Show WITY WHY DO BO THE STARS TWINKLE we have received the following communication propounding an interrogatory which we confess we are not sufficiently versed in astro astronomy romy to answer will some one answer the question tor for uv us Richi nond va morning jueus mr editor while laying upon my bed a few nights ago ago vainly endeavoring lo 10 woo coy dame daine sleep to my couch I 1 endeavored to soothe uv mind and thus give relief to a tired kodya by conte contemplating lating from an open window near my eliy bedside tle he mon wondrous drous beauty beamut and awful grandeur gian deur of the leavens heavens the night though excessively warm was entirely unclouded and the glittering hosts boats the sky in countless numbers looking serenely do down n upon our sin stricken eaith e iab all wrapped in repose like watchers peering out from the celestial battlements battlement 1 hai b a not long been thus engaged before the oblivion of sleep which I 1 bad for hours sought in van vain began to steal over me and as I 1 slowly sunk amik to rest the last effort of rny my reasoning faculties was to ask myself 11 why do the he stars twinkle twin Lle the same interrogatory I 1 now propound to you yon what causes the th twinkling inkling of the stars so familiar lies has I 1 this is phenomenon become for it is a phenomenon no that the cu question estion may seem a silly 0 but be it silly or araie graie grat e I 1 should be pleased mohave information on the subject I 1 ours truly |