The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-08-21


taken to his residence, the permission
Of the Coroner having been obtained.
jenkins leaves wife and one child. He
is spoken of in the neighborhood, where
he has lived for nearly seven years as
q sober. industrious, Woodworking
man, who was kind to his family, and
very much liked by all who knew him.
For long time be was in the employ
OF the Coast Wrecking Company, and
since then has been diving in all parts
OF the country.-N. =. World.
The Heavens In August,
Venus is evening star and eminently
deserves the place of honor among the
mysterious twinklers throughout the
month, for she dons her most beautiful
garments and far outshines her spark
ling peers in size and radiant light.
On the 10Th she reaches her point of
greatest brilliancy, and sharp-eyed OBJ
servers who know where to look NAV
then obtaiD glimpse of her before the
sun sets. or watch the shadow she casts
at night in the absence of the moon.
Jupiter deserves to be ranked with
the evening stars. although the calen-
dar does not give him a place there
until the last day of the month. He
comes into opposition with the sun on
the 31st, and is then at his most bril-
liant point to terrestrial view, being
more than one hundred and eighty
millions of miles nearer to US than
when farthest of. The earth is be-
tween the sun and Jupiter, and as the
planets position in the heavens is then
opposite the sun he is said to be in op-
position. Thus the two largest and
brightest planets of the system will
reach their eliminating points during
the month, and observers will not fail
to enjoy as well as contrast the soft
ened radiance of Venus in the west
with the brighter glow of Jupiter in
the east.
Saturn is morning star. He has
departed from his close companionship
with Mars, and may be easily recog-
nized in the southeast by his peculiar
dull yellow tint, and the absen .e of any
other bright stars from his vicinity.
He rises now about ten O'Clock, nearly
an hour and half after Jupiter; at the
end of the month he rises not long aft.
er eight.
Mars is morning star, and noticea-
BILE for his increasing size and more
rudy light as he approaches opposi-
ton, and the possible discovery of more
moons, to add to the laurels that crown
the brows of the astronomers of the
nineteenth century. He rises now about
eleven; at the end of the month about
half-past nine.
The month of August is honored by
the advent of two full moons, one On
the I'd and one on the 3lst. The wan.
ing moon is near Jupiter on the 4th.
Saturn on the 9TH and Mars on the 9th.
The new moon of the 18th is in con
junction with Mercury and Uranus
when one day old, but they are all toe
near the sun to be visible to observ'
ers on this planet. The moon is neal
Venus on the Goth, and If the clouds
are kind, our lovely celestial neighbors
will present an additional attraction
for it is positively their last appear
ance together for many months. Til.
moon and Jupiter are in conjunction
on the 3Oth, one day before the full.
Thus the skies of the soft summer
nights will be full of interest for human
observation. Two full moons will she(
! their rounded radiance over the sleep
ing earth, and food the landscape ant
seascape with silvery light. Jupite1
will reign supreme in the early eastern
sky, and Venus in the height of her re
nown will hang in pensile beauty annie
the glowing west. Later in the nigh
Mars and Saturn will divide the starr,
honors with Jupiter, the celestial trio
gaining in size and brightness as they
approach their opposition. The eartl
will pillow her way through the August
meteor-zone, aud myriad meteors dis
solving in fiery tears will give evidence
of the annual passage. Beside all this
there will be conjunctions and oppose
tons visible and invisible of the grea,
celestial forces, as we'll as rarely
beautiful phenomenon in the occulta
ton of the red star Antares, the lead
ing brilliant in Scorpio, by the moor
on the evening of the oath, not fal
from half-past ten. Observers will
have busy work in tracing out the
movements here indicated on the glow.
ing map which every starlit night lies
open above our heads. If the pleasure.
seekers among the mountains, in rural
retreats and on the seashore would cul.
tivate taste for astronomy, how grand
and uninterrupted would be their field
for nightly observation, and how en-
nobling and exalting the study of the
star-spangled armament that nightly
renews its miracles of beauty to earnest
and appreciative eyes!-Provid s'sce (R.
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