Neptune is also slowly approaching
opposition, and will arrive there early
ail December. He is never visible I<>
the naked eye on account of bis great
distance, though he ranks the third in
six/* of the giant planets, being exeeod
ed only by Jupiter and Saturn. Thus
far wo know little concerning the
member that travels on the system’s
remotest bounds. Seen through a tele
scope, he lias a perceptible disk of a
•delicate .greenish tint. No markings
are visible on his surface, and his
own satellite seems to move backward,
or from east to west. It remains yet
to ho pioved whether his orbit is the
boundary of the sunfs territory, or
planets exist, they will surely be
whether planets yet unknown people
I the realms of remoter space, owing
| allegiance to our central orb. If such
' found, ns telescopes increase in power
| and ol>server!s accumulate the vast
! amount of material for the use of the
* astronomers of the future.
THE MAGIC MIRROR.
Dim clouds across the field there float.
And shadows slowly form, combine,
And gather shape. A liny l>oat
I see, tossed in the foaming brine.
O rower, wait! Brave rower, stay!
Nay, ix>at and rower fade away.
Again the dim clouds gather o’er,
And slowly shape a battlefield.
And dead or living, wounded sore,
One lies beside a broken shield.
O warrior, caust thou heed or hear?
Nay, for the visions disappear.
Fling down the shinging surface bare;
An idle tale it tells to me.
The shadowy form I imagine there
I trace in earth and air and sea.
Earth, sea and air, from pole to pole.
The magic mirror of my soul!
—May Kendall, in Longman's Maga
ane.
CORRECTOR AT SUPERIOR.
West Superior, Wis., Nov. 11.—R. J.
