estial visitants to be a comet of no ordinary kind. POSITIONS OF PLANETS FOR MAY, 1880. 1880, it was again It is remarkable that astronomers throughout the British Mercury. colonies and in England have not given the least intimation On May 1 Mercury rises at 4b. 10m. A.M. On the 8ist,| rent… … Uranus. than 250 miles an hour, sometimes much more, and it will The appearance of the present comet is what astronomers Uranus rises on May 1 at 1h. 9m. P.M., and sets at 2h. account for about all the observable phenomena in the region designate ‘‘a beam.” Its continuance is, uncertain, though |…
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