Show MIRA THE WONDERFUL her and baher luciia abre stars in aspel ospel according to st matthew weare told that the birth ofa jesus at bethlehem was heralded by the appearance of a strange star in the sky certain wise men of th seem firsti to have noticed the star and being im pressed with theT belief that it was a omen jerusalem to make inquiry of the reigning king its further related that when the wise men journeyed on toward bethlehem from jerusalem the star which they saw in the east went till ft came and stood over where the young child wag 1 this mysterious stellar appearance has beena subject of discussion between the faithful faith fol believers in the hand believers in astronomical the other hand says delphia Times astronomers are forced to admit however that strange stars have appeared in the hea then disappeared agam ag am as as they came other stars well known to astronomers have regular periods of showing themselves to the bated eye though they generally remain visible through the telescope as very faint stars after the unaided eye fails io see them there are hundreds of these so called i variable stars 1 one of the most remark able waa first noticed about enree liun dred years ago it is mira the wonderful and i in the constellation ceus it appears at intervals of ar little less than a year when at its greatest brightness it resembles a star of the second magnitude it thus continues about two weeks then ala brilliancy gradually decreases for about three months when it becomes entirely invisible after a disappearance af pf about five months it again faintly appears and begins to brighten again perhaps wonderful of all the strange stars of which we have accurate knowledge was that of it suddenly appeared as the brightest star in the firmament out shining even jupi ter and venus and if or a time was visible at midday this amazing vi sitani remained month asi color was successively while yellow red and white again and its the heavens was unchanged it this star was supposed by some astronomers to have regular of appearing at intervals of about three hundred years but the supposition has not been generally accepted causes stars thelast The vast multitude of Islar ssell known astronomers are as fabled blem fa their md as jun appearances as ax h ozithe that the variable stara rei wayward mem memi i bers oi black sheep m a well behaved fioco fi ocl several hyc T 0 ta baen ac but non thus faa satisfactory |