People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1894 — Martial Astronomy. [ARTICLE]

Martial Astronomy.

Men may be good soldiers without being scholars, and it is also true that men may be amusing when they are weighed down by the gravest responsibilities. On the evening before a solar eclipse not long ago the colonel of a regiment of German infantry sent for all his sergeants and said to them: “There will be an eclipse of the sun to-morrow. The regiment will meet on the parade ground in undress. [ will come and explain the eclipse before the drill. If the day is cloudy the men will meet in the, drill shed aS usual.” The sergeants thereupon drew up the following order of the day: “To-morrow morning, by order of the colonel, there will be an eclipse of the sun. The regiment will assemble on the parade grounds, where the colonel will come and superintend the eclipse in person. If the day is cloudy the eclipse will take place in the drill shed.”—- Youth’s Companion.