Moonshiner
a term applied in the Southern and Western States to makers of illicit whisky.
MOONWORT (Botrychium lunaria), an interesting fern, native of Great Britain, and widely distributed over northern Europe, penetrating to Arctic regions and Asia, the few other species of which the family is composed appearing also in North America. The plant consists of a root-stock bearing a single erect stem from three to six inches high.
A single pinnate leaf springs from the stem about midway, the segments halfmoon shaped, pale green, and thick. The fructification is developed on a branched a straight line that the moon narrowly spike, pyramidal in outline, from one escapes being eclipsed; when new moon is again reached, the sun is nearly under- to two inches long. The largest growing going similar obscuration (see ECLIPSE). species, named the rattlesnake fern, The moon shines only by the light of abounds in places frequented by that the sun reflected from its surface. To equal the brilliance of the sun 600,000 full moons would be required. The moon appears at all times nearly of the same size, showing that its orbit cannot be far from circular. Its average distance is 240,000 miles, varying at times between 220,000 and 260,000, but the ordinary fluctuations do not exceed 13,000 miles on either side of the mean value. The moon performs a complete revolution around the earth in 27 days, 7 hrs., 23 min., and 11.461 secs. This is called its sidereal period. The lunar month is longer than the sidereal period by 2 days, 5 hrs., 51.41 secs., because of the advance of the earth in the orbit between two successive conjunctions of the moon.
As the moon revolves on its own axis nearly in the same time as it completes its orbit round the earth, it presents to us at all times nearly the same side of its surface. No clouds appear on it; apparently there is no water to send them forth or an atmosphere in which they may float. The whole surface is studded with volcanoes, apparently extinct. Their craters are broad, beyond anything existent on the earth. Tycho is 50 miles reptile.