THE 800TTISH PINE,
Erect. hu stands, 'mid scenes so wild,
On Nature's bulwark grey; His plume waves in the northern breeze,
The shadows round him play.
The bracken for and blackberry
Spring up about his feet,
4
peared in 1874, and brighter than any since that which appeared in 1843.
THE CHINA MAIL,
and 25. Its position was determined ou both evenings with the altazimuth and and transit-circle. The following uro the places deduced from the meridian observa- tons (uncorrected for parallas and aberra tion} —
U. M.T. JL.A.
h. m. a. h. LM.
PD
1881 June 24...11 26 40 3 38 38 94 40 36 39
"Professor Newcomb anid thab as all the observations inade on the comet of 1807 showed it to have a period of nearly 1700 years, it means out of the question that under any circumstances the ele coinet could have returned in su short a time as
25...11 25 56 54251-06 36 39,30 While heat-crowned rocks, or hoary cargs, seventy-four years unless it has passed in the vicinity of sue largo planeta, which it
The observation on June 25 indicates the O'er head oft nearly meet.
could not have dune. From Dr. Gould's: telegram it may be inferred that the comet following corrections to the euphemeris was very near the orbit of that of 1807 computed by Mr Lohse fruta, the elementa when he observed it. Professor Newcomb communicated by the Emperor of Brazil is inclined to think that it is a case of two (Dunecht Circular, No. 21)Correction in comets moving in nearly the same orbit, R.A. +9m., in Duc. + 6 23. On June rather than the return of the same comet. 24 the head was estimated to be brighter One reason for this is that if it had been's than Vega or Arcturus, notwithstanding its periodicst comet returning every seventy- low altitude, and on June 25 it appeared
it could not have failed to have decidedly brighter than Arcturus, four Yrved on former occntious, because being at about 10 greater altitude than the
The storms that blow so fierce and strong,
Round may a summit baro, Sweep down upon him. Yet he stands
Unvanquished mutarch there.
O'er many a glen his sceptre sways: Lone Rannock, wild Braemar, The Banks of Spoy, and crooked Glass,
Lochiel, Glenroy, Cromar......
Although he loves his Highland hills,
'Mong purple heath to stand, Yet we oft meet his stalwart forms
Far from his native land.
Give him the welcome he deservez. He's always brave and true; Where others fail, victorious he, Shall wave his bonnet blue. Jurnal of Forestry.
THE COMET.. Astronomers have not yet made up their minds about the comet, as will be seen from
been
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the following extract from Nature, June structure of the tail; but-the larger the nearly along the axis of the tall. Where does the Oliver Cromwell pari be-
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and the appearance of the bead I'm gmag to get into this thing!
Mikiny changed.
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to sono, Pekhoi, Singapors, Penang, required) to purchase Hongkong Prieten and Malacca. They must not exceed the Stampa from forsign residents. (Des his business, “ did you get me a fancy drass as he hurried in hot and breathless, late from
In the following Statements and Tables following dimentione, 3 feet long, foot The Stamps tenders for sale marine for the masquerade to-night Ms Spoopen-the Rates are given in cents, and are, fotbroad, 1-foot deep, nor weigh more than ozoved $60 in valua, must be partiok
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PARCEL, CONTAINING TO LETTER, but any purchased. They most dyka, beaming. You go ne-let me see Letters, per half ounce, for Books and is The parcels may be wholly closed clean, in good condition, and my hand go as-as-it's either Louis Fourteenth, or
case may be, but such papers or packets or Oliver Cromwell, or Sir Robert Burns, I've are charged as double, treble, &o, as the parcel may be opener by direction of sonally or accompanied by
3. The following cannot be transmitted: not soffident, and de will refuse to phrob I do, do It" said Mr Spocpendyke, papers may be sent at Book Rate. Two the Postmaster General Mandy purchasing if kht public fonds in land appear doubtful forgotten which the man called it.' glaring around, "I go as one of 'em, do I Newspapera must not be folded together sa As they are all dead, and as I will do for all one, nor must anything phaseser be inserted Parools insufficiently packed or protected, sabih
Fetch out the interctavertible cata-matter may, however, he enclosed, if the do) Glass, Liquida, Explosive substances, Commission of one per dont on all Biamp
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reat may be paid either as Newspaper or Fish, Game, Fruit,
in dangerone to the Mails, or likely to be star sleures 7"*
falque and help me on with it. Has it got whole be paid at Book Rate. Prices Our Matches, Indigo, Dystuffs, Ios, Most, urchileadi. pengg
"It isn't a cofin," explained Mrs Spoo Books,
Commercial Papers signify such papers come offensive or irjasions in transit.
a. Parcels are as a general role for It's a doublet, is it? Well, that relieves, though Written by Hand, do not bear it would have returned in 1734 and in 1700.comst. The tail, which was slightly curved pondyke, "it is a doublet and
Packet. The Post Offos reserves the In neither of those years was ally such comict (convex towards the preceding side), was
and of delaying delivery in case observed. The position of its orbit is auch tracted to a distance of about 8 on Jane me of one of 'em, I thought from the way the character of an actual or personal correwarded by Private Ship, not by Contract that it could hardly have failed to be seen 24, and 10 or more on June 25, its general you spoke, Mrs Spopendyke, it was a trip- spondence, such as invoices, deeds, copied
Draper direction
to the star 2 Cram let. Is there a trousore with it? Got a shirt ? | music, &c. The charge on them is the same acting the opportunity for trans it returned. Professer Henry
With I told you to get me a bandit mit, didn't I? as for books, but, whatever the weight of pointing had has photographed the comet. To obtain Minncis, about 3 cast of Polaris.
equatorial
in accepted with regard to any pamely sword go with paper, it will not be charged less than 5 other correspondence. No responsibility Any the Sheepelunkts
man Burns me this such a photograph as he would like, he said,
wod the want
The sender of any Registered Article unless Begletered. the plate ought to be.. exposed for at least aperture) the head showed h inches Fetch out this Cromwell business! Show a packet containing any partially written the number of parcela is such an to retard Alvares, Delimre 1
Mrs Spoopendyke brought forth a worn an hour, but he had succeeded in getting ayuetry that has been remarked in so an exposure of
of only seventeen minutes, other comets. On June 24 the preceding
The limit of weight for Books and Com The result, however, was satisfactory, in so side was much the brighter, thore being a red velvet jacket, trimmed with tarnished may acompany it with a Return Receipt
ches, slashed up the sides. This shu sup. far that it demonstrated the possibilities of strong brush or are of light on tunt side, braid, and a pair of yellow volvot knee-bree on paying an extra fee of 5 cante.
4 lbs. Patterns for such offices are limited photographing a comet. It showed the with a bright fan close to the nucleus and cicus and the coma an? past of the tail. much smaller are on the following side, the pleniented with a felt hat, and a pair of jack-mercial Papers to Foroiga Puat Offices in Maybe it's a bandit's suit after all," she to 8 ounces, and must not exceed these dimensions: 8 inches by 4 inches by 2 fle will try again to obtain a longer exportwo are appearing to spring from the boots armed with spurs.
He wishes to take a larger photograph nuclone on opposito sides, and higher up to
N.R. means No Begistration. if possible, to examine more carefully the interlace. A very rounarkable feature was suggestedch is the Louis XIV. end of this inches.
straight wisp of light extending from the
Mr Spoopandyke. difficult it is to obtain, uncleva photograph, tho
me the Burns element on this owing to the diffusion on the light. If he Os June 25 this had because much less
Countries of the Postal Union. The following side
I must begin with the chronologically, The coniet which, so far as we are yet succeeds in obtaining two good photographs
The Union may be taken to comprise informed, was first astronomically observed he will next tum his attention to its apechad
i ancarance was that of a parabolic envolop which is the king part ?" and Mr Spoopen- in the southern hemisphere on May 20, is trum, which is much more difficult to photo-- was then auch the brighter, and the generaling and wind off with the poeurope, most foreign possessions in Asia
brightor unsymmetrical para Professor Bois of Dudley Observa-with a much
ers. Where's the rest America, Mexico, Salvador, Brazil, now well under observation in these latigraph than the orb itself.
Alkbuy, tudes, and as its position will beoonie more
secured a nuraber of bola placed within it, the latter having its dyke shot out of his business suit and drew Japan, W. Africa, Egypt, Maurition, sli
on the velvet trousers, He says that at focus on the following side of the melons, on
hole Republic, Jamaica, Trinidad, Guista and inure favourable, it will be a mere tory, t
This whole panse of muckthed limbs
Hondarat, Bermuda, Labuan, with all grastim as to how long our telescopes will valuable abservations.
it, what data way bo ubtained for an two o'clock on Saturday morning its ap and its axis turned round in the direction of 'em?" he demanded, surveying an ex- Peru, Chili, Veusanels, The Argentine
the naked eye and in↑ups fi
f from that of the tail. accurate determination of its orbit. The pearuice both to
The greater part of the head gave a bright thing is only one leg. Where's the pair for
Countries NOT in the Union.-The chief to have saine resemblance telescope was magnificent. The head to those of the great unmet of 1807, to of the count was very bright and the continous acctrum, obliterating the usual the other leg, Give me some more trout Danish, Ergach, Netherlands, l'ortuguesa
Dr. Gould's .
tail thirty or forty minutes breat, ex-canetary bands, but one portion showed sare," and Mr Spoopendyke scowled shout and Spanish Colonies. which reference was made
"Don't the boots come up and meet countries not in the Union are the Aus
tralasian Group, and S. Africa. early telegram from the observatory attending early 20 toward the North Star. three bands, in the green, blue, and violet him.
respectively. Measures of the principal
Postage to Union Countries, rdoba, but the identity of the comets The tail was vory diffbred in band in the green showed that it coincides them anked Mrs Spoopondyke, in some
fau-like for. Laking in
Me Spoopendyke pulled on the boots, but "highly improbable after Bessel's spread out in appears
General Rates, by suy route-ma Letter
10 conta poroz classical menuir containing a rigorous in the great telescope of thirteen inchies aper with the band in the first spectrum of car trepidation.
B cents each. vestigation of the orbit of the coniet of turo, a multitude of details became revealed hem (blue base of flame) at 5165, and not
blue and loot.
I s'pose this barelegged arrangement is Poat Cards,
· 10 cents. 1807, which he followed until the perturbs which are not visible to the unked, ure, with that of the second spectrum (vacuum still there was an exposed space of nearly a
planata had ceased to be The head was there aven to consist of a tube) 5108. The bands in of
know briefly recall the cirtan condensed nucleus, apparently about as violet appeared to correspond as nearly as the Burno parts," grinned Mr Spoopendyke. Registration, Bensible. We may startees attending the appearance of that large as Jupiter seen moscope, but of could be estimated, with hands in the firflo was a Highlander, and this much of Newspapers, body and one or two main results of Bessel's far greater intensity of light, A spray of spectrum of carbon. These obscrvations
from A
A to put on the hat and breathed hard. Where's investigation. According to Piazza it was brilliaut rays spread out from the nucleus were made with the half-prism spectroscope me is Burns. Show me the Cronwall part
backward first detected by an. Augustine monk at on the side nearest the sun, thon turning mounted on the equatoriaì, a dis-now. Is that hat it?" and Mr Spoopendyka
Imingled with the elements which Castro Giovanni in Sicily on September 9,
handed him the jacket, Mrs Spoopendyke but the first regular observation was made form the tail This resembled the jet of a being used, with a magnifying power of 14 the rest of me 1 My head and legs are all
a jork. on the 22nd of the same month by Thulis fountain very closely in its general factures. on the view tolescopo, as in the measures of right; bring ont my back and stomach
That what you wanted he howled. at Marseilles. From this time the comet's The tail itself extended in a direction dia atar-motions in the line of sight. No positions were determined at every opportu metrically opposite the sun. The whole decided polarization was detected either in and he plunged into it with a nity by Bessel, Olbers, Grisni, and others field of the telescope was älled with glowing the head or the tail. Cloudy weather has
ne? Didn't the man have but three his-
3. That application was made to the Pull that torical datori until the end of February 1803, and on the unlesity. I an inclined to think that prevented any observation of the comet "Couldn't you make more'n three epochs of Don't you yo!
West Indios (Non Union)t, Bolivia Postmaster General of Hongkong in couple of centuries, can't Jacket down a Books & Patterns, 18th of the following month Wisniewsky, this comet kaa nut best seen before this since June 20.
mediately the lona was discovered, the see the bottom of the confounded thing is Costa Rica, Nicaragua, favoured by a very acute vision and the year, in raodern times at least. It is pre-
envelope being invariably forwarded with Letters, In a letter to the Times of the 25th inst. clear skies of St. Petersburg, observed the ably the same comet as seen in South Royal Observatory, Greenwich, June 28.
from reaching the waistband is now curtain that this in
years
soch application unless it also is lost its America. succeeded in fixing comet again, and succ
4. That the Postmaster General is satis position until the 27th. In consequence of the long-expected comet of 1839. It is
fied that the loss occurred whilst the corres- with wrath. a notification from Olors, that with almost equally certain that it is not the Mr Ranyard says of Comet b 1881, at pre-
With
direct vision star Capella.
Maybe that was the way it was meant to
Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, and pondeuce was in the custody of the British of observing the comet again as the 1807 is about 1,700 years. Professor swift general brightness it decidedly outshone the tugged at the abbreviated coat and snorted
the conel
of five primus, and a 33-inch grows smaller
spectroscope
go," argued Mrs Spoopendyke. "I saw earth overtook it to some extent in October of Rochester says
You sawed off the road and pants; now Pijl, in Torres Straits, Letters, 10 Ro. Postal administration in China, that it was and November of the aune year, Bessel, and brighter in nucleus, showing that it is telescope, ils nucleus and head gave a con- active tinuous sperirunt, on which I could upt
June 'pose you saw off a rod of this hat and patch gistration, 10; Newspapers, 2: Books and not caused by any fault on the part of the Last night
And Mr Spoopendyke Patterns, 2: Fia Galle, Letters, 25; Re-sender, by destruction by fire, or shipwreck, again working with Schroeter at Lilienthet, approaching the sun. The head thien
person not in the amployment of the closely examined its track with reflectors and the tail does not absente the stars. He detect any bright bands."
decreased,
Hongkong Port Office. of 16 and 20 feet focal length, and on No- thinks it will be visible overal weeks. He 27, shortly before midnight, the brilliancyst his man to the shoulder through the gistration, 10; Newspapers, 3; Books and nor by the dishonesty or negligence of any
cannot yet determine if the coact was ever
the nucleus had considerably.
Rion Covenanter's hat, and split the coat of the Patterns, 2,
Natal, the Cape, St. Helens, and Accon. vember 9 did sacered in tuding an ex-
ost clearly, along Look out for somy Scotch romance!" And sien, via London, Letters, 26; Registration, faint nebulosity near the compatod before seen. Great activity is apparent in and yet with a five-prism direct-vision lamented Louis from tail to collar-brud. tremely
spectroscope I could place of
of the coast, which he could not find its hea
as the position
M. Janssen hus presented to the Academy with the continuous spectrum three green he ripped off the pants and fired them into 10; Newspapers, 5; Books and Patterns, 5. damage to fragila articles anch as portraits,
Here comes another page in subsequently, but as the
grate. by an orbit which of Sciences, at its sitting of June 27, the bands, not unly in the nuclens, but also in the 12' from that assigned
Hirhood he considered very oxact, he came to the fiche of a photogram of the couet, which the surrounding coma. Two of the bright the annals of crime?" and the boots went
was taken with the large telescope belies were still strong in the neighb
"And we can't go-go to the mas conclusion that the object he observed was
cribed a fow weeks ago, constructed for the nucleas, even where the continuous out of the window. not the comet of 1807, but another one
8-inch which happened to be in the vicinity, and the purpose of astral photography.
achromatic. A small McClean's spectro-dyke which was not seen cleowhere. The discus-obtained also a series of photograms of the pectrum was very faint. I used an ord-masquerade at all?" sobbed Mrs Spoopen- sion of the aix months' observatious of the nuclnis, for which he varied the time of nary Browning spectroscope on an comet appears in the masterly treatise to exposure. The results prove that the bright-
as seen by Mr Ranyard. This was, I think,
side and a torn staircarpet at my back, and which we have referred, vit. "Untersuch-neas is not more than that of a star of the Roope gave only the continuous spectrum,ncck, and l'il go as a tombstone" yawned i ungen über die scheinbare und wahre Bahn fifth magnitude. On the photograph, the due merely to the brightness of the con- Mr Spoopendyke...Put three bells in y des in jahre 1807 erschien grossen stars are visible through the tail. M. Faye tinuous spectrum; for in the Browsing in- Pil go as a Fronch fiat | Discharge the hired
praising the success
strument the bright linee over the
you Koureten,
Published af Königale lus
in delivered allergue, ad remarking
narrowing the slit boarding house! But The method of determining the
with a wide slit, but perturbations of a comet due to planetary that it was the spectrum were not very couspiouous girl and get up a cold dinner, and I go as like a baby, and bare-backed, like a circus, attraction, which is detailed in this memoir, heen photographed. The pinion that the this green bands becaine auch brighter than going to any measly masquerade in bare legs,
the rest of the spectrum.
just to advertise a hyum-book, a gin-mill, was long practised the German astrono-tails of poets are merely an illusion as **Questiones
anti a broad-axc factory, you're left, Mrs by Seneca in his " professed
seus to gain ground using to
And Mr Spoopendyke drew on his night- Spoondyke. You hear me? You're left!"
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at the perihelion passage of the comet on September 22 it was moving in an ellipse, with a period of revolution of 1714 years,
at the munications:- which was reduced to 1680 years date of Wisniewsky's last observation, and
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On June 25 the night was rather cloudy, tained by observing the transit of the comet have rooived the following card of Aurige over the wires of an eye-shirt.
piece of the equatorial. The mean of four
"It's too awfully mean for anything," The following positions which I obtained wires gave R. A. 3h. 42. 51-34s., at G.M.
the Spanish guitar-girl's costume, and contintting his computations of the pertur- of the path of the count any interest your 1; 12. 21., blau North Declination being musel Mra Spoopendyke, as she laid away
On June 27, towards midnight the double warmed up her crimping-pins.
was get something that would suit him, and he to March 1815, when the effect of readers :--1 saw it first on Wednesday June planetary
attraction liad become very small, 22, at 10.55, during a break in the clouds envelope surrounding the nucleus he found the period further reduced to for about a miunie. It was then brighter clearly lefuted in the telescope, as was also don't appear pleased with it. Another time
than it was last night, the 27th, when
in the direction of the sun and extended to be can be a Roman senator, and if he is dis- The general aspect of the comet now I saw it well, the sky being dear. The the right hundle of rays, which spread uut I'll get him a sheet and a pair of sacks, so visible as viewed in an oxsellout Cometen
point in the cuma shout half way between appointed and tears 'em up it won't cost so sucher, reminds as of the appearance of the
the bounding lings of the inner and the much." With which profound reflection of Jane -1845, discovered by Colla,
outer envelopes. The direction of these Mes Spoopandyke said her prayers, and, which was observed under very similar oir
bright rays, which were very vivid, was not planting her-sold feat in Mr Spoopendyke's cumstances, and it may be mentioned that
quite opposite the direction of the tail, and back, saak gently to rest.--- Brooklys Eagle Lacko stated at the time that the comet of
the latter was very slightly curved. reminded him strongly of the great 1815 comot of 1819, which passed across the sun's disk on June 26,
1543 увага.
colour is of an orange tinge, and the tail extends to about 10, but can only be even so far by sweeping across it. It has changed wonderfuliy since I first observed it, as will be seen by the drawings which I and you The No. 1 Drawing shows a must singular
A transit of the comet anb Fole was ob appendage round the nucleus in shapu liko a milk-maid's yoke, the nucleus occupying served last night, June 27, at G.M.T. 11h. the hollow,
which was black. From the 35m, and this, combined with the corrected nucleus two horns projected; they were as reading of the meridian circle, gives the bright as the nucleus. The first envelope following position:-R. A. 5h. 52. 46 314 on the preceding side took a sudden bend North Declination 60° 13′ 40.6. from the circalar form to a straight line, length of the tail, cleatly discernible to while the outer envelope stained its the naked eye, was last night about 9".
8. J. PERRY. parabolic form.
The
The present cunet appours to have been at its least distance from the earth about June 21, and should som present a material diuination of
brightsuse. In perigee its
about 03. would be distance
Since
the above was in type we have
Last night, the 27th, 1 was surprised to Stonyhurst Observatory, Whalley, June 28. received observations from Dr. Elkin, of
The following places have been obtained the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good find a great change had taken place-the Hope: After a week of overcast sky the yoke-shaped central luminosity appeared as comet was found there on May 31. Mr Lif it had turned round in the nucleus and with the transit-circle where the comét pusBI
of Graliam's Town, occupied the usual position, while the nued sub Polo :~- A. Eddie, F.RA others claim to have cleus itself had thrown out
bright tail,
saw it on seen it
May
21
days earlier. On June 4 the which gave it the appearance of a brandi tail was 6" long, coma 20 minutes, and comet lying across the bright envelope. nucleus 20 seconds in diameter; the comet The outer envolipe on the following aido was as bright as a Columbre.]
The following opinions of American astro- toners have appeared in the Daily News. That paper, with wonderful journalistic enterprise, has not hesitated to telegraph nestly a column of matter from Americ on this subject;
"Professor Stone of the Cincinati Observatory, thinks it is not the comet of
Date
(b)
27
-
Greenwich Mcan Observed Observed Nartb Folar distance Right Time of Observation. Ascension, (uncorrected for
parallax) h. m. 8. h. . 8. 24 11 30.42.6 5 38 39.9 40 35 33.7 was interrupted in ita continuity or seemed (4) Juno 23 11 31 54.2 635 55,2 44 53 20.6 (c) 25 11 30 58.9 5 42 52.2 36 38 27.4 wanting.
27 11 33 2.8,5 58 50.2 29 46 5.8 Remarks. (a) The nucleus distinct, but nebulous Tail bright, and estimated 15 in length Observation good.
The positions I got are as follows:-
B...
R.& IL, no. 1.ni, . June 23... 11.4.5 33 50 ... 44 55
25 100.5 41 41
... 36 52 5 50 34... 29 50 27... 100 27. 120 5 55 54... 29 42
1812, because of its not moving in a souther-so that last night it crossed the path of
direction, but that it may possibly be Brorson's comet of April 30, 1879. ly di
Professors Eastman and
that of 1807.
At the Naval Observatory, suc
the comet on
an extremely bright nucleus, which
a very ruddy appearance.
was
80
at about eight degrees In
R. 5. NEWALL
Ferndene, June 28.
Photographic Spectrum of Count.
(b) Observation difficult, owing to cloud Nucleus better defined that on June 23, but not so bright. Length of tail esti- mated at 16. Observation good.
(d) Observation fair, very cloudy. Tail 12-15" in length
E. J. Sroke: Radcliffe Obscrvatory, Oxford.
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by pointment are caused puting its motion from its position
ons thing British General cannot do
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three degrees thirty-six seconds. whan dis- solar light.""\
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It became distinctly viable at 1.45, ani
opinion
At the Observatory maintain their that the comat is identical with the one re- cently observed by Dr Gould in Busnos Ayres Professor Skinner describes it as much finer comes than Coggia's which ap
GEOBOS M. SEA BROOKE.,
This photographic evidence supports the
results I obtained in 1868, showing that comels shino partly hy reflected solar light
Temple Observatory, Rugby, Jupe 28. "TELL me, Jonos, what is Booislism Tainton. This in Socialism. You and I go
with hydrogen.
WILLIAM HUGGINS.
Upper Tulse Hill, June 2 Comet 1881 b was well observed at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, on June 24
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