Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1898 — FINE VIEWS OF THE ECLIPSE. [ARTICLE]

FINE VIEWS OF THE ECLIPSE.

Astronomers at Bombay Enjoy VeryFavorable Conditions. At Bombay, India, the total eclipse of the sun was accompanied by a rapid fall of temperature. An earthy smell pervaded the air, and the' acene resembled a landsca]>e under a wintry English sun. The durqfion of totality was two minutes, with a marvelous corona of pale silver and blue. The conditions were favorable at both Prof. Sir Norman Lqckyer’s camp, near Viziadroog (on the Malabar coast), and at Prof. Campbell's camp, near Jour. The native astrologers predicted terrible calamities. The natives swarmed to devotional exercises, and there was general fgstiug, but no great alarm. The Nizam of Hyderabad liberated fifty prisoners, giving each a gift of money and clothes.