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SEPTEMBER.

VENUS near the new moon, Sept. 16. Jupiter near the moon, Sept. 27.

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A PAPER showing the effect of temperature upon the rates of chronometers is to be printed for the Navy Department at Washington.

SOAP bubbles or films have lately been used by physicists as a means of exhibiting the effects of tone vibrations, giving beautiful and interesting experiments.

HOWZEAU has presented to science a list of six thousand stars visible to the naked eye, made by him while residing in the West Indies. It is to be hoped that the list will be published.

SOME wine fifteen or sixteen hundred years old has been analyzed by the chemist Berthelot, and found to contain about four and a half per cent. of alcohol, and having, therefore, less strength than good cider.

AN account is given in the Astronomische Nachrichten of a very large meteor seen at Helsingfors, April 29, 1877. Its head appeared about the size of the full moon, and the trail left behind was visible for two hours. The meteor itself was visible for three or four seconds.

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THE generous heart should scorn a pleasure which gives others pain.

THE happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered but a general effect of pleasing impressions.

WHEN a woman fancies herself slighted by the man she loves, the first person who proposes must be a clumsy wooer indeed if he does not carry her away.

A VAST deal of human sympathy runs along the electric line of needlework, stretching from the throne to the wicker chair of the humblest seamstress. It is a token of healthy and gentle characteristics when women of high thoughts and accomplishments love to sew, as it makes them at home with their own hearts.

ONE may live as a conqueror, a king or magistrate, but he must die as a man. The bed of death brings every man to his pure individuality, to the intense contemplation of that deepest and most solemn of all relations-the relation between the creature and his Creator. Here it is that fame and renown must fail to assist us; that all external things must fail to aid us; that friends, affection and human love and devotedness cannot succor us

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- Commencement of Hahnemann Medical College at the Academy of Music. 53 graduates.

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Supreme Court, in case of Perkins et al. vs. Slack et al., reversed the decision of the Court of Common Pleas that City Councils were not required to make an appropriation toward constructing the Public Buildings at the order of the Commission, and mandamused the city.

-The office of Prothonotary of the Supreme Court was removed from the State-House Row to the new Public Buildings.

Bust of Gen. George G. Meade, in bronze, by J. H. Barclay, presented to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

March 12. Fifty-third annual commencement of Jefferson Medical College at the Academy of Music. 203 graduates.

Mexican League, to advance the interests of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Mexico, formed at the Holy Trinity Church, March 14. Twenty-sixth annual commencement of Women's Medical College at Association Hall. 17 graduates.

- Fifty-seventh annual commencement of College of Pharmacy at the Academy of Music. 99 graduates.

March 15. Commencement of Medical School of University of Pennsylvania. 127 graduates. March 16. Wm. H. Spiskey, foreman of fireengine company No. 16, died from the effects of

injuries received, February 19, on Race st. near Second. Coroner's jury found that the assault upon him was committed by Dennis Haly, who escaped.

March 16. Fire at the bedstead-factory of Moyer, Tufts & Co., Richmond st. above Montgomery av. Loss $15,000.

March 21. Blasius Pistorius, tried for the murder of Isaac Jacquette in Montgomery county, July 24, 1875, was convicted of murder in the first degree. The case was sent to Philadelphia for trial under change of venue, because it was alleged that Pistorius could not obtain a fair trial in Montgomery county. Pistorius was sentenced, April 13, to be hanged.

Legislature of New Jersey and a portion of Legislature of New York visited the Permanent Exhibition.

March 25. Fire, which commenced at Fourth and Cherry sts., in the store of H. K. Wampole, extended nearly down to Arch st. Property was also set on fire by the sparks on Cherry st., Second st. and Front st. Total loss $750,000.

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March 26. The stockholders of the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. voted for directors. the question whether the sum of $100,000 a month should be set aside from the earnings of the company as a fund for the purchase of securities and stock in roads upon which the company had leases or was involved by guarantees, the vote was taken upon the majority report of a committee of stockholders in favor of the creation of the trust and a minority report in favor of postponement for one year. The vote in favor of the majority report was 375,299 shares; minority, 105,885. Highest vote on ticket for directors (Thos. A. Scott), 479,266; lowest vote on regular ticket, 420,029.

Benedict Kolb died from the effects of injuries received in a scuffle with A. J. Woodward at the Fifth and Sixth Street P. R. R. dépôt.

April 7. New M. E. chapel, on West Park av. above Twentieth, opened.

- New chapel of Girard College opened for service.

April 13. Steam dummy-cars, after a trial of about a year by the Market Street Railway Co., were withdrawn from service for the reason that the operation of the small number used was too costly, and not because of failure in running, but because the cost of the services of the number of persons employed was as great as if twenty-five cars had been in operation.

April 14. Yearly meeting of the Society of Friends (Orthodox) commenced at the Twelfth st. meeting.

April 15. The selling-price of gold dropped to 100% in currency, lowest point yet reached on the road to resumption. April 17. General convention of representatives of cricket-clubs of the United States met at the rooms of Penn Club, Eighth and Locust sts., organized in convention, and agreed upon laws to control the game.

April 18. Henry Nell, charged with the murder of Henry Rommel, in May, 1877, at Sixth st. and Montgomery av., was acquitted on the ground of self-defence.

-Effie De Castro and Hattie Green, two young women, were burned to death at 1312 Wood st., in consequence of their clothing being set on fire by a match lying on the floor.

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THE bright spot on Saturn by which Prof. Hall determined its time of rotation was seen also by Monckhosen at Gand.

THE U. S. Naval Observatory by means of the electric telegraph drops a time-ball on the main building of the Western Union Telegraph Company in New York. It is dropped at New York mean noon precisely.

THE results of mathematical investigation depend upon the accuracy of premises as well as fogical results. This is evidenced by some recent discussions relating to light. Relying upon certain premises, mathematicians undertook to declare that light is too coarse to render visible objects smaller than a certain size (one two hundred thousandth of an inch). The microscopist thereupon went to work and measured and rendered visible objects much smaller than the assigned limit, and there appeared no difficulty in going still further in subdivision and observation.

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THAT best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness

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April 21. William Kimball, "the church-debt | and nominated candidates for Governor, Lieuextinguisher," at the Second Presbyterian Church tenant-Governor, Secretary of Internal Affairs appealed to the congregation for the purpose of and Judge of Supreme Court. paying off the debt of the church, $75,000. Under his efforts a large sum of money was obtained in subscriptions.

- Commemorative service of the one hundred and sixth anniversary of the organization of the Society of Sons of St. George at their hall, Thirteenth and Arch sts. Services by Rev. W. Suddards, Rev. E. W. Appleton, D.D., and Rev. Wm. Bacon Stevens, D.D. Annual meeting and banquet of the society at the hall April 23.

April 24. Visit of President Hayes, Secretary Sherman, Secretary Schurz and Attorney-General Devens to the city. Reception by Park Commissioners at Horticultural Hall, review of Schuylkill Navy, and reception in evening by Union League. Next day, reception of the President and members of his Cabinet at the Commercial Exchange, and an excursion on the Delaware river on the steamboat Columbia.

April 26. Reception of Mrs. Hayes by the ladies of Philadelphia at the Academy of Fine Arts, and visits by Mrs. Hayes to the Northern Home, Girls' Normal School, Girard College, Women's Medical College, Educational Home and School of Design for Women. The President visited factories, foundries, mills, etc., with a committee of the Industrial League.

April 28. Austrian corvette Dandolo, 12 guns, arrived in the port.

April 29. The gallery of Pompeiian views deposited with Fairmount Park Commission by John Welsh opened to the public in the Art Building, East Park.

April 30. George Kitchen, tried for the murder of Simon Schmid at 1152 South Eleventh st., in August, 1874, was found guilty of murder in the second degree, recommended to mercy, and sentenced to imprisonment for five years. May 4. Visit of the New York Coaching Club in the coach" Tally-ho," from the Hotel Brunswick, New York city, to St. George's Hotel, Philadelphia, estimated at ninety miles, in eleven hours and fifty-eight minutes, including stoppages. The party, on their return trip to New York, left Monday, May 6, at 6 A.M., and arrived in New York at 5.50 P.M.

May 5. Central Presbyterian Church, Broad st. above Fairmount av., dedicated.

Mass celebrated for the first time in the school-house of the Church of the Holy Family, R. C., at Seventeenth and Stiles sts.

May 6. Ridgway Library building and grounds, corner of Broad and Carpenter sts., were formally transferred to the Library Company of Philadelphia by Henry J. Williams, executor of the late Dr. James Rush.

-The horse Bedford and his rider, Peter Morris, killed at New Hunting Park course, North Broad st., in attempting to jump a hurdle.

-Transit of Mercury scientifically observed at the observatory of the Central High School. May 7. Complimentary dinner to D. J. Morrell, commissioner to the Paris Exposition, at the Continental Hotel.

- Ninety-fourth annual convention of the P. E. Church, Diocese of Pennsylvania, assembled at St. Andrew's Church. May 8. State convention of the National Greenback-Labor Party met at Concert Hall,

May 8. Meeting of the Philadelphia Union Association of Universalists at the Church of our Saviour, corner of Twelfth and Dickinson sts.

May 9: Philadelphia Conference of African M. E. Church met in Bethel Church, Sixth st. above Lombard.

May 10. Fire at phosphate manufactory on Venango st. near the Delaware river. Loss $75,000.

-The Permanent International Exhibition reopened for the year.

May 12. Memorial M. E. Church, Eighth and Cumberland sts., dedicated.

- Yearly meeting of the Society of Friends commenced at the meeting-house Fifteenth and Race sts.

May 16. Iron steamship State of California. launched from the ship-yard of Cramp & Sons. The ship was a three-decker, 320 feet long, of 2500 tons burden, and engines of 1700 horsepower.

- Hall of Moyamensing Lodge, No. 330, I. O. O. F., at Eighth and Reed sts., dedicated. -Fire at Southwark Cotton and Woolen Mills of John Brown & Sons, Moyamensing av. and Moore st. Loss $42,000.

May 20. Annual regatta of the Delaware River Yacht Club. Course from Kaighn's Point to Chester buoy. Race won by the Adelphi in 3.15, said to be the quickest time ever made by a sailing-yacht on the Delaware.

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May 22. Fourth annual regatta of the Southwark Yacht Club. Course from Washington st. wharf to Chester buoy and return. the first class, prize won by the Spirit in 4.18; second class, by the Korbin in 4.24; third class, by the Lenoir in 4.38.

May 23; Third annual regatta of the Quaker City Yacht Club. Course from Kensington to Chester and return. Prize for first-class boats won by Minerva in 4.36; second-class, Lilie, in 4.43; third-class, Bianca, in 5.01.

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May 26. Albert Armstrong, a seaman board the British ship James S. Wright, died off South st. wharf from a fracture of the skull, received during a mutiny on board the ship near Reedy Island.

May 28. Corner-stone laid of chapel and extension to Presbyterian Home for Widows and Single Women at Fifty-eighth and Woodland av.

May 29. Sanitarium for sick children at Point Airy opened for the summer season.

May 30. Decoration-day. Graves of soldiers in the cemeteries of Philadelphia adorned with flowers, and orations delivered.

May 31. Commencement of the seventy-seventh anniversary exercises of the Union M. E. Church, Fourth st. near Arch, during which a historical sermon and addresses were delivered.

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HOW INTEREST EATS.-One of the causes of bankruptcy is that so few persons properly estimate the difference between a high and low rate of interest, and therefore often borrow money at a ruinous rate that no legitimate business can

Ir is found that oxygen in the liquid state has stand. Very few have figured on the difference the same density as water.

THE number of asteroids discovered up to April, 1878, is one hundred and eighty-seven.

THE presence of sugar has been detected in the petals of various flowers in considerable quantity, varying from seven to one per cent. THE value of weather signals is acknowledged by increased appropriations and increased interest in the subject, both in this country and in Europe.

THE satellites of Mars discovered by Prof. Hall are named Diemas, for the outer one, and Phobus for the inner, being each about six miles in diameter.

MUCH attention is given by astronomers at the present time to double and variable stars, both on account of increased interest in everything that relates to the physical nature of the heavenly bodies, and on account of the want of means and outfit for more costly observations.

between six and eight per cent. One dollar loaned for one hundred years at six per cent., with the interest collected annually and added to the principal, will amount to $340. At eight per cent. it amounts to $2203, or nearly seven times as much. At three per cent., the usual rate of interest in England, it amounts to $19.25; whereas at ten per cent., which has been a very common rate in the United States, it is $13,809, or about seven hundred times as much. At twelve per cent. it amounts to $84,075, or more than four thousand times as much. At eighteen per cent. it amounts to $15,145,007. At twenty-four per cent. (which we sometimes hear talked of) it reaches the enormous sum of $2,551,799,404.

One hundred dollars borrowed at six per cent., with the interest compounded annually, will amount to $1842 in fifty years, while the same one hundred dollars borrowed at eight per cent. will amount to $4690 in fifty years. One thousand dollars at ten per cent., compounded, will run up to $117,390 in fifty years.

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