Show HARDLY PROBABLE that Per rines comet will hit Us f it does it give Us a bad dose of the grip but nothing more serious new york feb 22 mr garrett F Sea in an interview discussed the report that Per rines comet is traveling towards the earth at a rate of miles a day and that a collision was probable he said 1 I judge the comet is a small one perhaps as large as the earth that would not be very large for a comet it probably is not coming toward us as the dispatches eay if it is then there is no possibility of its hitting us we are traveling nineteen miles a second and by march 14 the date they talk about its arriving we shall be millions of miles from where we are now to bit us it must be traveling toward the about forty million miles from here where we shall be on starch whether or not the calculations that have been made about the present position of the comet its velocity and its course are exact depends upon whether the observations have been good it is not likely that they are exact for a comet is a hazy body and it is difficult to get good observations if ib was a point like a star it could be told with mathematical certainty just where it would be at a certain minute or hour but being a hazy thing it is difficult to see where ia the head the greatest point of condensation and to tell exactly what the comet ia doing you remember in 1892 it was thought for some days that a comet was fiang to hit us and then it was discovered haac the comet was boing away from us instead of coming toward us A comet is not a solid body like the earth it is mada up of minute bodies we might compare it with a dust cloud while in size it compares with the earth there is no comparison cam parison in the solidity oi the two so far as we have been able to learn there are no large particles of matter in the comet they are made up of atoms of dust of iron nickel or some other metal our atmosphere ia practically impervious to such a body seventy or eighty milea aboa the earth where the atmosphere ia fco rare that the vacuum is almost as good aa that of a crookes tube there ia still enough resistance to disintegrate and body like a comet traveling with the niah which a comell travels the particles would become infinitely fine no larger than alie ultimate atoms of matter they would ultimately reach the earth while in bulk or space the com may occupy the room of the arab in that it it Is as big as th maj it Is not packed solid like the earth take an ordinary dust cloud for example it may cover a mile square of sance but if all the particulars were compressed into the smallest possible space they would occupy very little more than enough matter to make a layer one ten thousandth of a mill metro dec if spread over the earth if the comet 22 or solid blunka 01 bat ter the result uld be different the heat generated the contact with the atmosphere be enec things for instance B one hundred ton piece of iron might burn a hole as big aa the state of new york under the tremendous heat the earth and stone in the immediata immedi afa neighborhood would be immediately but there are no larga particles of matter in the make up of a comet there is just one of unpleasantness in a comets hitting the earth that is the subsequent effect oaf the atmosphere it would seem likely that the atmosphere bould be I 1 filled with gaseous matter and if the comet was a very big one made up in part of gases aa they are it might induce matter into the atmosphere injurious to healt li it might rive us th grip or predispose us to the attack of hr dnn dj i Proe rass ot the chicago feb 24 it is expected this week wilt in the strike oi ali clothing cutters and trimmers the union headquarters were closed sunday and the workmen say they wilt make no move until the state board of arbitration decides what its sanction will be in view of the refusal of the employers to arbitrate the employers ar making every effort to secure men to till the strikers places col W P rend will hold a conference today with charles member of the state board who is coming from springfield they will cibit the strikers and tho employers today and make another effort to brine harmony mrs Wm arrived chii morn ng from colorado and nebraska she has been visiting relatives and friends during the past two months she has had a very pleasant lime and is viry improved in health the funeral of mrs anna aueringer Ue ringer aa held at the mound fort meeting houa hou a today at 2 there was a very large attendance of relatives and friends dallimore and wilson are abins up the premises at 2414 washington which wilt eoon le occupied by the western union telegraph co M is to do the pain tim the ali ree little 16 year old runaways from the crittenton Critten too home were not allowed to return to their respective respect ivo mammas as they desired to do hut were taken back by the officers to crittenton home again |