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Show I:, llpnen in IS'H. This year's eclipses will be somewhat beyond the average. On the evening of May !.':3 tho moon will rise in eclipse at five minutes to 8, but the shadow will for the greater part have already passed away, and it is only in eastern countries aud at the antipodes that her face that evening will by seen wholly obscured. It will bo otlvTwise with the total eclipse of our sKtellito, which will begin at thirty-five niitiutes past 10 on Nov. 1.1 next. This, as tho almanacs tell us, will be "entirely visible at Greenwich," whither, no doubt, tho legendary cockney cock-ney will once more betake himself in time to witness tho phenomenon. There will bo two solar eclipses one annular, and visible in this country as a partial eclipse on the upper limb, beginning begin-ning at two iniuu1.es past 5 on June C; the other a partial eclipse on Deo. 1, which will be visible chietly in the South Pacific. Besides these there will be, on May 10, a transit of Mercury over 1 he sun's disk, which will bo only partially visible in this part of tho globe. Science Notes. |