a published letter that the only comets in sight, or expect-ed, move in paths which do not coincide withthat of the earth at any point, and that thechances are exactly on a par with those of acollision of an omnibus in the streets of Lon-don with another in the streets of Paris. Millions of miles… … TELESCOPIC VIEW OP BRUHNS, ONE OP TWO NEWCOMETS NOW VISIBLE. to show magnitudes and distances, but onlythe motions. A correct model on the liberalscale of one million miles to one foot, wouldrepresent the sun by a cannon ball ten inchesin diameter, and the earth by a shot one-tenth of an inch in…
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