Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1910-05-26
Oh you COMET TAIL.

4 mysterious substance. the tail OF Ir.
/ Halleys comet al p. N. last Wed
nesday. The Enterprise had made
every arrangement 10 give list
Of the dead and wounded and the
/ iamage 70 vegetation and property,
should everything occurred as SEIZED.
Ied But something butted into the
rolIway, the comet switched It's tail
u route Or else Old Madame Earth
got shy and refused TO mix it with
Mr. Comet At any rate scientists
aow claim we lacked several million
niles Of passing through the tail
3hleh Is to say the least very mar
row margin 10 80 on.
No tail 70 recent history has ez-
tied as much comment Or received
.aif the press agenting as has Hal
eys comet us a tail 10 be- proud
IF The last report had from Lick's
observatory declared it 70 be $4,000
100 miles long which put # into the
lame class AZ some OF the tales VIZ
lam MakeDeace Thackcry AT one tim
lerDetrated upon the public t il
hought by some that could the real
eugth Of the tail be determined b.
would probably exceed in length the
transcript Of the evidence Of the ey-
lence 10 the BalIinga Pinchot hear
liz and II the statement Of various
, stronOmers can be believed us con
suts are about as thin
There we're three bets up on the
omet any one Of which were sub
Get TO a great deal OF variation. One
vas that he comet would another
bat il wouldn't ana third that It
ouldnt
The first was a piker bet Any
ian can lay wager with good heart
Z he feels that he is about to be
weetly and suddenly asphyxlatod
md waited away 70 that other
air land where the din OF the dun
Or wlli nepor be heard aud mails
gill refuse az obscene the passage
II please remit still that
rst bet had ia it an element oil
.reat disappointment Suppose your
Judgment should have teeu wrong
he orbit dll by chance head somci
lher way Or he Workmanship oil
he comet prove bad and miss which,
dia2 The other two bets weres
merely speculative propositions were;
nly reaortci 20 By professional samI
jlers
But after an the comet missed u.s.
lnd Madame Earth stll continues tq
proudly and servnely roll on her way
umolCsted It has. however been a
inc thing for the astronomers and
iairsoyauts Both have made money .
.ut of L. Every able bodied astrou-
,msr who can write the English Ian
.page ON q typewriter has been
.blo 10 pun down from $50 to $50J
Jrltug THINGS for the Sunday sup,
Gomonts Of the New York papers
Hd Tor the illustrated sections of
he monthly magazines. The puoltc
tas eaten tt up and yelled for more
j. French savant was the first to the
AT Re opened up with q terso in.
rdew Ia Paris paper In which
q hazarded a guess that when the
an Of the comet swept The earth ,
hnSs would happen to che mortality
1bles OF life insurance companies
lat would revoutionlze the business.
oyouteeu daily papers and three /
laEazines 40 once cabled him for a {
ago OF tho stuff aud told him to go
il struug Immediately following il
sly sleuth from Lick got busy on
b wire with q denial The tail Of u
alleys comet viii brush the earth a
ut beyond q slight rufnng OF the il
tr on the house cats back dis S
lr5ance OF all electrical communiaa- 5
ona panic Ia Wall street. and
'ueral tendency toward domestic in Il
iicities. no uutoward circumstances n
~ be noted
Absolutely ridiculous. tartly re- IS
'ouded the professor IN charge of u
% lookout station az Lake Geneva.
Nny astronomer who is worthy of So
e title knows chat Halley's comet is
composed of laughing gas and n
9 various conditions are. as ! now
Sc them doped out we will an
ity pass out laughing ourselves 10
9th" And 50 It went The pick. n
rs Tor the clalryoyants wore not
big but steady aud these gentle, |
M guessed rapidly and with their /.
lal acumea And when the
ne came aud thousands OF people |
re Watching the skies for meteor
owers, falling stars, etc. the sun
one brightly aud the world rolled
-euely onward
THE COMET.
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