... The earth spins uniformly and re gularly from west to east, as may be inferred from the uniform rotation of the starry sky at night. This was proved by the experi ment made by Foucault. He showed that a long pendulum when once set swinging changed the ...

... from a perfect duck of a nest of wool, leather, and astrachan What will you wear in the sky to-night, oh, Daphne, my dove What will you wear when we fly to-night beyond the above Any old thing might be well allowed, far as we '11 be from the gaping crowd ...

... (and London is the world in winter-time except for those strangely constructed individuals who prefer a grey sea, a black sky, and night at four p.m.) 110 other entertainment is so completely right and opportune as the Grand Extra Mammoth Hardy Annual panto ...