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Show Looking Around the Sky at Night i If you are interested in those things, now is a good time to look at the sky at night. In the west is seen the planet Venus, very bright, a blaze of glory. On March 10th it will be so situated as to shine its very brightest. She is the woman of the hand mirror, and the astronomical sign by which she is knowr is 0 - - the hand mirror. About now the Bull (Taurus) is fairly close to Venus. Ve-nus. Next the mightly giant, Orion, with sword bel and dagger, in which is a fine nebula. We will skip the less important ones next, and come to the Lior (Leo) with the star Regulus almost exactly on the e-cliptic. e-cliptic. Now, in the early evening you have identified Venus, Ve-nus, so about nine to ten look in the opposite side o the sky and see another big, bright planet cominc up. That is Jupiter, the giant of our solar family', sc big that a tape line measuring the girth of a pair o breeches for him is actually longer than from here to the moonl? Some boy, huh! Then if you happen to get up a little before sever you will see the Scorpion, chasing Orion around the sky year after year, to bite his heel. It is said, the tiny scorpion did so once, and killed the giant, be ing a Greek lesson not to be mighty in feelings, foi if you do, a little thine; will set you back. Not so bac is it? A copyrighted piece on the war was handed me the other day, with the best information in it I have read for weeks. Of course, I can not draw from it That is not permittee. His prognostications were restrainedly given, al' backed by why he thinks so, - - very convincing. Adolph is worried. His chiefs of staff are more worried. And we read each paper, or listen to each radio broadcast avidly, eager for more of the good news. May it be yet better! |