The Mineral argus., 1884-04-24
Four Worlds to be Seen.

From the Nv York Sun
Four of the worlds, that, together
with the earth, are lighted, warmed and
governed by the sun, can now be seen
at the same time in the evening sky.
Venus appears in the west, long before
twilight ends, so bright that no one can
fail to recognize her. In a line stretch
ing up the eastern slope of the heavens
are Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars, Saturn
being highest and Mars bringing mp the
rear. At the same time the majority OF
| the first magnitude stars visible in tins
latitude are above the horizon-Srius,
the king of the suns, placed beside
which our sun would be almost invis-
ible; Rigel concealed in whose flashing
white rays the telescope reveals a little
star of the purest blue; B~etelgeouse,
which CLOVIS in a good glass like a fiery
topaz: Procyon, whose stag
gering motions have shown to the eye
of science the existence of a dark star
close to the bright one, although nc
telescope has ever yet caught a CLEAN
of revealing light from it; A~ldebaran,
the rose hued star that marks the eye OF
Taurus: Capella, rs white as a diamond,
and several others less brilliant.
A practiced eye quickly distinguishes
the planets before named from these
stars, but when a telescope is used the
similarity of appearance which some
times puzzles the observer with the
naked eve at once vanishes. The stars
remain only points of dazzling light,
even with the highest powers, while the
planets lose their resemblance to stars
and shine in the telescope, even with
low maonifving powers, like moons.
| Venus now resembles the moon wheI
near her first quarter. Saturn appear
, as a round globe, surrounded by a broa(
fiat ring. Jupiter presents has grea
oval face, streaked and spotted like
harlequin, while his four moons clrcl
, around him, their motion being easll
~perceptible during a single evening
Mars shows the glittering snow field
I around his poles, and the outline oil M
L continents and seas, covered sometime
by clouds.
t A few years ago there was an extrao1
e binary ~convulsion of Jupiter, whose ei
: fects Mere shown by the sudden appear
: ance upon the planet of a fiery red spo
. which covered anarea equalto the whol
9 surface of the earth. Lately this spC
! has almost completely faded from We
i but other singular spots have made the
0 appearance, and the surface of the equ'
, torial regions OF the planet seem to hay
u undergone a similar shifting toward l
i south pole. 1t is most interesting I
Q watch these gigantic commissions
E Jupiter, for it is evident that in th'
"a planet we behold a globe which is no
II undergoing some of the vast physic
II changes dimly limited at in the begil
Is ming of the the book of Genesis as ma
~ ing preceded the soliditication OF I'll
5 globe upon which we dwell.
Saturn, too, has of late exhibited i
- dications of the operation of enormol
'oI forces which show that it is in a cond
nc ton very different from that o fthe cart
Anew belt has appeared nearits equato
% which can be seen with a comparative
- small telescope, and which striking
recalls the appearance ofthe belts of /
~ giant brother Jupiter.
The astronomers have only begun t
conquest of these worlds.
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id A woman living with Orrin Farrell at Wei
cl- vile. N. Y, as his wife, shot her son 4
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