WINTER, The full moon is estimated to give 10 times more light than she gives at the quarters. We receive also twice) as much light from a high moon "og we do from a low one,. The full moon in Summer being opposite the sun, is, low, and hence above the horizon only fora short time; in Winter, on the contrary, the full' moon is high, and hence lights up our long dreary' nights till late in the morning. The brilliancy of the moon does not exceed 1/600,000 that of the sun, hence if "the whole sky were filled up with fall moons, they would scarcely make daylight.
Reports are again current that attempts are being made in Ché- kiang to instigate a rising against Gen. Lu Yung-hsiang. Gen. Ho Feng-ling, the local Military Governor, is said to have promised the Chekiang Tuchun to keep a strict watch on possible plotters in the Shanghai area.
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