Show PERRINE 18 COMET comer little school children yesterday in ID i different parts of the city came home from school with considerable anxiety la in their hearts as to the late fate of the earth earty on saturday next they had bad an ides idea that our planet was to bu annihilated either through a collision with a cimet or through some other terrible acci jelt caused by the disarrangement oi 01 something in this part ot of the universe ibe matter has baa ben been discussed IL dij higher and wiser circles than those by small email children A lew few weeks wee fee ago professor per rine of the lick observatory announced the discovery of a little comet and in d calculations founded on gunbei burthe observations majo maje it probable tuat it w ws s moving toward the earth with he be velocity ot of miles a day accordingly cordingly Jy a collision it was ulu occur on march 14 provided the observations and calculations were correct A noted garrett P Bervi Servit of sio gave the matter his bis attention aud and au an bounced that to his bis vat lne the wandering star wa a very small one probably 0 eho size of the earth stid that thai instead of nearing the earth li it was wa going away and aad would rapidly fade out ot of sight this view seems to ro be bb correct for if the comet were ap pros ching us at the rate of miles a day and add were by this tina time a so close to us as to babp the danger ot of a collision colli ool linion on saturday probable it would by this time lime be a prominent object in the sky besides Be eides the earth le it aluk through space at a rae oi 01 about 19 miles a second and it if tbt a omela cou course raie when first discovered pouted directly our way 0 oai the 14 or t march we would be 40 DUI away from that point end anu pretty sale there IP aien bied no danger or a coli col lelon delon on Stu Situ rUBy it wust ujust be remembered that the course ol oi f a 8 comet cannot be calculated with the gmo mathematical precision as that of a planet time and agaid of this atud bai d have been a ae e annd f aerl nf f willment hill ment astronomers are inclined to ul ow position that a comet Is ia nothing solid than a dust cloud and that 6 ei a collision coll lelon were tu to take place iso tbt theo would not be serious ser ioui earth would receive a layer of 0 and the impurities thereby the be atmosphere might be the but it is ie not relieved teli toli eved evid tf would be beany any alteration of the aa position po eltion comets have at cimei so ao near other planets that their 01 io in space have been materially 1 isred with tut but the planets the them remain as aa they were before |