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Show COMETS AND THE NEW ONE NOW iN SIGHT. (Morning Examiner.) Yesterday, near the time of sunset, the sun was eclipsed by the moon, and In the northwest Brook's comet radl-iated radl-iated lines of light two celestial attractions at-tractions which are not on exhibition every day. One of the discoverers of Brook's comet has predicted that the strange visitor is about to upset the orderly affairs of this earth by influencing the mariner's compass and making unseasonable un-seasonable weather. Comets were at one time feared. People were told that the wayfarers swinging through space might come in collision with the earth or be drawn into tho sun. but with the spread of elementary knowledge of astronomy, comets have been welcomed as rare visitors to add Interest to the wonders won-ders of the solar system. These nebulous bodies have their pathways as well marked as is the orbit or-bit of the earth, and though some of them disappear toN reappear only after the lapse of a great period of time, 1 their coming and going Is measured I with mathematical precision by the ' astronomers who read the motions of the heavenly bodies. This comet has never presented its head to view, but within a brief period pe-riod after the long tall had been discovered dis-covered tho time of nearest approach to the sun and the hour when the comet would begin to recede had been figured. .This is possible because of the orderly or-derly arrangement of the starry world, where countless millions of 'bodies extending ex-tending beyond the range of the most powerful telescopes, swing through space in perfect response to a law which, in its exactness and multiplicity multiplic-ity of detail, affords the human mind, a peep into the omnipotent and om-nibclent. |