| Show THE EVERYBODY not blind has gazed with wonder span the firmament at night dazzled as much by the multiplicity as the brilliancy of the twinkling stars who can compute compit e their number but daty what mortal could call them all by name no man unless inspired ins gired aud and illuminated aw as an enoch an abraham or a moses has ever looked upon more than a frictional fractional part of the innumerable host and no na human mind can cah comprehend their multitude I 1 but the telescope has brought within the vision of the astronomer asro as nomer a vast number num berof of shining worlds that cannot be perceived by the naked eye and some advanced scientists have mooted the question of listing them dr gill who tins has gained celeb celebrity r it by his observations of the heavenly heavenly hea venTy bodies now proposes a catalogue of no less than two millions this is a hu huge 1 e enterprise it will require a f full a lf staff of competent measurers measure rs and computers with offices and instruments all under the direction of a central bureau dr GUI gill estimates that the work would occupy occue twenty five years and cost that would be two dollars a star it would be a costly catalogue but would be no doubt worth the money but if it should be completed and accepted as correct what an inadequate and insignificant table it would be when the mighty groups and constellations and galaxies beyond the scope 0 of f the most powerful glasses classes man can con construct are taken into intelligent considers stog As well weil might mortals t try to count the sands on aalthe all the shores of 0 the seas of this and a million other earths as to name and number the chinin shinin shining 1 creations la iia the boundless ocean 0 of I illimitable and awful space |
