Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-11-25
TUE xrIEoRlc SHOWER.


These who live Ia the outer portions
Of the city or where there aye no cloc.
trio or other lights TO diminish llmln.
Gus effects overhead, and were not ou
the lockout from ten TO twelve o'clCce
Wednesday might, missed a spectacle
aimos, 90 imposing az the majority of
the comots have been. Thii was what
ia commonly known as moieoric
sbower. Tho heavepa were faltly
strehkod with tho cole tel nre-nles,
some very Gain, and others quite glar.
lug Ia their luminosity, some emitting
long trains of blush phosphofcscent'
iieh, aud others purishing where they
began. Those who tnko nn intefes, Ia
astronomical phcnomeua--And lhis
msans nearly everybody now, with o
comet hurthng around IA our collar rye.
tem-will have fresh matter for Jis,
cussion IN the myrlads Of shooting
sars" which sircakod tho ceruleau
doino on this occasion.
That these iilshy visiilnts were much
more remote than those we usually
seu-miny Of which nearly reach tho
earth and few Of which have actually
reached us--was quito evident. Not
only vero they beyond our ulm1s.
phere but doubtless groaily 90. This
display at his time M lgesis TO the rs-
Elective mind the question Of wuogca
~ mhlerials camn ami what their
origin. Are they vnsant fragment
from the comets train drawn toward
the enfthor some noighboring piau,t Dy
reason Of our great attracilvcness! ~
shoult los remembered chat thu com.
otafy wanderer 10 now pronounced by
,he astronomers Of the day 10 be- moth.
ing but nebulous haze through the
iousest parts OF which riars can easily
be seen; that it's motion 10 not quite
apparent, approaching u one day ond
reoeding the next; that u is not likely
to have perihelion passage around our
sun as other comets have which came
within bis influence; and all the-e
premises being correct, the conclusion
may properly suggest i,self that the
astronomers were correct . day or su
ngo when they announced thhl the
visitor was drawing nearer aud likely
TO bo quite close ON tho -5th, aud
equally correot now in saying Il seems
to be- Withdrawing. II tho planets
OF our system are coustAnily
drawing of fragments OF It's luminosity
by reason Of liz approximate nearnras,
would not the dininution thus created
impart to Il the appearance OF rsurding
into space, even though it might BE-
stationary through opposing allrac-
lions, or still headed our way as a..
Gently observed? It's lual disappear.
auce may he accounted icy ia the same
way, that It has not CONS lrom our
field Of vision but been completely
dislntogrsted through the pirltical
procedure Of lh0se amoug whom 10
CRmo. We don'i pregen, thR as n
scientific deduction or explanation by
any means; Il h simply the Thought
tuat suggtsis ltselt nltur beholdllr the
beautiful phenomenon, thought
strengthened somewhat by the circum.
stance thst II occurred Ia Ru uIc Of the
heavens but few degrees Ia width,
slightly north Of the zenith aud sur.
roundi & squidistantly tho identical
poiu, at which the comet now Is, or
was Wednesday evening.
We aTe az profoundly ignorant OF
shat comets are composed o. and
what their orrnnd IL now as at
hny time since scientific in.
vestigation began; this being the
case the opinion VI one man who gives
.he subject careful ana Intelligent con.
liberation is as likely to be correct a.