Ogden Daily Standard | 1910-05-21 | Page 1 | Smelt the Comet's Gas

Denver People Have a Laugh on Themselves Them-selves . Denver, May 2). People living in the neighborhood of Congress Park, a fashionable district of the city, aTe laughing over a Joke played upon them through the failure of the. comet to kfHij to the schedule prepared by astronomers as-tronomers and the happening of a universally discredited small animal upon the scene. James K. Stewart, secretary of the board of public health and safety, made restless by thinking of the com-i com-i et, was lyiug awake at the time when the earth was supiwscd to be passing through the comet's tail. His at ten- tion was attracted to a peculiar gaseous gas-eous odor, which he at once concluded conclud-ed was gas from the comet's tall. Yc.Uerday morning he related his experience ex-perience to a neighbor and learned that he, too. had noticed the odor. It remained to tho postman, perhaps , moro of an Investigating turn of mind that the tavk of locating the source of tho mystcilons odor .fell, and ho conveyed the news to earh resldcut something afier this fashion: "Did you smell the gas from t h comet s tall last night? ' ho would inquire. in-quire. "Yes: wasn't it peruliar?" "Well, it. wasn't, tho comet nt all. It was a polecat the dogs chased out of the park and It seems that it traveled trav-eled over my entire route In making bis escape. Yoii know, of course, that the comet didn't reach the earth last night, but was delayed In some manner."