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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-04-30
Ii. S. CLAUER.

7. J. CAMPBELL has just received at
the Mineral Point Book Store, a fine as,
sortment of gilt and satin wall papers at
low and medium prices, of handsome
styles. Stf
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-04-30
BUSINESS NOTICES.

A LARGE and cheap line of white goods
at Deller's.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-04-30

MERCHANT TAILOR
ING, AT DELLER'S EN-
PORIUM. Kept constantly
on land a full assortment or
all the leading styles Of
Clotns and Cassimeres. All
work done in the most dura-
bic and fashionable manner,
and a good fit warranted in
every case. Our stocI~ OF
Ready-Made Clothing is the
most extensiv } in the city, and
at least lOper cent. the lowest.
Call and examine for your
selves. XXlII-17
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-04-30
Take Notice.

| have Just received and will continue
to keep in stock full supply of Dry
Goods, Ladies ornaments, Gents fixtures
Nc, of all the latest styles, and will sell
remarkably low to cash customers.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-04-30
Mccormick Machines

as follows: McCormick's Advance Improved Com.
bfned Reaper and Mower for lS74$ Mccormick s
New Reliable, light draft feet ut, Reaper; Nc.
Cormck's Mower and Dropper; also the Prize Now
er, known as the leading machines Of America as
well of Iowa, Grant and Lafayette counties Wis
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-04-30

Az old farmer employed a son Of
fAIn to work for him on his farm.
Fat was constantly misplacing the
sni boards in the cart-the front
hoard behind and the tail board in
front, which made the old gentlman
afy irritable. TO prevent blunders
ne painted on both boards a large
d. then called Pat to him and
showing him the boards, said, Now,
yen o.oakhcad, you need make no
mistake, a~ they are now both mark
! This pointing to one boarD is
b ,ot before, and that indicating
..e tuI board is ''B" for behind.
"aeI.apan the Old gentleman march
's.l With great dignity.
ll.a sayings Of President Lin
q have been privately printed by
J. y ci Gentlemen ot London.
been eagerly taken up,
.asia, sold at fifteen guineaz
each We k after publication,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-07-11
TIE GEORGIA COTTON CROP.

The general complaint Is OF too much rain.
T. . o, Tor Germ, yet very sewers ON cotton. Ia mauy
ousrer- prospect. splendid. Cotton !, eescatay 1,
,uu plant, aud requires only occasional showers Mhrto
the slns nave constant Il 10 growlug into sIt A.
ai grass aud weeds dro dOuusLng, AID cASeA4er the
boll-worm, dcadliest zoe OF cotton IL ne rdAS
cease and have sunshine for 10 VI y days ana theh
occasional genial shOwers tDls section VIII ptOdu'e
mn .rop CouuuOus rains OF dry weather Will prove
disastrous. Fewer oaterpnlHrs are reported lhh IA.
year. The pant II commencing 70 p0Om lapi"'l a"a
beftor Gentlemen from Montgomery report thdi 49,
nj ars are abundant around tAt city, ana IN the u'
trl, .uds ot Al.DaIna. Lac bottom crop VIII e-,"p'
their raVages Uut they Will produce the shifu go &c,
rtetlve brood IN t4uc To ~ fOr the middle anI ~
crop. TIE Doll AOfiIi tnat the RAINY "taihei VIZ
der :. more dan .cIous than tho Caterpillar
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-07-11
THE STORY OF A COMET.

BY PROF. II. A. NEWTON OF NEW-HAVEN'
A LECTURE ON BIEIA's COMET. DELIVERED MARCH
AT THE SHEFFIELD SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL OF YALE
CoLLEGE-DIsCovERY OF THE CoMEr-iIs fhh-
ouENr APPROACH TO THE EARTH-T SPLITS IN
TwAuN-DID WE PASS THROUGH SOME PORTION
OF METEOR STREAMS AND THEIR coNNEc-
TON WITH COMETS
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN | ask You to listen
tonight to the story of Biea's comet VIII weave ~
the story enough OF astronomy to justify Its place III 'H
course as 8 lecture.
The story has none OF the interest which human pas
sions give TO stories OF human life, and yet II sn no
be to you as interesting novel 1t VIII DE because
shall spoil the story in telling 1t to you IL 10 ~
story. In other words, mean TO separate snarpS VIZ"
We know from what We guess.
one hundred and two years ago last night tharcu
TIN Frenchrnan named Montague. in the provincial
city of Limoges, found comet He did what htte no
could his small telescope to mark It's place III VIC
heavens, but it not much that he could 40. Inv
comet faint one, not 10 be seen by the naKeu eS
and had short tall only oneeghth long as across the
disc of the moon. He did not dream that that H'''o
foggy speck Of light to be one day one Oh Tue Vo'
interesting comets in the solar system IN fact tnat e
himself was to be known 90 history only Tor ha'ns '
seen it. This little comet IL the nero Oh my 9'o,
from humble life. Montague wrote 10 Fsris VI hS ~
covery and they it three or four times peioie " ~
appeared .,.
Thirty-three years later, November looo' s"o'
Fronchman named Pons again the comet 1t passed
rapdlv from the northern heavens and In month went
below our horizon 1t this time very close 10 inc
earth and shall in moment tell you how It appeared
II was visible TO naked eye, even IN strong moon
light Twenty years later February, 1876, an Austrian
officer Won Biea again found the comet SO soon as an
orbit could computed 1t was seen that these three
comets of l72 1906 and 1926 the same body ms
has aimee been known as Belas Its exact pain
around the sun could now told. Let me show IL 70
you.
Let us look down upon the solar system from poin'
several hundreds OF millions Of miles north OF IT, Looh
ing southwark should the sun IN the center iHe
EARTH with It's NOON would travel around the sun III
path or orbit denoted by the circle in the figures
ORBIT OF BIEIAs COMET.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-07-11

II goes about the sun once "a year being on the ION
DAVIS of January April July and October. at the point
80 marked on the diagram. The motion opposite 10
that Of the hands OF Outside, Ave times as far
from the sun AS IL the EARTH will he huge planet Jul
infer mart of whose path you II goes about the
un once in 70 years The paths Of the other planets are
not in tie hgure as have nothing to say ABOUT ein
tonight In the figure which show you the earth :
orbit is 20 inches in diameter. OF one men 10 ne m
Inn miles An express. railway train travelling all the
time for a fortnight would pass over about the thou-
-andth OF an inch in figure The comets pain Is he
euipse Around this eipse 1t Travelled three times IN
% wears or once each 81 years. When nearest 20 the
sun or at pcrihelion it went within the earhs ofOi'
and when most distant 10 passed beyond Jupiter
The comets motion Is very unequal At d II moves
very slowly. 1t falls toward the sun tue sun =
attraction makes faster ana raster 80 'haI IL
whi-ks rapidly by p As il then rises from the sun on
re other side OF the orbit the not only turns IL ever
out of the straight path It would in, but stops
it,. inward momentum 40 that when IL reaches AGAIN
II bas only lis Old velocity with which TO repeat us cir
cut At its velocity Is . miles; at niles 7ecoh
In fact 10 pass the part lying apparently ousue
Of hunters orbit Just half O the whole j years Is re-
CURED said apparently outside, FOR another Iac1
must be noticed. while Jupiter and the edrth may DC
said to move i'll plane, that Of the figure me
comets orbit lies angle. suppose the elpse 10 DC
A metal ring. ana let about the line AB As Il
hinge the part ABB rising toward you, ana tue P'''
APE retreatng from you The parts near d must rise
about the halfiiamesr Of the ears orbit to give Tue
true position OF the Notice that the comet
and the earths orbits each other on the line Ab'
The importance Of this fact Will by AMI by appear Inc
two orbits cut each other at another poin' DC"
low p it is true but OF the angle Of the planes
the cutting is only apparent.
Like all other comets, this visible only wheh
near the earth aud the Through the outer part
offs path 1t was never even with telescope Inc
comet was seen IN 1896 for the third time In March,
1772 il was seen from in the direction A II vas last
seen four weeks later from in the direction ID.
POSITIONS N 1772 AND 1895.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-07-11

well with the observations a. tur "tAIA'
Perhaps the knowing ones among you nav uol.Vtn
that the are from the node 10 the POM dfAtu JAZZ ~
i'm the first diagram T. large tor one month i'r III
I772 the earth passed the node Dee y But you w" NO
tee that when the comet at y, tud 'he ARG p1ne'
Jupiter IL near BY he draws the comet toward we
plaue OF the figure The result r. 10 brhS tne comet
down 10 meet the earths orbit further IRON T. ne
node thus went back from Dee To Nov q dIstaate
OF y DAYS or u degrees 10 the circle Inc uEue rpr
sent. this later orbit By the same cause lue IheIa
ton was reduced OnefOurth, or from IL 10 ~.
Since September. 1872 (Witn one DOUBTED exception 10
be spoken OH neither OF The two Bl-a comets nave
been seen In 1859 their pain was 20 Is bthnd the SUI
IL 1850 they should have been az the point on 1he
l5tA OF January. A better chance Tor seeing 'Aeih
codld hardly be- They were AZ al times 10 ne away
from the suns light AMI when nearest % tue erh nor
more than One-urth suns distance Inc pains were
carefully computed. and the action oI ali the paurt
notably that OF Jupiter, allowed TOT. 4 u1Asu %
servers FOR months swept the heavens win thtlr c'
scopes but not the slightest trace Ol the comets WIS
III. .t.... . 49,. .
Again they should have come 10 perhellon year ago
last Autumn oct l55 but, as 'uplo-r neither OF
them va. seen. With the lOas VI IL nero our story
would seem 70 come 70 an end must ask your IAeu
gence. however for another chaptcr' h.,
suppose that one Of You ha- OFTEN seen shoo'
Ing star On clear night You nave seen pll.ul f'4's
lgnt travel quickly across the SKY - iAou- 'l'
had been shot from Us place IN tue armament - my
large nave broken INTO sparks Is IL as
appeared or nave left cloudy train along part OF IL,
path for an instant, perhaps Il ws 30 'iht even that
you could not be quite sno tbat 'Su H-" -n' 'H'"'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-07-11

On tho ooth OF December Mr. Herrick then Librarian
Of the Coll ze and Mr. Francis Bradley then IN the CITY
Bal were watching the comet through the CiarA 'ele
-cops in the Atneneum yonder. They saw small
.ornpaniou comet beside the larger one! What did IL
meant Had the comet Il satellite like the earth's moon
or had been split by some convulslonf Two
weeks later companion comet was seen by Lieut..
Maury and Prof Hubbard at Washington ana TWO days
after that, 10y two Or three european astroh
Omer-.
Changes were seen in the larger telescopes that in
creased the mystery The flint companion grew IN size
and brlliancy Each comet threw cut tall linen the
smaller one had tails. Then the larger one hAd
pointed or diamond shaped, rather than round mead
Twonuce seen IN tle larger one and also hd Two
tails An arch light thrown over from one 70 tue
other For some days in February the companion was
the brighter OF the Presently three tails were seen
running from the primary. and three cometary frag-
mens zone observer says dye around its nucleus What
could il all mean! Do you wonder that astronomers
were excited by these wizard chang'sf
The companion comet was seen in Washington oy
Maurv and Hubbard two weeks after 10 seen here
by Hcrrc and Bradley. Prof Joseph Hubbard was the
son OF a resident OF NewIaven well known 10 many OF
you from his connection with the New Haven Bank.
Prof Hubbard graduated two years before On l'3
at this college and was Professor in the Naval OBJ
servatory Washington II took up the study of the
motions OF the two Bea comets special work outside
OF his hours duty How faithfully he worked four
thick manuscript volumes OF figures might tell can
show you those books They form, since Prof HLD-
bards DEATH cherished memento in the possession Of
friend. But have brought anothcr OF IIuDbards vol
umes from the College Library, one Of three upon the
Isi} in order TO show you by what patient Ia
Dor OF the results OF astronomy must De wrought
out. In your school days you called 1t wondrousy
that covered both sides OF the slate. On the
leaves OF this book there you one two three
and in some cases think 1000 figures upon the
page. You will, sure, excuse me from telling IN
detail tonight how learn about the sizes distances.
ana motions Of Eight or ten such volumes
Of figures DE increased in time nope OY the iour
Biela volumes, form monument 70 true, devoted,
gentle scholar of science. You VIII not wonder WAen
tell you that he hated shams.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-07-11
,v,,e STAR, You see few stray flights cutting wildly

ofutbe stars You few stray flights cutting Wildly
across the Others These strangers TO the system
Yon ace also that paths do not as we hah reason 20
expect Ali meet IN point This s not que 70 erroIs
OF ob.eryinR for 10 in every star--Dower ~ Is
probably nee aIse the small bodies glance as they sre
the air iust as a stone skips the water. IN ts. W.
often glance III the Alr-Ine paths D'"s
crooked. 49,.
The meteors came from the northern SKY. German
astronomer. Prof Knkerfues, az once thoushs .nat
this the body OF the comet u ought 70 pc
10 went on from To do this however w m".
southern sky. He teegraphed t0 MI foesoh a.
Madras in India " Biela touched earth Nov ~ oesI'n
Theta Cenisuri" Mr. POgsOn looked for the comes
and found 10. on two mornings he saw round Gomez
with decided nucleus. and the second morning tSII
eight minutes long But clouds and rain returned tne
next day. This Las! that has been seen or Blea
comet.
Was this PogsOn comet OF the two parts OF Bies
seen in aud 1921 This IL yet open question
among astronomers. II may have been. but t1ink it
wa. nor. The Bieia comets should have been nearly
20OOOOOOO miles Their orbits had been computed
with care The comets a. single double, had been
for - years that Ia ~ revolutions ana We
know well their orbits. All known disturbing forces
had been allowed for. II could hardly De that they
should gone large a distance out OF me way IL
is much probable that this was thifl drge rag
ment thrown of centuries Ihe Two oOsrIN t.Iohs
made by Mr.. PogsOn were not enough 10 co'LPu'e dn
orbit from. but they do show that Ms comet vas Hsp
near MS, and such one travelling al nc DTS
stream might But they also sho" tbaI t'e eais"
did not pass through the POgson comet ceufa'1'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-07-11

In November 1905. Pons found it when the
eartb WI. al A and the comet at A. BotH 'he
earth ana the comet were going to the hoi'
\ the comet gon. faster than the earth. The ear'u
pas.ed the node Just ahead OF the comet nave loiu
Won that the comet then visible to the n'AeH e,o
even IN moonlight and well II might DO. On the EN- VI
December with the scale OF the figure before YOU WIS
only " an inch fr1n the earth AZ " on the 'llnc
scale the moon 40 Of an inch from the earth' 'AHo
scale OF the lecture diagrams Of course much larger
Than those here presentedJ The comet passed lilo Oh
an inch out side the earths orbit, but the earh was
already past that point.
DR.. -cnr0ter describes the comet II the naked eve
II WAS dec - "A large round ci0Id Of Highs ncary as
large a. the moon In 13foOt telescope u had the same
appearance. though 10 was much smaller and II lad
bright starike nucleus. This nucleus had not sharp
edges not even definitely round FORM hut was IKE
light shining through FOX. It. diameter was about IL
miles or II take only the central light 70 miles
speaking roughly a. large the state OF Connecticut
The whole cloud, the telescope some 6O'J
miles IN diameter the naked eye perhaps 5000 miles
How much smaller than 70 miles the hard part OF
the nucleus cannot say.
Ia lsl6 first from in the line "A Astron-
Omcrs followed 10 with care, they knew now tnat IT
was a comet OF short perioi ana not many such we're
then known. Its patl then crossed isf made the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-07-11
THE DELAWARE PEIcH CROP.
Careful ESTIMATE BY ruE RAILROAD c0MvANIEs-.
THE AGGREGATE SHIPMENTS PLACED Al syJJOO
BASKETS.

a
BASKETS
from The Wilmington tD,-l r5wusr rt'L
II was intImated il Tie Commercial some
weeks 40 that an estimate peach crop
present OtIt- tnlu mat ol tue fi ..t icatii
,rowcrs' Association would SOON Je prepare, amt mat
former villa greater PROBABILITY or accuracy. lAt 'stl-
mate Is c"upie e. i Aa- Dcrh ~ o. pl tr t"ili"at
tor transportation Vi me crop 10 M-th'I i"Is a's
estimate places the aggregate shipments 81 o""o
DasKets-jJIO1U ua~aato ODD excess Ok l4At d. 'e A.e C
ycutuu OF peach grower, al DbNc. LAt h1it't OF
gathering data Iur tIei Lsunai" was alEecut ROM
tuLt OF lie peach glover l. "ta prepared py mo
AGENT, AZ the stations aOI- ne tailod uudtt
.friottat q thorough among the grow
tr. tIa l. mon. likely 10 Oe correct Than the bh-Fstr
ulAtlc Wa ~ OusI .uc estimates are arrived al ID
NOT take iao confederation the smaller orchards "hch
making up tuer estimates bat base tlrir cal, datlOn-
solely upon Jf forty, - ana sNtf acres IA *
tent. Inc ralrOdd agent, l'l.Wr ILL., auA '''e -
nearer actual shipments cac year llefe II q st'tb
dls,Ie aHcy between the $40 estimates 10 tue ploD'oo
shipment, rom the several sldlfAs -. instance 'io
-. rh tn,vtrF Association allotted 800 baskets -
salisbury 4 10 .iuIar, whereas thcFe VII hO', n
ali prODaJi,y. ANY >lpmrnts IRON either STATION
IN fact from lower cud or the road d, ihnNs4t 10 ne
TOO llgn Dy the railroad cOmlruics and that OF
cations tie Ea.f', WtA cJAs..t4te 0hr-L.-tL NHe
,niplent-, 1880 baskets. between W om!ds aud
l. ..rrl there other varieties upon the irce'
point tiere are lew o. Any anu. luT f'i-
inv variecs. wulCI Amos. One-baI lhc rhip-
mrDts are siUst entirely Killed. or cOuls Sc, tIls esq.
mate OF the railroad companies = Nahc 10 p-oYe IA
rXcrs, Of slpu uts when the crop natures,
especially since a5Uut oaeat the estimate u based
upou the Hale varieties WlcA = never certain uutll q
4, AL Inc Ia irkct. /. Is the most uncertain OF AL TIE
,Arletee aud sJme.Hc. dils even lew days before 10
l. III Tor picking II tr H.4eS axe marketed - i"lJ -
the indications now point, the estimate, or soVD Dds-
keJs - De not sOe great Tue growers tie'
Wlll he opinion -
tnr xsut oil the crop Wien IN convention, And fui4b
oue.alf of them proEOunceI the estimate tAeu n-1e
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-07-11

NO TX.-THEYOUNG MEN FROM NEW JERSEY.
Az UPSET on THE CANAL-HOw THE PRNCETOSs cor
ANEW BOAT-HOUsE-A LIGHT CEEw-THE FRs-4I-
MAJ RACE-rHE PRINCETON AND BROWN IREsH-
MIN.
URON THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNE .
SARATOGA. July 9.-lhe history Of boating IN
Princeton previous 10 1872 resembles that OF Three
Wise men Of Gotham. who vent 10 sea IN bowl
IL 1870 a small meeting Of undergraduates interested
IN boating held club formed. and gig pur-
chased. They could not SWIM it on the ripping
nver, for no stream of that description flows near
the College Of New-Jersey nor did the broad bosom
Oi lake DIeseIt itself for the DurDOse but tIey
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-07-11
THE CoURrEs4Es TO THE DELEGAILS Az ihL
NAIIoSAL BOARD OF TRADE.

PORTLAND Me-, July lO.-lhe Boaad OF
- =, mn. CITY have decided To extend proper cour
-, - the members OF the National Board Of fraae
and TO the Dominion delegates passing through TINS
>, ,,epd the msuting at 81. John next Wednesday.
~ commitet has been appointed TO make tue ueSSs
s,rT .r!.l.g uts IOr AeIl ggeglt.~4 VI TUESDAY,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-07-11
POSITIONS IN 1852.

In 1889 the comet was
always al a great distance
from the earth, ana only 10
be seen through the largest
telescope. Tie changes or
size and brightness OF the
two comets were remark
able. and as they could but
iust be seen, sometimes one
and sometimes the other
alone was visible which
one 10 was that "A person
saw at any time was only
told by computation after
ward.
The two comets were now
eight or ten times A. far
apart as they nad been
seven years before. They
were, at the point, Z, 1850
90 miles apart. Prof
Hubbard fOInn that he
could not tell which comet
OF 1882 WAS preceding ami
which following. IN 1915.
one suppOsltlon agreed a.
IN. nj .r
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-07-11

Blk and wohirds years brings rs to 1884, and you can
readily imagine with what interest this hrst predicted
return ~I watched for Some Of you also remember inc
widespread though groundess fears. at that time OF
collision OF the and the comet The comet was rst
by Sir John Herschel September. In his 20foot
rejecting telescope he saw pass centrally over group
of small stars OF 10th 18th magnitude The slight
est Bit OF fog would at olotted out the STARS
Through the comet however they looked Ike neDula
resoVabe, or partly receivable, into stars How thcK
the cometic matter was do not know. Its extent
aterally, was not less than $1,000 miles Again NJ
Strive saw pass centrally over star OF the 'th mag
niude A like star was in the telescope at the
same time that he able 10 say that the comet ala
not dim in the least the one which il covered
POSITION IN 1892.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-07-11

The comet, as the figure shows. was IN 1852
always at a great distance from the earth.
Another six and two-thirds years brings us TO 1889
The comet came to perihelion at in July The earth
and opposite sides OF the sun ooth oeiore
and after July and Of course the comet was not seen
Another circu,t was finished IN 1856 The comet
visible then during FIVE months, az viewed from the
sun through nearly half its circuit At this time 1t was
that the comet became all az once famous.
POSITIONS IN 1915 AND $50.