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Show A Dark Prospect. During the cler weather of last week qui'e a number of tele.-copea went in search of spots on thu sun. Wi h a low power of the telescope more than twm'y were visible. .Near 'he opper edge cf tlie sua two or three distinct . pots were seen, an! a faint clust-r near the lower borde ; whila over the left balf of the di-k stretched a g.oup of vast ci tensions. The latter lat-ter seemed to consist of two parts slight, y uti ed, the entire ehidu ap peaiing to the eye to have a leneth equal at least to two-tu rds of th sun, cr about 285,000 miles. T e spo s in this proup showed the dark cmbra very distinctly. When viewed with a high power the larger spots looked like huge craters, luteus-ly dark in the center, and were overhung over-hung at their borders b" the lnml-nous lnml-nous matter of the sun, shaped like ric . rains. Inime se waves ot this luminous matter, termed faulv. w. re everywhere visible aruunl these spot?. A Philiid-lphia paper ex pre-ses a fpar that these spots indicate indi-cate a v tal destruction of the eun during the present year. It forges what an immeuss advan'ag) such a cat sir ihe won J be to thr) coal and petrol una iut -ttss of Pennsylvania.. Couri r Journal. |