Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1883 — The Sun’s Total Eclipse. [ARTICLE]

The Sun’s Total Eclipse.

The total eclipse of the sun on the 6th of May next will last six minutes, and no longer one will probably ooour within the hext one hundred years. It will be partially visible in' many places, but few will see it in its entirety, as its path lies most eniirely through the ocean, touching land nowhere but at a little island in the South Pacific called the Caroline eland, which is out of the track of any established commerce of travel The French government has determined to sond an expedition to that island, and it is probable that a grand international gathering of astronomers will meet there to take part in this scientific quest.