The Return Of A Comet

The coniet of 1812 is now visioio 10 sharp-sighted persons without tho aid ■)f töloèuopW. It will grovv brighter 'or a month to come, and wil', probably attract gnneral attention iu January. But the ehief interest excitfid by Ibis i-isitor ir.nn space will bo 'luo to tlio f:ict that it has come back hs astronorrers many years ugo said jt would do. Moreover, it has returned very nearly .at tho predicted time, although lts jouroey oüt toward the stais and back has occupied over eeve.itv years. It must bo admitted that the astronomers knoiv a great deal abouc things beyond the eartb, when they are abiü by watching-tho motion of a cornet turough a very smill portion of itg orbit, to teil howfarit will go f rom thesuu, flltbough the distaoce is hundreds of millions of miles; and in liow many years it will return, although tho time is nearly tbree-quartets of a century, On the ótfeer hand, while wen of science hav been ablo to predict the wandeling course of a cornet which turned its tail and fled from ihe jnip about tho time when Napoleon fled from Russia. and has only jast uow roappeared, wingiüg its wny back, the samo leaineil studcuts of nataro havo failed to sati'factorily account forthe phenomena which comets preseuts and are not in aceord as to what cninoU cuürist of.