17 NOVEMBER 1866, page 10

Young Mercury Among The Meteors.

T o "the great Olympian "—as the great Olympian calls him- self—the old-fashioned thunder and lightning specially belong. Young Jupiter, it seems, looks after the comets,......

Celestial Waste Or Wealth?

E ARLY on Tuesday or Wednesday morning some 240,000 small bodies called shooting stars passed the earth in n cluster, penetrating the upper regions of its atmosphere, and......