Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1882-11-02
A View of the Conner.
BY BILL ARP.

The comet is a wonderful show and
it takes a power of faith to believe
what the astronomers say about it. My
folks wanted to see it, and so got 'em
all up in time yesterday morning, and
they wrapped up in shawls and blank
cts, and took little Jessie in my arms
and we paraded out beyond the grove,
where there was a clear sight, and pc
rused it to our satisfaction. The little
chaps amused us with their questions,
for they haven't much idea of infinite
distance, and we grown folks got be-
wildered in trying to take it all in. One
hundred and twenty millions of miles
away is right good piece, and when
body is travelling 100000 miles in
day it must make a powerful buzz in
the armament, and it's a wonder we
don't hear it like we hear these coal
burning locomotives away off in the
dead of night.
That comet has some big business on
hand, and | would like to know what
it is. l see that one learned man says
they furnish fuel to the sun, and this
one was badly needed right now, for
the fires were getting low, and one can
see the black spots where the coal was
burnt to cinder, and if more caloric
didn't come from somewhere soon our
people wouldn't have to go up to the
Arctic regions to freeze to death. It's
a grand idea to think of some mighty
Vulcan standing away up in the region
of space chucking up the old suns fires
by throwing comets at him, but still L
would like to know where the old fire.
man gets his comets, and where he
keeps 'em hid out from mortal eyes. /
could ask as many questions, l reckon,
as the children asked me, and know as
little about it afterwards. Jessie want
ed to know if hundred million of
miles was as far as across the ocean,
and how many times together it was
from here to Atlanta. She wanted to
know how much faster it travelled than
the cars, and said its tail would make
a mighty pretty broom for giant to
sweep the sky with. Carl undertook
to enlighten her, and told her that At
lanta was just nowhere to the comet
that the comet was further off than the
sky, or the moon, or rainbow, or
thousand pine trees put on top of one
another, and it was going faster than
that flying horse that papa told us
about. The wise men say it went
within 100000 miles of the sun, and is
now getting away from it at the rate
of 100000 a day. That's business.
That's furnishing fuel in hurry, and
getting away far more with proper
alacrity, but it is wonder to me it
didn't get its tail scorched. [ wish
that all you city folks could see the
comet, for it is show that doesn't
come along more than once or twice in
lifetime, and it never advertises its
coming in the newspapers. City folks
don't know exactly how to go about
getting up at o'clock in the morning
and if they did they would find some
bedy's house or their shade tree in the
way, and would have to walk out u
mile or so to get a fair view of it. L
suppose they could get to see it by sit
ting up all night and getting on top of
the house, but they won't do that for
free show. If old Vulcan had his cur
tain up and doorkeeper was to charge
IS a sight he would make money and
more folks would turn out than now
for nothing. The comet is a wonder
full thing to think of; one man says that
this whole universe is going to pieces,
for it all depends on FIRE, and the fires
are fading for want of fuel and the sun
is growing dim and world after world
will drop into it until they have all
dropped, and after that the sun will
flicker out like dying candle and we
would all be in the dark if we hadn't
been burnt up already before, and so it
becomes us to be prepared for the
worst, for this catastrophe will shortly
happen about four hundred quintillion
years from this date, and no three days
of grace or waiver of protest. Jessol
This shows that man should always
be fortified for comets. Keep matches
on the mantel-piece and your boots
where you can find 'em, for no man
knoweth when old Vulcan will wrap
comets tail around our earth and sling
MS into the sun for fuel.-Atlanta Con-
stitutjon.