighter regions,
while a robin's egg blue colors the
darker, and both are set off and em
phasized by the icy whiteness of the
caps. Nor is either hue uniform. Tone
relieves tint to a further heightening
of effect. In some parts of the light
expanses the ocher prevails alone. In
others the rose deepens to a brick red,
BQffusing the surface with the glow of
a warm late afternoon. No less vari
ous is the blue, now sinking into deeps
of shading, now lightening Into faint
washes that in places grade off insen
sibly Into ocher itself, thus making re
gions of intermediate tint the precise
borders of which are not decipherable
by the eye.
Superimposed upon its general opa
line complexion are now and then to
be seen ephemeral effects. At certain
times and in certain places warm
chocolate brown has been known to
supplant the blue. Often, too, cold
white dots are scattered over the disk,
dazzling diamond points that deck the
planet's features to a richness ( beyond
the power of pencil to portray. So
minute are they that good seeing is
needed to disclose them. It is at such
moments that color best comes out.
To those who know the sun only as
golden and the moon as white, even in
its color scheme Mars would stand
forth a revelation. —Percival Lowell in
Century.
Maiden Speeches In the Lords.
By waiting twenty-four years before
making his maiden speech Lord Lang
ford exercised an oratorical restraint
as rare as in some cases it would be
commendable.
The Earl of Rochester in the days of
Charles 11. was not equally modest,
for he took an early opportunity of ad
dressing the house of lords, with disas
trous results. "My lords," he began,
"I rise this time for the first time—
the very first time, my lords—and di
vide my speech into four branches."
Here he paused for* a few seconds,
grew purple and confused and finally
blurted out, "My lords, if ever I rise
again in this house you may cut me
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Lord Byron was more fortunate, for
his maiden effort was declared by Sir
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lord since the Lord knows when."
Lord Itoseljery's maiden speech after
three years of silence was a model of
modest oratory, opening with a plea
for that favor and Indulgence which
she house always shows to those who
address It for the first time, "even in a
larger measure on account of my ex
treme youth and inexperience."—St.
James' Gazette.
Not Even "Just as Good."
When it became necessary during
the civil war to resort to the draft in
order to provide recruits for the Union
armies, many men who did not care to
go to the front or could not afford to
do so organized themselves into clubs
or groups for the purpose of mutual
protection. When one of their number
was drafted an assessment was made
upon all of them, and the money thus
raised was used in hiring a substitute.
An organization of this kind was
formed in a small town in Illinois, and
one of the members, a stalwart, fine
looking man, was drafted. With the
money raised by the stipulated assess
ment he procured a substitute, a little,
wizen faced chap, who looked like a
scared rabbit. He took him to the of
fice of the provost marshal.
"Mr. Marshal," he said, "here is my
substitute."
"I see," answered the officer dryly as
he looked at the two men. "Funny
how i»eople like to get the best of the
government in a bargain!"
Curious Marriage Customs.
Among the East Indian Gonds a
bride is carried on her brother-in-law's
back to the house of her friends and is
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Jiade to weep with each of them; while
they give' her small presents of money.
When,the ceremony is about to be per
formed at the bridegroom's house the
bride hides in another house and calls
"Coo!" and the bridegroom's brother
in-law searches for her. As she enters
the bridegroom's house two spears are
planted before the door to make an
arch, and the bridegroom pushes her
through, the girl hanging back.
On the day after the wedding the
bride and bridegroom throw mud at
each other for sport.
Among the Marars all the women of
the bridegroom's party are shut up in
a house with the bride's sister's hus
band. liey all set upon him and beat
him, so that he is usually glad to es
cape as soon as possible.—Pioneer of
India.
The Notary In France.
The notary Is a most important per
son in all small country towns in
Prance. Everybody consults him, from
the big landowner when he has dis
cussions with his neighbor over right
of way to the peasant who buys a few
meters of land as soon as he has any
surplus, funds. We were constantly
having rows with one of our neighbors
over a' little strip of wood that ran up
Into ours. Whenever he was angry
with us. which happened quite often
(we never knew why), he had a deep,
ugly ditch made just across the road
which we always took when we were
riding around the property. The woods
were so thick and low. with plenty of
thorns, that we could not get along by
keeping on one side and were obliged
to go back and make quite a long de
tour. The notary did his best to buy it
for us, but the man would never sell
rather enjoyed. I think, having the
power to annoy us.—Mme. Waddington
in Scribner's.
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Busyman—Haven't time to do it my
self, but I'll call the porter. John,
open the door and help the gentleman
out.—Chicago News.
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