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Show gJTiiE veteran alitor of tho New York Evening Post, Wm. Cullen Bryant, on the 9th visited both houses ot the New York legislature, by invitation, in-vitation, and was welcomed by the presiding pre-siding officers. Gov. Tilden also held a levee in his honor. Seldom has a member of the editorial profession beea so highly honored, but Mr. Bryant ia not only one of our oldest and best journalists, but a recognized poet and scholar. ilR, Colbert, tho Chicago astronomer, astrono-mer, ridicules the newspaper statement state-ment that tho earth is approaching the sun, and in 1,440 years hence it will be within the sun's orbit. It is unfortunate that an attempt has been inade to "rush" the calculations which depend upon the observations, of the transit of venus. The result j all point to the conclusion that a sufficient suffi-cient number of observations have been taken to enable computators to attain with all the accuracy of which the process is capable the distance of the sun from tho earth. |