Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1854-01-06

y, may be q uew Parisian fashion but
whatever else it may have been IL IVES
very pleasing to eyes faligued wishSor.
nament. 1t will not become fashion,
however-and ought not Some hands
--elderly ones, for example, and those
which are huge, or red. or stumpy.. or
rough, or male-lnay as well be covered
up. But hands which are young and
pretty, can we see too much Of them
ImpossibIe.- Home journal.
ElaTa
SOLAR ECLIPSE IN 1884, Ou Friday
the 26th OF May rext there will be an
eclipse OF the sun, which will be more
or less visible in all parts Of the United
States and Canada. and in portion Of
both will be aunular. Its commence
ment in the city Of Washington will be
at Al. 20m in the afternoon, its great.
est obstruction at 3h. lS n. and its end
Oh s7m: As the apparent diameter Of
theamoon will be little less than the
sun. the eclipse can cot be TO al any
where. The Christian Almanac says:
The ring will be only about one.ihird
OF digit wide, and will be visible oaly
in the vicinity where the line Of central
eclipse passes. The eclipse is centfsl
ic Longitude 73 deg. SO min. west Of
Greenwich, latitude ~ deg IL min.
north, andsin longitude Ga deg. IS nia.
west, latitude Al deg. 10 min north.
BY finding these positions upon map.
and drawing line from one 10 the
o,her. The towns and countries through
which the central eclipse passes will be
readily discovered. The path OF the
annular eclipse will be about one hun-
dIed miles wide, and extend about fifty
miles on each side of the line we have
described. The annular eclipse will
move abou, one hundred miles per
minute
The Grst time this eclipse ever occur.
red was in 1919. July Cd since theni,
has returned thirty-one times. inciu-
ding its return next year. 1t occurred
in April, 1900, in May. 1918, and Ia
May, 1896. II VIII return again in
June, 1879. Its last return will be in
the year 2593. Angus, l7,h. The next
solar eclipse that will attract much al.
teniion in this country will be 1888.
March 10Th.
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SELF Lr-RELIANcE.-There is time I'm
every mans education when he arrives
at the conviction that envy is ignorsnce
that imitation is suicide that he
must take himself for better or worse.
as his portion-thaI though the whole
universe is full Of good, no kernel Of
nourishing corn can come 10 him but
through his toll bestowed on thai plat
Of ground which is given him to till.
in nature. and none but he knows what
that is which he can do. nor does he
know until he has tried. Not for noih-
ing one face, one character, one fact.
makes much impression on him, aud
another n lone .--R. NJ. Emsrsoa. s,..,,@,
. CO. The Pittsburgh Pos. employed
additional force on that pnper. The
following Isl the frs, effort Of the new
disciple Of Faust. 1t speaks Tor itself.
= New PsaNsen. 90 Ra.8
rhis is our a sst effort at Ty pe- setting.
we presume Il will show. hat We csR
learn fast.
we are self-tauhgt. too. We Want no
help. we will have it rigght with ost
assistance. The proof will need no
correction /. we don't intend 20 ,ry eys.
nv day; but we will let the printers
know that we are one o. them. talk
about the Art Of qrinting! 1T is just
as sasy as rolling off a Log !"
CURIOUS SENrENcE.-The following
verse contains every letter in the Eng
lish slphab bet exccp, "E." Il is szques>
lion whether any other English rhyme
can be Produced lin prinD without the
letter "E." which is employed moro
than any o,her. BY inserting the word
vex instead Of tax. in the second line.
The verse would contain all the leiysss
Of the alphabes: sp'sl
A jpvial swain may rack his brain.
And tax his fancy's might, 4sss
ee To qais in vain, for tie moet PLAIN,
That what did wasright. ri-tLai4
PoLirEEEss is a powerful lever in
the. hands Of an able man. IL has
been defined to be the art Of show ing
-. Al a.