What Ails The Sun?

-The io A'.nericaa has ths followiug soasafciaa item : There are now more spota n tho sim than have been eeun befora for many years ; soine of thase are visible through a smoked glass to tho nakad eyo. Soveral stars - sonjo of thom ofgreat brilliancy, which frotu tbeir ascortaiued diütanoo must havo beoa as large as our lun - havo totally disappsarcd froin the sky ; and tho question has boan raised among astronomers, whether t'io liglit and heat oJ the sun are not gradually f&diog away. As this would be aoooinpauied by tha detruotion of all tho plauts aad aniiuals on the earth, it is rather an intorcsting question. Tho uu's light and heat are dimiuishod by the dark spots at the proseut time about 1 per cent.