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"If you will sit on this sofa, I shall very soon make you feel much more comfortable." He poured a little water from his carafe into a saucer, made a compress of lint, fastened it over the injured eye, and secured the whole with a spica bandage, secundum artem. "Thank ye kindly, sir," said the woman, when his work was finished; "that's nice and warm, and may God bless your honour.
Sir David Gill's definitive results were published in 1900. As the average parallax of the eleven brightest stars in the southern hemisphere, they gave 0·13", a value enhanced by the exceptional proximity of Alpha Centauri. Yet four of these conspicuous objects Canopus, Rigel, Spica, and Beta Crucis gave no sign of perspective response to the annual change in our point of view.
While we have been examining these comparatively barren regions, glad to find one or two colored doubles to relieve the monotony of the search, a glittering white star has frequently drawn our eyes eastward and upward. Except for its beauty, which every one must admire, Spica, or alpha Virginis, has no special claim upon our attention.
One glimpse of her work on that thumb showed her to be betrayingly ignorant of both figure-of-eight and spica bandaging, and Blake, finally satisfied as to the imposture, carried on his investigation, showed "Doctor Callahan" to be Connie Binhart, the con-man and bank thief, and sent the two adventurers scurrying away to shelter.
Some evidence has been obtained that, like beta Aurigæ and Capella, it revolves with an invisible companion of great mass in an orbit only six million miles in diameter. Spica's spectrum resembles that of Sirius. The faint star which our larger apertures show about 6' northeast of Spica is of the tenth magnitude.
"Oh, yes," was the calm reply. "I passed all my exams, a long time ago in fact, I've been working down here at this hospital for the last six months. We learned a good deal at school, you see. Home nursing, and so on." "Did you, by Jove! Simple dishes for the sick-room and spica bandages, and all the rest of it?" Betty laughed. "Oh, yes, all that."
He was happy as he dexterously performed the tour de maitre of the old barber-surgeons, or applied the spica bandage and taught his scholars to do it, so neatly and symmetrically that the aesthetic missionary from the older centre of civilization would bend over it in blissful contemplation, as if it were a sunflower. Dr.
Woodville's Med. Bot. p. 76. Similar Plants. Sonchus arvensis; Lactuca Scariola. LAVANDULA Spica. LAVENDER. Flowers. L. D. Lavender has been an officinal plant for a considerable time, though we have no certain accounts of it given by the ancients.
We were received at the town of Trinidad with the kindest hospitality by Senor Munoz, the Superintendent of the Real Hacienda. I made observations during a great part of the night and found the latitude near the cathedral by the Spica Virginis, alpha of the Centaur, and beta of the Southern Cross, under circumstances not equally favourable, to be 21 degrees 48 minutes 20 seconds.
To the north the Plough trailed its length, but south, high over the dark blot which to the keen sight of love meant Cloom, Spica, brilliant crown of Virgo, pulsed whitely, while the glittering sisterhood of Aquila and Lyra, Corona and Libra swept towards the east, ushering up the sky the slim young moon, as bright as they but more serene, like a young mother amidst a flock of heedless girls.
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