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science is helpless with reference to these phenomena, because, 
in these parts (!) ‘people are more disposed to wonder at the 
hem.” The telegraph reports these 
appearances in Silesia, Posen, Western Prussia, and in Paris, 
ith much disturbance of the wires,—also at Alexandria, over 
all the sky, for five hours,—and at Constantinople at 104 
o'clock, at least, and till 14 o’clock in the morning. At Car- 
diff the same was spoken of, as in the zenith, with an elliptical 
corona of silvery blue streamers toward the north, the east, 
and the west. 
irectl 
the zodiacal light, but never identified with a spectrum line of 
any te i 
Operated with great difficulty or interruption. 
other foreign descriptions, that the aurora tober, 1870, is 
referred to as a lel, in its main characteristics, with this of 
1872. Also that this last is spoken of as unequa In varl- 
As 
an illustration, Professor E. T. Quimby of Dartmouth College, 
New Hampshire, in this instance, observed the magnetic nee- 
dle during much of the day of February 4th. His chart of the 
curve of disturbance is in possession of Prof. H. A. Newton, 
