Show A BIG METEOR bm dispatches tell of an enormous meteor falling at spokane katie palls falls tuesday 11 evening at a late hour it seemed to descend vertically from the hea heavens vend which chichis is a very rare it if not previously unheard of occurrence showing that its ila path must have been very tortuous not to say erratic while to the eye appearing ip to move in a straight line downward it would require more pace than the limit of a newspaper adele la tide to describe all this but the a reader can obtain a glimpse of the course coarse pursued by meteors in reaching ithe earth by reflecting on some things hauft them that there is no such aftab as up the direction indirection that appears to be so now constantly changing until twelve hours hence when it Is a directly opposite meteors are drawn to the earth by reason of its immense attractiveness from etheral a space see arit may be from the moon the he earth is constantly making three Be separate parate and distinct motions each with great velocity on its own axis at the rate of 1000 miles an hour at and oear near the equator sun at a speed of miles per hour at perihelion and at aphelion and with the sun and the other planets around some unknown centre at a rate of speed incalculable and inconceivable when these are considered it may be understood why there is so ouch much aberration of light and why it is that meteors do not approach us with directness perhaps the people at spokane falls were too much overcome with excitement to note with exactness the route of their awe in visitor |