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Show "Old Sol" Classed as Quite Ordinary Star iiirreyponds to a respectable mlddle-clnss mlddle-clnss citizen. It happens to be quite near the center cen-ter of the local star cloud; but this apparently favored position Is discounted dis-counted by the fact that the star cloud Itself Is placed very eccentrically eccentrical-ly In relation to the galactic system (the Milky way), being In fact neat the confines of It.' We cannot claim to be at the huh of the universe. The sun Is a very humble unit amid the greut stellar population according ac-cording to J leading astronomer It Is, he says, a very ordinary star about midway-In the scale of hrll llancy. We know of stars which give nt least HMUHI times the light of the sun; we know also of star which give t-HMM of Its light. Bui those of Inferior light gresitly out number those of 8Uerlor llsht. In mass. In Siirfnce temperature. In bulk, the sun belongs to a very common clast. of stars; Its 8ieel l motion Is near the average; It shown none of the more conspicuous phe nonicna. such as variability, which excite the attention of 'astronomers In the community ot stars the suu |