Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-04-04

or coma. and usually luminous train or
tail worn high. Sometimes several tails
are observed on one comet, but this &C.
ours only in flush times.
When was young / used to think l
would like to be a comet in the sky, up
above the world so high; with nothing
to do but loaf around and play with the
little new laid planets and have good
time; but now / can see where l was
wrong. Comets also have their troubles,
their perihelions, their hyperbolas, and
their parabolas A little over three
hundred years ago Tycho Brahe discov-
cred that comets were extraneous to cur
atmosphere, and since then times have
improved. len see that trade is stead
Ter and potatoes run less to tops than
they did before.
Soon after that day they discovered
that comets all had more or less periodi-
city. Nobody knows how Trey got it.
All the astronomers had been watching
them day and night and didn't know
when they were exposed, but there was
no time TO talk and argue over the ques-
ton. There were two or three hundred
comets down with it at once. 1t was an
exciting time.
| Comets sometimes live to great age.
This shows that the night air is not so
injurious to the health as many people
would have us believe. The great comet
OF 1850 is supposed to have been the one
that was noticed about the time Of Cesar's
death, Al, B. c., and still when it appear.
ed in Newton's time, seventeen hundred
wears after its first grand farewell tour,
Ike said that it was very well preserved
indeed and seemed to have retained all
its faculties in good shape.
Astronomers say that the tails Of all
comets are turned from the sun. l do
not know why they do this, whether il
,s etiquette among them or just a mere
habit.
a late writer on astronomy said that
the substance of the nebulosity and the
tail is of almost inconceivable tenuitv
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relief.
Another writer says of the comet and
its tail that "the curvature of the latter
and the acceleratlon of the periodic
time in the case of Encke'G comet indi-
Gates their being affected by resisting
medium which has neve- been observed
to have the slightest influence on the
planetary periods"
do not fully agree with the eminent
authority though he may he right. Much
fear has been the result of the comets
appearance ever since the world began,
and it is about as good thing to worry
about as any thing | know of. If we
could get close to the comet without
frightening it away, we would find that
we could walk through it anywhere as
we could through the glare of a torch
light procession. We should so live that
we will not be ashamed to look a comet
in the eye. however. Let us pay up our
newspaper subscription and lead such
lives that when the comet strikes we
will be ready.
Some worry a good deal about the
chances for a big comet to pillow into the
sun some dark rainy ni1ht, and thus
bust up the whole universe. wish that
was all had to worry about. If any
responsible man will agree to pay my
taxes and funeral expenses, i will agree
to do his worrying about the comets
crashing into the bosom of the sun and
knocking its daylghts out. Bill Nye in
Detroit Free Press.