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HALLEY’S COMET
Celestial Traveler to Return in 1910
After an Absence of 75 Years.
Unique In Long-traced History
and Beeuty of Head and Tail.!
In the history of astronomy the geo
metrical calculation of cometary orbits
is of exceeding interest. Newton’s great
discovery of the law of gravitation went
far beyond the explanation of the three
laws of planetary movements which
Kepler had detected by his study of a
mass of previous observations.
Newton not only showed that gravita
tion demanded those laws for planets
moving after the manner of those tlien
known (in elliptic orbits of very moder
ate ovalness or eccentricity); but he also
demonstrated that the same law of
gravitation would permit and control
movement in an ellipse of any degree of
ovalness, or even in a parabolic or hyper
bolic orbit. The sun must occupy what
is termed the focus of any such orbit.
This in the ease of an elongated ellipse
is a point situated near to one end of the
longest diameter of the curve.
New ton applied this theory himself to
some extent with reference to a great
comet which was seen in the year 1680; ,
showing how, in that or any other simi
lar case an approximate calculation of'
the orbit might be made. Soon after
ward the celebrated astronomer Halley
followed upasuggestion made by Newton
the two being intimate friends) that it
would lie well to determine, if possible,
whether any comets, moving in elonga
ted orbits, had returned and shown
themselves again, after an interval in
which they had meantime performed an
orbital revolution. Halley fortunately
was able to find sufficient observations
recorded to enable him to calculate that
there was a great similarity between the
orbital elements of two comets, respect
ively seen in 1551 by Apian and in 1607
by Kepler, and those of a comet which
he himself had observed in 1686. This
suggested that the same comet might
thus have appeared three times at inter
vals of 75 to 76 years. His investigations
finally led him to predict another passage
of the same comet through its nearest
approach to the sun would take place in
the year 175!*.
A very etanornte computation m me
path of the comet »iw made, before the
end of the year 1758, by the French ux
tronomer llairaut. The date of the |xr
ihelion pannage, or nearest approach i«f
the comet to the hiih, wax rloxely ap
proximated to. After nil ahxetiee of
more than 7t> year* it ptiswfl through
that important |x.int of it- orl.it within
about three week* of the date ealenlated
l.v t’lairaut.
The next appearance of the comet will
!«• in ItllO. No very preeixe ealculationx
have yet I«tii puhlixhcd of itx path in
1**10 or of the flatex of itx then nearext
approuchex to the xnn and the earth.
I*r. Smart, F. K. V S , ban effected Home
approximate cakrulat iona, however,
which allow that in May of that year it
may probably ri«c aUmt four hour* Iw
fore the *un and le a brilliant object
with rapidly im rea-iu* liyht. «o ax to
reach itx britfhtrxl a tail It the noddle of
Jump. It may, he *ay«, pa •- near to the
splendid star Capella, which may per
haps repeat with this comet the beauti
ful spectacle which Arcturus made with
Donati’s in 1858. i>nriup; a portion of
its visibility it is expected to he above
the horizon during the whole of the day
and t,he night, hut it will probably not
approach us within about one fourth of
the nrth’s distance from the sun. The
comet may he a brighter and grander
object than any which we have seen in
this hemisphere since 1882; but it will
not be at its nearest position to the
earth until after it has passed through
its nearest approach to the sun.
Halley’s comet remain’s unique in its
long-traced history and many reappear
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THOUGHT AND WORK
I 'in not what people say I am, I'm not a lazy man ;
1 simply do my work upon a scientific plan,
1 let my head save hand and foot, I bring my brain in play;
And still I am a lazy chap, so all my neighbors say.
Hut 1 don’t cure, 1 let ’em talk, and keep about my work;
That is, 1 keep my brain hitched up and never let it shirk.
Kaeh i orn when I get out of bed I sit right down and think;
1 thin, how this or that should go before I eat or drink.
1 think up some good, easy way to do this thing or that,
And after thinking bard a spell I have it right down pat.
Instead of delving into it and working hard all day,
1 simplify it fifty fold by thinking out a way.
And, best of all, sometimes 1 find by thinking long and deep,
There’s many jobs that once I thought were pretty middling steep
1 do not need to do at all which I’d have gone and done
Had I not sat and thought ’em out berore they were begun.
And that’s the way 1 find it now, the more I sit and think
The less hard work 1 have to do but get my food and drink.
So if you see me sitting here beneath this tree each day
While my good wife is washing clothes not very faraway,
I’ray don’t misjudge, for I shall he lost deep in thought to see
How she can get those washings out with less of drudgery.
I ’in not what people say I am, I’m not a lazy man;
1 simply get through life upon a scientific plan.
(Hires. Halley's mime, apart from Lis
other great achievements, will ever he
famous fur the prediction of its return
54 years lie fore it oecurred. It is also in
itself a comet of notable beauty and
grandeur, both of head and tail.—From
an article in “Nineteenth Century.”
WASKEY MADE
A LOUD NOISE
Following fo a *|*‘cial dispatch printed
in the V>metioM hitter at the home of
Ala.^ka’fi first • Iclc^ate to con^res*. It
may serve to ♦ n li^li ten tht* people he is
sii|»jh»sis| to r« present an to 11 »•* rntimati1
placeti ii|m»ii Mr. Waskey at the I’nitenl
State- capital:
Wanliingtoii, I>.i\t Jan. 7.—Cmigreim*
in in Frank II Wunkev create*l a slight
seiuuitiofi in tli*- house of representative*
ye-ter*luv hy interrupting the Mpeaker
anti u lluitf him tiiat lie innstcil on U -
iiiut r»i'^i»iiii|, and that he would con
tinuc to -tnnfvh* for Alaskan letfi-Uti**n
a bet her he in rni^in/ol hv Siciikrr
t'annon < r not. In a h*ud •|*nh he
«lev hire* I that >|-*ak*r tanium had
broken faith with him hy uot placing
him oi» tin piitili*- Uii-I committee am he
ha*I pruiiiiatl.
RAMPART BOASTS
HOME-GROWN SPUDS
Such a thing would scarcely be
dreamed of in the States, and it may
not be generally known even here; but
it is nevertheless a fact that Hani]>art
eating houses have been supplied with
home-grown potatoes all winter.
The i"itatoes wese grown by (.'apt. A.
II. Mayo, and are of superior flavor;
but it is claimed by some that there is
an “unripe" quality about them.
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