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Show TOTA7L ECUI'SI3 OF THB SU ' ' , IX' JULY- Ai? eclipse of the "sun, Tvhifh istP occur oil tho ifith of Jtily ;uext, promiseft tp bo an important event iu the scientific worhX Tho obscuration will bo total to thepcoplo. of thdraclfic coast, though tho time of , : the eclipse, being eariy iu the mornulg.i will deprive 'the spectacle' of much of its f grandeur and interest. According tP the "Tribune Almanac" before us, the sun will' riso.eclipsed on tlio .inorrfuig of the 18th t of July. Daricness will contmcnic ih Coli-' i fornift and terminate on tho shores of tho ' Ucd Sea. Theobsciiiation will bo total 'in tio other northeruytatecxeept Oregon, but it will lie complete hi the southern part of the Uinou, in. a considerable portion por-tion of Spain, and in Northern Africa. ! Associated with this celipso vill bo ait event which will not occur again to tho inhabitants of JJarth in millions of years, if'r. At tho moment of obscuration, tho planets Ycnus, Mercury, JupltOr 'and Saturn will appear hi tho vicinity of the' eclipsed Kim as a kind of ritontboidal figure. I 'Tho position and appearance of theso! heavenly bodies is thus described ,hy UQJ W. U.,'y attached to tho Ointihnati Observatory, Ob-servatory, and writing to thb Gazttlt, of that city: ' ."Tho cdipsp will be total in, Spah,i, -'. . i. .7 ... I. 1 !. - V -" i i.',-..v.5i: .-v.-. ' ... . r 1 ,AlMrin, ahdnttho,wbntti7of iktf CoIbiih, ,j Pit blariver, in the Halted States M, th'a.t 7,77 " I J tinio, of totality, Vcniis will be, seen bot , 7 V i fffl LifH live degrees 15011th or thb sun,, Jbpiter eight V7' ' ffl$NM degreed cost of him, and Mercury - wMf' IslflBI Saturo at distances of twcnty-sbt tod ' 77 'S'S.alH thirty degrcea. cuu aiieso fotir plaubts 0$: mw!M H form tt tlibiiibpidtho angles at VenaaS ' 4 rW'H and. Sttturu jicing ticarly C(iual( Yet, tUe- ':-vV -1 SB betiettt of, .tttosfi whp aro interested In the VJ- ' ' .lH subject,, we-gitc thcTollowing data, with. akl 1:BH Vbielf tbfy c;au readily tonstwet 'ihM 4nEM Igure ; .', 7. 37"t"1 ;;:'-- ' 'IIBH DUtnttwrom Ycuui to McrcnrV.f' i ' I IllH 25 degrees;. Mercury to Saturn, 6 fe' 'i ' ,,. f IltiH grtes- Saturn to Jtipiter, 22 degrees Jul - ; lv.- i IfUB pitcr to Yetms, 10 degrees, '-CT - M lS -"AtiglesAt Ycnui 83' degreMr-atCtl0-. VfW M .Mercury, loi. degrees; atSalnm, 83 - dc-'TN ' IrtjBH grces,andnt Jtipitef,-H0dtigrcs. $; lWtM ' "Where the cellpse Isiotal these pfaisV iVJkH will present a' splendid, appearance; being ; Q -ffi fi-.f'. , " f tjffB so ear together that they can l-. Aakcn4&fi"f" H.,,, feicB in tit n glriuce, tiud the gconictriealrlg'sto-?,"7, V-?-?1 Ii ;SH 5ecn as .though it, w.erp iu reality marked - "-'3, !;"' 'y w 7,V put ht the heavens.?'. ' -''v,','1? V- ' ,Thaamor writer adds, respecting' th'ep Jf f ' r'jAvjtovotw'di fit: Chinese fa i5B 7iory.that during thp-rcigipf CfcwcBl.-iilliy' , (4 .iy-ulatiott-croltt-iijuiiicUon -mi it $ tjH TJailly, an -his "Trath ile V Mrtnmk Kt"'. " ' jSH ifjfcflnMui?idurthatJbpitef,S'a Maii aiid Mercury wro secu in conjuub;' . ftx, ifH tipfi "A. short time, after innspt'ort tho 28tU;7; . 7:- J. 4 TfB bf; ; February, ,2 WOibcfbro ClirisK Thiis' ; V . J was'rt:veryjr'emarkablo jdicnomcftbn, nd ; 7 '' vtH ptid.pf Sb.much' interest to ., iho ancients -5 ? 'yH that the .phhfeso ntmlo ft tho basis of tltcirf"j' " . 4jH Tlio npproaehlug piienoiucnon Is one of ; v7 v nil tiOIesia intercsi, though it may lib of no-, - s -I- V j 'jB Jiractlcnt utijity, Indeed, there BhoBldlTr 'I j it greater interest attached to. itf 'frotuth'eT . jl ' , s Tl fact that.it will ttov'or again- be. repeated;131 "; '?-''" m JB wb iay never, hecauso ife.ia cxtremely prcM-. 7 . ( EklB .blo,;,.thUt;jspmo ?WiW bf. yeaw. .witl. 'iB 'iMpcMo'rH1iC$o. 'l6(Uca will agaiu aEM occupy hb, same, relative positions." gf?H |