, 1874-06-27

than this quantity, no tlAt 1t would compare
favorahly With tho largeAt Of Tho planotoidH re-
volvnR bctweon tho orbl8 OF Mars and Jupiter
Tint srEsst e. pnnetoi Is 0neeeea $40 tine.
DO tho Anno that OF tho moon, tl,c1, itB nlnHB
would bo eqnnl TO that Of the comet, II tho latar
had an n7crge donsity 1G simon loBu tllan thaBf
hydrogen At the ehrth'a nurfate. II -
vl8rTOA FitDM OTHER BYsTEMH.
Il Is eaAfls demonstrated that comet moving
In parabol!c orbit with tho sun At its focus,
could oily do Ho, ln soto obodienee to tho attrao-
tion Of the sun, aftcr hnring fallon towards l.im
fGm nts nt, dssnes ns Ic IT that woad s re-
- shylng that 1t could never happon. Hence,
this and other conietn which describe tho para
bolio durvo, can only do 10 booauso thby nre NOV
Ing in obadlenco to Eome other forco In addition
to tl,st e5ettea upon thona ey tie Aun. II othor
boforo It ontors tho solar ioman
and a.nacessary oorolfAry to this statement ID
Tho following: that u tho comot which describes
. pnrabula within tld aolar Hystoni loavos ny to
twist around soma othor STAR" Tho .parabolio
comet III thus visiting member Of tho wl,ols-
confratcrnity Of stars, without belonging to any
Que moro than to the rest. It is 4 gonrin8
"Wandering Jow," that fnla no abiding collrao
among all tl,o communities vistod, and can only
1oHe its torIornfy adyentaious character by for
tuitouS approach to solne planetary attendant OF
a visited sunr which either sakslsB 1t downinto
ataid elliptic orbit, sonds 1t OF in still moro
eccentric path, or cnds 1t once itB eccontrcities
and its individuality by precipitstinE 1t upon
some other body Which may Itself bo terribly
couTulsel by tia aEock. .r, -
-. coaErARy ruTun1TY.
Yct there Is ons other way In which this terri
BILE lbhmxafitio loneliness may bo brought to an
end !, aud We cannot hotter ond our romnrks Oh
this almost exhaustless topic than bY glanue ut
tho noceasary impormancnce Of the comotary
phase Of e1lstonce. While aUinging round !
atar, for several daya OF reskB, near tho tme OF
tho pori-a passage, tho comet throws out h
tail; often At the, rate Of many hundred
thousand miles por hour.. Nov, wn tannot amp
pose t!lht tho tail is absolutely inponderablo.
though 1t oonsints Of worry hiEhl, -rarsiied mat
ngain to itsslf tho matter thus layishly thrown
oil every siu1e that the, head risos to state Of
"heated dissipation" We arc forced to the
conclusion that independently Of " collisions ~
F with planets, in which tbs comet loAea part OF
its substance, 1t THROWS OF portion Of ills s,iD-
nlanco at every .porhelion ,passage. rhotior
about onr sun or Eunse other Btar. aud mover ro-
covara it. Ths matter that ia thrown OF iuto
tho tail IL left bohln and is dissipnlot In Space
| Honco, those comets which. have ro.ontrant
(olliptic) orbit lose mnttor At rogulnr inter-
| walls In suoh quantity IS, to OBJECT IN entiro
dlsintogrHtion in the courao OF few ecore cen
turios, aud die out of exhaustion before tho
members Of oomo stellar system BY the decrease
Of ellptiety which Enoko's. comet leads us to
| infer must bo the rule with oyory comet md
| planet IN the universe. Nay VIC may Bny "oi
every sun" that o1istB. Our observation Of
! stellar phenomena leads to tho conclusion tina.
| the whole crcatod universe finds its mcroooHm
in man, and that 1T IL ttuo OF 1t nB Of him, that:
"Tho moment we bcglu to liyo, -
We Ill begin to die."
Z, COLBERT,