Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1896 — Is the Moon Round. [ARTICLE]

Is the Moon Round.

We never see but one side of the moon, but, -judging from the side presented to our view, it Is the general opinion that the moon is at least spberical. Of late, however, a ~ncw theory is being advanced Astronomers who are carefully studying the question say that the lights andi shadows of “our silver sister world” are Incompatible with the 1 old theory of its spherical shape. The South is destined to he, and is rapidly becoming, the garden of the United States. Here life is easier to live, the rigorous winters do not eat up the fruits of the toil of summer, nor are the summers so trying us many Northern people havf supposed. “I used to live only half the year,” said a Northern farmer recently settled in the South, “and I used to work all the time then. Now 1 work half the tjrne and live all the year through.” Homeseekers’ excursion tickets will be sold over the Monon Koute to nearly all points in the South at the rate of one frrst-elass fare tone way); tickets good returning on any Tuesday or Friday within thirty-one days from date of sale. Liberal stop-overs are allowed. These excursions start (and tickets are sold) Aug. 17, IS and 31; Sept. 1, 14. 10; Oct. 5, <i. ID and ’2O. 'Calf off Frank J. Reed, agent of the Monon Route, for further information.