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Show eary meteorological ' instruments, na been set tip in tho Bossocs hut, where M. Janssena will carry on a series of observations? obser-vations? in special a.ia-yeie. Pall Mall Gazette. A SclfEtlflo E.curson to SlonVlilsno. i . Intelligence has been received in Paris that M. Jansssns, the astronomer and member of tho French institute, who left a short time ago on a scientific excursion ex-cursion to Mont Blanc, reached the Grands Mulcts on Aug. 17. On the following day a party of fifteen guides and porters took charge of the astronomer, astrono-mer, who is in delicate health, and took him in a sledge, especially built for the occasion, ap to the Chalets des Bossons, at an altitude of 14,600 feet, by way of v tho lesser and greater plateau and the Bosses du Dromadaire. A small scien-ti5o scien-ti5o labwatory, provided with the necee- |