Morning journal and courier., 1886-02-19

the earth than any comet of recent years has made. Another remarkable thing about this comet will be the long period for which 1t will retain it's brightness from May to May 15. It will thus afford a long time for popular study of it's appearance. The comet will then disappear from the view of persons in the northern hemisphere, and will sweep all it's grandeur into the sight ot people south of the equator. To them It
 will retain it's brightness for longer time than to observers in the northern hem
 isphere. It will gradually fade from view
 and about May 31 will not be visible except
 as telescopic object. It will remain with
 in the telescopic view, however, until about
 the 1st of August-an unusual period of vls-
 ibility At the same time," continued the professor land under much the same con ditions, the comet recently discovered by Barnard is increasing in brightness. It Is doubtful however, whether this comet will become visible to the naked eye to observers in this hemisphere. At about the same time that the Paris comet disappears from our view in the northern sky the Barnard comet will also disappear and may also be seen by | observers south of the equator. It is possl- | ble that it, too, may be visible to the naked | eye from southern points. The Barnard comet will also remain visible until the 1st of August or later. These two comets to- gether will constitute the most remarkable conjunction of celestial phenofnena noticed l SoAAASo l corded appearance"
 Emile ZoIa and the Printers. The Vienna Allgemeine Zeitung publishes
 an article by Ernst Ziegler on Zola as liter
 ary worker.
 "Zola writes everything himself he never has secretary for his extensive correspon- | dence. He even seals his wrappers and ad- ] dresses them when he sends his friends bro- | chures or his translators material. He also writes his literary manuscript himself. Out of it the printers compose what are called 'placards, large pages with four gigantic columns of text. These are sent to the author
 carefully revised and free from errors, and l then Zola begins to correct. He fills the wide
 margin all round with hundreds of marks | and letters-irk lines cut through the text,
 thin threads run crossways and diagonally,
 entwining like lasso sentence scribbled in l an open space; scarcely line is exempted 1 from the hieroglyphics of the master. Here a | note of interrogation must make room for one of exclamation; here semi-colon is changed into full point; comma before or
 after the ct effectively divides a phrase; par | ticiples are replaced by adjectives; substan- tives take the place of pronouns; redundant
 adverbs must also disappear; the past def | nite' is substituted for the imperfect; more descriptive words supply the place of tame
 ones; for an expression repeated in live or
 six pages a synonym is Introduced; whole
 phrases are remodelled, sentences are con- densed into two or three words, and even
 half columns are ruthlessly consigned at
 once into the compositor's type case. It must be bitter task to break up the print
 again, but there is no help for it. The extra I fees charged elsewhere on authors for correc- 1 tions are not known; nobody complains; au-
 thor and publisher rival each other in a com
 mon endeavor after perfection. After such
 a corrected text the Paris journal prints, and
 the translations done in exactly the same l way n