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Show Or course not. iS'ow that we find - ourselves not even srmked by that terrible ter-rible comet, we are coolly informed that no such comet ever was predicted by M. Plantamour. A New York "Herald" "Her-ald" correspondent has been to Cambridge, Cam-bridge, examined all the ins and outs of the great observatory, interviewed tho professor?, quizzed the students, and gives the information that the story is au entire fabrication from beginning be-ginning to end; and that the Swiss astronomer has publicly declared that hi never made any such prediction. The nearest that any comet ever came to the earth was twelve million miles. We shall sell our sackcloth now, and fertilize our peach orchard with the ashes so lone hoarded for that collision. The 10.000 Methodists who gathered in camp meeting at Sing Sing to behold be-hold the comiDg of Gabriel, have also gathered up their robes and, Toting Plantamour a swindle, have dispersed to await the next "good time," when the final crash will come. |