Show healdsburg calif reports as remarkable shower of a material described as meteoric ross floss which occurred there some time ago the substance first appeared high in fa the heavens as a mast mass of stars and reached the earth in various forms and sizes from minate particles to sheets 20 feet square it fell in large quantities and upon reaching the earth began at once to contract into fibrous masses masse resembling flossy asbestos although aleho ugh tests showed it to be quite different from asbestos most of it disappeared soon after falling but samples were collected and sent to prominent astronomers for examination and analysis alleging that white Sout southern bern girls have made her daughters position at cornell comell university an unpleasant one and thit that they have attempted to have hei and a lother colored girl segregated mrs C C cook a colored woman of washington D C has filed a protest with the president of the university and has appealed to the national association for the advancement of colored people to prevent discrimination against the girl who Is a first year student in the university the last individual of the vast flocks of 0 wild pigeons which formerly i ahab cited the eastern part of 0 the united states and were the ornithological wonder of the world died a short time ago in the zoological gardens at cincinnati so far as is known not another wild pigeon is to be found anywhere in the country the extinction of this species is attributed to the widespread use of traps nets and guns while experimenting experiment inK with typhoid firms germs at the university of missouri wallace morrison a student carelessly slipped a bottle containing the germ culture into his pocket where it was accidentally broken A few days later he was with the disease and died I 1 |