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From South Africa, via Copenhagen, via the Royal Astronomical Society of London, came the news that a new comet has been discovered by a Mr. Reid at the Royal Observatory of the Cape of Good Hope. Last week it was 123 degrees from the North Pole of the heavens, and 44 degrees to the right of the "first point of Aries" (the Greenwich Observatory of the celestial universe). But it is moving northward at the rate of 30 minutes (half a degree) a day, and to the east by 53 minutes a day. The magnitude of the comet...
...known yet whether this object is a comet, but it is in the constellation Aires, close to the Ecliplic. It is too faint to be seen with anything but a large telescope...
...cablegram from Stromgren, South Africa, received yesterday at the University Observatory, reported that Mr. M. W. Reid of the Royal Observatory of the Cape of Good Hope had discovered on December 1 a comet, five degrees north of the bright star. Fomalhaut in the constellation Aquarius. The cablegram did not state the magnitude of the comet but if it attains any great brilliance it will be observable in Cambridge on clear nights, for the constellation Aquarius is on the meridian, due south, at 6 o'clock in the evening. Professor Harlow Shapley states that further details, including the magnitude...
...George fell in love with her and she might have married him- he was such a good listener-until he spoiled his chances by taking her to a ball game. There she saw Tiny Tyler, the home-run kind, make an incredible catch, "as God might pick a comet." She insisted on meeting him. He wore diamond shirt studs in his evening clothes, but that didn't matter-the result of meeting was amorosity at first sight. Judith did her best to play Cleopatra to Tiny, but her ancestors were against her-she couldn...
...bound volume of Punch or Life ?and you can study dispassionately the periodicity of recurrence of all our jokes. Some jokes repeat every two or three years, others (like Halley's Comet) take longer. A little luck?and you can predict unerringly just what grey-bearded quips will march from the storehouse to reappear, all reglanded and mineralaved, in The Naughtinesses of 1924. Then there are the political cartoons?stings drawn by time? bringing only a philosophic wonder to the mind. The editorials in the weeklies?"the country will be ruined should B be elected, should...