Show A EN WESTERN SKY quite a surprise was created ahel a coat was di covered some days igo a 1 atle south of west the northeast ariy heavens have bei watched for a glimpse of halle s comet but the appearance of one in the wes was un expected of course the first duopo was that it had changed places but his scientific men deny and claim that the new arrival 13 a maverick they say that it w 11 only be insight for about a week and have it temporary temp orar ly comet A 1910 until they get it definitely lo 10 abed and branded so as to zit should it ever appear again its distance from the earth has been estimated at about mill ons of miles if iou have not seen it look a little south of west fi 6 30 to about p and you will and it if it has not passed out of our vie is not expected to b in plain view 1 april ii regard to comets in general prof frederick J pack of ta e state university has the following to say comets appear to revolve the sun in very much the same manner as do the plants that tt e r orbits are much more they even approach to within very short d s ta ces of the sun and then raced to re i emote positions most of them have been observed ind reported at regular intervals although the distance of of the comets from the earth even in the r nearest positions is measured at naili 1 ons of les an 1 in their farthest pos eions at thousands of 11 ons yet in their maximum d stance they are scarcely the thousandth part of the d otance to the nearest star |