Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1886 — Heaven’s Lamps. [ARTICLE]

Heaven’s Lamps.

A little 4-year old who had been told by her mamma that the stars were -“Heaven's lamps, ” lying in her mother’s lap while the latter was sitting after twilight on the front porch, said: “Mamma, less do id der woom.” mother. . . ’ “No! no!” replied the little one;“less do now. ” “Oh, it’s dark in the room, baby.” “Well, Ute de lamp." “It’s too soon, daughter." “No, ’tain’t, mamma,” and looking at the stars said: “Don’t on see Dod’s done lite Hees lamps?”— DetroitfiFree Press. In the middle ages anybody at all distinguished by knowledge of science was credited with the art of flying, and, indeed, in many cases did not scruple to claim it. Albertus Magnus was one of these, but refused to give particulars to the_worl<l at large. He.fells us, however, how to make thunder. Says he: “Take one pound of sulphur, two pounds of willow carbon, arid six pounds of rock salt, ground very fine in a marble mortar; place where you please in a covering made of flying papyrus to produce thunder. The covering, in order to ascend and float away, should be long, graceful, and well filled with this powder, but to produce tkuhder the covering should be short and thick and half fu|l,”- r