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6 r ▼HE LICK OBSERVATORY. JK Californian's Munificent Gift to the Cause of Science. It is but right that a successful merchant should on dying see to it that his wealth should l>e distributed among the people from which he collected it, and in the state whose government protected him in the acquisition of that wealth. So thought the late James Lick, one of the most tightfisted old misers ©f California. James Lick was a Pennsyl vanian by birth and a piano and organ maker by trade. He began business life in Philadelphia away back in 1820, this he car ried on successively and successfully in Balti more, Md., Buenos Ayres and Valparaiso, South America, and California. He reached this last place iu the early days of 1847, “getting in on the ground floor,” as they say in Wall street, in speaking of one who gets a big hold of an enterprise on the start. Old Lick kept cautiously hoarding mid in creasing his pile until it amounted to some S4.(XXI,(HK) in 1874. “And then a wonder came to light” in the shapp of a trust deed by which he conveyed all of this fortune to a board of trustees to be divided among public charities and for tli® erect.on of valuable scientific institu tions. Among the other bequests was one of S7OO,(XX) for the construction and equipment of an astronomical observatory for the Uni versity of California. This was a pet pro ject with the donor. He even selected the site for the buildings, and expressed a desire to be buried near them. His wish is to bo gratified, as it is intended to chisel a vault out of the solid rock under the pier which will support tho great telescope, and here, twenty-five miles from civilization on a lonely mountain top 4,285 feet above the sea, will be the solitary grave of the man who was a re cluse in life. The spot selected for the observatory site is the summit of Mount Hamilton, fifty miles south of San Francisco. The Federal gov ernment owned the land and congress made n grant of all the land embraced within a circle one mile below the summit. A road over twenty miles in length has been con structed from the nearest settlement at a cost of $75,000. VIEW OF THZ OBSERVATORY COLONY. Work was begun on Lick observatory in 1880, the first being done was to cut off the apex of the peak thirty-one feet so as to form a flat surface on which to construct She buildings. Our illustration from a photo graph shows the present appearance of the work, but it conveys no idea of the amount of labor it was to get them there. All the building material, tools, food, water and workmen had to be hauled from the valley below. There are already erected the ob servatory proper, which is a building 287 feet in length, and three other buildings for various other observations. It was a big undertaking and it is now only waiting the arrival of the great telescope to be com pleted. ■ THE GREAT DOME AND TELESCOPE. This is the building that will be the center of attraction for astrooexuers and scientists the world over. In it will be “the most powerful telescope yet made,” as ordered in Mr. Lick's trust deed. It will contain a thirty-six inch objective, the largest ever at tempted and the largest the great telescope makers, Alvan Clark & Soils, of Cambridge port, Mass. The next largest objective, measuring thirty inches in diameter, has re cently been finished by the same firm for the government of Russia. At the time of Lick’s death the largest telescopes in existence was the one in the Naval observatory at Wash ington, D. C., whioh has a twenty-six inch objective, and Lord Ross’ great six-foot reflecting telescope in Ireland. Tiie im perial government of Austria has just constructed a very powerful telescope with a twenty-seven inch objective, but it is the intention of the trustees of the Lick ob servatory to keep ahead of the world in the power of their telescope. The dome is well shown in this sectional plan presented herewith. It will weigh fifty tons, being probably seventy feet in diam eter, though this cannot be determined until the polishing of the objective is completed and its focal length is found. This, it is hoped, will lie accomplished this year, and two years later this country can proudly claim the best equipped astronomical obser vatory in existence. Chicago ijedger: When rue maiden is young teach her bow to cook, and when she If old her husband will cleave unto her with gladne<a Douglas Jerrold: A man never so beauti fully shows his own strength as when he respects woman’s softness. Baked apples are finding more favor on fashionable breakfast tables. In Praise of Dr. Holme*. Phillippe Daryl, a French essayist and Critic, says of Oliver Wendell Holmes: ’Everybody who speaks English on the planet has been enjoying for the past thirty years the superior productions of this Boston Frenchman. And yet the Latin world mains ignorant of him.” Photo-Engraving Project. A London project is to make plates by photo-engraving of the American illustrated magazines, print them on a common qual ity of paper, and get them on the foreigr market at half price within four days after the issue there of the originals. Latest Form of Telegraphic Receiver. The latest form of telegraphic receiver is called the “sensophone” and delivers signals by a series of slight pricks, the finger being placed upon a button on the instrument. —Texas Siftings. THE DAILY TIMES: SATURDAY. MAY 22. 1886 S. P. HAMILTON! - Bln*: t ll r ■ WMk // rr-’' • / jr gj SSS&L J - A V ■ ' • -.a- , '""'"I ■' \ k !!.?«: I'- J “We have appointed s». P. 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