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Show Diablo Meteoric Fragments Are Used as Paperweights FOX Mother Farth there are T T paper weitfhtH and paper j I I weiKhts. but it has remained for Fr. James K. Talmnh'O to utlll.o a paper welpht ipon lis desk at the church office buihlliui, not of this earth, but of other spheres. Or. T.'ihnaire has two fragments of I he t 'unymi I Hablo meteorite, a body which fell ubmit a ipmrter of h century cen-tury huo In tho t 'a non Ola bio, Arizona. Ari-zona. The fra mnen Is weinh about u pound, I i", Talnuiuo says the meteorites me-teorites are composed chiefly of iron, with nickel, and contain small black din monds. (twine; to the financial nnd historic ! value of meteorites they are ureatly j soui;hl by museums, collectors and cuiatoiM. A recent report said that John Patten, an engineer and curator of tho Maryland Academy of Science of Pa It I nio re, Md., had purchased a Piece of r. round near ihirfleld, where a met eoi It o Is sa Id to have fallen. Mr. Patten Is coming hero to explore the rerinn, which he will prolabIy do with a u ia unci h- needle. Or. ialniUKc mal"d thai about twenty j cars a,v a jnete ;to wjs sipposed to have fallen at Promontory, Promon-tory, near the nort hern end of the Great Salt lake. He made tl thorough thor-ough survey, however, wlUi a magnetic mag-netic needle, but found no trace of It. One is also said to have fallen at Junction, between Marys-vale .nnd Pnnnultch. The largest meteorite so far dlscov- ered was brought by 1 ,ieitenant Peary from O ecu land. It fell i; 1S!7 and weighs thlrty-stx and a half tons, and is now on exhibit at t tie America n M uncut n of National History His-tory In New York litv. Another meteorite, me-teorite, called the YVUlametlo meteorite, me-teorite, fell in Oregon in P.iOlh Ofttlmes what appears to be a shooting shoot-ing star is in reality a meteorite, said Or. Talmane. Many of the stna'l so-called yhoot in; sta rs, he sji Id, welKh only a f,v ralns and scatter meteoric dust in their trail, which l so met lines found on t lit satis of t-dilpN. H Is with reat dlfflcultv a meetortt e la broken up, as t he ha it -ness of the Iron resembles st eel. StpoiiK acids nr brought Into pla iu i; et t Inj: (he diamonds out , and Or. Poole In P'iU was anion-.; the ilrst ;o d i:cvii cr diamond a In nnucorile:-. |