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Evening Star, Volume VII, Issue 1976, 4 September 1869, Page 3

The Oreat Telescope of Chicago, —Tho University of Chicago possesses one of the largest telescopes in the world—perhaps the largest. The destined work of this wonderful telescope is to make, in coun- ction with the nine chief observatories of Europe and America, an entirely new catalogue— 250,000 stars—determining the right ascension and declination of each particular star, so that by observing its position astronomers may in far off ages be able to declare in what direction it has proceeded through the illimitable voids. At this moment it is slowly and silently performing its sublime work, and furnishing those far-off astronomers data upon which to base their calculations respecting that mighty problem the direct motion of the 1 sun through space. When this is solved, data will also bo abundant for locating tho position of the great central sun around which millions upon millions of other suns, popularly denominated stars, do in all probability revolve. The gr at work being divided among the ten principal observatories of the world, will m ike the share of it falling to tbe Chicago Observatory 25,000 stars, upon each one of which the most careful observa; ions will be made and recorded. It will require about ten years to accomplish this stupendous work, and when it is done we may expect some most important astronomical discoveries —American paper.

The Standard of Beauty.—lt is rather remarkable bow nationalities differ in their ideas of what constitutes beauty. I was reading a story the other day of a fine, well-formed Englishman, who, while travelling over the Alps, was taken ill of fever in one of those villages where every grown person lias got a in Kis xi-.-clc, known by the name of a “ goitre.” The first Sunday after his recovery he went to the church to return thanks. The appearance of the stranger his fine dress and manly gait combin< d with good looks, made everybody stare at him when the service was ended. He bad no sooner got outside the portal than one of the cottagers remarked, quite loud enough for him to hear it, “Oh, how completely handsome would that man be if he iad but a goitre.” 'this story put me in mind of what the Prince of Anamaboo tr>id of a certain lady before be quitted London, namely, that she would bo the most charming woman in the wi.rld had she been but a negress ?” Magazine for June. Novel Application for Damages. —Not a hundred miles from Llandisr.il, Cardiganshire, a ,\ouug man dissappointed in a Live affair, sent a bill containing the following items to his “deceitful love,” after she hail been wedde'd to another: —“LI— , .Nov. 4, 1808. Mrs , late Miss ,to Mr , To 54 glasses of wine at different fairs and markets, 13s 3d ; to I pair of shoes, ami heeling another pair i wore out in going and coming from , 4s 6d ; for doctor’s bill for curing a cough, caught by waiting under your window on a wet night, L 9 9s 9d; to postage &c., Is lid ; to dec. iving me and throwing me out of a partner for life, LIOO ; to enticing me to come to 99 times, at. 2s 6d each time, Ll2 ; to 12 days lost in your company, L 4 7s 6d. ” — Shrewsbury Free Press. Marriage a Century Ago. Apri pns of the recent discussions on the M .rriage Acts, it may n< t be out of place to recall the st.ite of things that existed before those Acts were passed. Among other abominations an Episi opal minister, named Keith, who was expelled from Scotland, opened a marriage office in Fleet street, where be carried on an extensive and, no doubt, profitable trade. He employed scouts, known as “setters” or “barkers.” to stop people in the streets and ask them whether they needed a clergyman to marry them. Afu r some time Keith transferred his practice to Mayfair, where he continued many years Mayfair Chap. 1 became eventually much frequented by brides and bridegrooms, for more couples were united there during Whitsuntide, then the great marrying season, than in all the churches of the metropolis. The ceremony was not imfrequeutly pei formed by the officiating priest while he was in a state of undisguised inebriety. Keith obtained as much unenviable notoriety as >cott and Gordon, the famous Gretna Green parsons, and the former performed marriage w r i hj no more reverence than the latter. Walpole tells a painful story of a youth of fashion, who, in 1748, became smitten with a butter - woman’s daughter whom he accidentally encountered The mother of this girl inveigled the “ handsome Tracey,” as he was called, to where s .e resided, when he was rendered unconscious by drink, and conveyed, with the girl, to the Mayfair parson at midnight. The unfortunate “ knot” was tied, and in a week the youth was forced to fly the country, stung by remorse and shame Mayfair chapel derived some Mat from the marriage therein of the Duke of Hamilton with Miss Gunning, in 1752. The affair took place indecorously at midnight, and a ring of the bed curtain wus employed for the ceremony. The beauti ul but .ccentric Guchess of Manchester likewise caused great scandal by having become allied at this chapel to an unknown Irishman (one Mr Hussey), who in 1762 was created Lord Beaulieu. Tie duchess was the granddaughter of the celebrated Duke of Marlborough.— Cassell's Magazine.

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