The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-07-21

monstrous sin always in the eyes OF women
he had the charm of winning their love;
and If history mas recorded the truth 20 was
an exceptional poet, in that he ne ser sban-
dOned a woman who was unwise enough 70
love him. Mime de Genlis wrote OF him as
being the only man of the eighteenth CEN
turv who knew how TO talk To women as
they loved to be talked to.-lGalaxy.
Cambridge university, England, conferred
fifteen honorary degrees abthe recent COM
mencement. Chief Justice Cock burn headed
the list of doctors of laws. and among the
other who received that degree were James
RUSSELL Lowell and Robert G.. Winthrop of
Boston. the celebrated French astronomer,
Leverrier, Sir Bartle Frere, who has done so
much to put down the African slave traf e,
Sir Thomas Lyell, the geoloeist, Sir James
Paget, great London surgeon, Sir Garnet
wolseley, the commander in the recent
AshaDtee expedition. Gilbert Scott. the arcn J.
itect. and E. A. Freeman, the historian. Sir
Garnet Wolseley has also received an honor
ary degree az Oxford
The Italian city OF Milan was visited on
the afternoon of June Is by a terrific hail
storm. which did an enormous amount of
damage, and wounded thirty persons. Some
of the nail stones were as large as hens
eggs, and the birds, unable to find shelter,
owing to the suddenness of the storm, fell
dead in hundreds. Afer the storm had
passed, basketsful of dead birds, from
pigeons downward. we're picked up
great number of persons crowded for shelter
into the immense arcade or covered street
known as the Victor Emmanuel Gallery, but
the glass roof gave way at all points, and a
rush was made tor the shops. In the rush
several persons were injured. Every pane
Of glass wes broken in the arcade, and the
iron frames we're all bent and broken. Sky
lights and windows all the city were de-
$ royed and roofs were broken in. The sur
rounding country for some distance suffered
much, and the rice and grain crops dam
aged. In the Brera, the picture gallery, all
the skylights and windows were smashed
save one, and In the cathedral the great
aimed windows of Bertini were seriously
injured.
Professor De!sfontaine, of Chicago, has
lately given the results of his spectrOscopiC
observations of Coggia's comet. He says
there is no doubt that the nucleus of the
comet is composed of incandescent gas,
under pressure less than that of air at the
earth's surface. The spectrum is not a con-
tinuous one. made of the seven primary
colors, as it would be if the comet were a
solid, liquid, or highly compressed gas in
an incandescent state In other words, the
fact that the spectrum is discontinuous one
made of several bright bands separated
by dark spaces, proves that the nucleus G.
the comet is an incandescent, rarefied gas
Some comets may have composition
different from that of others and W hen tw
observers like Higgins and Secchi disagree
about the number of bands found in the
spectrum of Tempel's comet of 1866, it is
very likely that it is owing to the conditions
| of our atmosphere and the nature of the in
strument. For instance, Secchi found three
bands, Higgins only one, in the spectrum OF
| the same comet. Therefore, L should not
| be made of some gaseous carbon compOnd
undergoing at the same time a process oil
i partial decomposition, not TO say combus-
ton, that would set free some PARTICLES OF
solid carbon, the same as we see them float
| ing in candle flame, the presence of which
solid particles would account for the faint
continuous spectrum observed by different
| astronomers. I