Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-09-29
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The Coming Eclipse of the Sun.

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The Coming Eclipse of the Sun.
By the catalogue of all the eclipses
visible at Boston from 1924 to 1901
Computed in 1929, it appears that il
the last 81 years of this century, OF
after August 1869, there will be in thai
large part of the United States north oil
North Carolina, Tennessee and Arkan
sas, and east of longitude 100 degrees
only one central eclipse of the sun,
viz: the one which takes place very
soon after sunrise on Wednesday, Sep.
TENDER %, and which will be annular II
a large portion of the centre of New
York, the northern half of Massachu.
setts, the southern half of Vermont ano
of New Hampshire, and in the south
west corner or in nearly all York coun =
and the towns of Scarborough and Cape
Elizabeth of the State of Maine.
On a careful recomputation of this
eclipse, made recently by the solar and
lunar tables of LIE Verrier and Hansen
(used in the English Nautical Almanac)
it was ascertained that the central line
in this eclipse would begin at sunrise IN
lat 434 Q N, long. TO W., or near
Oswego. N. Y, and thence pass in an
! E. s. E. direction over or very near Sar-
atoga, N. Y; Arlington and Putney,
VT; Londonderry, N. H., to the ocean
at the N. E. extremity of Massachusetts,
at Salisbury, in lat. 42o So min, long.
TOO 50 min; thence in s. E. direction
across the Atlantic, reaching Africa,
near Cape Verd, in lat. 10 N, long.
100 W.; leaving Africa in lat. 15o S.,
long. 400 E., and the earth at sunset,
at the place in the island of Madagascar
in lat. $50 S., long. 400 E., hours
25a minutes after first touching it near
Oswego, N. Y.
| The eclipse of March Is, 1875, will be
visible all over the United States, ex-
cept Florida, but with very different
degrees OF observation; in Georgia it
will be very small; in Washington Ter
ritory very large Or nearly central. It
will be Central at Nootka Sound, about
the middle of Vancouver's Island,
and thence along line toward the
northern extremity of Hudson's Bay
it will, where central, on the earth gen
orally be annular; but at Nootka
Sound, where it will be central few
minutes after noon, the tabular diameter
of the Moon, augmented for the Moon s
altitude, will be so slightly less than
that of the Sun, that it cannot be posi-
tively stated which of the two will be,
apparently, the larger, or whether the
eclipse there will be annular or total;
whichever it may there prove to be, the
interval between the second and third
contacts will not exceed ten seconds,
and probably will be much less.
The Excessive Rainfall and Its Cause.
The amount of rain which has fallee
in this city during the present month is
already ten inches, and the heavy storm
clouds have not yet disappeared from
the sky. Any explanation of the cause
of so extraordinary downfall of rain
is interesting. The officers in charge
of the Signal Bureau in New York says,
according to morning journal, that two
months ago winds were observed blow
ing across the Gulf of Mexico into the
Southern States. These winds carried
with them great quantities of moisture,
and, passing over the Appalachian range
to the Allegheny mountains, forced the
moisture into colder stratum of air,
where it was condensed and converted
into rain. The southerly winds which
have prevailed recently have, according
to this explanation, waited the rain
clouds northward to our shores. It is
satisfactory to learn from the same au-
thority that cool atmosphere wave Is
| advancing toward us from the north
west, and that there is prospect of
cooler and dryer weather in store for
us.-N Y. Eve'ai,ag Post.
APonderous Locomotive.
An engine has been recently placed
on the Pennsylvania Railroad which
weighs seven tons heavier than the
ponderous Modoc, whose drawing
capacity is almost twice that of an or
binary locomotive. The Modoc is
capable of taking 80 loaded cars from
Harrisburg to Columbia, while other
engines are put to severe test when
they pull 80 cars on that portion of
the road. This locomotive. when
fully initiated, is expected to get away
with 100 cars. The only argument that
can be used against large engines is
that they are hard on tracks, but as
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has adopted steel rails-able to with
stand greater pressure than iron rails
the wear will not be material. The
introduction Of these mammoth en-
gines is considered very economical
measure by the railroad company.
A Death-Dealing Fountain.
A letter from Waynesburg, Penn, to
the Allegheny Mail says: On Mellow
Ridge, in this county, about 4 miles
from Jacktown, and on the farm belong
ing to Henry Miller, there, is what is
called the "gas spring" This is prob
ably the greatest curiosity in Pennsyl-
vania. The water is cold but bubbles
and foams as if boiling, and the great