Show tho the comons tail rail the rin comet is gradually using above tho the horizon hontou mid but the iho north hinr about winch which with the lost of heavenly bodies it appears to to 10 volve it will continue coutin to draw nearer to the hie polo growing fainter sin tor und fainter until it lor l or ia a few days however it may increase in creaso I 1 iu u brightness it moves very fait at 91 present over it giua space of about fourd ton every ildy dy it will be a visible tor for A got goo I 1 while perhaps for many week it will not sot it billow below the horizon li but may bo be soon houa in a 11 fair sky from dark to dawn in ibo file daytime Jay tinaa it is n nearly overhead I 1 hiva have no data for determining whether this thia is ii a now binet comet or it familiar one it if I 1 no line my time to observe ltd its motions mot ioui I 1 should have hava left for iti ita shape anil and competition 11 flow much is already known of the baturo of a comets oo tall tho the reporter I 1 0 1 1 r to whom professor Pro reasor draper WM was giving ill 11 thia information lver y little A comets tall tail la ia ono c of if the things in the universe though millions tall liona of 0 miles in length it i qa cini iverin vering g billowy tremor such ni a 5 the ill a eurora bar bo ealis roalia sometimes is ia often soon soen running in it 11 fow few seconds Beoo iula from ono one end to the other tho the known laws hwa of motion are anade duato to account for or such bach a phoneme uon aho the behavior of the lull fail is is in other respects ulio very tory singular it always for points directly away front from tho the center of attraction following follow ing utter after tho the nucleus in its ita approach to lion and uni as the comet sweeps around the sun BUU it suddenly lad jonly about ro BO us as to keep tho solid part always between bat noaa itself and uda tho the sun BUU finally going in till lid vanoe vanes ua be tho the comet recedes rec roce edos doe thi s pj pa ouli arty liaa has given aittia tiao rise to the tha speculation that the alio tall tail might be ba a luminous lami noua ahad ow like the whitish light that is id homo home times thrown across the sky shy by tho the rayd of the sun through u cloud to test this theory khoory professor tyndall tried some home experiments by pursing Iu Being a stream of light through cartain gaseous gr or liquid substances but the ho hypothesis is ia lordly hardly lo tou uble agildo from other considerations the iho tail of this comet Is ia convex toward the oust cast it can lordly hardly IB it a i 1 negative neg tive shadow shi I 1 therefore ther afore us its shadows ehni lows oro are not curved I 1 it I 1 is ia easier to whitt what the anilia not than what it le ia prof draper in ia now new york tribune |