Show astronomers ABROAD professor jamsen and passing Thron sli from froin the south sen this morDi morning Dg the celebrated astronomer tro nomer professor hinssen Jane seii director of the observatory eudon france chief of the french government mission aion to the south sea to take observations on the occasion of the late TOTAL eclipse OF THE SUN arrived hero here with the train from the west the eminent savant w whose 11 0 se name among the most distinguished star gazers is 13 one of the leading ones went to salt lahe city but from a member of the party our reporter gleaned some items of general interest as follows total solar eclipses eliat means those relative positions of the sun earth and moon in which the last named orb happens to intervene straight between the first two so as to obscure the light of the god of day to terrestrial gazers for ever so short a period are of great in terest and value as affording means to ascertain with increasing accuracy the distance between the sun and our own planet which distance again furnishes the soto speak yardstick yard stick of astronomical measurements these eclipses occur at irregular intervals although they can be predicted to the fraction of a seco second nd for centuries the last celestial phenomenon of the kind was known to occur on may owing to the rotation of tho the earth the orbi movement of the moora and the grand sidereal awing swing of the sun it happened so that a portion 0 of f the western hemisphere s me e re was placed in the most favorable position tion to witness the grand and momentous darkening darken darkening int of the dazzling disk of day and t this is very portion was the wide expanse of the south sea with its innumerable groups of uninhabited or cannibal peopled islands and find islets nevertheless th eless various government ever attentive to the interests of science and tile advancement OF undertook to send scientific expeditions to the coigny of vantage to watch the great monster swallow the sun as the malays balays call it in their ignorance and superstition among the governments the Eren rench cli took a fore foremost moat start and it t is with the mission they dispatched that we have to do at present the expedition consisting of profs pros janssen and elot director of the observatory at Vienna a austria and rector of the observatory of the roman romail college mr pasteur a swiss photographer of the Ob observatory and E cuidan of mcadon guar guard left paris on of march for the port of st nazaire nar aire where they embarked fur for THEIR LONO LONG OCEAN VOYAGE their theli first destination was golon aspinwall I 1 whence they cro cra eed sed th the e isthmus which their enterprising countryman of suez canal famois about piercing with a water way and arrived at panama there they again embarked tills this time on the man of war commander dougin de la a maison neuve beuve which had bad been specially set apart for the transportation of this his by the french A minister of marine and colonies the they left panama on the of march and landed at sas islands on the of ap april ril having made more than 1200 sea leagues in less than twenty d days ay s alter after ashurt ft relay for the pur purpose 0 of taking on board provisions and to secure the necessary supply ly of coal left th those 0 se french revell Colon colonies leg fbi fora THE ISLAND OF OV CAROLINE belonging to the united stat states where they arrived on the eve evening ninal of april on t this his island islan a long IV W greenwich latitude 10 S which presented an almost inaccessible shore the tile eppedi tiou had extremely liard hard labor to land their delicate instruments they succeeded in this as they succeeded in taking all the tile observations of the great solar spectacle t the lic results of which will be published to the scientific world and the public at at a later date their principal mission fulfilled thel th expedition returned from ocean cicato ica to the western continent by way of the sandwich islands where tl they witnessed the activity of the vio violent ent volcano mauna loa they ARRIVED IN SAN FRANCISCO on the instant being cordially received by the tile scientific fraternity no less le as than by their french compatriots the party divided iu a lew days several going ahead east and this morning professor arrived with monsieur cuidan the latter taking a few hours well deserved rest in tho the junction city hotel they intend ward bound for la a belle france tomorrow |