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Show LANTERN ON KITE'S TAIL CAUSES SUPERSTITIOUS TO FEAR END OF WORLD e Salt Lakers, were startled Tuesday night by1 a strange light in the heavens, which turned out to be the result of a boyish prank. Soon after dark a lantern of some description was fastened to the tail of a medium-sized kite br some small boys and sent up. When all the string was out the lantern was 400 feet from the ground and could bo plainly seen from all parts of the valley. There in midair the kite and the light remained for nearly two hours, citizens watching it. At every little gust of wind the kite would swing back and forth or up and down as the changing currents happened to strike it. The lantern fastened to the tail consequently cut all kinds of capers in the air. Excited inquiries were received st the telephone information bureau and weather office about the supposed strange natural phenomenon. Many religiously inclined thought of the mention made la the Bible about the ball of fire to appear In the heavens ?rior to the end of the world. About 0 o'clock the light slowly began to descend nearer the earth, and many became hysterical in the fear of destruction. de-struction. Finally the lantern went out of sight, stillness reigned, and nothing noth-ing happened. Finally the truth dswned upon the anxious watchers. Another lantern was noticed coming down in their own vicinity fastened to a kite, and the strange light was explained. |