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like bis life, even from a moral standpoint, but tbere is a great 

 balance on tbe rigbt side. Tbey abound witb good sense and 

 wbolesome pleasantry, and Moliere migbt bave pointed to tbem 

 and said witb Horace : I have erected a monument more enduring 

 than brass. 



READINGS AND MUSIC. 



CHARLES PARSONS, Director. October 25th, 1881. 



Song " Tbe Skipper." Jude. 



William Arnold. 

 Reading " Tbe facts concerning Jay Gould." Anon. 



G. B. Eawcliffe. 



Oboe Solo "Daughter of tbe Regiment." Verroust. 



Feank Myers. 

 Song " Tbou art so near and yet so far." Reichard. 



Michael Ingham. 

 Recitation "Tbe Uncle," H. G. Bell. 



R. T. SUTCLIFFE. 



Descriptive Song " Tbe Desert " Louis Emm,anuel. 



William Arnold. 



Reading " Selections from tbe Golden Butterfly "... Besant dt 



Tom Heaton. Price. 



Song • " Wbispers " Stephen Adams. 



Michael Ingham. 



Reading 



Chas. Parsons. 



Oboe Solo " Don Pasquale" Donezetti. 



Frank Myers. 



Accompanist Fred Myers. 



NEBULAR HYPOTHESIS. 



By HENRY NUTTER. November 1st, 1887. 



A discussion on tbe above tbeory was opened by Mr. Henry Nutter. 

 In introducing tbe question be gave a sbort bistory of tbe Science 

 of Astronomy, beginning witb the Babylonisb Astronomers as far 

 back as 2234 years before Cbrist, down to tbe Cbinese 1100 years 

 B.C., and on to tbe time of Ptolemy 161 after Cbrist. Tbe most 

 ancient tbeory was tbat wbicb placed tbe eartli in tbe centre of 



