IN OTHER PLACES.
(Received May 21st, 12.30 a.ni.) LONDON, May 20. American observations state that tlio tail of Halley's comet is still in the eastern horizon. St. Thomas, West Indios, reports that an enormous beam of light stretched across two-thirds of the firmament. The French astronomers saw nothing. Many Parisians were up all night, some feasting and others praying, in tho expectation of the end of the world. German observations are of a tivo character. Only Munich caught a glimpse of the comet passing across the sun's disc. Both French and German astronomers observed -.un spot^.
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13739, 21 May 1910, Page 9
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