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AL ESTI'AB"II'ISH.ED 1865. NEWBERRY, S. C., FRlI DAY, DECEMBER 29 1899. TWICE A WEEK,1I.50 A YEAR - . 1 h N , 1 I I 9 8I Nplteh-IS tlteAes of 'Fatng tar' A rt It' (New York Sun) T atuosphere forms an arLmor' Whic: alilost impenetrable to I be lettors that are constantly pelting the earth. Most of the nleteors are small. They come rushing through space, strike the atmosphere and the frtction against the moleeules of air heats them t'. a white heat, and sets them abla.'_. Sometimes part of one mav reach the earth: but as a tuhe they are consume. a:nd the dust alone. cosmic dust, drops upc:i the surface. 0"e of the earliest kuow n met.. ors fell in ' 04 B. C.. in Phrygia where for a long time it was wcrshipp.1. It was esrried to Rome and was suppcse3 to be a nessenger from the cods. Livy tecribes a shower ;f rete:rie stones The people were gre tly alarme i and the senators were ttmoralize3 and declared a nine i.y.. festival to p,r,'pt.iate the g,ids. TLt re is at M ech a meteorite wbieb fe2 in '%' A. D'. and is still worshir 1 ly the faitful. In Chinese itera:ure baro is seiin of m t f"rs whieh fEll i: t'44 I, C. The oldest k:lown icas:rira 1'L:b wa seen to fall is z:w cn exLItin a Ensis1eim. Asace. Ger:marn. In '' it c.sme cra+Ling dwn 1Lr:ugh the air with a roar t hat lr_ trat.d tLe peasantry with frig ht.. It burii its-lf dp?y in the earth. It weighed 3 pun'ds and h an.s t:L in tbe parish: cnt:rch. The Chupader_is : +erte. "bieb weighed '2e t.n. f.;i in ChiLusabua, Mei4c. The l:rgest rnri -c: ite known i- the Pe.ary st:ne whi"h weighs ap; roimately one L ndr,i t:ns. TLbe stone of Canon Diablo weighs at least t.-n tons and exploded bhiL n the air. the piecer ling fo rni all over the surrounding c..untry. In Italy several instances are known of the loss of life from meteorites. A peasant was sitting in his cabin and was killed b: an iron mass that crashed through the rof; the act was regarded as a vi-itation of divine augt r. The city of Milan is perhaps the only one that has been struck by the meteorite. A meteorite of .everal pounds' weight fel; in the heart of that city in the y'ar 1*I0 . on the authority of Paoln Maria Tezzrvo. and struck a Francis can monk. More remarkable are the falls at sea- That a ship would be struck wo,-l seem an extraordinary chance. yet a Swedirb ship was so struck, the stone killing two of the crew. On December 1, 1 90, the ship Walkom minitg was sailin~g from New York to Bremnen when her offie.ers noticed a brilliant meteor that appeared to be bearing down on the vessel fromr southest to northwest. It passed with a loud roar and hisaing sound and plunged into, the sea ahead of the ship- That it was a met-or of large si was evidJent, for a few minutes later the ship was .'-truck by a tidal wave. Even more remarkable was the expersiee.f the JBritish ship Cawd or, whieb reachedi San Francisco Nov. 2ii, 18tf7. DJuring a severe storm a. large and brilliant mneteoJr was observed raabing down n pon thbe ship, and with a roar and filling the air with furnaee of anipbor it passdr be' tween the rnas olf the ship - d fell into the ,*a not fify feet from the raiL One of the greatest enrimeities posssed by man toelay is a apw fragment of a comret in MazitapiJ, Mexi. co. The fragment ia believed to be a part of the tail of Jiela'n comet'c, In 1846 ar-methinig happenaed in spc a wreck occared ; IBiela'n com:uet ruay baro eolli4ed with anrothier comrIet in ay ene the eorma divided arnd mnany hlig observrs~ r'leember aeeing the two pata gr*Aally aprarasg. Some, fatality piior'd oneC part of .the eranel and it irA its fat's inin nitA space, literally went to pieceS anid buesae a qrreek an tbe abo.rs le,s sea of sp4Ee. A*troIwomera pire dieted that .f the 'corr-4 itelf didJ no&pear in Wl%2, it rekn wadd beenene. ,i4fAe ap-t star, asd thn. predsdkon waq,ealized there burst froma the bean'a a elond of .'L ta Diig the dfr pl *# ase droppe ape the iuart iiv eered a4 MazepiI, .Eaicv adc wat; d,elclarud to be a p ar"t of the gelt eomeut. Jthe IaVONragUe tteolrite aVfter- its fatll is int.ot tr ly hot. but at 1-a-1 t o1e, whltichb a hattdled iltuIuneditLotl atf ter fal I hg still hold tie in tuue c old of FpIte. A fow ILIUIL eaut hIlV that t,bey have exporiouced this. A notoorite elloded obove Dhur Imala. )Kaugra, P'ul jaubi, ldia, iL I n, ad i secrtio u tit1 1icehd; up immodiat.elv by% ioime Iative.: Who dropiped it with express;iois of patti. The fragment is now to be meo in the Field Musettum. Of it, Dr. ur ringtou. the curate. Haid: "Thia is perhaps the only imtratnc:e luow"i where the cold of "pace hat- becom ue perce1tiNe to huttn suset, A Hippy dmi (EEchuge. Were v., as-e3 to nam,e the "h'ap pv mau" of this day and tiue, ue would n et na:e the bah-er. neither would we se: forth tbe rich mer CLat, LC' the po:liticiari, aLd vet we wculd not call up the proacLer. but should the d:tc r comc- orward L Dy o L eais. lLe L L i=t 'he Lap t mian The rar- wh o i- 'Lt .e had b.e.' td f~i of c-hari He is ard bast a t thmot indepc-rdeut ma'. H has a tank his farm that 'a s _t. wi.L a de posit like tLe era. Cf i that in creases with the u=;e. The farmr cem and should be Lapp. HTe c"ught to be cnteLtcd iL the pw:isition that gives him the sweetest rest that mortask 1now. Yocung ::LLn, ~f you would be happT. g+t a fa: and a wife and make a home. L. W. Stone, ; r 1 St. ' a rrreu - .; a ciL co ry L 'ur r the story7 rC.Lr: in r*'.rst rmLo . "Thiea ! returned frcn the army my cod.tion wu. broken do'wn. I su fered~ etireme er. cunerz., andid gestia Py-i::in did not help zn ine, and today I am in better bealh ther I have been form thirty yern." 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