i'jMaiinii i i ! i CJtiBiiiSBWBSS hr- - . --i .- mtfaSxfi Volume XYII-Ne. 125. LANCASTER, PA., WEDISTESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1881 Price Twe Cents. AMHMM 3k "'fl -V JV'?WI2..i.T,-r-,W5?"""' .9 WATCHES, Wc call attention te a tew very desirable articles at unusually low prices Beya' SUver Hunting Cased Watches at $6.25 Beys' Silver Hunting Cased Stem Winding Watches 15.00 Gentlemen's Silver Hunting Cased Full Jeweled Watches. 9.00 Gentlemen's Silver Hunting Cased Stein Winding Watehes 15.00 Ladies' 10 and 14 Carat Geld Hunting and Half Hunting . Cased Watches at! 18.09 We call attention te our fine Movement for Ladles' Watches Full Jeweled, evn In centre pivots, which wc will case te order in Handsome Bex-joint Monogram Cases or otherwise. Gentlemen's IS Size Movements Cased and Engraved or Monegrammcd te order. A special newllncet goods is Just received, consisting of Gentlemen's Silver Box-jelnt-Cascd Watches, the Handsomest Silver Watches ever brought te thin city. We invite an Inspection of these goods, feeling confident we an show Inducements te buyers net te be found clsowhere. H. Z. RHOADS & BRO., Jewelers, 4 West King Street, - Lancaster, Pa. EDW. J. Manufacturing Jeweler, Zahm's Cerner, Things In our stock that make Beautiful and Durable Christmas Gifts. WATCHES, DIAMONDS, CLOCKS, SILVERWARE, SPECTACLES, JEWELRY, 0 OLD BRONZES, GOLD HEAD CANES, GOLD THIMBLES, SILVER HEAD CANES, SILVER THIMBLES, OPERA GLASSES. GOLD PENS AND PENCILS, HANDKERCHIEF AND GLOVE BOXES, GOLD BRONZE SMOKING SETS, FINE CIGAR SETS, BACOARET VASES. ALL THESE AM MANY MOKE AT ZAHM'S CORNER, LANCASTER, PA. mix auejts. H01ER, COLLADAY & Ce, 1412 and 1414 Chestnut St. PHILADELPHIA. The general improvement in business the past vcar, with the prospect et a very large in creased demand for all kinds of Dress Goods, induced all American buyers of Foreign Goods te place Immense orders. This was universally the case, se much se that, perhaps without exag geration, 50 per cent, mere goods were imported tlian the country could possibly consume. As a consequence, there has been a great break in prices in a great many fabrics, which wc shall fully meet. WE SHALL SELL Fermer Prices. .0.'i $o.ne All Weel Armures French Flannel Suitings 03 1.00 crencii siripeu fancies (an suit and Weel) Frenck Shoedas (in all colors) French Brocades (all Silk and Plain French Plaids Finest French Brocades (in several 1.50 1.73 1.00 M designs) 1.(0 2.50 In addition te our offerings in the above goods, we have some lines of very choice goods of which it is difficult te meet the demand, in which we have a very choice assortment, both in cloth and coloring?. CLOTH SUITINGS: v 44-lnch Cleth Suitings (very desirable KWUDI fll.7.1 Si-inc Inch Cleth Suitings (in all colere. 1.10 1.20 54-inch Cleth Suiting FRENCH Our make of these goods we believe te be the best in the market, and the assortment et colors our own selection. 46-lnch French Shoedas ?0.S7 4G-inch French Shoedas 91.12 FINE CAMEL'S HAIR: Our assortment et th sc beautiful goods is still complete, from 81.25 te 82.50. We have just received one case et Camel's Hair in Evening shades in very bcautitul quality, in Cream, Flak and Light Blue, 40 inches wide, te sell at 81.25. BAREGE DE VTRGINIE: We have just received one case of this very desirable texture for Evening Dresses, quality very'superler, in Cteam, Pink and Light Blue, 27 Indies wide, te sell at BOe. CLOTBLSO. GREAT SLAUGHTER IN CLOTHING. GftAflD MAEK DOWI AT CEFTEE HAIL. Will be sold in sixty days TEK THOUSAND DOLLAUS WOttTHef HEAVY WINTER CLOTHING, Without regard te cost. New is your time te secure a geed Suit et Clothing for very little money. Ready-made or Made te Order. OVERCOATS IX GREAT VARIETY, Fer Hen. Youths and Beys. Men's Dress Suits, Men's Business Suits, Youths' Suits in every style. Beys' Clothing, a very Choice Variety. jW Don't fail te call and secure some of the bargains. MYERS & RATHFON, Ne. IS EAST KIKG STREET, FOJl FOE SALE CHEAP. A FIRST-CLASS THREE-STORY BRICK DWELLING HOUSE, . WITH A GOOD STORE BOOM. This Property is situated en the corner et Mulberry and Lemen streets ; with nine geed rooms and large cellar ; also het and cold water and gas through the house. This Property will be sold cheap or exchanged ler a small house or building lets. Alse, a FIRST-CLASS BRICK STABLE in the rear of the house, and occupied by Samuel Heeler, for sale new. Fer further particulars call en BAUSMAN & BURNS, Or at HOUGHTON'S STORE, 25 North Oaeen Street. CHUT A AND OZASSWAUE. CHINA HALL, 16 BAST KING STREET. WHITE STONE CHINA, FRENCH CHINA, SEMI-PORCELAIN WARE. ODD AND DAMAGED WARE. All In Large Quantities and sold at Lewest Prices. Housekeepers give us a cull and be convinced. HIGH & MARTIN, IS EAST KING STREET. V A LV MOOTS. SHOES AND LAST XUI ie X made en a new principle, insur Ing comfort for the feet. IM If iTC Lasts intute te order. MILLKK, tebU-tfd 133 East King street JEWELBY, Jte. ZHIVC, Lancaster, Pa. Fermer Price. Camel's Hair Stripes $0.65 Brocade Novelties 75 French Fancies (very costly goods.. .75 91.12 2.50 2.75 .50 1.50 1.50 2.75 1.50 English Novelties French Handkerchiefs, squares.... French Handkerchiefs, squares.... French Novelties French Novelties 25 .75 .85 1.25 .50 51-inch Cleth Suitings. 51-inch Cleth Suitings. Si-inch cloth Suitings. .$1.25 . 1.50 . 2.00 SHOODAS : LANCASTER, PENN'A. SAZE. CONFECTIONS. c ONPECTIONS JUST RECEIVED AT JOSEPH R. ROYER'S WHOLESALE A2TD RETAIL CONFECTIONERY, Nes.50 AND 52 WEST KING STREET. A Large Let of FRUIT, ORANGES, LEM ONS, Ac. New Large VIRGINIA PEANUTS en hand. AlargcstockefPurs Confections, all of which will be sold te Merchants and Huck sters at the lowest market rales. Try ROYER'S UNCLE SAM CANDY. Mull Orders promptly attended te. sl3-3md fi KA1M SPECULATION VT In large or small amounts. $29 or 920.U0O Write W. T. SOULE A CO.. Commission Mcr chants, 130 La Salle street, Chicago, IU., ter cli ulara. mat-iyd CLOlHTb'G. The Clothing Bargain Reems. The mass of the stocks selling be low cost is se great that we may say there is no change from last week, ex cept that a very few lines are exhaust ed net enough te mention. m Large and complete stocks of new clothing of all grades, from common te fine, arc here, going for less money than their original cost. Remember, though, that still larger, though net mere complete stocks are net masked down at all. Yeu can buy out of either, as you may prefer. These stocks have been separated for convenience in selling ; but they are made together, iu the same way, for the same purpose, and alter the same standards. Bring back whatever you don't want at the price. WANAMAKER & BROWN. Oak Hall, Market and Sixth. OVERCOATS! Closing out at agrcat reduction ourimmense line of Novelties in Overceating. Pur Beavers, Seal Skin, Elysian; Mentanak, Ratina and Chinchillas. All the New and most Desirable Styles STOCKANETTS, IN NEW COLORS AND CHOICE STYLES Why net leave your order at enceand secure au Elegant, Stylish, Well Made and Artistic Cut Garment as low a 320. A LARGE LINE OF CHOICE AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES, AT J.KSMALING'S, THE ARTIST TAILOR, 121 N. QUEEN STREET, MW&S A RARE CHANCE! The Greatest Reduction ever made in FINE WOOLENS for GENTS' WEAK at H. GERHART'S ninilnni A Large Assortment of Genuine English & Scotch Suiting e sold during the Fall Season Ireiu 930 te 8840. A Suit will be made up te order in the Hest Style from SZO te S30. HEAVY WEIGHT DOMESTIC Suiting and Overceating, Reduced in the same proportion. All goods warranted as represented. The above reduction will for casli only, and ter the next THIRTY DAYS. H. GERHART, Ne. 51 North Queen Street. Special Announcement ! New Is your time te secure bargains in CLOTHING! Te make room for our large stock of Cloth ing for Spring, new being manufactured, we will make sweeping reductions throughout our large stock of HEAVY WEIGH! CLOTHING, COS3ISTISO OF Overcoats, Suits, &c, FOB MEN, BOYS AND YOUTHS. ODDS AND ENDS OF CLOTHING IN COATS, PANTS AND VESTS, BELOW COST. Call early te secure the best bargains. D. B. Hostetter & Sen, 24 CENTRE SQUARE, 6-lyd LANCASTER, PA. nil Mms MUIIM Hancastcr Intelligencer. WEDNESDAY EVENING, JAN. 28, 1881. THE PLANETS. THE SIL-aiKER? OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM. Address by Air. frank Grlest Before the Star Club of the Yeung Men's Chris tian Association. The word planet originally and deriv atively meant a wanderer, and was ap plied te theso heavenly bodies that seemed te wander about among the stars, a comet occasionally being mistaken for a new planet ; new it is an opaque celestial body moving in an elliptical emit about a cen tral sun. . There are thousands of suns in the universe and tens of thousands of planets ; but te us the term sussests only these of our own system that encircle our own sun. These are eigJit in number, ex cluding the thousand and one remnants beyond Mars, and the alleged "intra-mercu-rial" planet, the existence of which is the subject of grave doubt. Five of these, ex cluding the Earth, were known te the an cients ; Uranus aud Neptune are modern discoveries. It is common te say that these planets Venus, Mars, Jupiter, etc., were known in ancient times ; that the laws of gravity apd the revolution of planets iu elliptical orbits, in modern times, and that during the Middle Ages the astronomical and ether records were preserved for modern science by the priest hood of that period. That we may all have a clearer idea of the time embraced by these historic cycles, I digress for a mo ment. Ancient times, it is generally understood, extend from the begining of the world te the downfall of the Western Remau Em pire, A. D. 47C. The nations of antiqui ty known, and reputed te have given at tention te astronomy, arc Babylon, As syria, Egypt, Greece, and Heme. The warp aud woof of history and mythology affirms the Indians aud Chinese te have been star-observers, but China cannot be called a nation of antiquity, for it exists new, as we are told, much as it was 4000 years age. The Chaldean shepherds who listened and femembered what the morning stars' sang together, were Babylonians, net of the city, but of that province, twixt the Euphrates aud Tigris rivers, which formed the nucleus around which clustered the whole Babylonian Empire, some 40 cen turies age. Seme say that the people of that whole prevince were Chaldean ; be that as it may, the Babylonia Language is universally known as the Chaldaic. Legen dary lore tells that the Assyrians also patronized the study of the stars. The metropolis and capital of the empire was Nineveh, en the cast bank of the Tigris river. The glory of Babylon faded as that of Assyria grew bright. Bithynia, one of the countries of Asia Miner, that peninsula south of the Black sea, pro duced the first astronomer whose name ad fame lived after him Ilipparchus. They lived through the works of an Egyp tian scholar, Ptolemy, the most famous astronomer and geographer of antiquity, aud ranking fourth among ancient mathe maticians. His works were the Keran of astronomy, from the 2d century, when he flourished, until Copernicus broke loose from much stereotyped error and pro claimed the Sun the centre or our plan etary system a peiied of 14 centuries. The Middle Ages comprise that period of petty governments, tyrannical rule, scien tific lethargy and fanaticism extendingfrem the fall of the Western Reman Einpiie iu A. IX 470 te the discovery of America in 1492. During this time astronomy was astrology, and was cultivated net te de velop the science, but as a means of fore telling the future. The presence of Venus in the horoscope foretold love : Mars war; Jupiter power, and the Pleiades storms the sea. With the close of the Mid dle Ages the influence of the astrologer waned, but did net for a long time entirely disappear, for we are told that as late as the reign of Charles II., of England, Lilly, the last of the famous astrologers, was called before a committee of the Heuse of Commens te give his opinion of future events. Charles II. died in 1G33. That brilliant galaxy of astronomers, Coperni cus, Galilee, and Kepler, all flourished after the close of the Middle Ages, in what may'hc called the beginning of Modern times As early as Ilipparchus a catalogue- of stars was made ; the Zodiac was divided, as new, into twelve constellations ; and centuries before them eclipses were fore told Avith considerable accuracy. Ncw Ncw cemb calls him "the father of astronomy," and he was probably the author of the theory of the cpicyclic motions of the planets, attributed te his disciple Ptolemy. I have already stated that five of the planets Avcre known te the aucients, and that two of the major planets Uranus and Neptune and all of the asteroids ever two hundred in number, I believe have been discovered since. The fact is the ancients made out a list of seven planets. Hew was this ? They had no thought but that the Earth was the centre of the universe ; the. stars were supposed te be set in the inner sur fuce of an immense hollow sphere ; this celestial sphere revolved about the Earth according te rule, arriving at a certain point each night about four minutes later than it had tile previous night ; they were steady-going, regular ; the relative posi tions of Sinus, and Rcgtilus, and Procyen, and the long list that they knew, were always the same ; they could be depended en. The Moen, however, is net se sure. 'To night, for instance, she is in the constella tion of the Sea Geat, or the sign Aquarius; te-morrow night and the night following she will be iu the sign Pisces, censtclla- tien Aquarius ; and the rest of tbe week in the first sign of the Zodiac, Aries ; and in twenty-seven days from tonight, i, c. the 30th of this month, will be again in Aquarius, ready the succeeding night te enter the sign of the Fishes. At the vernal equinox the Sun is at the first point of Aries, and day by day, month by month, it threads its way through the maze of the Zodiac, until twelve months later it has completed the circle and is again at the first point of the Aries. Te-night Jan. 3 the Sun is in the sign of the Geat; en the 10th inst., it enters the Water-Bearer. Te-night the Sun set at 4:37 ; Jupiter will set about .11:48, a difference of 7 hours and 11 min utes ; en the 22d of April they will set to gether. On the 12th of this month the Sun and Saturn will be 90 apart ; en the 21st of April they will be in conjunction ; en the 1st of November the.y will be in op position, and en the 13th Jupiter is in op position. If we watch Mars night after night for a sufficient length of time we will see it ap parently te move forward among the stars, then backward, and at times te stand still. This is tru3 of all the ether planets and had been observed by ancient astronomers, and all of these bodies whose motions were different from these of the fixed stars were called planets or wanderers. The list was made out in the order of their distances from the earth : Moen, Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Sat urn. And sometimes becan.Re it was diffi cult te determine whether or net Venus and Mercury were nearer the earth than was the Sun, they were transposed and the list steed : Moen, Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn. The relative distances from the earth were decided by the times of their revolutions about it. The days of the week among the Chal deans, Egyptians and Persians were named after these seven planets. Among the Remans Sunday was dies Solis, or the Sun's day ; Monday was dies Lunm, or the the the 3Ioen's day ; Tuesday was dies Martis, or Mars's day ; Wednesday, dies Xercurii, or Jiercurys day ; ihursday, dies Jens, or Jupiter s day ; Friday, dies Veneris, or Venus's day ; and Saturday, dies Saturnii, or Saturn's day. Part of this plan of nom -enclature is preserved in our Sunday, Men day and Saturday. At one time Venus, the Evening Star, was net known te be Venus, the Morning Star ; as the former she was called Hespe rus, or Vesper ; as the latter, Phospheins, or Lucifer. The astronomers at this time therefore had eight planets. Motions' of the Planets. The theory of the causes of the eccentric motions of Jupiter, Mars, Saturn, etc., as advanced by Hipparchus. completed by Ptolemy, and preserved in his work, the "Almagest," is this : Suppose an imagi nary planet te revolve about the Earth at a distance from the Earth equal te the mean distance of Jupiter from the Earth. Then let the real planet, Jupiter, revolve about this imaginary one at a distance from the imaginary orb of half the difference be- tween its least and greatest distance from tuc iartn. This double motion of Jupi ter would be an epicycle, and correspond very nearly te the apparent motion of the planet ; it corresponded closely enough te satisfy the majority of astronomers for ever 1,500 years. It was the principal idea in Avhat is known as the Ptolemaic system. It did net. however, satisfy all. Alfonse, king of Castile, disgusted with the cumbersome complexity of cpieyclic cranks, said, "If I hail been consulted at the creation, I could have dena the thiuj better than that." Pythagoras, ene of the Greek astrono mers, suggested that the Sun was the centre about which the planets revolve. He argued that " fire, which composes the Sun, was mera dignified than earth, and hence should held the mera dignified posi tion, in the centre." One of his followers, Nicctas, adopted the idea that the ap parent daily motion of the stars Avas caused by a revolution of the Earth en its axis, but this was regarded as chimerical. Tints, wc see, these truths were dreamed of and forgotten, centuries upon centuries be fore they were proved te be facts. Ptolemy believed aud proved the Earth te be spherical ; and that it needed no support te retain its position in space ; he also argued that it was impossible for it te re volve en its axis. In the first half of the 10th century, after the immense impetus given te thought and explorations by the introduc tion of printing and the voyages of Colum bus ; while Albert Durcr, in Helland, and Raphael, Michael Augele, Leonarde da Vinci, and Titian, in Italy, were painting for the world's uttermost posterity ; while Leyola Avas founding the most powerful religions order that ever existed, and his disciples were pushing their labors te the very core of the American continent ; while the old Otteman cinpire, under Solyman the Magnificent, Avas at the zenith of its power and glory ; while Luther, Mclancthen and Zwingli were breaking the power et tin" Iteman Church in bwitzcr laisd, Germany and the Netherlands, and Jehn Knox was establishing the nucleus of Prcsbytcriauism in Scotland ; while Mcnno Simen Avas organizing that sect, whose plain garb is daily seen en our streets, and whose pleasant homes dot the Lancaster county landscape ; while Henry VIII. was establishing the Church of Eng land that he milit be divorced and mar ried without Pupal interference ; while De Leen and De Sote searched for the fountain of youth iu the wilds of Flerida and the valley of the Mississippi ; while da Gama and Magellan rounded the south ern extremities of the Old and New World, and the latter s crew practically proved the rotundity of the earth by circumnavigating it ; while the robber minions of Certcz and Pizarro were de spoiling the sacred temples of the Incas and Mentczumas during all this time a comparatively ebscure Polish priest, of Cracow, was dedicating his days aud nights te astronomy, hoping te compensate it for the iucrtitude of the previous 2,000 jcars. Fer nearly a half century he worked, sift ing the gram from the chart, combining, adding, rejecting, adducing proofs, until, when en hi.? death-bed, a complcte printed copy of his work was placed in his hand. That priest was Nicholas Copernicus, and his theory is immortal. It was : The Sun and Stars arc station ary ; the Moen alone revolves about the Earth ; the Earth is a planet Avhesc orbit is between Venus and Mars ; ths planets revolve about the Sun ; the apparent revo lution of the heavens is caused by the rotation of the Earth en its axis ; Venus and Mercury, if they could be mere closely examined, would exhibit phases like the Moen. In the latter part of the same century Tycho IJralie, a Dane, made extended as tronomical observations ; he clung, as did the vast majority at that time, and te a considerably later period, te the Ptolemaic system, and is chiefly noted as being the teacher of Kepler, AThe early adopted the views of Copernicus. Kepler seen discovered that the Irypoth Irypeth csis of circular orbits, with the Sun at the centre, could net be verified. He tried the circle in about twenty different ways with out success ; he then tried the ellipse, a figure some of whose properties had been discovered by the Greek philosophers ; at first he assumed the Sun's position te be at the centre, but finally discovered that its true position was at one of the foci. The doctrine of Copernicus made the discovery of Kepler's three laws possible : and the discovery of Kepler's laws made it possible for Newton te evolve his. Galilee was a contemporary of Kepler aud believed in the Ptolemaic theory ; he became a convert te the Cepcrnican, and with his little telescope showed the phases of Venus, disceveied the moons of Jupiter, and saw the rings of Saturn which were for 223 years afterward thought te be solid. By accident Hcrschcl discovered Uranu3jHarch 13, 1781, but pure science added Neptune te the list of known planets in 1846. Soen after the lucky finding of Uranus, Bede, a German astronomer, discovered the following remarkable key which gives approximately the comparative distances el the planets from the Sun : 0 3 C 12 21 48 SO 192 44444444 i 7 10 16 -iS b'l Mcr. Ten. Earth Jlfars JVp, 1M Sat. 1'jtl Ura. Kepler had predicted that a new planet would be discovered between Mars and Jupiter, and after the 'discovcryef this ap parent law the leeling grew stronger among astronomers, until in the year 1800 a congress of enthusiastic star gazers was held ; the Zediacall planets must be found within its borders was divided into 24 equal parts and each part given te an as tronomer, whose duty it was te carefully scrutinize that region for moving bodies. On the evening of the first day of this cen tury the zeal of Piazzi, a Sicilian astren.t- mer, was rewarded by the discovery of wnat succeeding observations prove te be a superior planet. Piazzi was taken ill, the planet was lest, and many doubted the fact of its discovery ; unavailing search was made for it, until about a year after ward Gauss, from the slight data collected by Piazzi, calculated its position ; the tel escope proved the accuracy of the calcula tien, ana cores was once mere placed en the list of known planets. la March, 1802, another was discovered ; in 1804, another, and iu 1807, still another ; for nearly 40 years no ether was found, and it seemeu aoeuc settled that there were no mere te discover, when in the latter part of 1845, a fifth was found ; since that time the number has mounted te ever 200. It will seen be 33 years since the last known major planet was discovered by Dr. Galle, of Berlin. Fer many years it had been noticed that the planet Uranus did net conform te the orbit laid down for it. Leverrier, the most profound of French mathematical astronomers, devoted him self te the task of explaining this varia tion. He worked en the hypothesis that it was due te the existence of a planet be be yeud Uranus, calculated its position, and sent the result te Dr. Galle, for the veri fication which it received. J. C. Adams about the same time made an independent calculation, arriving at about the same re sult. One of the most important discoveries of this century is that of Mars's two moons by Prof. Asaph Hall, of the Washington observatory, in August, 1877. Possible Planets. i or several years it has been thought probable that there is at least one planet between the Sun and Slercury. It hss been observed that there is a variation of forty seconds every hundred years in the position of Mercury. Fer the past twenty years at various times its discovery has been announced, but Newcomb says it has always been sceu by unskillful observers. Since the publication of his work,hewevcr, it has been conceded by many astronomers that such a body was seen during the eclipse of the Sun in 1878, by Prof. Wat Wat eon, of Ann Arber. It has been named Vulcan ; sign, a hammer ; distance from the Sun, 13,000,000 miles : orbital revelu tien, 20 days. Owing te some irregularities, also, in the movements of Neptune, it has been thought by some that there may be a planet beyond, which has as yet eluded the search of science. General Facts erInterest. It has been alleged and Newcomb thinks it probable that Jupiter is te some extent sell-luminous. All the planets re re ceive nearly, if net all, their light from the Sun. But one-half is therefore illumi nated at ene time ; this accounts for the nioenlikc phases exhibited by the interior planets, Venus and Mercury, when seen through a telescope. A. planet is said te be in conjunction with the Sun when the two arc in the same direction as seen from the Earth ; super ior conjunction when beyond the Sun ; inferior conjunction when between the Earth and Sun. The inferior planets only can be in inferior conjunction. A planet is iu opposition when it and the Sun are in diametrically opposite di rection from the Earth. A planet in such position would cress our meridian at mid night. Only superior planets can be in opposition. The specific gravity of the Earth, taking distilled water as the unit, is 5.21 ; taking the Earth as the unit, that of Mercury is estimated at 1.21 ; Venus, .92 ; Mars, .90 ; Saturn, .12, &c. The diversity of seasons en a planet de pends en the size of the angle formed by the intersection of its equator with the piano of the ecliptic, its orbit. The angle thus formed in the case of Jupiter is very small (a little ever !P), hence thcre is little change of scaseus, the heat and light at any part of its surface being aueut the same throughout its year. The angle in the case of Mara, is but a few degrees greater than that of the Earth ; hence its seasons arc very similar te ours. The heat and light received en Mercury arc estimated at six times what we receive; en Ncptune it is only one thousandth as much as that received by the Earth. . Transit or Venun. Perhaps the most interesting phenome non te the astronomer is the transit of Venus that is, its passage across the disc of the sun, which occurs at regular inter vals of 103, 8, 121 and 8 years, after which the order is repeated. It was first carefully observed in December, 1631, Kepler having predicted that a transit would take place en that date. The object of this observation, as fully explained a year age, was te get the parallax of the Sun, from which its distance can be calcu lated. In 1701, La Gentil was sent by the Trin ity Academy te observe a transit in the East Indies. He could net reach his sta tion because of a war with England, and Avas kept by contrary winds from making any ether pert ; he determined te stay with his instruments te observe the next transit Avhich would occur in eight years, and supported himself by engaging in mercantile pursuits. On the day of the next transit the sun arose in a clear sky, but just as the transit was te begin, a sudden storm covered the sky with clouds. When they cleared away the transit was ever. The last transit was in 1874 aud was ob served in Europe, Asia and Africa, and en certain islands of the Pacific. The dis tance of the Sun as calculated from these observations is about 92,000,000 of miles. 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Cochran, druggist, 137 and 133 North Queen street, Lancaster, I'a. LOCKER'S M OWNED GOQi SW! A Pleasant, Safe, Speedy and Sure Remedy for Colds, Coughs, Hoarseness, Asthma, Influ enza, Soreness nt the Threat and Chest, Bronchitis, AVhoeping Cough, Spit ting of Itloed, Inflammation of the Lungs, ant' ail Diseases of the Chcstand Air Passages. This' valuable preparation combines all the medicinal virtues or these articles which long experience has proved te possess -the most sale and efficient qualities ler the cur of all kinds of Lung Diseases. Price 25 sent. Pre pared only and sold by CHAS. A. LOCHER, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DRUGGIST NO. O EAST KIKO STKECT. elC-tfd M&MCAZ. CUTICURA Bleed Huaers, Itching ami Scaly Dis eases, Scretals, ScrefHleas Seres, Ulcers, and Swellings, positively, er maaeBtly sad economically cared. CcncJJRA Reselvest ia the greatest bleed purifier in medicine. It acU through the bowels, liver, kidneys and skin. Cuticura, Medicinal Jelly, arrests external disease, eate away lifeless llthanil skin, allays iullamina iullamina tien, itchint; and irritation, and heals. Cm cura SeAr cleanses, heals, weftens, whitens and beautiiles the skin. It. and the Ccticura. Sh v v ise soap, the only medicinal shaving soap, are prepared treni Ccticcua. Salt Rheaiu. Mrs. Asa R. Grewn, Maiden, Mass., bad Salt Rheum en body and limbs for eight years. Ne kind of treatment or medicine or doctors did her any geed. I.imbs se raw and pain tul t hat she was obliged at times te go about en crutches. Many et Maiden's best citizens cau testify te her condition. She despaired ercurt? or even relief. Used the Ccticcka Reselvent internally, and the Ccticcka and Ccticitra Seap externally, and wis cured In six months. Wonderful Cures. What cures of Itloed nnd Skin Disease-, and Scalp Affections with Less nf Ilair. ran com pare with these et the Hen. H'm. Win. Taylyr, liosten. State Senater of Massachusetts; Alder man Tucker, Ilosten ; S. A. Steele, esii., Chi cago; F. 11. Drake, esq., Detroit; II. K. Car penter, can., Hendciseu.X. V.: Charles Hough Hough eon, esq., .Bosten, and man v ethers, details el which may be had en application te Messrs. Weeks X I'etter, Ilosten. Eczema. Manuel Manintz, Sew Orleans, La., writes : '.Se ether can cempare with the Cuticura Risiediks. I ham used t licin in all forms for a severe case of what the doctors called Kczeinn, which was effectually cured in eight wveks." Ccticcka Rembdiks aiu mopaied ly AVKKK3 ft I'OTTKR, Chemists uiid l)ru;;gi its, Wash ington street. Uosten, and ate for sale by all Druggists, l'rice ter CimcuitA, a Medicinal Jelly, small boxes, 50 cents; huge boxes, tl. Cuticura Reselvest, the new itloed l'uritler. $1 per bottle. Cuticciia Mudicixal TeiLkT Seap, cents. Cuticura MeihcixalSiiayiku Seap, 15 cents; in bars; Utr lkirbcis nnd large consumers, M cents. 3,tff mailed free en receipt of ifice. SANFORD'S RADICAL CURE FOR CATARRH. Insiaiitaneeiiy, Economical, Safe. Treatment for One Dellar. Kailld Poisonous catarrhal in ittur lining the nasal passages rots away the membranes tissue aud cartilages, causing less et Smell, Taste and Hearing. The putrid accumulations drop durlngsleep into the threat and are swallowed, paralyzing digestion. Taken up by the absorbents, t he virus enters the bleed, weakening am4 debilitating every organ, :ud generating fatal affections of th: Lungs, Liver nnd Kidneys. Strike at the roots et this gigantic disease. Cleanse, purify and ileal the membrane lining the nasal passages, ana then, by constitutional treatment, neutralize tiie poison in the bleed and ether fluids. .Satiferd'8 Radical Cure, with Impueved Ix UALcr. and Catarrhal Solvent, readiest every Jiart of the affected system, cleansing, purify ng anil restoring, it is radical and permanent. It is economical and safe. Try it before it is tee late. Price, with Improved Inhaler, Cataurbal .Solvent, Treatise aud Diiectiens, $1. Sold everywhere. Cellins' Yeltaic Electric Plasters. The Electro-Galvanic ISattery attached te Cellins' Voltaic Elkctbic Plasters Is warrant ed superior te every $2 Hattsry before the pub lic, and is a positive cure for Rheumatism. Neuralgia, Liver. Kidney and Urinary Dis eases. Nervous Pains and Weakness, Malaria and Ague Pains, sold everywhere. Lancaster City tfi-irniacy, KOKTU QUCKN ST., I'OKNKK OKANUK. C03IPOUXDIXU 1'IirtiWIAXS' PRE SCRII'TIOXS A SPECIALTY. ANDREW Q. FRBY, Graduate Philadelphia College! Pharmacy. Night call at rcsidonce 4S3 WEsT ORANGE STREET. KIDNEY WORT. This Great Remedy In either Liquid or Dry Ferm acls at the same time en th;t disuses et the Lira1, Bowels id Kiieys, This eembineil action yiret it wonderful peun te cure all tlisertscs. WHY ARE WE SIOK? Because tve allow these ijreut organs te 6c 6c ceme clogged or torpid, anil poisonous humors are thereere forced into the Olnetl that xheultt be txpttlvd naturalljf. KIDNEY WORT WILL CORE Hliieusnesit, Piles, C'emtllpatiuii, Kidney Complaints ilrinnry UlseasCH, Female Weakness and Nervous Disorders, by causing free action of these organs and iv storing their power te threw off disease. Why suffer bilious p.iins und aches? Why tormented with Piles, Constipation? Why frightened ever disordered Kidneys? Why endure nervous or hick headache? Why have sleepless nights ? UselZUiSKX WOKT and rejeire in health. S It is put up iu Dry Vegetable form, in i" tin cans, one package of which makes six quarts of medicine. 43" Alse In Liquid Ferm, very Concentrated O"ler the convenience of these who cannot W readily prepare it. It acts with equal tit efficiency in either form. GET IT OF YOUR DRUGGIST. PRICE, SI.. WELLS, RICHARDSON & CO., Prep's, Burlington, Vt. (Will send the dry pest-paid.) due 27 lyd&wl E CAU THIS. UhE- COUGH NO MORE ! AMERICAN 'Kill SW, A CERTAIN', SAFE AND EFFECTUAL REMEDY FOR COUGHS, COLDS, SORE THROAT, HOARSENESS, ASTHMA, BRONCHITIS, WHOOPINU COUGH, PAIN IN THE SIDE OR RICK AST, And all Diseases of the THROAT AND LUNGS. Fer the relief of Consumptives in all stages of the disease. Fer sale only at HULLS DRUG STOKE Ne. 15 WEST KING STREET, augawydj LANCASTER, PA- 8 O'CLOCK COFFEE IS THIS PUKEST nnd best ler the Breakfast Table. ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC TEA CO., Hi North Qneen Street. Janae-lmd Lancaster, Pa rpe TOBACCO BUYERS. HEAVl PAPER SI7ITA RLE FOR liAIMNtt TOBACCO CHEAP AT janlj-Udtw TI1IS OFFICE.
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