Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1911 — ATTY. HONAN SEES COMET [ARTICLE]

ATTY. HONAN SEES COMET

Routs The Democrat Editor Out of Slumberland at the Unholy Hour of 4:30. Wednesday a. m., about 4 o'clock or thereabouts, the editor of The Democrat was roused from a peaceful slumber in a good warm bed to answer a ’phone call. The party calling was Atty. E. P. Honan who desired the editor to parade out in the cold, frosty morn and view a comet which could be seen in the eastern sky. The editor desires to publicly thank Mr. Honan for his remembrance and trusts that he will be able at some future date to return the favor. By preference we hope the thermometer is about 20 below zero when we get the opportunity to favor Mr. Honan in a like manner. The comet is, according to astronomers, only 70,000,000 miles away, and while it is 600,000 miles in diameter, you wouldn’t think so unless some one told you. It’s tail is 15,000,000 miles long—some tail, take it from us. It is called Brook’s comet and is as plain as Halley’s comet was

when the latter’s first came into view. The comet is really worth seeing but it would be nicer if it would appear about 8 a. m. It is clearly visible to the naked eye about 4:30 o’clock of a clear, frosty morning. We know, we have seen it, for which Mr. Honan will please again accept our most sincere and heart-felt—--thanks.