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times of curtailment, unavoidable among Z
people in their first gropings toward civ-'
llization, 1T was annexed to the university !,
and forms a creditable department. of that
marvel of Asiatic development. Built one
the site before occupied by the Naval OBJ,
servatory of Japan, the astronomicaEa
duties of that small structure have de-
volved upon it, and the photographic.
Bureau is entitled to share the use of thef
instruments. These consist of two transit2
instruments nearly three inches in diame-s
ter and three-inch and a five-inch equa-
torial.
Among the duties are the construction ofa
an almanac, the announcement of the true
time and meteorological observations.s
From three to five hours a day are devoted to-
the study of astronomy and mathematics,k
and as the college course extends to threes
years considerable advance must be madea
by these progressive Orientals. Lectures
in astronomy are also given by Keesaburo'
Ashino, Rigakushi, who like many of the
professors in this establishment, is proDa-
bly, graduate from some European or
American college.
1t is to be hoped that taste for con-
quest will not smother the intellectual.
proolivities of this talented race, that;
seems so near the possession OF civiliza-
ton and its beneficial results.
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MARyELSoF MODERN ASTRONOMY
b. Dose OHdoran 0m


The requirements of scientific study
often lead into those bypaths of civiliza-
ton where culture and standardization
meet and mingle, the sharp extremes OF
their distinctiveness being necessarily IN
edged.
In such borderlands are to be found the
observatories of Madras in tropical India,
OF Hongkong in tropical China, OF TOXIC
Japan, and Helsingfors on the bleak shores
of Finland. As the first named IS only 10
degrees north of the equator it very nearly
commands the complete view of the hrma-
ment afforded to observers on that MD
line by the effects of the earths rotation.
1t was created by that pioneer OF oriental
civilization, the East India Company more
than a century ago, and was indebted to
NJ. Petrie. the owner Of private ooserva-
tory, for its first moderate OUTFIT, with
which geographical surveys were made OF
the principal cities of the peninsula.
The observations of the first fifty years
remained in manuscript form until quite
recently; but when better instruments
were procured in 1881, telescope star OBJ
servations were commenced as a middle
link between those of Greenwich and Cape
Town. and valuable catalogue was pub
lished toward the middle of the present
century. j,
When Mr.. Pogson, formerly assistant OF
Mr.. Hind of England, was appointed d.
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Russia, within few degrees of the zone
where the midnight sun is yearly visitor.
The diurnal motion of the heavens has a
strikingly different relation to the horizon
in these northern ATTITUDES from what it
has in tropical countries where the hea-
venly bodies rise and descend nearly at
right angles. In Helsingfors the motion
is only slightly oblique, and the celestial
vault to sixty degrees south of the pole
star passes round and round entirely in
view of the observer. Below that circle
the stars rise and set, and the heavens be-
low thirty degrees south of the equator are
invisible.
The sunlight lasts more than eighteen
hours at midsummer, and is an equal
time below the horizon toward the end of
the year. In these present years, on &C.
count of the position of the moons orbit,
the midwinter full moon will scarcely set,
as its radiance will llnger at the north
point while it glides beneath for short
interval and the full moon of midsummer
viii only show its presence by lustrous
| arc at the south point, unless unusual re-
fraction counteracts geometrical laws.
This is a land of unusual refraction, of
crimson glories, mock suns and magnetic
phenomena. Even the pale lunar disk
wears q lurid glow, and the aurora borealis
or northern lights appear in brightest
tints.
INlS magnificent pueuOLHeuOu is SeleC-
tive as to latitude and longitude, but this
point is almost nightly favored with its
fantastic outlines.
AS the observatory has fair outfit for
magnetic, meteorological and astronomi-
cal observation, Dr. Bonner is giving some
time to the marvels of the Arctic sky in
addition to general research. Occultations
of stars by comets have been closely OBJ
served for some time and the conclusion
has been reached that no decrease of light
occurred. April "a, 1886, an unusually
white twilight was seen that has not been
accounted for satisfactorily as yet. No
doubt the increasing facilities for research
now developing so rapidly will give to this,
the most northerly station in the world at
present, much i'm portance in Arctic obser-
vations.
1t was at Helsingfors that Argelander
completed his famous catalogue, one of the
best in use, and model for those that
have since been compiled.
The observatory of the university of
Toxic, Japan, is entitled to be classed
among those institutions which are
rising to knowledge, though outside the
+ highways of civilization. It is the out
come of rather ancient institute that was
revived in 1868 by the Imperial Govern
ment. After series of changes, some
! times in the way of enlargement, some
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duous one at first, but the dusky pupils
soon developed an aptitude that would not
dlscredit their European cousins, and the
painstaking director was amply repaid.
Meridian observations were continued Tor
several years, variable stars and asteroids
were discovered, and meteorology received
all the attention it claims in these ttful
chimes. To forward the long-deferred pub
locations Mr.. Pogson reluctantly dispensed
with some of the least important work
some years before his death in 1891. His
post as yet remains untitled. A memorial
fund has been raised and brass plate in
the cathedral will mark the resting-place OF
the deceased astronomer who Tor thirty
years weathered the dangers of this orr
entail climate.
M Smith, his assistant and the "offi-
ciating astronomer" at first dispensed
with all observations excepting the time
service in order to prepare the long accum-
ulating records for publication.
This work is now progressing rapidly,
and the astronomical libraries of the world
are at length coming into the possession of
all these treasures of India after the lapse
of century.
There is some discussion now as to the
necessity of continuing this long estab-
lished station, as steps have been taken for
the erection of a new observatory near
Kodaikanal, on the Palani hills, about 200
having long ago passed into the hands of
the Government of Madras, was. during
the last year, transferred to the Imperial
Government. Present financial straits
will be an important factor in its destiny
and will also retard the completion of the
new structure.
The site has been chosen with solicit
tude noticeably on the increase among the
founders of astronomical buildings.
Solidity beneath, transparency above and
quiet around are the required conditions,
and this new outlook on hill ZOO feet
above sea level is accredited with fair
share of them. 1t will be chiefly fitted for
solar physics at first as moderate equip
ment happens to be already on hand.
This includes a spectroscope manufac-
featured specially for observing the zodi-
acal light, that marvel of equatorial skies,
the cause of which is still a mystery. The
illustration represents this luminous, cone
shaped projection supposed to extend
around the suns equator for many mil
lions of miles, and consequently to remain
in view about an hour after the sun has
disappeared below the horizon, while it
also gradually recedes in the same direction
and is lost to view as night comes on.
AS it probably extends in a plane roun d
the sun it also projects above the eastern
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nection with these dreaded visitations, one
of which bereft the observatory of its dome
during the first year when their violence
had not vet been practically ascertained.
China is one of those lands in which as
tronomy was studied at an early date.
Seyen hundred years B.. G. at latest the
cause of eclipses was well understood, and
though opposed to progress the knowledge
of heavenly phenomena is still interviewer
with their benighted ideas OF ethics and
religion. Several hundred miles south
west of Hongkong lie the Philippine
Islands, a Spanish colony, where astron-
omical observations have been taken since
1904, and permanent observatory was es-
tablished twenty years later at Manila.
This city of Oceanica, being in north lati-
tude 1914 degrees, has view of the entire
celestial area in twenty-four hours, with the
exception of Is degrees round the south
pole. Until recently, the instruments were
of small size. and no publications have
been issued as yet, but q superior outfit
has now been obtained, including 20-inch
refractor, equatorially mounted and fur
nished with a Photographic lens and in
struments for seiSmographic and meteoro-
logical observations.
The variations in latitude now agitating
the astronomical world will be given
special attention by the director Father
Algue, in concert with the observers of
Georgetown College, Washington, and the
records hereafter viii be of much scientific
value. Almost an antipodal station is that
of Quito, Ecuador, on the equator, with
the enviable altitude of 9543 feet. Though
founded in 1874 there Is little heard of the
work done at this observatory, and we are
left to conjecture that excellent spectre
scopic work could be done where the 20
diacal light appears in its fullest CLOVIS,
Orion's nebula is near the zenith, and the
planets can be seen at a favorable altitude
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and equipped with due regard for econ
omy and utility. Mount Elgin, in view
of the harbor and consisting of two peaks
more than 1000 feet high, was selected as a
site. On the eastern peak is the large rec
tangular building for astronomical and
meteorological observations, and on the
other 400 feet distant stands the hut for
magnetic observations.
No Government in existence pays NOR g
attention to the interests of navigation
than England and this 1ar-off colony has
been supplied in the first place with
meteorological instruments for the pur-
pose of studying the local ways of the wind
and weather and forming a reliable fore
cast of atmospheric conditions. Thou
sands of inbound and outbound vessels
are at the mercy of the periodic monsoon
and the terrible tvphoon that arises fitfully
and renders these tropical seas some of the
most dangerous known.
A neighboring mountain, Victoria Peak,
1918 feet in height, is also used for
meteorological observations. A series of
storm warnings have been established, and
the reverberations of the typhoon gun are
one of the local strains.
Feathery clouds, rise in the barometer,
hot weather, and light winds are some of
the first indications of this atmospheric
CONFUSION, and a swell in the sea, which
becomes phosphOreScent, glorious sun
set torrents OF rain and darkening sky,
are often found to be features of the second
stage of advance.
The typhoon gun is fired once when a
strong gale is expected, twice when a ty-
phoon is to be looked for, and triple
discharge signifies that the furious gale
is likely to suddenly shift round, which
means disaster to ships lying in the track
of the whirlwind.
1t is not much to be wondered at that
Mr.. Doberck, the Government astronomer,
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rector in 1861, still better instruments
were obtained, including an 8-inch
equatorial, and this well-known astrono-
mer devoted himself for thirty years to the
general study of atmospheric and celestial
phenomena. He it was who gained a mo-
mentary glimpse of a comet in 1872, sup
posed at first to be the missing Biela wan
derer, though evidence has since appeared
that shows it to have been some other
cometarv visitant that cleaned through
efficient staff of assistants not be-
ing easily retained in the unhealthy
climate of India, Mr.. Pogson resorted to
the expedient of training natives to the use
of telescope instruments. Though the
higher castles are branch of the Arvan
race, ages of orientalism are not propi-
tious groundwork for scientific skill, and it
may be supposed that the task was an ar
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TULARE Cal, Aug. 10, 1895.
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FROM TRUCKER, CAL.

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A HEAVY SUIT PENDING.
Fruit Men Who Lost by the Strike
Want to Be Reimbursed.

Fruit Men Who Lost by the Strike
Want to Be Reimbursed.
1t was rumored yesterday that promi-
nent legal firm had been consulted re-
Gently as to the feasibility of instituting g.
suit for damages against the Southern.
Pacific Railway Company for the fruit losts
in transit at the time of the strike last
year
A number of the Sacramento and Placer
vile shippers, not to mention others in
less important shipping centers, were
heavy losers by reason of the strike, and
the proposed suit has been in contempla-
ton for some time. 1t is said the loss sus--
tanned by the growers and shippers
amounts to several hundred thousand dol
lars, and that several of the wealthy fruit
men of the State are interested in the pro-
posed suit.
George Elliot received for "Felix Holt''
$25, 600, which is little more than 81 O.
line.
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TESTIMONIALS.
FROn KEENE, CAL.

KEENE, CAL, Aug. ID, 1895.
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seen in middle ATTITUDES, its yellow tints
and crimson base are seen to best advan-
tage in tropical regions where the sun rises
and sets with little obliquity. About 1000
miles eastward and also within the tropics
is the observatory of Hongkong, estab-
lished by the English Government in 1888
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TESTIMONIALS.
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throughout the year. Here the entire ce-
lestial sphere becomes visible on clear
nights, end the poles of the heavens are in
view respectively north and south about
half degree above the horizon.
In contrast to this unique position is
that of the observatory of Helsingfors,
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has little time to study the aspects or po-
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his pregnant reports are chiefly of a
stormy nature in the literal sense.
Much good has been accomplished dur
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horizon in advance of the sun in the
morning. The cone shape is but a matter
of perspective, as we view this Illuminated
plane of meteorlc dust, if such it be. side
ways and thus foreshortened. Though the
rounded point of the cone may be family
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FROM SAN JOSE, CAL.

Box 347.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-06-13
Has stood the Test Of Time
ORE SOLD THAN ALL OTHER
BRANDS COMBINED

head of the family would never give
her up.
Months, laden with busy hours, flew
by One cold, damp day in March, |
was sitting before an open fire and
was trying to read but my thoughts
kept travelling back to the little spar
rows who lived i'm the lumber room. A
ring at my dcorbell, then a small, wet
and thoroughly frightened figure en-
tered. Ii was Jack
oh, Mr.. D. Tom is awful bad
of. Please come to see him.
sent the child for a doctor and
fastened to Toms room. l soon saw
that the poor fellow had pneumonia.
The doctor confirmed my fears. The
doctor took me aside and said: 1T
will go hard with the boy, because of
oyerwork and under feeding. We did
what we could for the child, but there
never was any hope, and the end came
very soon.
1 was sitting by his bed the last
night when he opened his bright, shin
ing eyes.
MIR. D." he said, you have been so
awfully good to me that | want to tell
YOU all about it. You asked me once
if my mother was dead and l said
nothing. so you thought she was, be-
cause 1 cried. But she is not dead.
She smoked hop Copium) with China
man. and went off with him, leaving
us all
1 suppose I looked Mortified, for he
Immediately exclaimed: she could
nor help it. sir. When any body
smokes hop with a Chinaman they al
ways do what they tell EN-, and l new
err blamed my mamma" Then, after
took all the money she made washing,
beat her every time he got drunk, and
| q pause. he added in a bitter tone: IA
whenever he could get his hands on II.
He beat us. too-Jack and me. II did
not matter about MS boys but it made
me lust sick TO see him a-beatin' her
I tried to quiet him down. and pres
emily he went TO sleep, and heard
| him mutter i'm delirium: Il did what
I could for the children. mamma.
Jack goes to school, and is going TO be
educated as a gentleman, and the SIS
ters are raising Flossie at the convent
They take such good care OF her, and
are going to raise her as a lady.
never blamed you for going off, but we
did get so lonesome without YOU
suddenly the boys bright, fevered
ewes opened. oh Mr.. D., ] can't die
and leave the children! Who Will
take care of them?'
I promised the dying lad to take
take them home with me, and that |
would always care for them. My wife,
explained to Tom, had wanted Flos-
sic for some time, to take the place of
little girl we had lost. And | want
ed Jack. and would educate him ana
adopt him as my own son.
such a look of sublime peace and
hanDiness came on the dying face as
awed one. TO look upon the beautiful
unselfsh soul had Illuminated its
bouse before leaving it, and the little
bero's soul had gone to the God who
made ATLANTA Constitution.
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The Princeton students Gunshot Wounds
Proved Fatal.

The Princeton students Gunshot Wounds
Proved Fatal.
princeton. \. j.. June 12.-Frederick
OH the student who was shot Satur-
6av night bv John Collins colored, diecl
nj 4 o'clock this morning. His home
was at New Castle. Pa. Garrett Coch-
ran. of Williamsport, the other vlcJlm'
will recover.
AS soon as the necessary papers can
he obtained from the county physician
the body of the dead student VIII De
taken TO his fathers home IN New
castle. Mr. Oil. who was with his son
when the latter died, Will accompany
the remains as will also a committee
NJ Princeton students. 1t IS expected
that q committee from the college Iac-
uItv will attend the funeral.
Comfy Prosecutor Stockton VIII pre-
sent the case Of the murderer Collins Jo
the grand jury, which Is now In session
at Trenton. Collins friends among hi1
own race will see that he has aDle
counsel to defend him. They believe
his statement that he shot the students
in self defense. 1t is admitted even by
The Princeton College people thaJ the5
shooting would not have occurred haq
NOT Obl and Cochran fOolishly followed
Collins and Downs to Anderson's sa-
Ioon. the scene of the shooting.
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FRED GIL DEAD.

Rose Hams are money savers.