| Show NATURAL PHENOMENA IF all the phenomena displayed during the recent seismic disturbances ia mexico were collated it would make a 9 large and interesting chapter that of a big pool of water becoming scalding hot in an instant during the rumblings gs of the earth and cooling off into antoo an icy coldness as soon as the shocks had c ceased sed goes beyond the merely jahe and partakes of the preternatural that is it can be accounted fur upon no known law of nature and remains so eo far among the inexplicable things of our time but such events have hava not been confined nor are they even peculiar to mexico for strange things take place very frequently in every country some of these are not mysterious te because their cause and effect have been registered in the volume of science tor for a long time past and it may be that some time hence the other wonders will also be blunted by solution but that peculiar weird sensation produced by visitations from we know not where and tilling filling a mission we know not what however thong thoroughly ugh analyzed and laid bare their nature and position in cosmogony may be will always be experienced whenever they appear for example a meteor invariably attracts at t facts our attention and excites our An interest terest although we may have seen thousands of them and are quite familiar with their origin cause and effect the mere fact that they are not ot of the earth earthy and may have traversed infinite space to an extent beyond our comprehension gives rise afresh to solemn thoughts and profound admiration but it is when these blazing pilgrims of the air are so large that they reach our planet before being consumed that they excite the most attention there is no friction and consequently no ignition until drawn by the power powerful fai magnetism of the earth within e our ur atmosphere upon which and proceeding through it at a velocity equal to many times the initial force of a bullet they become a mass of flame at once and unless very large before the air was wa reached their visitation to our sphere is in the form of impalpable ashes the account comes of a monstrous me meteor beor teor which fell on the farm of james harmon in the town of Lo manville new york on the night of may last As the stone was buried very deep it has not yet been recovered the account states that the descent occurred about 11 at night aud and was observed by robert wells a farmer who bad just returned from el elmira he was first startled by the brilliancy of the sayas if there was a prolonged long e d flash of lightning then there therb was a loud hissing sound and he saw a huge nill ballot of fire which he thought struck near his bis house but it wasso was so eo dark after the stone fell that he abandoned the effort to find it the next morning a mysterious pit forty feet across and twenty feet deep was discovered in a ten acre field on mr harneys hanneys Har farm a mile away the sides have caved in but an effort will be made to find the meteor the har say the house bouse was severely jaired aired during ahe night and think it must have been caused by the meteor striking so near them an addition to our geology from the unknown beyond that makes a pit of the dimensions stated above aboa will be rather unwieldy idy when fuu found as they are very heavy and so hard that it is almost impossible to cut or break them |
