Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-12-07

i noIulHSi ul-lnc Gnu Vi lHe luOHtn u
twenty-three minutes past 8 o'clock.
Neptune.is an evening star durin!
the month, and is still in the close vicini
Il Ity of Saturn, making his transit four
teen minutes earlier.
Neptune sets about 5:l5; at the enC
Of tine month he sets about 3:11 o'clock
, Uranus is Il morning star during the
month, and reaches his quadrature, ol
halfway house, on the western side o
the sun, on the 18th, nj O'Clock in tho
morning. His right ascension is 1lh
35m., his dcclination is s degrees 2S
minutes north. his diameter is three and
six tenth seconds, and his place is in
the constellation Of Virgo.
Uranus rises about half an hour after
midnight; at the end of the month 10:li
O'Clock in the evening.
Mars is evening star until the 10th,
and morning star the rest of the
month. On the 10th he is in coniunc-
ton with the sun and commences the
long path that leads to his opposition
in January, 1884 For the earth has
to travel twice around her orbit and
then travel fifty days more to come into
line between the sun and Mars. There
fore it is GS7 days from one opposition
to the next. On the 9TH, the day be-
fore the transit, Mars is in close con-
junction with Venus, passing min.
south, but the planets are too near the
sun TO be visible.
Mars sets at thirty-SevCn minutes
past o'clock in the evening; at the
end of the month he rises n few min
utes after o'clock in the evening.
Mercury is morning star until the
10th, and evening star the rest of the
month. He is busy member of the
brotherhood. On the 9th he is in con-
junction with Venus, passing 1 deg.
II min. south. On the lith, at mid
night, he is in conjunction with Mars,
passing 80 min. south. On the 10th,
at midnight, he is in superior cOniunc-
tion with the south, passing his eastern
side and becoming evening star.
Mercury rises at half-past six O'Clock
in the morning; ut the end of the
month he sets at ten minutes past )
O'Clock in the morning.
THE, MOON
The December moon fulls on the 9th
1T 81 minutes past ten o'clock in the
morning. The moon is in conjunction
with Venus on the 9th, and with Mcr-
curry and Mars on the 10th, showing
how clsscly the three planets cluster
together On the western side and close |
to the sun The new moon of the 10th |
is in conjunction with Neptune and
Saturn on the 2lst and with Jupiter on !
the the 23d, the day before the full.
Planet and the moon will be at their
nearest point about half-past O'Clock
in the evening, Jupiter passing two and
a half degrees north.
Thus December presents an cxcep-
tionally beautiful programme for plane
tary students. Venus leads off with
grand transit and inferior conjunction,
Jupiter comes next in reaching the
most important epoch of his course,
with the sun, when the east
ern sky seems to glow as he comes
above the horizon. Saturn purSues the
even tenor of his way high up among
the stars. Mars shows 4 throb of life
as he arrives at conjunction with the
sun, and gives promise of some
time reaching opposition when his
tiny moon will come into view.
Mercury is buSy enough to de-
serve the title Of messenger of the
gods. The coniunctions of Venus, Mcr-
cury and Mars with the sun and with l
each other show how near they are to
the great luminary, and how Ecarly
their tracks touch upon each other.
Once more our neighbor, the moon,
.ricS TO prove that she is not 4 member {
lf the dead world brotherhood to which
she has been ruthlcssly consigned. Mr.. {
rrouvclot adds his wcighty authority '
o the theory that there are evidences i
If movement on the lunar disc. This {
ieen-Cyed, reliable observer has seen I
unar landscapes lose their diStinctness ,
Is if clouds we're floating over them, |
md two of the great Cralers illumined q
with Il rare vapor slightly tinged with S
purple Here are indications Of an at i
of some kind thus conflict t
ng with established belief. But the q
mind is receptive and will t
ing to accept anything new and strange
m sufficient proof. c