This you will see by comparing
his words with the following letter, which we have received from
Professor Asaph Hall, the actual discoverer of the moons:
Naval Observatory, Washington, D.C.,
March 4th, 1878.
EDITOR ST. NICHOLAS: The periods (of revolution) of the satellites
of Mars are as follows,--Deimus being the outer satellite, and
Phobus the inner one:
Period of Deimus, 30 hours, 18 minutes, 0 seconds.
" " Phobus, 7 " 39 " 16 "
These values are very nearly correct, and will be changed in the
final calculation only a few seconds, if at all.--Yours truly,
A. HALL.
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The following are extracts from the letters of a young girl now
traveling in Europe:
Berlin, 1877.
DEAR ST. NICHOLAS: We were in the Auer Cathedral, Munich, looking
down the long nave, when troops of little children, boys and girls,
each with a little knapsack strapped between the shoulders, leaving
the hands and arms free for play, came hastening in by twos and
threes, till the whole church seemed full. They all knelt down,
whispered a few words of prayer, and remained for a brief space,
silent and motionless, bowed down in devotion; then they quietly
arose and went out.
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