. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. its nights. Astrono-mers differ as to the character of this planet, some claiming that itmay be covered with vegetation and inhabited by huma
. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. its nights. Astrono-mers differ as to the character of this planet, some claiming that itmay be covered with vegetation and inhabited by human beings andanimals, while others object to this idea because of the singularlystormy appearance of its atmosphere, and the apparently unsettledconditiim of its surface, covered with vapors, as if it had not suffi-ciently cooled off. but still glowed with internal fires. Proctorthinks that it possesses .self-illuminating properties. To us itappears of a cold, steel-blue color. of Jupiter and inside of Iranus is the orbit, or pathwayaround the sun, of Saturn, a planet 732 times as large as onr distance from the sun is miles; its thickness, at itsequator, is miles, and at its poles 04,213 miles. It movesaround the sun at the rate of miles an hour, requiring twenty-nine and a half of our years to accomplish one of its annual turns very rapidly ui)on its axis, making a complete revolution. FIC. 4- once in ten and a half of our hours, its year containing 25,150 ofthese short days. Saturn has eight moons, and derives great interestfrom a broad and magnificent zone, or ring, above and around itsequator, encircling it with perpetual light, brighter to the observerthan the planet itself. This zone consists of two great rings havina common center, and divided by a dark band. The spread of theouter ring is 109,530 miles, its thickness 10,160 miles; the extremespread of the inner bright ring is 146,769 miles, its thickness 16,5
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