Lewistown Gazette

END OF THE WORLD AT HAND.

Paris is very much excited by an astronomical controversy at which all do not laugh! The two most eminent astronomers, one of France, the other of Germany, are arguing whether the world is to come to an end on the thirteenth of June next! All the scientific world, it appears have long been uneasy at the approach of the Comet to our earth; and though it is conceded by the disbelievers that the contact must take place in June next, they argue (for Mons. Babinet, the French Astronomer, for them) that, as comets are but atmospheric affairs, it will not materially affect us. The German, on the contrary says that it will not merely be the passing of "a gentleman who smokes," but that its center is solid fire, and that the surface of the earth will be turned into a sea of fiery lava by his formidable cigar! The millennium, of course, is to turn out a fiction, and Mr. Barnum will barely have time to get well of his bilious fever.