Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1892 — The Great California Telescope. [ARTICLE]

The Great California Telescope.

Southern California seems naturally entitled to a very high rank in horticulture, in the attractiveness of its climate', in the exports of oranges and lemons, and in the size of its irrigating dams; but taking all circumstances into account, one would hardly expect to find in that region the largest telescope in the world. That distinction, however, the young community away down on the Pacific Slope will presently enjoy. The Manchester (N. H.) Union states that the largest telescope ever made, measuring ten feet in circumference, or nearly forty inches in diameter, is now in process of manufacture by a well-known New England establishment. It is destined for the University of Southern California, and surpasses in size even the celebrated instrument at the Lick Observatory.

Editor Smith of the Philadelphia Press thinks the Czar’s government is “the best for Russia.” In his opinion the Russians have all the liberty they can assimilate. If he had spent a year in Kennanizing, as it were, among the prisons of Russia instead of luxuriating at court, he would have come back with a different story. Editor Smith would not make a good police reporter. The Eiflpress of Russia presented to her father, the King of Denmark, six beautiful white Arab horses of great value on the occasion of his golden wedding anniversary. The Empress goes back to the old idea of royal presents. The Arab horse has ever been one of the luxuries that could not always be purchased with money. Old King Coal appears to be entirely under the control of his barons. Among months May can properly be described as the raining favorite