Show THE LATELY discovered COMET THOSE who have even a good field glass can now obtain a fair view of the comet discovered on the ad of september last the discovery was made by prof barnard of tile the lick observatory and Is we believe the first practical result of that excellent ansti institution tu althis at this time and for several months yet ft will be visible in the evening in the sou southeastern th eastern sky its technical location being right sion 2 hours 48 minutes miB utes declination south bouth 0 5 degrees 13 minutes on the instant it will be at its brightest during its period of nearly one year this lengthy visitation is ie accounted for on the theory that the visitors it if an object billions of miles distant may be called a visitor torb torbit is in space outside the solar system and to is moving toward perihelion in nearly the same direction the earth proceeds in its grand sweep around the sun superstition regarding these flaming messengers or w whatever b at they may be called has almost entirely disappeared from civilized and enlightened man but with the absence of the gross and befogged conclusions of barbarous times and the consequent application of tie fie methods we are no nearer a solution of the question of what a comet is dad and why it is than we ever were we know that some of them go and return within certain measurements of time that others come and plunge off at a tangent into the abyss of space and return no more we can compute their rapidity their distance from the sun when nearest it and their length that is all this is one of the reasons why even an Javi invisible sibl e comet excites interest and a d visible 1 e one ia the theme for the fireside the fie ostrum and the press |