Show BY EY CAMILLE Noted French Trench Astronomer k June Tune 1 Every ery observer of the heavens at the present time marvels at t the brilliancy of ofa of a ma magnificent star which appears in inthe inthe inthe the south every overy evening as evening as it were werl a celestial cel lighthouse j its surpassing stir sur passing in It itt its splendor that of the most luminous of or the hosts of the sky This star is Jupiter verily the monarch of the night inclining majestically toward th the west and going oin to his rest at about half past 2 0 o'clock in the morning As wo WI now contemplate Jupiter with I admiration so was he ne viewed in the heavens of their age by bv the Egyptians under t th the Pharaohs Pharaoh tho the of I the time tim when Babylon existed in all its magnificence the Greeks in Homers Homer's lay clay and by the contemporaries of Jesus Christ of Constantine Constantino and Charlemagne But not enough is it simply to admire this scintillating point of l light one of the most superb ornaments of the tho star embroidered sphere or as a symbol of antique mythological poetry rather we seek in it the secret sr ret of a luminous world warmed armed b by bour our sun and governed go by bythe bythe the same attraction which rules over us I And what a world It is a formidable globe eleven en times I larger Er than the tho earth in diameter 1279 times more voluminous and anti attended bya by a stately magnificent retinue of saten saten- ites iffs Tn In this procession let us at once signalize the most important the third in ill the order of distance five times timE's larger than tItan the moon the tc terre terre- trial attendant on whose surface may be distinguished a kind of geographic fo configuration such as is observed r ed in the polar volar snows and who o intensity varies with the succession of epochs Let us call eaU attention also to the smallest of these satellites the eighth veritably a lilliputian far faT rc removed mo from the planet and discovered disco on January 27 1908 in inthe inthe inthe the observatory of Greenwich It measures meas tires ures not more than six fifty-six kilometers in breadth and presents to Jupiter the tho appearance of a star of the ninth mag mag- mag |