Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1889 — He Silenced the Crowd. [ARTICLE]

He Silenced the Crowd.

A number of persons were talking about telescopes, and each professed to have looked through the '‘biggest in the world.” One after another told of the powerful effect of the respective telescopes. At last a quiet man said, mildly, “I once looked through a telescope. I don’t know as it was the largest in the world. I hope it wasn’t. But it brought the moon so near that we could see the man in it gesticulating and crying out, ‘Don’t shoot! Don’t shoot!’ The old fellow’ thought it was a big cannon that we were pointing at him.” The quiet man then subsided, and so did the rest of them.