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...ascertained that the bright spot around the Linne crater on the surface of the moon had increased considerably during the eclipse when deprived of the heat of the sun. Professor Pickering is inclined to the belief that this was caused by a light deposit of hoar frost. The observations bore him out, showing by the most accurate kind of micrometic measurements that the spot had increased during the time the moon was obscured. That the spot is a deposit of hoar frost and not light reflected from rock is shown by the fact of its enlargement and increase of light...
Outing -- "The Relative Stopping Power of Large and Small Bore Rifles," J. H. Kidder '92; "Friend of the Modern Racing Yacht," B. B. Crowninshield...
...death of your son Louis brings sorrow to us. We loved him for his wholesome nature, because he was good, and gentle, and kind, and we admired him for the love he bore his home. When we are older, and do look back upon college days, we shall mourn his loss then...
...architects and rulers planned, the stone cutters and masons wrought, the peasants put in their pennies, the old guilds of workmen and of tradestolks, the kings, the bishops, the gentry-all bore a hand, and the cathedrals arose...
...claim of apostolic succession and the corollary claims of especial spiritual grace; then came, too, the increased importance of the eucharist as a sacrament and the priest as the only one competent to administer it, and in these claims lay the seeds of clerical supremacy and sacerdotalism, that afterwards bore the full fruit of the exclusive "high church" ideas. The Roman church adopted these ideas and fully expressed them in the Council of Trent; in Germany and in England the reformers repudiated them, but in the seventeenth century they crept back again into a section of the Anglican church...