Show tho the Pom Pomp pellan eUan mother capies cor london dally new two or three weeks ago a touching Ois discovery covery was made abou during ring the excavations at pompeii in one of the narrow streets were found deigns of human remains in the dried road mud lying on the top of the strata of lap illi reaching to the second floor of the houses and when the usual prop pro P cess of pouring pouring plaster of paris into left by the impression of a body had been accomplished there came tho the form of a little boy within the house opposite to the second floor window of which this infantile form lay illy were found a geld gold bracelet and the skeleton of a woman ma n the arms stretched towards the child the plaster form of thia this woman could could not be obtained the im being too much destroyed it t is evident that the mother when when the liquid mud began to flow had bad put her little bo boy T out of the window into the capilli in the hope of saving saying him and he must musi no doubt have been overwhelmed mr gill the astronomer atthe cape town observatory reports an observation there m made a which is quite without it hout precedent in the history of comets on september the comet wati WR followed by two with separate parate le instruments until it reached the very edge of the atins disk where it suddenly disappeared this is an extraordinary illustration of the intense brilliancy of the comet at peri perihelion belion on the of october was commenced n the fourth century of the new now stylo style of time registe registering ring the true year does do snot not contain an exact number of day days so the fractions have been allowed to accumulate and havo have beca been added as whole days at such times as have been considered sufficiently accurate for practical pu purposes ae ao the plan introduced by twins julius czeslair of adding one ono day to every fourth year was found to make tho tile average civil year tear afew minutes too cype XIII in iq 1582 ordered that mattha the year be corrected by dropping ten en days daye giving to the next day alter after oct ath the date ditte of oct and that the tho calendar be mi boado do more nearly accurate by having three fewer leap years in each tacit four centuries making every year not divisible by a year of df enly only days thia this Illi improved proved system forma forms tho the gregorian calendar leniar ca which has taken the place of the old style in all countries save says russia where the latter method is still retained |