... Meteor. —On Wednesday night at; about ten or twelve minutes to eight o'clock, a brilliant meteor was observed in the north eastern sky. The night was mild and tolerably clear for December, though there was slight haziness in the sky towards north, hiding ...

... darkness for so many nights about once month? Why? Because it appears that our Commissioners, like the Corporation the City London in the seventeenth century, who thought thsj Hemiso’s Lanterns” were only needed “ moonless nights, think that when the ...

... {a other have been the case. We hove in adopted as a rule. ‘uture, that what is a courtesy convenience may be tacitly Sky « Sunday night, between and seven o'clock, Mrs. Sheldep, butcher, £30., which had boon Stress, was at church, her house shelled oats ...

... and travelled all night, which waa for all purposes dark enough to favour'any stratagem that wicked men might concoct to plunder or murder such fell in their way. We travelled rapidly amid desert mountains wrapped the sable sky of night, after leaving the ...

... the earth. Nor is their size constant, as they often vary from night to night. The nucleus of the last was considered by Herschell on June 30 to be miles in diameter ; on subsequent nights Mr. Hind gave it something like 400 or 500 miles ; so the nucleus ...

... the chem.. pewee eouters which she had partaken within these four square walls, which now shone out so sharp against the sky. The night was hot and sultry—not a breath was stirring- but it had brought good counsel notwithstanding ; and jest as the fair schemer ...

... seem stretch into the light of the spiritual world. Iu the lower sphere the astronomical mind the age has thought, and the sky of night is longer idle splendour. The -oientific has toiled, and the cnureee of storms are found to be traced Divine finger, mid ...

... was borne for the cause of te tiuth, and in the noblest spirit of Christian fortitu e. The night before his execution is thus feeling i described. That night Savonarola laid his weary head on knees of his veiled visitor, whose name was Ni«>un slept, ...

... deepened with dust, raised by the countless crowd, end the smoke of innumerable lamps. Over all is the high, clear, blue sky of night, with the decrescent moon shining on the surface of the ?? ...

... deepened with dust, raised by the countless crowd, and the smoke of innumerable lamps. Over all is the high, clear, blue sky of night, with the decrescent moon shining on the surface the river. Execution of Wright for thr Watsrloo-road Mchdeh.—Notwithstanding ...

... realised the true colour The opalescent rack that speeds Athwart the belted moon. The colour of the sky at night, indeed, and the manners and customs of night clouds, seem hitherto have been hardly at all studied colourists, and in no department of landscape ...

... no op- portunity presented itself till the 2nd of December. day was cloudless This and held out the prospect of 2 clear sky at night. The balloon was filled, and all w: } before sunset. The tem as ready perature of the air just before leaving was 3S} dezrees ...