A Comet’s Passage Before the Sun
beautiful during the last ten days of the month of May, without, however, equaling the comets of 1858 and 1861.
“The most startling fact will be its passage before the sun on May 19, and its meeting with the earth at about the extremity of the tail. That will be an event which will be especially interesting to astronomers, but which probably will not be noticed by ordinary mortals unless on account of certain electric or magnetic, and perhaps atmospheric, phenomena.”