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MIMAS, a very faint satellite of Saturn, has been seen at Providence, R. I., with an 8-inch Clark refractor, and also at Madras with a 6inch Dolland refractor.

BOUSSINGAULT has analyzed the milk from the cow tree of South America. He finds the com

position more like cream than milk, containing, however, all the elements of milk, but in proportions different from those of milk. The milk is considered very fattening, which might be inferred from its composition.

DR. NEWCOMB, superintendent of the Nauti cal Almanac, is engaged, under an appropriation of Congress, in measuring the velocity of light, which, with the aberration constant now being determined at Pulkova, will give a means of obtaining the sun's distance from the earth, to be compared with that determined by other methods.

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6.24 P.M. sets. 6.13 A.M. Ya. 7.00 A.M. 8h O. 10.02 P.M. c. Arietis. 9.48 P.M. Pol. rises. 0.46 A.M. S. 9.26 P.M. Rig rises. 10.36 P.M. S. 9.52 P.M. Algen. S. 3.00 P.M. 80. 8.36 P.M. Mark. S. 11.07 P.M. Sir. rises. 10.43 P.M. Polar. N. 10.33 A.M. HI. 10.32 P.M. Pro rises. 10.51 P.M. h S.

NOTHING is given so profusely as advice.

If men wish to be held in esteem, they must associate with those only who are estimable.

A CHRISTIAN in this world is but gold in the ore. At death the pure gold is melted out and separated, and the dross cast away and consumed.

PEOPLE of gloomy, uncheerful imaginations or of envious, malignant tempers, whatever kind of ural tincture of mind in all their thoughts, words life they are engaged in, will discover their nat

and actions.

THE plays of natural lively children are the infancy of art. Children live in the world of imagination and feeling. They invest the most insignificant object with any form they please, and see in it whatever they wish to see.

CHARITY is a universal duty which it is in every man's power sometimes to practice, since every degree of assistance given to another upon proper motives is an act of charity; and there is scarcely any man in such a state of imbecility as that he may not, on some occasion, benefit his neighbor.

corner of Fourth and Race, building occupied by A. W. Stuart & Sons, blank-book sellers and printers, was partially destroyed, and upon Race street, Nos. 402, 404 and 406, formerly occupied by Thackara, Buck & Co., Nos. 408, 410 and 412 occupied by Whittal, Tatum & Co., glassware, Fruh's saloon, No. 414, Hover's inkmanufactory, were destroyed, and other property in the neighborhood injured. Loss, $800,000. Albert Fruh was killed and Fred Fruh severely injured, and three firemen were also injured.

April 7. The Centennial Board of Finance gave notice of a distribution of remaining assets equal to sixty cents per share, which, with $1.75 previously declared, made the dividend, up to that time, $2.35 upon $10 paid.

April 8. Annual convention of Tanners' Association of Pennsylvania at the Board of Trade rooms, Mercantile Library building.

April 10. Complimentary dinner at St. George's Hotel to Prof. Samuel D. Gross, by the medical profession of the United States, in honor of the expiration of the fiftieth year of his practice as a physician and surgeon.

April 12. William C. Martin, real-estate agent and broker, died from the effects of wounds caused by his being assaulted in his own office, Fifth st. below Spruce, on April 5. Coroner's jury found the deed was committed by some person unknown.

Reception of Gov. Hoyt by the Penn Club. April 13 New steamship Belgenland, of the Red Star line, arrived on her first trip from Antwerp. Dimensions, 416 feet in length, 40 feet beam, 32 feet 8 inches depth of hold, and a capacity of 3700 tons.

April 14. St. George's P. E. Church, Cardington, West Philadelphia, consecrated.

April 15. Grand Lodge of the United States of the Order of the Sons of St. George commenced its annual session at St. George's Hall.

April 16. Reception of Gov. Hoyt by the Union League.

April 18. Industrial Art Building, Broad st. above Vine, opened for the first time by Downey and Clarke in a walking-match.

-Audience-room of Mantua Baptist Church, Fortieth st. and Silverton av., dedicated.

April 20. One hundred and seventh anniversary of the institution of the Society of the Sons of St. George of Philadelphia celebrated at St. George's Hall by religious services.

April 21. First bench-show of the Philadelphia Kennel Club at Industrial Art Building, North Broad st.

April 23. Sibson T. Hill died at Pennsylvania Hospital from the effects of beating and shots received April 4 in Eighteenth st. below Walnut. Coroner's jury found that the assault was committed by William H. Nickins, who escaped. He surrendered himself June 19.

April 27, Messiah Lutheran Church, Sixteenth and Jefferson sts., erected and in use for some years, and now considered finished, formally dedicated.

April 28. Annual convention of First Protestant United Evangelical Church in America commenced at hall, corner of Fourth and Green sts. May 6. Ninety-fifth annual convention of the P. E. Church in the diocese of Pennsylvania assembled at the Church of the Epiphany.

Mrs. Susan Irwin murdered at 631 Fitzwater st. by Edward Parr, her father, who was

tried and convicted June 7 of murder in the first degree; sentenced, June 9, to be hanged. He took poison in the court-room, and died June to.

May 6. Josephine S. Irvin shot and killed at 218 South Eighth st. by D. F. Sullivan, who, on June 20, was found guilty of murder in the first degree.

Particular Synod of the Reformed Church of America met at First Reformed Church, corner of Seventh and Spring Garden sts.

May 10. Formal opening, for the year 1879-80, of the Permanent Exhibition, with speeches, music, etc.

May 11. Brewery of Sebastian Nagle, Paoli av., Roxborough, destroyed by fire. Loss, $21,000. May 12. Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends commenced at the meeting-house, Race and Fifteenth sts.

May 15. The directors of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company announced that they had leased for a period of 990 years the North Pennsylvania Railroad to Bethlehem, with its connections, and the Bound Brook Railroad to New York, lease to date from May 1, 1879.

May 20. The corporate rights, railway tracks and property of the West End Passenger Railway Company, in West Philadelphia, sold at auction for $7600, subject to a mortgage of $150,000.

May 21. Eighth annual convention of Passenger Railroad Conductors' Life Insurance Company of the United States commenced at the Girard House.

One hundred and twenty-ninth anniversary of the birth of Stephen Girard celebrated at Girard College; 4000 persons present.

-Annual conference of the Philadelphia and Baltimore A. M. E. Zion connection of America commenced at Wesley Zion Church, Lombard st. below Sixth.

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May 23. Reddy Dever, who for more than seven years had been a fugitive from justice, tried for the murder of Joseph Chase, a colored man, at Emeline and Eighth sts., October 10, 1871, and acquitted.

May 26. Sixty-sixth anniversary of infantry battalion State Fencibles, and reception of the Centennial Legion of the United States, at Permanent Exhibition Building.

Annual regatta of the Southwark Yacht Club. Prizes: First class won by yachts Lawrence and Maud; second class, Emma and S. H. Oliver; third class, Thomas Ledyard and Hugh Boyle.

May 27. Meeting of persons interested in the drug trade at the College of Pharmacy. "Trade Association of Philadelphia Druggists" formed.

May 28. One hundredth anniversary of the birth of Thomas Moore, the Irish poet, celebrated at the Academy of Music.

May 29. Meeting of retail tobacco-dealers at Fox's Theatre. "Tobacco-Dealers' Protective Association" formed.

May 30. great spirit. June 2. The auditorium of Concert Hall, Chestnut st. above Twelfth, which had been used for concerts, lectures and exhibitions since February 12, 1853, demolished; the building underwent alterations for other purposes.

Decoration - Day; celebrated with

Free Sanitarium for sick children, at Point Airy, opened. During the season a large num

ber of children and other persons participated in the benefits of the institution-namely, infants and children under five years of age in the greatest number; also many children over five and under ten years of age; some over ten years of age, together with adults.

June 3. United States frigate Constitution arrived with goods of the exhibitors at the Paris Exposition, after a voyage of 138 days since leav ing Havre, France, the delay being caused by the vessel's running aground in the English Channel and by the loss of her rudder in the Bay of Biscay.

Cornerstone of new building of Christ Church (P. E.), Germantown, laid.

June 6. Corner stone of the Asylum for the

Aged and Infirm of the Evangelical Lutheran Church laid on grounds, adjoining Lutheran Orphan Asylum, Main st., Germantown.

June 7. Steamship Illinois of the American line arrived at her dock near the foot of Christian st. after a voyage of 9 days 1 hour and 5

minutes.

June 8. New steam corvette Zabiaca, built by William Cramp & Son for the Russian government, sailed, bound for Sitka. Outside of the Breakwater was transferred to the Russian naval officers on board.

June 10. New chapel of Presbyterian Home for Widows and Single Women, Fifty-eighth st. and Darby road, dedicated.

June 11. Lightning struck the oil-canning shed of Le Comte & Perkins, at Point Breeze, on the banks of the Schuylkill, setting it on fire. The flames were communicated to the works of the Atlantic Refining Company and the Atlantic Petroleum Storage Company, the whole covering thirty-five acres. The buildings, sheds, wharves and an immense stock of oil were destroyed, together with five vessels, which were loaded or being loaded with petroleum-to wit: bark La Fiume (Austrian); bark F. Rech (German); ship Hudson (Norwegian); bark Guiseppe Quinto (Italian); bark Ilion (Russian). Loss estimated at $300,000. The fire burned two days, and on the 13th communicated to the property of the Atlantic Petroleum Storage Company and of the Empire Petroleum Storage Company, and property of Davis & Murphy and of Harris & Sneven. Loss, over $150,000.

Corner-stone laid of new parish building for Emanuel P. E. Church, Holmesburg.

June 12. Fourth annual spring regatta of the Quaker City Yacht Club, on the Delaware River. Course from Market st. wharf, Camden, to Chester buoy and return. Prizes for first class, cabin sloops, won by Clara, 4.32; Minerva, 4.324 Comet, 4.41; Selim, 4.52. Second class, cabin sloops under thirty feet: Minnie, 4.454; Gallagher, 4.51; Stella, 4.54%1⁄2. Third class, open yachts between twenty and thirty feet: Adelphi, 4.13%; Eddy, 4.27; Bianca, 4.291⁄2. June 13. One hundred and twenty-third annual commencement of the University of Pennsylvania at the Academy of Music; 27 graduates in the Department of Arts; Towne Scientific School, 15; Law School, 39.

June 14. Annual regatta of the Schuylkill navy. Course from below the Falls bridge to Rockland, one and a half miles straight away. Prizes as follows: Four-oared shells, won by Crescent Club, 9.30; two-oared shells, Philadelphia Club, 10.46; double shells, Quaker City,

10.48; four-oared gigs, College Club, 10.35; single shells, Pennsylvania Club, 10.47. June 14 Stockholders of the North Pennsylvania Railroad Company at special meeting ratified lease of franchises and property of company to Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company for 995 years

Steamship Wanderer, for New Orleans and Havana line, launched from shipyard of Birely, Hillman & Streaker.

June 16. Seventh annual regatta of the Philadelphia Yacht Club. Course from Shackamaxon st. wharf to Delanco and return, twenty-eight miles. Prizes, first class, won by Willie Kleinz and Anna, time and 2.43; second class, Enchantress and Abel, time 4.33 and 2.42; third class, Crawford and Flick, 2.17 and 2.18.

June 17. Sixth national convention of the Patriotic Sons of America assembled at the hall of the order, on Sixth st. above Spring Garden. June 18. Commencement at Girls' Normal School. Class A, 144 graduates; commencement of Class B, June 20, 148 graduates.

James F. Dougherty shot his wife at 4304 Frankford av., and afterward shot himself; he died from the effects of the wound.

June 19..

Annual commencement of Divinity School of P. E. Church at Holy Trinity Church; II graduates.

June 20. Annual reception and graduation of the School of Design for Women at the Academy of Fine Arts; 18 graduates.

Fire at factory-building west side of Ridge av. below Master, occupied by G. W. Smith, furniture-finisher, and others. Loss, $20,000. June 21. Mrs. Ann O'Sullivan killed by her husband, Dennis O'Sullivan, at their residence, 1914 Leithgow st.

June 24. Inter-collegiate regatta between the crews of Columbia and Princeton Colleges and University of Pennsylvania, on the Schuylkill River. National course, Falls bridge to Rockland, one and a half miles. Won by the University crew in 9.23.

June 25. Semi-annual commencement of Central High School at Association Hall; 25 graduates in four years' class, 6 in three year, 1 in two and a half year, 23 in two year classes.

June 27. Fire at south-east corner of Seventh and Cherry sts., doing great damage to Hastings' gold-leaf establishment, Stern's printing office, Loss estimated at $20,000.

etc.

Steam-boiler exploded in the planing-mill of Alpheus Wilt & Sons, Front st. below Brown, destroying portions of that building and others on Court alley. Four persons killed and several injured.

July 4. At midnight of July 3 one hundred and three strokes sounded upon the Independence bell; at noon on the Fourth, forty-eight strokes, in honor of the States and Territories.

Dinner given by George W. Childs to 662 newsboys at Permanent Exhibition Building.

Meeting of the State Society of the Cincinnati at Aldine Hotel. Treasurer reported that the Washington Monument fund amounted to $121,200.

Opening of Stenton, the new ricket-ground of the Young America Club at W. yne Station.

General celebration of the nniversary of American independence. One boy and one man ki led, and a woman burned so badly that she died; ten reported fires; forty-fou cases at hos

DECEMBER.

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THE Sun rises partly eclipsed on the morning of the 31st all along the Atlantic coast, and about one thousand miles inland.

PROF. BOSS, of the Dudley Observatory, has given an interesting comparison of the observed times of contact in the last transit of Mercury, with two series of computed times--one from the old tables, and the other from new tables including the actions of the supposed intra-Mercurial planet. The latter agree much more nearly with observation.

TRUTH is the foundation and the reason of the perfection of beauty; for, of whatever stature a thing may be, it cannot be beautiful and perfect unless it be truly what it should be, and possess truly all that it should have.

THE willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so, in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

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7.00 A.M. Oecl.pt.vis.

ENVIOUS Ambition ne'er slakes her thirst. MEN resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow-creatures.

MEET the first beginnings. Look to the budding mischief before it has had time to ripen.

is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it man I will help many that are not so.

CHARITY suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

DECISION of character is one of the most important of human qualities, philosophically considered. Speculation, knowledge, is not the chief end of man: it is action. "Give us the man," shout the multitude, "who will step forward and take the responsibility." He is instantly the idol, the lord and the king among He, then, who would command among his fellows must excel them more in energy of will than in power of intellect.

men.