At any rate ninety minutes later
we turned the focus of a powerful
piece of tallow-candlo-siained glass
mon tho celestial picnic and found
Venua coquetting with tho southwest
ern hemisphere of the sun.. This was
in the direction of Vale Summit.
Her position varied very little, but
she giadually sidled off apparently in
the course she came nn, and whan the
sun had reached the Musselman larm
Venua bade him farewell—a long
faiewell—unt 1 tne year 2U04.
The sun has not been hoard from,
hut it may he positively sL ted that
to the paiople living on about 50,000
xni.sre milea of its sin face our own
glorious ylote was totally eclipsed,
j To about haif tho inhabitants of
• Venn* a small dark spot, large as a
UMl'le, was seen to erawl slowly;
an oss ih> fonthfTn half of our west
.■■ ' to j hen' hot i“, if lliev s’ id
alt night I wt . esa Ih- proces-mti.
All I lie foils living on M IP, Jnpl- |
to Saturn, am] perhaps tin Moor,
regarded the tv:’sit s di iuf-re t
deolim : til-.- ex. . i.*i of s i.eking a
piece o; glass.
Ir is feared the scientists of Pom- ;
pey Stun-:., disappointed iy the I
cloudy outlook, went early to Cum- j
berland to inspect a coal mine of that j
renowned region.
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the realm made across the glowing
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