New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-07-11

In 1898, wheG the earth al ~ ana Brandes saw the
fragments from Bica the comet was az C. In 1893 Mr.
Hcrrck and others such fragments OF the comet Al
" 3O0OOOo miles ahead OF the main body az \, and N
1872 We met Ike fragments at " 2)OODO)0 miles behind
the main body which should have been 1t b. Thus the
fragments along the comets Orblt, probably
in clusters FOR az least je0OJO,OO) miles.
NJ story of Biea's aud or It's fragments has
covered 10 years Do gimDses " IL earlier
life. ami can guess how IT grew into It's present
snapei Yes. may make our hypothesis. But We
must not forget that tell others now cod must have
made the world IL bewitchng % many minds and that
OF the thousands V trials 1t wor.dbuldnz almost AL
have been grieyoas failures. With this caution let ne
give you plausible form OF this early story Of Bcls
once upon a time, hundreds Of thousands Of years
ago this comet travelling In outer space among the
fixed stars. FAR away 10 be attracted by me .un
the help OF the pictures / have shown YOU IN then
the ears distance from the sun II 10 iuches ana th.
comets longest range about five feet Upon the scale
Of these figures only few Of tne nearest nXrd stars
perhaps two or three only would DC WITHIN the state oi
Connecticut. In tI. starry the comet A. travel
ing. What had happened before DO not try 10 guess
and nab become solid, DO not know. nor whether, 10
fact, II had NOT always b~en solid. .-.,
In the course OF time It's path and the suns path
through space lay alongside OF each other ana me ~
drew the comet down toward itself IL me comet hah
net no ran round tue SUM- whether irOm
the ther that nils space. the suns amO~phei,
and had come near ANY OF the planets D.. womb
have gone on agdln into outer space whence % came
some such cause robbed Il OF tte " IT. momentum
and II eould not luIGe suns controlling
force out lt around again elliptic ORBIT 70 re-
main thrncefOrth member OF the solar system IL may
OF IL may been great comet Ike DJhdt
IN 1859. IL wAs pfODiDiy "a siIli on, 4, may
made IT, VI the IA tens OF years Oh IN tens OI
thousands. ali.
Al some time probably I'm the early historic ages u
came near the huge planet Jupiter. When t Add gone
out OF his reach had Just momentum enough et 10 20
rouud the siu ia u present Of q years. IL went
away from jupiter entire aud single conner. A. DO
came near the his burning heat acting upon the
cod rocky body comet cracked OH anu nclritA
nm every direction small su4lr bits A. tIc same lc
To tnis vapOr ana ,iH had au uIaccOun table
repul-on Il driven OF hrst by tnc comet every
w.y thar which Wis sent coward the sun ~
driven pack an. aud 10 wen. streaming Oh iuo space
10 Or the comets tail, process dDl set ori uy FrOI
Norton.
TINS matter which made the tail the comet never got
back. Ii had moreover. nothing WIdcN,t 20 "a" WIN
the meteOruid Tne metcOrOlds are ,Ouu trsS
meuts. To them Tie sun, at least, had little rrpu'ioh
Ooy can throw would nave ,ent the bts oi stohe
entirely OF the comet, never 20 come Dacs. Ih"re
winch were shOi forward from tho comet meas T. lfst
ngilreD up along the O.Jt MIA Sl"ttcr 'ciucIt t
rose hi cher from the tulu tlr codet id Acif H.
Having longer road 70 travel fney toJNN longer uho
10 cou.e around IA each circuit GA the Olhtr uabd
those DTS shoe uJuA YSti tpO"cl hr cohrs
with ami could n. ATE Use ID D. dbd ="
having road 10 over came sooner Uic- 10 -
gaining the comet at cacu cicAL. IAda tir 'te"i
grew longer SLOWLY, aud ne On inruts D.iIg thio" on
Al each circuit eJrOd stream grew ia i"L-.h 10
its Iunarets millions OF mics. At Lhrs, the mana
comet IA, broken into two OF more arta Gifhg ~ 20
Il Jube colclS I3iJ t l,52 M Poss0A comet 81 49,
and Tue double meteor stream OF NUfcnuer, I5i4