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Show H;ts the Comet a Tail? Salt Lake City, July U 1S7I. dilvrs Hi. nttil: Has the comet got a tail .' That is the question which I think it proper to ask any eminent astronomer or competent person to answer. Some years since I saw an cngraing of nu astronomical character, in which the tail or train of a comet was represented represen-ted as always being in a direction immediately opposite the sun, in whatever position Qr part of its orbit the comet might be. Now if that engraving was a correct one.and if cornels are composed of very light, semi-transparent sub;Linccs, as many suppose is ttic case, anu it ttie sun is, as stated by astronomers, five huu- drcd times as large as the earth, and all the other planets combined, may not the rays of light passing from the sun through the semi-transparent substance of the comet and thence, diverging inte space until lost to tha eye, produce an appearance or phenomenon phe-nomenon resembling a tail, but which in reality may a: nothing but a reflection re-flection of the Min's ravs as lclore stated ." T. II. U. Personally we never examined the jcouict closely, and therefore cannot :say positively whether it has a tail or ,not, but from the appearance of the 'thing, and from our youthful trahi-jing, trahi-jing, we are under thoimprcssion it j has a caudal appendage or Doinethlug jto that cticct. However we refer the ! queries abjve to the star gazers and if they sec lit todeprivc his luminiferous highness of Ida narrative they eau do &o, but we will never be a party to such a proceeding. If comets have not got tails they have that which answers every purpose. |