ell-known astronomer calculates that if -, . tr , ain running sixty miles an hour day and night without stopping kept it up for 550 years, it would about complete the diameter of the circle made by the eartli in its yearly journey round the sun. Now let this immense circle be represented by a lady's finger ring, and, taking thai, as the standard of measurement, the nearest fixed star would be a mile distant, and the farthest visible through the telescope at least twenty
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Evening Star, Issue 11153, 31 January 1900, Page 1
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82Page 1 Advertisements Column 7 Evening Star, Issue 11153, 31 January 1900, Page 1
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