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Show great as tuat of a iolia lxxty, producing intense ieat, and in the cse of a lurgQ meteoric stone frequently resulting in the fracture and demolition of tho object, "Colored meteors are sometimes seen with a peculiar tint of the flame, being ! due to the burning of Bome special ingredient ingre-dient of tho meteor. We have yellow, green and occasionally red meteors, but the majority are white like the majority of the stars. It cannot be said that any one part of the earth can be more affected affect-ed by these visitants than another. There is, however, a diurnal periodicity, the larger numbors being seen in the early morning hours when that portion of the heavens comes in view toward which the the orbital motion of the earth is carrying carry-ing us. AVo then see not merely the comparatively com-paratively few meteors whose speed is sufficient to enable them to overtake th earth, but that larger number composed of all those which are gathered up in the track of the advancing earth, whether moving with against or athwart its j mime showers. ' R VISITS OF FREQUENT PERIODICAL PERI-ODICAL OCCURRENCE. liarilicl of the Heavenly Displays. v Feature of the Son Revealed to the ronomere A Talk With it Profetsor n Sky Dish Subject. answer to several questions regard-he regard-he frequency of meteoric showers :ssor Very said: here are certain epochs iu the year i particular meteorio showers are Assiduous observation has given a f nearly 100 such showers in the w of a year, each of which may be "ted on a certain dato from a certain f the heavens. articular showers have characteris-tatures; characteris-tatures; that is, some meteors are swift; others rather slow. Some counie," "Tho appearance of the collected results re-sults of the observation of the total eclipse of Jan. 1, 18S9, shows thut this event has added many interesting facts to the previous pre-vious knowledge of such occurrences. A large and very perfect photograph of the corona was obtained by Professor William H. Pickering, of Cambridge, Mass., and one of a smaller size by Professor Pro-fessor Barnard, of tho Lick observatory, "These show the sheaves of curling fragments about the sun's pole3 in great detail, indicating the composite nature of many of the individual filaments, and confirming tho photographs taken at the previous sun spot minimum of wa, thus rendering it almost certain that the corona at this period assumes a syrnmnt-rical syrnmnt-rical form with regularly disposed 1 1 laments la-ments curving away on either fade of the mm', axis ami broad equatorial wings of ill and leave no trace, while others accompanied by tails and leave b aCter the nucleus has disap-J. disap-J. Few of those showers last more one or two days, though there are instances where) it is suspected that ssive meteors Monging to the satna ; appear during several weeks. Cer-iues Cer-iues have been noticed to be more ially fireball epochs. That is, the vent of an exceptionally large and 'tit meteor or fireball is more apt ur on certain dates. 'J. 31 w the dataj of the meteoric 1 r characterized by the swiftnessof juiponents, which are usually at-I at-I by streaks. The radiant point of '"er is iu the constellation called ce ' Hair, a star cluster one of the as constellations. As this meteor :ul to have been seen in the even-is even-is more- likely to have been one of Russified sporadic meteors, Infor-" Infor-" as to the position ot motion, ap-' ap-' lirilliancy, color, time of appeared appear-ed length of time during which 'Petrai.ee lasted is likely to be valu-1,1 valu-1,1 the recovery of the principal ottristics of an event vuch is neces- less discriminated structure. "All this is very different from what is seen during an eclipse when the activity ac-tivity of the sun is in its height. At such times the corona has a rudely quadrilateral quadrila-teral outline, with four wings projecting from regions approximately 40 Uegs. north and south of the equator, and the whole is made up of curved branching and interlacing streamers extending to a much greater distance from the body ol the sun, and with the equatorial sheaves loss symmetrically disposed. ? to the extent of the corona, it is difficult to compare successive eclipses observed from different parts of the earth with very varying atmospheric condition, a Imall amount of haze will blot out much of the fainter detail. The presence or absence of some of these fainter features may merely signify the presence oi : absence ab-sence of the condition of their otarw tion, but the variation of type is a thing beyond question. We seem to have u EUon indicated between the broad equatorial wings and the sua spot sone Pittsbuxe rjtgpatch. . en but by few." do you account for these meto-' meto-' jwers coming at regular periods?" that we can say is that the celes-""-'$ are thinly populated in every 01' with these scattered fragments, 1 are veritable miniature planets r;S in. different orbits around the 1 1 many iustances, and starving as I 'Sas from one star to another iu I mioiber of them is simply count- I 'My make up ia number what rH :,t'k in sirel' so that if we could I together all the minute members I : V make up a group it might 4V a body of very respectable size,' al- I '. the individual components are so I '"at they seldom escape complete I -Ration and dissolution In their al through the atmosphere." I produces the great light which I r follows the passage of meteor?' A middle aged colored man entered a Brooklyn car the other evening with a basket containing wine in his hand, evidently evi-dently sent to make a delivery. He managed man-aged to get a seat, and when the conductor conduc-tor came around to collect his fare he never bothered about pockets or pocket books, but simply placed his hand on one of his capacious ears and drew forth the shining nickel. To say that conductor and passengers were surprised puts it mildlv. The conductor, on recovering himse'lf, thereupon remarked; "Why do tarry your money there, captain?" ' 'Cause it s handy, sir," replied the son of Ham, and the passengers all laughed t tbo wrinkle in money pouches. It was observed tliat he carried another nickel ia Uw other ear.-New York Herald. "Sht which is seen while the pas ' metetjr through the air las.s partly to the combustion of -1 -f'ali of the air of life, but it is - 10 "candescence of the condens- P'iere which accumulates in ad-n ad-n object which is moving many (lie rapidity of a cannon batl-say, batl-say, with many hundred !t rapidity of a cannon ball. Un-56 Un-56 oopditions even the seemingly r&i5tance of the air becomes as |