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Under-Secre- Affairs.

WHEN METEORITES CRASH

THEY SCINTILLATE LIKE

BALLS OF FIRE BURST INTO FRAGMENTS WITH THUNDEROUS EXPLOSIONS

TO

bour,

inaugurate the season of me-, rather believe that a Yankee pro- Sir Robert Witt and Mr. Ken- teorites, seen far more fre-fessor would be than to believe tars for Foreign

er-neth Clark occasionally picked up quently in the months July to that stones fell from heaven.”

Enormous Velocity phasised that Germany's chief in-a drawing at a modest price for January than January to July,

collections. that the conference their private

This few weeks ago meteorite-chaser H. Before crashing to earth." me- should succeed, and it was there was when they were not bidding H Nininger, Secretary of the four-teorites attain a velocity of appro- fore essential that there should for the National Art Collections year old Society for Research on ximately 40,000 miles an be adequate preparations.

Fund Otherwise private collee-Meteorites, reassured his audience scintillate like balls of fire with It is understood that no mentors had few chances.

that, though the average country- an apparent diameter larger than during tion of Russia. was made

Dr. Bodkin, who bought a Rem-man takes to his house whenever a that of the moon, leave behind a the interview, but Germany ex- pects that the conference,. at least brandt study, for 330gn, said he shower of flashing "thunderbolts" long. luminous trail. and finally was acting for the Birmingham is seen traversing the sky, thou-barst into fragments with a series in the first instance, will be University Collection.

sands of people have been killed of thunderous, explosions. These And Mr. Randall Davies was by falling houses,, but never one detonations fellow each other so Tests in the Farnborough fire-Power meeting--Reuter.

frequently that the sound has been wind tunnel have vindicated a

buying for the Melbourne Gallery. by a falling meteorite. Flying Flea, made, as its

The number of new falls record-compared with a weird lowing of Neither, therefore, could be called owner's statement declares, in

Science And Safety

EXPLANATIONS OF TO-DAY'S CARTOON

John O'Groat's

sale.

Ja private collector at the lasted for the whole world annually oxen, or the roaring of a fire up

is seldom more than 10; and in all the chimney.

As the stones crash to earth only about 1,000 actual specimens have been obtained-of these, only their planetary speed is lost, and Mr.15 in the British Isles.

FORGETFUL EX-AMBASSADOR

It is not surprising that James Gerard has had to withdraw from his bet of $4,000 to £2,000) that Mr. Roosevelt will be elected.

Earliest Known

The earliest-known meteoric is that:

as a result they bury themselves at only slight depths in the ground At Hesale, Sweden, stones which fell on thin ice rebounded

incandescent in the sky, the stones are only lukewarm to the touch directly off the surface. Although

the moment they land

The largest shower yet recorded

a shower of 100 00 1868, when

is

strictest accordance with its The designer's specification. result of the tests would havej been even more impressive if the machine had broken under: the strain to which it was sub- jected. It would then have been clear that scientific experi-

The remarkable thing is his for-stone, still preserved, ment had averted loss of life. JOHN O'GROAT'S House is the

der at Einsisheim, in Alsace, But the favourable verdict has legendary site of the octa- getting that such bets are illegal which fell with a crash like thun more than a negative signifi-gonal house built by John Groot.in New York State.

For Mr. Gerard, who was Ameri-about noon on November 16; 1492 cance. It has shown that the a Dutch emigrant in the time of design of the Flying Flea is King James IV. Groot brought his can Ambassador to Germany from and buried itself five feet in the sound, and that the fatalities family here from Holland, and in 1913 to 1917, is not only a lawyer ground. Its weight was over two was that near Pultusk. Poland, in

of the but chairman of finance for the hundredweight. In 1795, a half-

hundredweight stone fell within stones fell at one time. which have occurred must time there were 8 heads

10 yards of a Yorkshire workman.

Odd Tales therefore be due to failures to family who would dispute the Democratic party. '

It has cost him $680 to canceli The British Natural History work to it. This important procedence at the family table at fact has been demonstrated mealtimes. John settled this dis- the bet.. This may be one of the Museum has a 3-ton mass found Immediately the fall of a

recorded Secretary octagonal biggest losses in the campaiga, for rear Melbourne, Australia, The teorite by experiments conducted with-pute by building an out any risk to life and limb. house, with 3 doors and an octa-professional election bookmakers American Museum of Natural His-Nininger rushes off to collect the The production of the artificial gonal table. Each head would en-complain that very few bets are tory has a 362-ton stone brought fragments. But mostly he finds gale in which the tests were ter his own door and be satisfied being placed on Mr. Landon. made is î less wonderful to sit at his own end of the table. though more spectacular The site, which is now marked by achievement than the elimina-a dag and mound, is populariy as- the most northern tion of the dangers implicit in sociated with

The legend isi the old "practical" method of point of Scotland

John That is the perpetuated

O'Great's trial and error.

laboratory Hotel which has an octagonal din- advantage of the method. Until quite recentlyling room and a table of the same the human element was neces-jshape. sarily invoked when new inven- tions were in the experimental stage, because the conditions which would have to be met were unknown and emergencies could only be dealt with by action taken on the spur of the

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strange tales and odd anecdotes. Exactly where meteors Plumbers, drivers, old ladies bring from, and why, is still a matter of out their prize yarns and try to conjecture. For centuries only palm them off, though identifica- the most superstitious and gullible tion of a meteorite from its burat has believed in their true origin, now crust is simple.

Most popular theories of origin Įknown to be outer space. In 1807,

Thomas Jefferson, President of the among meteorite experts are: that United States, called Doctor Ben- they are spent comets; that the jamin Silliman a liar for saying whole universe is filled with them a meteor fall from and human beings see only small he had seen the sky: "Gentlemen, I would pieces of them; that they are miniature planets, debris left over when the main planets and as- teroids were formed ages ago.

In reassuring his audience as to safety from meteorites, H. H. Nin-

The Reason "You say you pay only a very low rent for this beautiful apartment? "Yes, but I'm going to move." "Good gracious! What has come

"An opera singer."

Lasso in the grounds of the circus.

"What a long rope," she said at{ last. What do you use it for?".

"Waal, lady," he replied, “when

The Indicator Boss: "That bell at the end of your I'm out west on the ranch, I use it inger forgot to inform them that though no lives have yet been lost, for catching cowe." typewriter, Miss Jones-"

"Catching cows!" she echoed "How many buildings have been shatter- Miss Jones: "Yes, sir?"*

interesting. Tell me, whatled by the falling stones; that in re-very

Įbait do you use?”

Bohemia a mass of iron fell through a roof and covered three-

ned by Latham Avery, dairy over you ?” farmer of Mystic, Gonn each day Mr. Avery strains the moment.

milk through small thin cotton The laboratory test is notland gauze pads, leaving them:

fat. merely safer: it is much more coated with rich cream and

If the result is which the dog relishes very much. informative. unfavourable we know precise The fact that the food is attached ly at what point the strain to pieces of gauze doesn't bother became too great. Modern him a bit. He eats over two square scientific research is often a feet of it a day, and more than matter of exact measurement 800 square feet each year. Thanks to the data thus pro-

vided it becomes possible to modify a design in detail so

that the strain which has been MODERN “DICK WHITTINGTON” proved disastrous shall never

be incurred. In this way the Alderman F. R. A. Wall, who ar- National Physical Laboratory rived in Chester many years ago has been able to improve the with only T1⁄2d in his pocket, and design of aeroplane wings, and started as a batcher's boy, has by a parallel study of the been made a freeman of the city. action of water on a rotating propeller it has influenced!. modern naval architecture.} We have. in fact, a means not merely of investigating but of were among those who arrived by anticipating the causes of the s.. President Taft from Shang- what, in our former ignorance hai last evening. Mr. Gallantyne we used to call accident. The is the Assistant Manager of the laboratory shows that there is Chase Bank

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in its history. thought. Thanks to the work tant corner done at Teddington and Farn-Within certain limits its use is borough the old artificial bar.now taken for granted, and an rier between theoretical and expansion is in progress to- applied science is rapidly break-wards a saturation point which ing down. In its place we are cannot yet be definitely indi-- Nevertheless, a saturation- between science and industry.

Britain is still which has already ceased to be point exists. merely defensive: for research very far from the Postmaster- undertaken to determine the General's ideal of a telephone in causes of unexpected difficul- every home, though had he ties, points. through its very spoken of "every middle-class success, to the means whereby home" he would have pointed to a realisable goal At pre- they may be overcome.

sent the use of the telephone! does not extend below a certain

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