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Show Dust on Ocean's Bed. To an enormous extent the bed of the ocean is covered with lava and vpumice stone, says the Family Tier-aid. Tier-aid. Still more remarkable is it to find the floor of the ocean covered in many parts with the dust of meteorites. These bodies whirl about In the heavens heav-ens like miniature cornets, and are for the most part broken Into innumerable in-numerable fragments. We are all familiar fa-miliar with these heavenly visitants as shooting stars; but it has been only lately discovered that Ihis cosmic dust forms layers nt the bottom of the deepest deep-est seas. Between Honolulu and Tahiti, Ta-hiti, at a depth of 21."i0 fathoms over two'niiles and a half a vast layer of this material exists. Falling upon land this impalpable dust is Indistinguishable; Indistinguisha-ble; but, 'accumulating for centuries in the sea depths, it forms a wondrous slory of the continuous bombardment of this planet by cometary bodies. |