Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1874 — The Comet. [ARTICLE]

The Comet.

During the months of July and August the new comet, which is approaching both the sun and curth with a constantlyaccelerated velocity, will be a very conspicuous and beautiful object; in the western sky. This stranger was discovered at Marseilles, France, on the llth of April last. It is now visible U> the naked eye all night, being situated directly beneath the polar star, about twenty-five degrees from it. The comet will-soon be seen only in the early evening hours, setting in the northwest. Ffof. Lewis Smith writes the following about one celestial Visitor: “ If at the time of its nearest approach the moon should be absent, we tnay expect, from present indications; to be treated to a cometary display which may rival the transit of Venus in popular as well as in scfentifc interest, Tb* comet wiU be brightest On the evening of Aug. 3, being then 245 times aa bright as at the time of discovery, while now it is only five and a half times as bright, and in the absence of the moon it will to subjected to spectroscopic analysis under circumstances more fhvorabk than may ■again occur in many years.”— Cbieogo In-trr-Ocean. aZZi L°Yi SnS.'s much, however, to the firmer*’ joy, for its successor is a red headed bug, an Inch long, and with an appetite marvelous Ibr its keenness.