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...billion miles) once every 248 years. Even in powerful telescopes, it is visible only as a fleck of light. Pluto, the solar system's ninth planet, was not discovered until 1930, and little is yet known about it. Now astronomers have learned surprising new things about the faroff planet: it appears to have a moon, seems to be much smaller than previously estimated and may some day be stripped of its title as the outermost member of the sun's family of planets...
...thus deserting the place of his choice? Clio drops a tear, and discreetly turns the page; certain it is, however, that circumstances over which he had no control had made it highly desirable that he should seek some faroff shore, "where censure-marks cease from troubling, and the lazy are at rest." Casting around for a place worthy to be graced by his unrivalled talent for a life of indolent luxury, he pitched upon Brazil as the country affording the maximum of physical enjoyment with the least mental strain; so, with no companion but a Portuguese conversation-book...
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