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Show COMET MAKES HASTE. The mania for speed, hitherto at- trioutea solely to tne American people peo-ple in their pursuit of the almighty dollar, appears to have spread. Not only havo the inhabitants of other countries of the globe put themselves in "high" since the war, but the craze for annihilating time and space has also been communicated to other planetary plan-etary units than our own. Word cornea from various astronomical astronom-ical observatories that Brorsen's comet discovered in 1S47, has made its reappearance, reap-pearance, three years ahead of scheduled sched-uled time. When tho Brorsen comet paid us a visit before, astronomers sat them down with pencil and paper and figured it out that there would be a return in seventy-five years. Either they miscalculated to tho extent of three years or the celestial traveler has increased its speed. At. any rate, the Kev. Joel H. Met-calf, Met-calf, stationed at South Hero, Vermont, recently reported the appearance of two comets. Professor Jeffers and Miss Heger, California astronomers, report through the students' observatory at Berkoley, computations which indicate that the first Motcalf comet is identical identi-cal with that discovered by Brorseu. If thfs assumption is correct, Professor Profes-sor S. I. Bailey of the Harvard observatory ob-servatory says it will give Brorsen 's comet a place with Halley's discovery as the only comet known to have made a return visit. Professor Bailey thinks that, unless a mathematical error has been mado, the unexpected return of the Brorsen comet three years in advance ad-vance of schedule may be accounted for by uneven attractions of the sun.' Preliminary observations indicate that the probable time of perihelion passage of the Brorsen-JIetealf comet will be October 18, when it will bo nearest the sun. |