"It is possible," said he, "that the object was an aviform apparatus--a flying machine!" What nonsense! But if the controversy was keen in the old world, we can imagine what it was like in that portion of the new of which the United States occupy so vast an area.
A Yankee, we know, does not waste time on the road.

He takes the street that leads him straight to his end.

And the observatories of the American Federation did not hesitate to do their best.

If they did not hurl their objectives at each other's heads, it was because they would have had to put them back just when they most wanted to use them.

In this much-disputed question the observatories of Washington in the District of Columbia, and Cambridge in Massachusetts, found themselves opposed by those of Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, and Ann Arbor in Michigan.