Sicawei, Oct. 12.
Questions having been' asked con-corning the comet now visible, both' in the morning and in the evening in our sky, we believe that the followig information may be of interest to your Tt was first seen at La Plata by the astronomer Delavan, on Decomber 17, 1913, and was the sixth comet of the year, It was consequently named Delavan Comet, or Comet 1913. F. It was then a faint object of the twelfth magnitude, visible only in the powerful telescopes.
On March 17, according to Kritzinger (Bothkamp Observatory), it had reached the magnitude 8.4, and was within the visual reach of ordinary telescopes. Its superior conjunction with the sun took pace on that such closure would be equi- May 23, and it was lost for days in valent to an act of confiscation} the rays of the daylight. Iv was 3 gainst certain innocent persons. only on July 4 that the Algiers ob-
By the Treaty of May, 1911, China is still supposed to be lowing Indian opium to enter her borders. The accumulated stocks in Shanghai were, therefore, quite legally imported. They have paid duty, which, as was above, Chine has comfort-servers could catch it again; the tail had then developed to the visible length of nearly one degree.
It is now plainly visible, with the naked eye, the nucleus having nearly reached the brightness of the seven well-known stars of the Great Bear, near which it passed, on the south side, at the end of 106 gle 165
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