The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1877-01-18
THE SEASONS

for doing SO in the spring and autumn.
THE SEASONS.
| Earth in Periheion.........-...D Dec 81 Oh m m
ternaI hlui % 6h Pm
summer Solstice............... June p IN 2'm m
AAutumnal EQunOx......~...-....Sept. p N 5,m m
E E'4isf in Bee Bee p II Gun
ECLIPsEs.
The year is a very barren one in regard
to ecHpses, in this region. There win be
FIVE, as follows:
A total eclipse of the moon, Feb. q,
at b. 10 m. p. M; below the horizon of
the United States.
A partial eclipse of the sun, March
IA, at 10 h. II m. p. m; visible in
Western Asia.
A partial eclipse of the sun, Aug. 8,
at 10 h. 42 m. p. m; visible in Alaska,
Kamschatka, the North Pacific ocean
and the Arctic ocean. Behring's strait
is nearly in the center of the area from
which this eclipse can be seen.
A total eclipse of the moon, Aug. %,
at 5 h. Is m. p. m; partially visible in
the eastern and southern states.
A partial eclipse of the sun, Sept. !,
at 8.04 a. m; visible in all that part of
South America situated in more than
fifteen degrees of south latitude, and ex-
tending nearly to the south pole.
The times given above are the instants
of conjunction or opposition in right as,
censi0n.
THE PLANETS,
TUIcan-Will be looked for on the
face Of the sun March %, by many as
tronomers, NJ. LIE Verrier having an
nounced that transit of the planet (?)
is possible on that day.
Msrcwy-Will be visible near the fol-
lowing dates of his greatest elongation
from the sun: In the west, near sun
set; Jan. 10 20 deg.); May 3 (2I deg);
Aug. 81 az deg; Dec. 25 go deg.
In the east, near sunrise; Feb. 20
(26! deg; June 20 (22l deg); Oct. II
Us deg.
Tenus-Will be morning star, rising
before the sun, till May, the date of her
superior conjunction and will be an
evening star, setting after the sun, dur
ing the remainder of the year. She will
attain her greatest elongation east (47
deg. 10 my on the 18th of December.
Nars-Will rise before the sun from
the beginning of the year till the even
ing of Sept, 5, when he will be in oppo-
sition to the sun, sOuthing at midnight.
After that date he will set after the sun
in the evening.
Jupjter-WilI rise before the sun dur
ing the first half of the year. In Jan
uary he will be over the tail of Scorpio
March II about two degrees south o!
Mu in Sagittarieus (near Mars; in April
stationary; and May 3 two degrees
south from Mu in Sagittarius. June 10
he will be in opposition to the sun and
an evening star for the remainder of the
year. He retrogrades till Aug. 90. Nov.
2 he will again pass under Mu in Sagit-
tarius, and will be among the stars in the
head Of that constellation at the close of
the year.
Saturm-Will BE- in the constellation
during the year; but not
conspicuous object the first four months,
being too close to the sun; the date OF
is Feb 8. After that time
he will rise before the sun till Sept. 9,
when he win be on the meridian at mid
night, and after that he will be visible
in the evening sky.-CAicago Trib,me.
WITHIN a week refined petroleum has
advanced at the New York produce ex-
change seven cents per gallon, and ex.
element has run high among both buy
ers and sellers, 1t appears that there is
but a meagre supply of oil in New York,
said to be the result of skillfuI maneuver.
ing to that end, and that number of
ships have been chartered by large ex.