Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-10-29

tracing across it O straight line rs the
path OF the moon, which may be rep
resented bya smaller circle iraversing
1t and coming within the periphery or
the larger orb. The eclipse will prove
to Us that the great shadow OF the solid
globe upon which we live Is always
there in the heavens, 1t mighty cone OF
shade rising through the air and space,
and only needing AN illuiDinated screen
upon which To tall to make itself As Wis
lille as the shadow cast by a man ~ he
walks in the sunshine. Ii ii screen the
size of the earth's shadow could be in
terpOsed in the sky, we should see thai
shadow always in motion upon it--a
black orb following the movements of
the sun, rising as it rose and setting as
it set. But the only screen we have
is so much smaller than the carth's
shadow, that il passes entirely within
it, while,the great cone of shade entire
iy Obscures il. 1t must not be under
stood that the observation is "a TOAD
blotting out of the risibility of the
moon. That orb will still be piainly
seen, but will appear lit up with Il lurid
glow, exposing to clear view her radia-
ting surfaces, from which all life, sound
and motion, save the fall of warping
precipices and the drifting of the COS
mic dust, departed ages before our
world had entered upon its organic
history. This red glow will be due to
the refractiOn of the light OF the sun
around the edge of our planet, behind
which the sun would be hidden to the
inhabitants of The moon, if there were
any. To them the phenomenon would
be an eclipse of the sun, throwing them
into twilight, while they are being
whirled through the shadow of the
earth at the rate of thirty miles a min
ute. 4
MORE ECLIPsEs PROMISED.
According to astronomical prophecy,
we are to have more lunar eclipses.
Listen 80 .+.-1f ..... .-f
"There will be three lunar eciipses
next year not in the almanacS. When
our great astronomers, Jayne and Hol-
loway, furnish you their inevitable cal
endars for 1875, you will probably find
therein a solar eclipse set down for
April and another for September, but
no lunar eclipse. Neither these calen-
daE5 nor their great prototypes-the
nautical almanacs of Greenwich and
Washington-wiil hint that Oh April
20, and September 10, and October IA,
1875, there will be lunar eclipses.
"Eclipses, however, there will be.
At Z minutes and 80 seconds past IL a.
NJ, n. York time, on the Goth of April,
1873, the full moon will be more than
half immersed in the earth's penum
bra. at 81 minutes and "a seconds
past A. NJ, New York time, on the
18th of September, 1875, the full moon
will be immersed about two digits in
the earth's penumbra. At 81 minutes
and 43 seconds past P. NJ, New York
time, on the 14th of October, 1875, the
full moon will be immersed more than
eight digits in the earth's penumbra.
Ion two OF these occasions the moon
will be on the other side of the world;
bnt on the evening of October IA those
persons here who have facilities for
viewing the rising full moon will prob
ably observe faint shading on her
southern side for some time after III
sing, as the twilight dies out. If so,
they will have seen an eclipse not set
down in the books, which is something
in this century, where alPs known"