Show hops sinks story thero being some talk in this city about the big meteor that passed over salt bake night before last hop sing head man in this city of the chinese company of that name became interested in what was eaid iio began to tell something about great meteor that fell in china ages ago and finally aid ho had it all in a book at his place in Chinatown and would translate tho account to the host of his ability if the reporter would accompany him to his louie an offer which wae accepted As hop sing can not english very fluently even when discoursing on ordinary subjects it was hard for him to express himself when ho tried to translate the account of the strange occurrence recorded by he chinese what ho was ablo to impart wa briefly as follows ages and aes ago great meteor fell in china in tho providence of che keang it came from the heavens in n direction and was apparently fifty feet in di almetor it lighted the country for a distance of or miles about it did not explode but passed into the ground entire it buried itself in spur of tho kangling kang ling mountain on the alope of tho mountains it en was a largo village the over at a height of about half a mile and eo great was the heat from it that all the buildings in the place burst into flames simultaneously 11 the people in tho town were roasted and many in the country in tho track of the meteor between the town and the faco of tho mountain tho mado an immense hole in the side of the mountain out of which issued flames for several days then great volumes of steam poured fourth and finally a large stream of water the stream of water is still flowering at the present time and forms ono of tho river that enters alio sea near ning po that now was a meteor worth talk ing about |