Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1887 — Bro. Small Sees Stars [ARTICLE]

Bro. Small Sees Stars

An old chestnut about the Star of Bethlehem have lately appeared in the Heaveus and being so bright as to be visible to the naked eye in sunlight, has gone the -rounds of the press so often during the last few months, that many persons have doubtless come h> believe the statement; especially must this be the case with some of the renders of the Idaville Observer, for its editor, the excellent and veracious Parson Small, declares that he has lately seen it with his own eyes, at two o’clock in the afternoon, “at which time it was visible directly over the meridian.” The planet Venus has been verybright during the last month or two, so much so as to be visible, at favorable times, in the day time, and being just about far enough east of the sun to bring it over the meridian at 2 o’clock, p. m., there is no dembt whatever but that Bro. Small and his fellow observers saw that beautiful star, at the time he mentioned.