... SCIENCE JOTTINGS. Although the Weather been so stormy end ohangtable and drifting clouds have frequently oh. ! mimed the sky, the nights of January, on the whole, have not been altogether imfavourabie for astronomical work. The planets, however, have • Dot ...

... itselr in the first mirvellous flash. The balls were surrounded by a luminous haze, but no tiack of was left behind in the sky. The night was almost cloudless. Perhaps some your readers may have seen this meteor, certainly by far the m> extraordinary that ...

... wilitellyou aboutmy littledog. It is white all over, and when I cone home from school at night it comes running and jumping up at me; and when I go to the village at night I take it with me, and it seems so pleased to conie with me. The other week mother found ...

... the week is going to be just as pleasant as to-day. Southport, Tuesday Evening.—This has been anothor glorious day. The sky to-night is very clear, and there every prospect of fine day to-morrow. Barometer, 30*3 thermometer, 80. Wind, east. Morecambb, ...

... afternoon rain has fallen incessantly. To-night * somewhat boisterous wind 'is veering to a northwesterly direction, and the outlook is much bright*** the clouds breaking nicely. The barometer, which I*** night advanced considerably, receded a little morning ...

... day; sky overcast, 1 rain at intenas in the afternoon. Moderate1 breeze; seamnnente. BzA:M-uans, WmcES:nar N sts i Miserable day, rain7 fba~ha heavily nd almost ninesstly ?? te afteron, whilst barely a gleam ot sunlshine has peneraed a ' leadenf sky. T ...

... of sunshine from * cloudless sky. The night is fine and tbe sea calm, slight breeze blowing from tbe south-west. Barometer steady, rising, and registers 3010. Ramsey (Isle of Man), Monday Evening.- After daybreak the sky cleared, and the early rainfall ...

... momm , Wu Lsky DOW *7er=ait 'Wind, LwwuDNO, nt; l4 Nzr.-A dull daT, little sunshine having broken tlrough an over- cast sky.. To-night's outlook is. cheerless, the- mountains being heavi cloud-capped, and'the vnW seawards towads Beaunaris hzy. Glass . ...

... have found out Low to reproduce upon the clouds. The time we are immured is c.:anfug when be who looks upward towards the sky at night will see one soap manufacturer's familiar device on one cloud and his rival's on the other. The growth of the metropolitan ...

... MANCHESTER. There was a continuance of the frost yesterday, but though cold the weather was bright and crisp with a clear sky. At night there was slight fog. In consequence of the severity of the weather Messrs. Bostock and Womb well, who are now at Bolton ...

... on Morpeth Castle. I mind me of the day my Lord Derwentwater rode from Hexham, and I saw the red blood running ha the sky the night his soul was taken to heaven, Papist though he was, and asking your pardon. Mistress Cicely. I had forgotten you were one ...

... darkness of the night the boat in which I was drifted away, and I lost my boys and husband, and lay for weeks in a terrible brain fever, and had been brought back to L— by the vessel t bat picked us up, before I regained consciousness. Day and night ever since ...