| Show METEORIC DUST who have watched the meteoric showers which prevail chiefly Y during the months of auest august and september and have noticed the sudden flaring out of their moving fires to be quickly and disappear in the dar darkness liness ot of surrounding space have wondered what becomes ol of these flying masses and it if they become dissolved or continue their marvelous wanderings it is known ot of course thit that occasionally large masses attracted by our globe tall lall into it and are incorporated wita it permanently recently experiments ha have ve been in made ade in sweden by professor tor lor the purpose of testing anether the meteors that we re burned by contact with tue the earths atmos anere form meteoric dust dual which like the larger masses that are drawn hitherward become part of the planet tie he melted great quant ites of snow from localities far removed from any human habitation and a fine powder was precipitated containing inet metallic allic iron after the water was evaporated this is regarded by the tae professor and others who are interested in the question as establishing the fact of 01 the failing of meteoric dust and the fate ot lot the wandering maibes wyica encounter this globe in its travels around the sun how much matter is added to the volume of the earter faai tb in the process of centuries ceni uney dous does not appear and cannot yet be determined it may be that this imperceptible gradual and actual though almost infinitesimal increase is essential to preserve the equilibrium of the planets and the sun iu in consequence ot ol changes that must be going on in the central orb in us its tremendous and perpetual emi emission abion of light and heat with all the discoveries of science and ancl the of intelligence how little man knows of the great an universe iverse in which he lives and moves anti and has his beluga being |
