Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1869 — The Comet. [ARTICLE]

The Comet.

For ten years past astronomers have told us that during the months of July, August'Slid September, in this year, the most wonderful comet the world has ever known would reappear. This comet is on time. It is now to be seen with the naked eye, any clear night, in the northern part of the heavens, between eleven and twelve o’clock, and from that time until the morning star rises. Astronomers assure us that this comet will approach nearer the earth than any comet ever did before, and that either the earth or the comet will have to change its course, or a collision is inevitable. This comet is said to be many thousand times larger than the earth. It is a solid mass of fire, with a tail of fire that would reach around the earth more than a hundred times, and a collision with our planet is not an event lobe very earnestly desired. —A r eei Albany Commercial.