The Great Celestial Event

No one event has ever sliown the growth of American scicnce inore distinctly than the interest people havo taken b the present great cornet The fact that its discover}' was made by private citizens and wilh the nakeil cye, and by many hundreds in all parts of the land at about the same time, provea that p"ople (o searcU and study the skies, and take.an in interest in the heavenly bodies. Few tilines contribute more townrd tile expansión of man into tlie great things of lit'r tlian thoughts upon the immcnsity of the universe, and the advance of civiliation is marked more clearly in thll respect tuan in almost anj' other. The present cornet, trom pareful views secured at the Warner Observatoiy, llochester, N. Y., proves to be a most marvellous one. lts tail proper, which strange to say curved original ly in an opposite directiou to that most commonwith comete, became tuddealy absorbed by a most vigorous off slioot, or sccondary tail, which stretched apirard nearly sixty degrees, and could be aeeu eren to Pi Draconis, more than twenty degpee above the North Star. The activity around the nucleus of the head showing great musses of matter - its extreme length - itssudden appcaranceand Ih plieiKjineiiiil aclions, liave justly made it a cause of great wonder and comment. It is a yexed question as to whoin the honor of discovery and the Warner piize of $200 are due. There are hundreds l Clarnia nt.s f rom all parts of the northern bemiaphere, and raiiKinj; in time over a period of flve days, Imt it iü almontoertalo tli.ii the Mist view of it was obtained by some privute citizen, mul not by an astronoinci-; and it isalso prettv sure, that au Americau desirves the credit of huving .seen il be fore any KuroHjan. The name f l Bnt di.s overer will be duly publishcd. Tlie valtie which this great cornet will have, can not readily be cstimateii. as it is the first largeone which has appq&red itpos the ili.scovery of the spectroscopc, and it .s almost certaiu that the elements can Ik: determincd, so ihat the exact fonnatnn ol i-umi -t?. inay be kuowu lierealKr. The youngman wliotlilnKshr [a topgood to work generally prove tó !¦ too good for anything else.