| Show for the deseret news eclipse the ile moon was beautifully eclipsed on monday evening the oth the clouded maj majesty estyl of madam luna at 7 and 9 minu minutes tego teso was about digits on her northern limb allowing the moons disc to be 1 when her obscuration was greatest the starry heavens were brightest As th this is eclipse attracted no small share of public chat let me sa say I 1 there ere are four eclipses in 1860 and four in IS 1861 and three in each of the two next years fo following the two of the moon in 1862 will be total the first in june lid iid lih pm and the second on the morning of dec 8 about half past 12 am so much for 1862 and so on to 1896 1891 there will be man many manx great ea 1 eclipses and wonderful weather but T in n there will be no visible eclipse and what next is a secret WEATHER ireather CLERK CLERIC ORIGIN OF TIIE THE printe PRINTY PRINTERS nes DEVIL in the year 1561 a book was printed called the anatomy of the mass it had only pages in in it but the author an old monk was obliged to add fifteen pages 0 to correct the blunders those he attributed to the special interposition of the devil to defeat his work since that time printers finters rin like many others have been in the habit a it of charging their faults I 1 u upon on the devil and as the youth that has charge charge of the rollers is generally the blackest and most mischievous of the inmates of the printers office the name became attached to bim him lim I 1 how A SOLDIER FEE FEELS 19 IN BATTLE A young french officer thus thug writes of his first experience in battle our off meers officers kept us back for we were not numerous enough to charge upon the enemy this was moreover most prudent for thi thial 9 murderous fire so fatal to the white coats did us but little harm our conical balls penetrated their dense masses while those of the j austrians Aust rians whistled past our ears and respected our persons dersons it was the first time I 1 had faced it fire re nor was I 1 the only on ly one well I 1 am satisfied with myself true I 1 dodged the first balls but henry IV they say did id the same at the beginning of every battle it isili isali fact a physical effect independent of the will but bat t this is tribute paid if you could only feel how each shock electrifies you it is like a whip on a racers legs 0 the balls whistle past you turn up the earth around you kill one wound another and you hardly notice I 1 them you grow intoxicated the smell of becomes gunpowder un powder mounts to your brain the eye becomes bloodshot and the look is fixed upon the enemy there is something of all the j passions s in in t hat that terrible passion excited in a soldier bathe by the sight of blood and tumult of ot battle everybody very body that has tried it testifies to the peculiar intoxication produced by being in a battle there is an infatuating influence about the smell of powder the shrill whistle of a bullet and the sight r of human blood that instantly transforms men from cowards to heroes from women sometimes to monsters pone fone none can tell of the nature or mystery of that influence but those who have been in the affray themselves |
