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Show THE WESTERN When he returned from the service he hurried to the room. The sun was still shining, and there, like a shadow on the bright circle on the paper, was the image of the along planet the Venus! bright 2 ASLEEP AND AWAKE. ‘All keep still,” says the Baby, “While I sleep; If I wake,” says the Baby, “T will weep.” knew A For I rule,” says the Baby, “Tn this house.” “All who can,” says the Baby, “Please to dance! And the rest,” says the Baby, “Please to prance!” Babyland. bestow like The first transit of Venus ever seen by a human eye was predicted by a boy, and was observed by that boy just as he reached the age of manhood. His name was Jeremiah Horrox. We have a somewhat wonderful story to tell you about this boy. He lived in an obscure village near Liverpool, England. He was a lover of books of science, and before he reached the age of 18 he had mastered the astronomical knowledge of the day. He studied the problems of Kepler, and he made the discovery that the tables of Kepler indicated the near approach of the period of the transit of Venus across the sun’s centre. This was about the year 1635. . Often on midsummer nights the boy seen in the fields watching the planet Venus. The desire sprung up within him to see the transit of the beautiful planet across the dise of the sun, for it was a sight that no eye had ever seen, and one that would tend to solve some of the greatest problems ever presented to the mind of an astronomer. So the boy began to examine the astronomical tables of Kepler, and by their aid endeavored to demonstrate at what time the next transit would occur. He found an error in the tables, and then he, being the first of all astronomers to make the precise ¢éal- culation, discovered the exact date when the next transit would take place. He told his secret to one intimate friend, a boy who, like himself, loved science. The young astronomer then awaited the event which he had predicted for a number of years, never seeing the loved planet in the shaded evening sky without dreaming of the day when the transit should fulfill the beau tiful vision he carried continually in his mind. The memorable year came at last— 1639. The predicted day of the transit came, too, at the end of the year. It was Sunday. It found Horrox, the boy astronomer, now just past twenty years of age, intently watching a piece of paper in a private room, on which lay the sun’s reflected image. Over this reflection of the sun’s disc on the paper he expected, moment by moment, to see the planet pass like a moving spot or a shadow. Suddenly, the church bells rang. He was a very religious youth, and was accustomed to heed the church bells as a call from heaven. The paper still was spotless; no shadow broke the outer “mC edge of thesun’s luminous of WORD ABOUT a wig, and then it is ready for the body. This lat- ter is made out of cloth or kid, and filled with bran, sawdust or coarse hair.” “Where do they get the wax?” “Through the agency of the $60_IN PRIZES. bee; but in this country a substitute has been found in wax made from petroleum.” “Dear me, auntie, one would not have thought it was so much trouble just to make a doll!” And that night, when Aunt Lizzie went to Nellie’s crib to tuck her in and say, “good-night,” she found her with Katie clasped tightly in her arms, while the rosy lips murmured, “Baked —in—in —oven-——-a—whole—week! Poor Katie!” Waverly. $30 Prize $30 STORY. OUR LOCAL AGENTS. ‘transmit to us any items of news or information valuable to the farm and DOLLS. both time and care upon it be- fore it was fit for you to play with.” “Couldn’t have been very much trouble to make a moony-eyed old thing A YOUNG ASTRONOMER. been problems “Oh, I do so wish I had a new doll, a wax one, to play with, I am so tired of this old thing!” And little Nellie Gray pusheda large china doll away from her as she spoke. “It won’t shut its eyes, just keeps them staring open all the time; and can’t cry nor anything.” “And yet some one went to a great deal of trouble to make it, and had to “All the bells,” says the Baby “Please to ring; All the folks,” says the Baby, | “Please to sing! have the great the hair-dresser fits it with THe following persons will receive and “As a mouse, might finger astronomy were correct, and the thought filled his pure heart with religious joy. Horrox died at the age of twenty-two. Nearly one hundred aud thirty years afterward Venus was seen crossing the sun. The wholeastronomical world was then interested in the event, and expeditions of observation were fitted out by the principal European governments. It was observed in this country by David Rittenhouse, who fainted when he saw the vision.— Selected. “All keep still,” says the Baby, Horrox that slowly the Then the boy astrono- eum—vae | of the Invisible. mer It crept centre, like WEEKLY. circle. Still the church bells rang. Should he go? A cloud might hide the sun before his return, and the expected disclosure be lost for a century. But Horrox said to himself: “I must not neglect the worship of the Creator, to see the wonderful things the Creator has made.” So he left the reflected image of the sun on the paper, and went to the sanct- that,” muttered Nellie under her breath; but Aunt Lizzie did not appear to notice the ill-humored speech. 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Burnham Nephi, Juab Co., Mr. Vickers Panguitch, Garfield Co., M. M. Steel Parowan, Iron Co., Joseph Ollorton Providence, Cache Co., H. A. Campbell Payson, Utah Co., J. L. Townshend Provo, Utah Co., C. A Glazier Richfield, Sevier Co., EK. P. Bean Redmond, Sevier Co., John Johnson which she was making. And then threading her needle and putting on her thimble, she asked,— “Would you like to have me tell you how dolls are made, Nellie?” “Oh, yes, auntie, indeed I would. Please begin now.” | Nellie drew her little rocking chair close to Aunt Lizzie’s side. C. Z. Harris “Well, in the first place, china dolls, Richmond, Cache Co., such as that one of yours, are mostly Sanford, Colo., Mrs. Annett Christensen Spring City, Sanpete Co., Rob’t Blain made in Germany.” Salem, Utah Co., O. C. Soren “That’s a good way from here isn’t it?” Springville, Utah Co. A. Roylance Maggie Brown “Yes, dear, miles and miles, away Wellsville, Cache Co., across the ocean. The doll makers Smithfield, Cache Co., Wm. G. Raymond | Draper, Salt ! Lake Co., C. C. Crapo model their dolls by hand, from clay. St. George. Washington County, Then, after they are formed, they are Joseph C.Bentley. put into a great oven and baked for a Leeds, Washington Co. Geoorge J. Woodbury. week.” ; “A whole week?” “Yes, a whole week, seven days.” Nellie’s eyes grew round with wonder as she glanced at Katie. Katie was the Fine Carriages, Buggies and Carts, doll. Surrey Wagons, Spring Wagons, “While baking, the tenders, or persons Delivery Wagons, Coal and Butcher Wagons, who watch them, must exercise the utFarm Wagons. most care. A single draught of air FRAZIER ROAD CARTS, would spoil all the dolls,so some one In Eight Sizes and Styles. must be on hand all the time.” Fine and Cheap Harness for Carriages “Night and day?” Buggies and Wagons. “Night and day. Those on duty during the night must not go to sleep, but Studebaker Branch House must watch all the time until relieved by SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. others. The ovens ini which the dolls Write us for Prices. are baked are very large, sometimes containing as many as five thousand dolls ; and in some factories there are as many as twenty or thirty ovens full at the Tickets fr urope to Salt Lake City only $5 nd trip tickets only same time.” $120. Sec ? tickets at once from “Then when the dolls are all baked, J. A. Pe » Merchant and Emithey are ready to play with, aren’t gration AgéMmp, 29-E. Second South Street, they?” Salt Lake Cit, Utah. “No, indeed, not yet. They must first a be painted and glazed. You just said PEOPLES’ MEAT MARKET, your doll was ‘mooney-eyed’; but when itcame from the oven it had neither Cor. Main and Third South St. eyes nor mouth. I guess you would rather have it with ‘mooney eyes’ than Game in Season. Good Sausage none atall, wouldn’t you?” a specialty. Nellie hung her head, and said in a MILLER & COOK, Props. very low tone that she was very sorry she said that about poor dear Katie. “After they are baked,” continued Aunt Lizzie, “about one in five is perfect. Some have one thing wrong, some another.” “What do they do with the bad ones?” “Sell them at a low price to people who are willing to take them. The rest STUDEBAKER’S Ho! Cheap Fare for Europe Fresh and Salt MEATS, are sent to this country; and our store- keepers buy them and sell them, in their turn, to kind mammas and friends who have little girls at home.” “Are wax dolls baked too ?” “No, dear; they are made quite differently. The workman have models at home. 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