The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-09-21
I,iE COuI.J.
Some ~p"cuIptIon- ton"erniug
IT. Approach TO the Earth

The RreH' comet which IL now ap
preaching the earth IS not the largest
but It is one Of the most m'schevou-
that ever Haunted it, tail iu the sky. II
II unlike Othe comets IN having two
great arcs Hhuut twenty mi lion mi es ~
semi circumference, which bag out II 70
the sides like a scoup-uet, aud IN the tail
being curved IN the form " a fish no k
With these three suspicious and danger
Gus ap endagcs, it has just, earned
denomination OF "skyscraper,' II having
given origin 60 that term, "a term which
has come down from the early ChallaIc
language, thence transferred success
-lyely 10 the Hebrew, Greek, aud from
thence & the English. 1t "a tually
rcrhpcs or drags that part " the sky
through which u passes and
never makes It's great orbit 81 three
hundred thous I'D million Ut mil,e
without getting some planet caught
either 100 great ARCS or curved tall
and dragging such miserable lautt
INTO I'limltablc spac. and dropping 1t ~
new constellation just being formed -
Thousand ~ million miles away. AZ Il
makes y. great uriHl flight iu periods Of
about nine hundred aud forty turee
years and seldom fails W make It hot
Tor some unfortunate planet which
chances 10 get in IT, way, II IL evident
that every thuu.nud years an uulucky
member OF a Capitalization through winch
It pHssrs, gets yaukrd ont " place
and gets carried ont INTO the frontier Of
= nee, 40 tn speak, where suns and plan
cts are 50 scarce that q. cry new conner
U.s. welcomed. The new comet may there.
tore lee Justly called AN rnlgrat on agent
/ bringing omlgrauts to celestial
Texas As thus dangerous comet ius uo
particular sun about which 1t rcNulNe-.
nov making its urhi. about the sun ut
one constellation aud tn o. nuuthrr IT
rubs the consultations IndliIcuutlN
without ii puIuIH'i ANY one. II hn-
visited our constellation but once before
and then came very uoH' falling Intuth-
sun, bul ESCAPED that lumiuury aud hc
tnnlly carried oil the inter MercurM
planet HE'D vulcan, Which old astronu-
iurrs used to see, hut winch has never
l. cu seen since. his was about the year
2uOO l.. G., and our planetary system WH-
tor many years. thrown ~ % great con-
/ yul-lous bN the disturbance NJ httrhc
/ tIou- thus e Gated, uu Immense uoud
I ol,,riug the earth aud the sun one day
standing suli. prphIhly from -urpri-" al
/ the HuIucty ut IT,, stranger III stealing
/ hls IT child ughl from under his nose
I aud ItI-t rs he, WIS hrlIug bus lip- go ;lu
. IN imll"u "I -"hhI'"E "r 'h, 'onrI
Another recorded hnd Wen hWu
Gated instance "I the fHr' oil -t"t D.!
th- dangerous htdnliu 81 Hih'"' lr mar
Of the carrying on ~ one "I th,
/ Plrmios tier" having been seven @'
ih"s" stars v'sIhl" ia H., Time "I '"'
mud now only -lH' one nt them n"" r"o
ably 10 my 300 the Legislature OF the new
-intr being formed ON the confines ol
-puru Tins Us the -"cuui time TIM dl-
iugui-hci thief has visited oar '"usieF
Miiuu,tnd n i- now sweeping tar ugh 1t
at tho ntruf million miles % day Irus
glup lt- grDut fish urts Hud fish huuk- and
bound tu catch one Of our planets hr
forest gets through the constellation
MWch will hr tine uuiuchy orb {" 10,