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Show In jorrd j a "Falling Slar. Ono cf the mast remarkable accidents acci-dents recorded In history, says the St. Eouls Sepubhe, occurred near Marlborough Honse, London, recently. re-cently. At about S run. a gentleman, gentle-man, a well-known public ofllcial, was passing from St. James' Park to Pall Mall, when he suddenly received re-ceived a violent blow en his right shoulder, which caused him great pain and to stumble forward as he waited. He noted a cracking noise at the time, but bad not the slightest Idea of the cause of the shock he had experienced. Beaching home be I disrobed and submitted to a critical I examination, '.sit nothing was dis covered whiih In the Itast accounted account-ed for tlie great pain in both shoulders shoul-ders and arms. A servant sent to brush tho irentleraan's coat next morning discovered a scorched streak,about seven Inches long and an inch wide, extending across the shoulder of the coat aud down tlie hack. The mysterious shock was explained: he had been struck by a meteor or falling star. |