Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-03-11

thing as collision In system where
The slightest arrangement would upset
everything and plunge ne into cha .,
lsnot only quite out Il tho question
tut a reflection upon the great Source
NJ this Infinite and malesuc work.
just iauoy n vac, globe like the
one on which We live performing
ils diurnal evolutions and pur.
suing lie grand march about the
source Of light and heat, both
but especially the latter at velocity
which We cannot conceive of, never
varying or swetvlng a haif's breadth
from its unmarked path aud never
Gaining or losing a second " timo a.
any period orin any age, bein, subject
10 great disturbance II not demolition
through a lack OF harmony or proper
arrangement bro some other feature 0f
tho sys'oul Fancy again seven other
principal planets, sons larger aud
some mailer than this, with numor.
Gus satellites and innumorablo minor
figures 10 the sun's retluue, NIL con.
ifol.Ci ~ The same immulable, immuc.
ulaIo law, aud yet In danger
OF being pushed out Of their
orbits anu thtown into the utmost
confusion and calamily-as would un.
d doubleday be the case " the earth
we're losuncr serious perturbation
by varofy visitation from the depths
Of spaced
IL 10 Observable also that the no.
ifonomefs do not egFco, aud when thl.
occurs the Gamo question arises ~ boo
the case OF doctors under similar cif.
onmHiunoos-who 10 to dccilu3 one
announces that the comet Ia approach.
Ing as at q rate Of speed that would vt.
terry dsinlegtaio anything having
cold tutstauco In its iotms.
ton; another has 1t scumpetlng
away from us like deer that
has been tho, Vt and missed. Pfoba.
by both are mistaken, Tor, while as.
itonomy IL correct science aud
astronomers are oitoncr rlght than
wrong, Il slill rnmaius that when thoy
enter the domain OF conjecture iu
their no'd-as they must 20 somo OK.
tent when dealing with objects 70 re-.
mote, no teuuous and 90 crrguC-ihcy
are AZ apt 10 be- misleI at tunes az
other people are who rely upon nero |
appearances Of things. But assuming /
the former 10 bo the correct position, /
there can be nothing 10 cause
alarm because, as shown by the
NEWS yesterday, by the time
the comet reached tho place where
~ are, Or rather were when tho ohscf.
vatlons were taken, We shall be many
OF miles further along Ia our
andless ilignI through space; tut even
setting tui6 aside and admitting Tor the
rake Of di,cuialon that the comet were
actually to place Itself on terms OF IN.
iimacy with our planet, surely body
10 diaphanOus that stars eau be- seen
through Il would not be- likely 10
plunge through rs comparatively dense
an envelop ~ our atmosphere; the
stieot In such case would most
likely DO that the Visitor, great.
~ ehofn Ui his Rppendage,
would DO detected ut once In his
course and finally what was left Of
him proceed In several divisions at a
tangent % into the endless ether out
n which he came. IL IA not very
long since a comet was observed com.
Dletsly involved with Jupiter's satrl.
i,,s, aud finally II disappeared without
having produced the slightest de.
In the regular motions Of
either the planet or iA moon; THE,
among much other evidence, goes to
lhow what nlm,y stun comets ar
made OF aud how little We has to
ear.