| Show THE IS COMING scientific men are generally agre agreed edas as to the size sie shape and composition of the great perrino perrine comet which is said to be approaching ing the earth at the rate of a million millin million millin miles a day but they differ on the point of a collison some professors are full of joyful anticipation because of the scientific knowledg knowledge 0 e a collision would impart others think that the comet changed its course about the first of march and started on the back track into space it is rather to be hoped that such is the case inas inasmuch as swe we are not certain that the th comet ecomet would take turkey or china in preference to the united states and wherever she strikes death and desolation would naturally result think of a a body however insignificant and the perrine Perrin comet ecomet is like another planet coming at the rate of a million miles a day the very force of its blow would result in the direst kind of evil yet the weight of scientific opinion is is that no demolition of the earth or serious damage would follow yet says an authority if the flaming flamm head head of the comet is gag 0 as bous its presence within the circle of our earths attraction might make itself felt only by such unusual atmospheric conditions as have deen already recorded from time to time epidemic outbreaks of disease have been more or less lees fantastically accounted for by the presence in the atmosphere of noxious gases due to the absorption of matter from comets or meteors me teora it is ia well established that at 1 tain periods in its revolution tie fie earth does docs pass through nebulous matter such as that 7 from chich comets are supposed to be ba formed while much of this matter is gaseous the frequent presence in it of solids is shown by the composition of aerolites aero lites which reach the earth these meteors when drawn into the circle of the earths attraction are supposed to revolve around it with extreme rapidity if they dropped directly down as they are generally supposed to do the earth m ol ilsoon soon be rendered un inhabit able by the constant fall of such masses of interstellar matter as tile the meteorite which so frightened the I 1 people of madrid a few days ago the meteor does not f fall however until it has come comparatively close to the earth revolving around the earth with greater and greater rapidity as it comes closer it is generally consumed by the intense heat caused by alic friction afon with the atmosphere authorities support the sion that the same result would 1 I 1 follow in the case 0 of f any comet which came near enough to us to I 1 I 1 he be seized on by the earths attraction Orif or if that did not happen the solid body of the comet would revolve round the earth until it found a permanent balance and thus became another moon in any event we are reasonably safe and the perrine comet is invited to come on at its convenience |
