New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-05-07
IgOTFUENTS IN FTGU TTFE

Monday last was sacred to those that move.
The exercises of the pleasing festival were
prolonged far into The week, but to-day doubt
les, finds all those who took part in them com
paratiycly settled, sppcrlatvcb tired, and 50 IN
a condition to enjoy the lest which to-day
brings Probably no, until June will the ruling
passion of the movers begin to assert itself
AGAIN. For the next few weeks they viii be
free from The conviction, which after that VIII
begin to take shape IN their hearts THAT they
might have done much better, and that they
must try, try again on tie nrst OF May, 1881.
This Sunday they are not prey to unrest
thcy do not see tine reckoning fingers II rea'
estate agents and the houses INTO which they
moved short week ago will ;ing with the
music of Home. Sweet Home, sung with deep
feeling and without reserve.
But our present concern is not with msia-
lions on earth. A wcirer if not deeper in
tcIcst attaches to the May movements OF sun
dry restless members of the celestial family.
What with cclipses and OccultatIonS and cen
functions and Comet, the month il rendered
unusually notable and people owning smoked
glass, telescopes and other aids to merely
human vision should do "a thriving business.
The Moon contributes her full share to the
entertainment. BY way Of breaking the
mnnotony she will take the conceit out of the
sun, on The 18th inst. by totally cclipSinS
hlm. The SUNS humiliation will not be visible
IN the western hemisphere, so that excursion
parties from out of town who come into this
city with view of getting Il good view of it
from Madison Square viii be doomed % dis
appointment, owing TO circumstances not under
the control of the metropolis. Astronomy
being, so to speak, in its infancy has not been
able rs yet - arrange these celestial phe-
nonlcna 80 that they con be the Observed o.
all observers the world over. But any person
who happens to be in the northern part OF
Africa OF in tic southern part OF Asia on the
] 7tn o. the month will have good view Of the
eclipse. and the rest of Us will have to put up
with his account of the event Let us trust it
will he vivid, accurate and exhaustive.
Not content with accomplishing this eclipse
OF the SUM- tho Moon Oh the same day viii pay
her compliments to Jupiter. They will BE- of
the sapc ci,livocal kind as those paid to the
sun. The Scientific Notwithstanding not
Mr. Sullivan, the conquerOr OF Ryan, but the
newspaper of that name-eXplalns these COM
piimcnts rs follows " At twenty-four minutes
"past o'clock Washington time, which means
"twclye minutes later New York time and
"twenty- four minutes later Boston time, the
Moon, only sixteen hours old, will pass
directly over the planet Jupiter and occult or
"hde him from view. AS from new Moon to
" full the Moon moves with the dark edge fore
"niost, Jupiter will disappear at the dark limb.
"prcdncing startling effect, rs if a star were
"suddenly annihiated from the sky" This is
considerable of an achievement Tor "A Moon
"only sixteen hours old but then we are liv-
ing in an age of prodigles and have got 50 that
nothing surprises. The impressive occultation
which she il to accomplish ought To dispose
of the venerable Astronomical theory which
refers the origin IF the Moon to an eccentric
evolution of green cheese. heavenly body
which is able to suppress as august parsonage
az Jupiter for the time being is obviously made
of sterner stuff than cheese And then there S
the Comet. William k. Brooks, one of our en-
tlusiastic New York State astronomers, reports