Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-03-15

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The comet Is q Had Of astrooenscai pr
ody on the planet. Coness look some X
| planets but thsy are thinner aad do NOT nui.
so bard when they hit snytody Is Q pane.
does. The comet was 20 called because II
had hair On il, / believe, bat late years the
haM-headed comet Is giviog JUST a. gooo
satisfaction srerywhere.
The characteristic features OF the comes
are A nucleus, nebuloas light or cons =,
and Usually luminous train % tail worn
hish. Sometimes several tsih ere Observed
on one comet bot this occurs only nush
When 1 was young / ussdto think Iwoah
ake to Be comet ia the sky. up above the
world 30 high, with nothing TO do bat ios
aso6nd and play with the little new LAID
planets and have q good time, but now can
see whore was wrong. Comets also have
their troubles, their perihelious, their hyper
bolas and their parabolas A little over 800
years ago Tych Brshe discovered that comets
we're extraneous to our atmosphere, sno
since then times have improved. can see
that trade is steadier and potatoes run less
to tops than they did before.
Soon after that they discovered that COM
cts all had more or less peiodicity. No
body knows how they got it. All the as,
tronomers had been watching them Gay and
night and didn't know when they were ex.
posed but there was no time to talk and
argue over the question. There were two
or three hundred comets all down with 1t at
once. Ii Was an exciting time.
liza 80
This shows that the night air is not so inJn.
vious to the health as many people would
have US believe. The great comet OF l6sO
is supposed to have been the one that was
noticed about the time of Caesar s death, IA
B. C., and sIll when it appeared in New.
tons time, seventeen hundred years after its
first grand farewell tour, Ike said it was
very well preserved indeed and seemed to
have reta n d all its faculties in good shape.
Astronomers say that the tails Of all com
cts are turned from the sun. do not know
why they do this, whether it is etiquette
among them or just habit.
A late writer on astronomy said that the
substance Of the neublosity and the tail is
of almost inconceivable tenuity. He said
this and then death came to his relief.
Another writer says of the comet and its
tail that 'the curvature OF tie latter and
the scceleration of the periodic time in the
case of Enck's comet indicate their being
affected by resisting medium which has
never been observed to have the slightest
influence on the planetary periods.
do not fully agree with the eminent au-
,hority though he may be right. Much fear
has been the result Of the comets appear
ance ever since ,hs world began, and it is as
good q thing to VERY about as anything |
know Of. l. we could get close to comet
without frightening it away, We would fad
hat We could walk through it any where as
ne could through the glare Of torchlight
procession. We should so live that we will
not be ashamed to look comet in the eye,
however. Let US pay our newspaper sub
scriptou and lead such lives that when the
comet strikes we will be ready.
Some worry good deal about the chances
for big comet TO pillow into the sun some
dark rainy night, and thus bust up the whole
universe. wish that was all had to worry
about. II any responsible man will agree
20 pay my taxes and funeral expenses, ]
will agree to do his worrying about the com.
It's crasting into the bosom Of the sun and
knocking its dsylighls out.