a minute high. His two colleagues also saw them, but to them they seemed
somewhat larger. A fourth observer saw one of the projections some minutes
even after the eclipse was over, while others perceived it with the naked
eye. Petit, at Montpellier remarked _three_ protections, and even found
time to measure one of them. It was 1-3/4 minute high. Littrow, at Vienna,
considered them to be as high again as this; and stated "that the streaks
were visible before they became colored, and remained visible also after
their color had vanished." The light of these projections was soft and
quiet, the projections themselves sharp, and their form unchanging till
the moment of their extinction. Schidloffsky, at Lipezk, thought he
perceived a rose-colored border on the moon in places where these red
clouds did not reach; but could not be certain of the fact, on account of
the shortness of the time.

These projections or red clouds, mysterious and unexpected as they were to
men who directed their attention for the first time to the purely physical
phenomena concerned, were in fact, after all, nothing altogether new. The
descriptions given by astronomers of earlier eclipses of the sun had been
forgotten or overlooked. Stannyan, for instance, in his relation of that
of the 20th May, 1706, says, "The egress of the sun from the moon's disk
was preceded on its left rim, during an interval of six or seven seconds,
by the appearance of a bloodred streak;" and Nassenius, during a total
eclipse of the sun observed on the 13th of May, 1733, mentions having seen
"several red spots, three or four in number, without the periphery of the
moon's disk, one of them being larger than the others, and consisting, as
it were, of three parallel parts inclining toward the moon's disk." It is
clear, therefore, that earlier observers had witnessed the same
phenomenon, although they were unable to offer any explanation of it. It
seems, however, no unreasonable conclusion to come to, that these
projections or red clouds, as well as the halo with its pencils of light
before spoken of, are something without the proper solar photosphere, but
not forming, as this does, one connected mass of light. What further can
be known concerning this _something_ must be left to future ages to
discover.

THE HOUSEHOLD JEWELS. (FROM DICKENS'S HOUSEHOLD WORDS.)

A traveler, from journeying
In countries far away,
Repassed his threshold at the close