The Daily Manchester American

The Comet.—The story that the eminent French savan, M. Babinet, of the Institute, had expressed a belief that the world would be burnt up with contact with a comet about these days, is entirely without foundation. On the contrary, he says over his own signature—“If, in passing, the comet should come in contact with the earth, its imperceptible substance could not penetrate through our atmosphere, and this meeting would be entirely unperceived by the inhabitants of this planet.” He also says very justly—“Nothing is more ridiculous than this rage for trembling, this fever of fear, this epidemic fever, this epidemic panic, which has seized people from time to time, in the midst of the lights of science and of astronomical sentinels who cry out 'everything is tranquil.'"