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It'll be a long time before the astronomers at the Observatory get out their telescopes and look for new asteroids or other strange objects in the constellation Cetus all night on the word of Polish star gazers named Kwiek.
All Monday night the powerful instruments combed and re-combed the heavens for the object which the Polish Ponzan Observatory cabled they saw Sunday, and which was supposed to resemble the famous Delporte object discovered last spring.
Detailed instructions were sent to observatories all over the world for finding the new inhabitant of the Solar System, and it was stated that it had a brightness of the ninth magnitude, and moved across the heavens very rapidly.
However, yesterday morning word was had from the Poles, that they were sorry, but Mr. Kwick, evidently of an impulsive temperament, had made a mistake, and the new asteroid was only a scratch on the photographic plate.
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