pasting sheet after sheet of paper old letters, old LITTLE 

 books with occasional strips of cloth laid in to give JOURNEYS 

 extra strength. The tube was eighteen feet long. Lenses 

 were procured in London and at last our precious 

 musical pair, with astronomy for their fad, had the 

 satisfaction of getting a view of Saturn that showed 

 the rings. 



It need not be explained that astronomical observations 

 must be made out-of-doors. Further, the whole tele- 

 scope must be out-of-doors so to get an even temper- 

 ature. This is a fact that the excellent astronomers of 

 the Mikado of Japan did not know until very recently. 

 It seems they constructed a costly telescope and 

 housed it in a costly observatory house, with an aper- 

 ture barely large enough for the big telescope to be 

 pointed out at the heavens. Inside, the astronomer had 

 a comfortable fire, for the season was winter and the 

 weather cold. But the wise man could see nothing and 

 the belief was getting abroad that the machine was 

 bewitched, or that their Yankee brothers had lawson- 

 ized the buyers, when our own David P. Todd, of 

 Amherst, happened along and informed them that the 

 heat waves which arose from their warm room caused 

 a perturbation in the atmosphere which made star- 

 gazing impossible. At once they made their house over, 

 with openings so as to insure an even temperature and 

 Prince Fusiyama Noguchi wrote to Professor Todd, 

 making him a Knight of the Golden Dragon on special 

 order of the heaven-born Mikado. 



The Herschels knew enough of the laws of heat and 



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