St. Mary's beacon., 1858-09-30

rs (" he visible in the DAYTIME Us next APP
! Parancr, after 1854, was in 1856. in the month
! ~: February. rs aspect was very similar 70
! It's present nnc. being somewhat paler than
! the planet Mars, ard with train If fnur de-
| grccs in length" 1t has been known IS the
great comet # Charles V" because il Appeared
III the year in which MS abdicatiou took place.
The Emperor tCharl,.s V. # SPAIN considered
| 1t AL C':"n Of his death. although he survived
| it some years. Fabricirs, his astronomer,
mapped cut It's Path, describing its course
through Virgo aud Bootes, past the poie Of
the heavens into Ccpheus and CiSSiopeia %
| What rendered tbs comet particularly inter-
cstinS vas its near 'ppr"aci. to the earth. be-
ing on the 18th vi March Only seven millions
! Of miles distant The orbit Uf the comet Of
1854 was computed 10y Iingre and Dunthome,
willie that Of 1896 was computes! 10y EIaiy.
aui afterwards ~ Hind, Of the S,,uthylIc OBJ
scTvaior' Regents Park. England 1t was
) f,rn,! Z st the two orbits agreed, and Pingcc
cunrlu'!cd tha; they were the same. ard tnaf
it would return again in ls4s Ii WAS Accord
lngv eXpecte,! at that time, Ani il. nou-ap-
! pearanc, stimulated some u = rc-oNluinattn
Ot tie previous cAi'uationS. Mr. Barrier found
that the attraction III the outer planets, Jupiter,
Satur!. and Hersch"ll, had retarded! it. Mr.
Hind prcdlctt,! is appearance in ls1S. after
making allowance for the disturbances Ire
cXSit.'mCrt au:i cr,rie speculation relative
:" lt> anticipated near approach - The CArth
! last year IS sti. IN cvcrybo,.ys memory. There
Is Ito necessity "t repeating that were 4 comet
10 strike the earth il could no; penetrate the
, c2rth'> atmosphere. Oh account ui the superior
density If the latter. Bu: the inclinatinn q;
! the Conct = the catl.'s orbit bcin- ", treat.
SO degrees there could scarcely hc \ l"s>ill.-
itv of \ brush! from lis tlil at anv time. l.
is interesting u cun>ii..: this ctcc, in Ii III: Of
= Traveller like Won Hornbuldt. \ t,nrn"v OF
two hnnirc! and n;n";ytwo years is no -.na;I
tramp
! In 80 it saw the earth III the n.,d>t Il tho
middle ages. Basil and CnnStantineiNllI ri En-
e'l over the Eastern Empire. Ii England,
the horri1 murder Of Edward, the MARTYR. hv
! his step~'!nthcr, Eltrida, had just been con
>urnmat"d. The Nurwcgians were making
discoveries ii. tircenland, and soon af;.r lie
/ srcnd-i upon this continent
In 1854. On its next visit, II witnessed .he
first regular parliament IN England, and ia,
success of tic P"pc in his Struggle f,r tom
poral power over Italy The crusa'cs had
begun I" tell III their effect upon the cut,Ir,
. " The age.
In Ii5G il found America discovered aud
greedy Spanar,is r,",'ns ia wealth and LIoii
a. tie an"i',.t capita. q the Az'c,s an, j..
| the Peruvian liu.S. Queen E.iHAirlh had
just been established in England. and Mon
taisnc, S'AEe:. Jerome Cardan, lass. Ca
m"enS. CervamteS. Phillip Sidney, were ali in
the flower Of their vigor, and the words
greatest genius. Shakespeare was Just learn
ing 70 y .lk.
In lSis rs writ may very reasonably be sup
posed &c have been p">tpuned in '-drr T. Wit
ness tn, completion OF the Atlantic cable
scheme. Viewed in this light ne NAV o,n-
sidcr 1t speyis indications If good wil! on the
part oi that :llI>tri",,< '!ur.i:!..ry
the REST c.tainguc Of comet. knov + that
II Matuau-l:n, Caincsc As;rrnnincr. whcs
r"li:ctlr? extends from Gl3 wears before Christ
- a. y. l6+4, over two thousand r.4rs
Fh"re lave been recorded about seven Mr.-
drcGi III all. If which the orbits Il about IN.
hundred ami eighty nave been calculated bv
astronomers. The periodic rcv"iutins vary
from three wears = s"velal ,hou>and year,
some approach III their Pe-ihc.iou 50 ncsr
to the sun A. - 10 heated - a chic heat
rs some surros'.
Although the nn;nh"r of c.,rr..t< is So large
there ar" comparatively lew ".'i"1 appear
The naked cE". only about fourteen in a ccntu-
". But - the telescope. h;trdiy a year passes
/ without IN" observation If r more l..
ls4@ foIr were se~n, u 1913 there wc-,
eight.
>!r Isaac Newton first calculated tie orbit
q a con ~ and demonstrated tia. tnev mo, ed
IN clirt!cal paths. Before that time it wa,
generally SUPPOSED that they moved in para
hoias Air! lever returned - the s9lar system
alter leaving i.
The name comet is derv~i from a Greek
word lkrrnct meaning hair. and it was suppos-
that th"v 'shook war and rcotiIcncco from tnci.
hor'h hair. .'-!S, Lo'0s E1ntb