Show THE METEORIC SHOWER those who live in the outer portions por tiona of the city or where there are no electrio electric or other lights to diminish lumin lumia ous oua effects overhead and were not ia oft the lookout from ten to twelve wednesday night missed a spectacle almost Rs as imposing as the majority ot t the comets have been this was what 0 is ia commonly known as ae 1 a mete meteoric oTto shower the heavens were fairly streaked with the cele bial AiRi fire some very faint and others quite glaring in their luminosity some emitting emitting long trains of bluish light ight and others perishing where they began those who take an interest ill n astronomical phenomena and ucb meana nearly everybody every boly nw now with alth duj comet ot hurtling around in pur our solar affy I 1 teia aul wul have free fresh b maiter lor wr deion in the myriads of shooting which streaked the cerul cerulean dan som atara on t thit occasion dome that oese these flashy were much remote than those we usually more many mady of which nearly reach the see e and a few of which have actually earth reached chad us was quite evident not were they beyond our atmos ily but doubtless greatly so BO this e H labere time suggests to the re Stat olay a at t this S tl tive vo mind the question tion of whence materials came and what their in are they vagrant fragments UT origin comets train drawn toward the from some neighboring planet by earth or ui 0 0 o great attractiveness it of our re mason bhoola abound son be remembered that the oona COM 80 wanderer is now pronounced by obgry ew ay astrino astronomers mors of the day to be noth the nebulous h haxe ass through the but fecat ing parts of which stars stare can easily densmo that its motion is in not quite begoon Sn seen arent approaching us one day and parent the next that it is not na likely ro oeding a perihelion passage abou arou around ad our to have comets have which came ther other mas a his bis influence and all thede theae athin s being OMAR correct 4 tb the conclusion promise pr wmiles properly suggest t itself that the astronomers Stron lay omers were correct a day or so when they announced that bat the 0 was drawing nearer and likely 7 a aitor quite luite close on the and to be correct now DOW in saying saying it seems equally eq withdrawing if the e planets he be to 10 system are constantly our of off fragments of its luminosity of its ai proximate approximate nearness by reason eason not the diminution thus created would to lit it the appearance of receding impart ans kee even though it might be into aps space through opposing at astrike stationary asnis iry still headed our way as re or D r eions I 1 observed Db served its final disappear be accounted for in the same may anee it has not gone from our that dav W a y vision but been completely abeld aam of rated through the piratical of those among whom it procedure we dont present th this is as a an deduction or explanation by ins it la is simply the thought 8 an va means the bat itself after beholding that sul suggests bests a thou thought glIt dutiful buti ful phenomenon somewhat by the circum it occurred in an sto arc of the tw that tut a fe few w decrees in width sightly north of the zenith and sur our equidistantly the identical coundi r 9 which th the e comet now is or point at wednesday evening was of profoundly ignorant as we are to are composed of and what comets dom mgt W errand is now as s at t their rince fince scientific in soy any time began this h being the of one man who gives opinion the ease wo careful and intelligent conde the out subject eject to be correct as a likely is as olde aeration ration the Is same other person that any but not go 10 of meteors largely ly true wace aman so of those which enter our atmosphere mo sphere or rose reach h our earth the latter fatter are mainly iron in a more or less igneous conditions condition and may have been of the moon drawn forcibly fragments from her through the powerful puw erful magnetic influence of the earth and whlor whick with terrific atmosphere striking it our force are ignited by the and they may not dot |