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Show STUDY THE SKIES. o Venus is the very brilliant evening star, glowing so brightly in the west; she is now at her point of greatest briliancy, and shows in a telescope as a crescent, nearly a half moon. Saturn may be seen now any night after nine o'clock; Jupiter may be seen any hour after eleven; and i Mars may been seen in the early morning, say at about half past three to four, at which time all three planets plan-ets of Saturn, Jupiter and Mars, from west to east may seen. Last week the tiny planet, Mercury, Mer-cury, made a transit across the disc of the sun; that is, its path was such compared with the plane of the earth, that the planet was directly between us and the sun, showing up as a small round spot, of the comparative size one would state as a pin head is to a dollar. Mars will be at greatest brilliancy for this year in August. o J. W. Walton arrived in Delta last week, renewing former acquaintances. acquaint-ances. Clark AUred's son, Butler, is improving im-proving from his siege of measles, but the daughter, Romania, is very, very sick. |