Show COMETS AND WARS Per rines comet is cutting a flashy but at present not very big figure in the eastern sky early every morning this revives an old superstition which we have all heard about comets being harbingers bangers of wars and other calamities on the earth those who believe such things cannot have investigated very much or are more or less weak minded comets have no more to do with wars or vice versa than the aurora borealis has with famine or pestilence that a comet sometimes several comets are almost invariably hovering about when there is an unusual disturbance going on upon the earth cavot to not at all rig big nia cant ant the eminent english as asprion trIon omer prof proctor once had hla his at iB 10 loft aued to was the ament ot of a gaea F 0 on by dihe notorious ous wigging of nf canada who had bd announced that would be e an earthquake at at a cert berth ce rtH aLln ilme along the atlantic seaboard anca ns the event came along an aa advertised advert the only reply made by the astronomy astronomer was that wiggins made so dalny pre dictions regarding such things alt ahn they always escape hlin him so ci with the comets they are so 80 merw numerous that it would be almost very out onar of the question for two or more na nn blons to go to war and not be attended by one or perchance per chambe a few of the long conw tailed harmless wanderers of the iian deep As an older astronomer than proctor once remarked there are a aj many comets in the sky as fishes in the fi sea of course we dont see many of n thern them with the naked eye but the th period within which none is to be seen with the aid of a telescope does not come very often nor remain very lonea great deal is not known regard lp the constituent elements of cOl colbet net and perhaps no more ever will be i known they answer no scientific our pose to speak of and have no other apparent use in the celestial domain than to display their wondrous beauty when very large and comparatively near they proceed at such an incon ceivalle cei cel vable rate of speed through space that none of them Is visible for a great length of time it is known however that they are extremely tenuous so much so that even it if they came nearer than they ever do they could inflict little if any injury and cou could scarcely exercise influence enough upon the human min family to cause it to fight or do anything else it intend to do anyway |