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Show WEATHER AXD SCIENCE NOTES. Ir i-Kor. w. t. rosrsa The papers say that Kdlson I? building a great audiphone by which he expects to be able to hear the sounds caused by the falling of the tremendous meteoric bodies into the sin. The reports go on to say that scientists believe that the spots on the sun are caused by these falling bodies which go to feed the flames and furnish the heat of the sun. Surely Edl-oudoes not believe such stuff as tills. It sounds too much like feeding idols and rattling of savage drums to scare' off the eclipse. Why should the sun differ from the earth except in size and electric force? We seetliat Saturn and Jupiter are miniature suns giving giv-ing llghtand perhaps heat to their satellites and no one suspects that they are intensely hot. Saturn has as many satellites as does ousun aud they are evidently growing into a solar system. Our earth is growing grow-ing Into a sun and will sometime catch up another comet and then wo will have two moons. The aurora or northern lights are similar to sunlight and prove that our earth is becoming self-luminous. As these bodies grow larger they acquire more electric force which makes them shine of their own light and causes them to recede from the sun and each other. The spots on the sun are storms, Just like, our storms. They move In the aarue direction and about the same dls-tnnt-e from the sun's equator that our storms do from the earth's equa tor. The faculae or bright spots are the low barometers corresponding to our clear weather enabling us to see the body of the sun. Mountains in the sun constitute the stationary dark spots. The sun storms are caused by tbe same influences that cause earth storms and occur at the same tlrao and for that reason the sun spot are believed by some to be tbe cause of earth storms. It can bo clearly demonstrated that the position posi-tion of tho planets causes the tun spotr, Jupiter having the greatest Influence in that respect |