Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-09-18

ETER'S WEATHER.
I earn Wave to Come Be-
ss.su Sept. 26 and %
4 CAUSE HEAVY RAINFALL,
L4Ene gu Strike Us by the 2oih-
r.,r,l,cs Strike the EarIh--hilIions
1. Seen But Other Millions
Are Not Visible.

-,re large portion OF the country,
iowino Il des tructive irOsts will
4 many of the northern states.
q III wave viii cross the western
: I'm. about the 9th, the great CEN
sil7ys about tho 10Th, and the
y states about october LIST.
& I METEOR sTRIK Es THE EARTH
suing the line Of argument
Includes meteors, mrolites and
a being the same. differing only
4 and sis, further history Of the
A 4. viii be given as evidence that
.have struck the earth.
DICK works we ind this state
3 M Blrhnm states that when
,nding 10 jamaica one evening,
4hsld ball OF fire, apparently
4 the bigness Of a bomb, swiftly
i down with a great blaze, APP.
4 hing the place whore it fell, he
A lie ground strangely broken
.nd plowld, and several holes
|t,red the bignoss Of a mGn's
4 all the herhago burned up near
4cles and q strong smell of sulphur
Il vicinity This Is fair descrip-
III the general appearance and ef-
h ol nrolitgs striking the earth.
4 Dlek Also gives the following:
H. year 1876, u great globe Of Gre
4 6sn in Bonona, in Italy, about
4 minutes after sunset. Ii passed
/ the most rapid course, aud at the
f. N not less than 1850 miles amilute,
stlast stood over the Adriatio sea,
nssgd all Italy In rs course, and by
/ citation 70 was found that il could
have blen less than thirty-eight
( above the surface Of The earth.
hover it approached the inhahi-
below could distinctly hear it,
Iahissiug noise resembling that Of
IWork. twas heard TO 90 OF with
Dent explosion. It's magnitude at
ns appeared twica as large as the
one way, and as broad the other
I,estimaled 10 DO a milo long and
mile broad
! bin from DR.. Dick, and no one
|ieny that il is a good authority:
Of the most striking and extra
barry meteors OF this kind made It's
|hrance on the 18th OF August, l7S3,
/ goclock in the evening, 10 was
II all parts Of Great Britain, from
bheiland isles to the English chan
|ger all France, and Che greater
|oi Italy, and is supposed TO have
ribed a path OF at least 1900 milos
the surface OF the earth. IL APP
10 have burst and reunited sew
hines, and the first bursting mo-
was somewhere over Lincoln
in England. Its appear
produced universal Won
and alarm. When II was
.yed at Brussels, the moon APP
I'D quito rcd, and the illumination
% great US to totally obliterate the
stars. A report was heard some
after IL disappeared, which was
lst az Lincolnshire, and afterwards
Z eastern part OF Kent. Ahi5sing
i was also said TO accompany It's
fess. Az Greenwich two bright
parallel 10 each other led the way,
we're followed by an expulsion OF
others. The balls wero tinted
with q pure bright light, then fol-
q yellow mixed with azure, red
green, which with a coalition oil
ar tints and a reelection from the
: balls, gave tho most beautiful
ldity and variation Of color with
b the human eye could be charmed,
height Of this llreball was reckoned
seventy to ninety miles, Its diam
nearly two miles, and its velocity
miles o minute
his Celestial Scenery, DR.. Dick
November II, l492, a stone OF
ioands fell at Ensisheim in Alsace,
Is now In the library Of Colimar.
famous Gasseudi relates that a
weighing "a pounds and OF
color fell at Mount Watson, No
'er 90, 1887. It's specific gravity
Ihroe and a half times that OF wa
A small stone fell at Milan, and
Tiled a Franciscan, juno Z, lIOb. A
.oi u pounds fell at Larissa in
donia snelled of sulphur, and
Ike the scum Of iron. lnl1bl, two
Is o. iron Of II and 10 pounds fell
9 district Of Agram, the capital oil
"a, and the largest Of these Is now
'ienna. July n, 1890, a great
or Of stones fell at Barbotan, near
effort, in the vicinity Of bordeaux.
ass, fifteen inches in diameter
Rated a hut and and killed Il herds,
and bullock. The stones weighed
20 pounds. July 1910, large ball
isll from the clouds at Shaha-
burned five villages, destroyed the
: and killed several men and
IN.
lens Cyolopedia gives an account
remuins Of a metallic prolite Ia
,useum at ST. Petersburgh, weigh
200 pounds.
said that in the groat fall OF
'rs In 1853, some OF them APP
2 to DO as large as the moon, with
, from i've to forty degrees in
d.
81 trails or tails Of meteors are
q b friction in tho atmosphere.
iepth Of our atmosphere Is not
2 bat no one now claims il TO DO
han 200 miles. Probabilities are
/ Is nearer 2OOO miles in depth,
nat it SO gradually becomes at
yea, that It insensihly passes
'he ether OF space, which rotates
nc earth far out beyond the orbit
moon.
'eors that fail 70 the earth verti-
90 not become lighted, because
90 not pass through enough OF
.alosphere in falling p4rpendicu-
70 give thtm this necessary frlc-
II ls only those prolit3s that
horizontally ana therefore pass
w thopsandf o. miles OF our lower
unlicensed atinuspbere. that become
.l.seelt. Therefore while mil
Y these are seen. other millions
ny because they give oil no light
ople who like frsqnaut changes In