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Show Don't cbnclle if yoa pat over a inbstitate I when an advertised product is called for, I Maybe your customer will never come back, f Ben Mulford.Jr. I "Falling Stars" So-called falling stars, otherwise known as "shooting stars," are minute planetary bodies raised to incandescence incandes-cence by the resistance offered to their motion by the earth's atmosphere. Over a hundred millions, including those telescopically visible, are estimated esti-mated to be swept up daily, by our planet, yet with no sensible increase of its mass, the vast majority of these cosmic particles weighing probably only n small fraction of an ounce. They fall about twice as thickly in the morning as in the evening hours, because be-cause the advancing side of the globe is fully exposed to their bombardment, bombard-ment, while the hemisphere behind is sheltered from It. |