JuLT 17, 1885.] 



KNOWLEDGE ♦ 



^OEfsfip. 



By RicuAKD A. I 



In an article which I once w 

 Way at Sea," I poked a little fm, 

 mistake about the moon at sea. 1 

 that the mistake was ou this wii- 

 travelling, eastwards, made the i- 

 and "soiitli") abont twenty mi 

 day, 



'nly; 



put.s 



"^gouths ") ill 



^herefpivthe 



lellow-passen; 

 Joshuas," JIM 



ijn an American paper that 

 Mfa^k Twain in earnest. 

 Twain as a hnmourist ; of ( 

 tte introduction of Joshua. 

 tbe mistake about the mo,- 

 Clemens actually made (th 

 I suspect, so that the moon 

 might probably 'Wij^^ the 

 made very goodi invH^:fb^ 



nutes 



Kirse his.ioke. 

 If Mr. Bhicl 



ed 1 



lad made 

 in anti.-ipation, which Mr. 



,s not seen),''ilark Twain 

 stake was explained, have 

 ight, for example, have 



pictured Mr. Blucher ajiUifsifatinu' 

 by full mooulitht in Rngland while fiinuls 

 York had onlif the thin waning raooii of 

 quarter. Or he might have got good fun out o 

 that while the moon was fartiier than the eartl 



Nei 



a for folk in Sngland, she v 

 the earth for folk in Amei 

 filling into the mistake hims 

 rather he made! it in his own ] 



■ to the sii 

 But, uufortui 



.■n to forget the 

 t Jngly at his very 



i. fill 



foi 



the 



of the 



left 



'Whicli 1 



'But usually, outsade crrei-tioiis' liave lirru ralh.a- |„a,,- , 

 lai^t tluin,"awnslng,^ and science has had the work of 

 Bouud correction, .9i'.tJip,,tesJfP?.^S3£hort.ing to caution, 

 alti>gether to hereelf^a?.- -/ ii -wo^ei viWjJq Hopm nijiM jVwi iii ' 



ks by Mark Twain : — 

 tlie spa^o of 170 years the 



en, how much point there 

 t may— in the following t< 



Lower 





ppi has shortened 

 ill. uvL-iage of a trifle over one and tbree- 

 I'herefore, any calm person, who is not 

 hat in the old ooh'tio Silurian period, jnst 

 iionth, tlie lower MieeiBsijipi was npward 

 and stuck out over the Galf of Mexico 

 ^"t ^ iismcK-roa. And by the same token any person can see 

 lat /-t- years from now the Lower Mississippi will only be a mile 

 id three-qimrtera long, and Cairo and New Orleans will have 

 med their streets together, and be plodding comfortably along 

 ider a single mayor and board of aldermen. There is something 



scinating about science. One creta oi,f>. T>,Vr,lQ=«l„ ,„i ' 



injectnre out of such ti 



d board of aldermen. Ther 



;e. One gets such wholesale r 



rifling investment of fact. 



mmJv make gloi 



Till. Bisliop of IL 

 ''ellew ^nd Tutui 



-f St. Jnl 



who 



. .Atlaj 



■longed, 'us.'ai to tell the 



ly puhl4«h*d, of th«- ehild who being 



- verage? answered 'Something on 



The answer was fc und perplexing, 



t she had ■seeg^l^S'^e w days before, 



y eggs a'yeftr, un a:i average. If I 



t to Dr. Atlay 



s having beeB 



"f a still odder 



examination— indeed, ijke the last, it is 

 ecn invented. To the question, "Who 

 a little girl replied, " ^'olumbns ^ 

 lis answer being received, perhaps 

 imewhat vociferous lajughter, she ex- 

 ider sister's book, a piece 



t the egg of Columbus, ami 

 lid have laid 



she did not s« 

 nless Columbus 



ird. She thought Columbus mtst have been s 



about his egg. 



r they would not hav 



I respecting Columbus, 

 on this special subject, 

 id not pretend to know 



II was of law; whca.unin- 

 ^l v.snvi^gthat"D^ink- 

 olf the entail " ? 



krkcd 



ivislied us to obtain t 



.uking estate. 



> fee 



mpk 



O -Milky Ways 



Jx the closing statement 

 > may not be a sort of 



he Milkv Wa^ 

 'nulc Winds, o 



