The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-01-26

Say, did you all see tho com1t iaSt
night? Sure. you all sees It; you
can't help seem II.
Do you know why is this here
CONT? No? Well I'll put put you hop.
This here comit ain't no regular comit,
ss they knows about get. Them sharps
that glaum through the long lamps
rays this here particular comit Is a
stray-like n stray dawg that glts of
the beaten path.
Las night I'm bavin' information
ahrust on me about this comlt. Every
body mos says its Halley's comit,
"How dye know it's HALEY conit?"
says /. 1T amt got sign on II"
We'll. every comit don't have to
have no sign. does it?' says they.
"They's plenty comits that's we'll
known that's never been painted up
none"
But I'm not easy; this here comit
puzzles me heap. cause ef 1t was
Halley's comlt the feller that's ruunin'
It would have sent ont press agent
In advance. like Jack Curley. So
calls up a woman what's scientific
kazaz that way. and 1 says 10 her.
Gays I:
Madam" says I, rs that Halley's
comit what We seen tonight"
''No. indeed" says she, "Hallie's
only a young girl, an she amt got no
comit yet-that is, no regular comit.
although Jim Bradley does come to
see her of an on
So calls up Dr. Pack. who runs the
observetory-par of It, anyway-at
The university.
DR. Pack puts me wise to the fact
that this here comit's what's seon las
night ain't HALEY comit, none. nohow
Ealley's comit amt due TO pull IN on
the house track until long about April
wanst. DR.. Pack lets the light into my
bellnighted intellect that the comit
lhat hits this town las night is a on
identified conit, II ain't got no name
get. SOS you can notice. but they's
still hope Jes now. the fellerS that
takes the long. lingerin'. lang'rous
peek through the tooo heats their
bFandin' irons an aftor they's hog
tied the CONT they stamps him like
this. Comet A-1910." meanin that
shey meets up this year.
The comlt, says DR.. Pack. may be
1een every night for a week, leastwise
that's the time he calculates the CONT
will stick around. In two or three
days it's likely 10 grow brighter; II
oil depends on conditions that's too
painful to relate. 1t depends. too, on
how many artificial horizons has been
established by the use of glasses by
the feller that sees-but Dr. Pack
don't say this.
II seems like this here comit. like
mos comlts. has got bad case Of
elipse It amt never done got oper-
ated on for that there ailmont, an no
body knows how serious it Is The
orbit OF a comit, I'm constrained to
note. amt like the orbit of a planet
leastwtse. not altogether like IT, You
and is more or less oblong. withou,
many knots in it, but the orbit OF a
comit Is like the navigation Of a feller
see. the orbit Of a planet is regular
what's done busted New Years reso
luton.
What a comit's made Of amt never
done neen auspicated Some says its'i
made out OF molasses and some say:
it's made out OF cheese that growe(
apace with age Mos of the people
that takes comit serious that wa.
say It's a metcorite OF n full growl
meteor. an that the light that chase
up behind II, don't belong To the comi
none. but is light that's reflected from
other gobs OF stuff that's rushin
aroun promiscuous through the uni
verso. mos of It comm from the sun
says they. when the comit's any wis
near the earth
II seems like the A-1910 coroit isn
so very far away from us, bein' only
few million miles. It's too far away
though, to get 10 by Warm Spring
car
Some feller tells me las night tha
this here comlt VIII be way up hieI
in the heavens pretty quick now. bu
that ain't so, says some other felleri
These last fellers says the comjt's q
in down. like the late lamented Nj
McGinty an the elevator boy. instea
Of goin' up, like a balloon. Consc
quent on this. its ciDch that III
commitll hit the horizon IN about
week al the rate It's goln, which !
about as fas' as a San Francisco figf
promoter can lie. So. ef you want I
see exhibit A. you'll have TO keep So
Der mex few days.
fhis comit A-191O is first diseoyere
wnen piece OF its tail hits a Dutcl