Show METEORS FALL EVERY HOUR only occasionally one of sufficient dimensions men survives passage through air to earth meteors or shooting stars as they are more generally called have from the beginning of things been bombarding the world at a rato rate estimated by the highest authority at many thousands an hour of which however on an average of only five fire or six are visible to the naked eye during tho the same period of time fortunately owing to our protecting envelope of air very few of these missiles reach us in size meteors vary from a few ounces to many pounds ln in wel glit and it Is only very occasionally that one Is of sufficient dimensions to survive the passage of eighty to one hundred miles through an atmosphere increasing in density as the earth Is approached the speed at which they enter the jhb atmosphere mo sphere calculated at not less than 35 miles a second generates such intense heat by friction that the iron of which tho meteor principally consists Is Immediate immediately li reduced to an In candes cent vapor which Is the luminous train so BO frequently seen in the heavens on a clear night the vapor rapidly cools and condenses in form of these minute particles which assume the spherical form as does shot during its fall from the top of th the tower etower finally the little inheres are scattered by the winds and currents in the upper regions and gradually descend in their millions as an invisible but never ending shower strand kag magazine azine |