The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1914-02-13
lngersolI Case Settled.

The case of Ezra Ingersoll Of Perry
against the Consumers Power Co.
came 10 an abrupt ending Friday. after
Sscupyrng the time of the circuit cour
for two days, when it was announced
BY Leon +. Miner, attorney for Inger
so1sAat the case had been settled on
q court. Ingersoll sued for $40, 0O'
damages for being injured by falling
Snb cut Df BY The company semployees
Why Do Stars Shoot?
The following. taken from the Jan
uAry st Nicholas is in answer to 9
sattfribeig, question as to why shoot
Ing STAIRS moye: ..,p
EACH 80; called shooting star is merely
n cold little meteor which is moving
arcnpd the sun in its own path, just as
tasimmensely larger comets AID planets
are doing. On the average, these par
tieles are moving about twenty-si
zoiles second when they are at the
distance from the sun that the earth is,
and ~ the earth itself is moving eigh.
AssA and one half miles a second, the
sve bodies are sure to collide with each
other with a high velocity. If the earth
RIMS into. the particle in such way as
to- oSertake it, il will strike our air with
n speed of only about eight miles sec
0naS if they meet head on 50 to speak
saey may come together with speed
s2 torty four miles second. In either
case, the friction of the air on the cold
pa ticle, as this plows through the air,
fastantly heats it up to heat so great
that il Is vaporized and appears to us
Ms y shooting star,
The reason why the little meteoric
PARTICLES are moving so very swiftly in
aAs first place is simply because they
ne falling toward the sun. Every
wSrla and sun attracts everything near
10 by virtue of the wonderful force
kaOwn as "gravitation." You weigh"
aScasthing, or feel heavy, simply be-
aksase the great earth is pulling you to
ward itself, and when you drop stone
sx0Ea your hand. it falls because the
earth is pulling upon it. If you could
carry the stone many millions CT miles
away from the earth and there let it
drop, it would begin to fall toward the
earth very slowly, but as it fell, II
w0uld continually move faster and
faster, until when it finally struck the
aRxth, IL would be moving no less than
zsSeU miles ia each second. Now in
exactly the same way, each of the little
RsteOric particles away of in space be-
10 long ago to feel the pull, of 'gravi.
tstiOn," Of our sun, and to fall toward
ehat body. If the meteorite and the
IN had both been at rest at first, the
.sskszoite would have simply fallen in.
- oar sun; but as our sun is moving
Enough space at the rate of eleven
Ri1es in each second, the meteorite will
sot hit it exactly. but will miss 1t and
Asgin to swing around it in a curved
pnah.. As the sun is 80 much larger
han the earth. it's pull is very much |
greater. If yeu could visit the sun,
Roa would find when there that you
Raighed more than twenty. seven times |
= much as you weigh ON the earth;
nat is, the sun would pull you down
seenty-ssven tunes as hard "a the earth |
lsss. 'Ifjyou weigh 100 pounds here.
lpn would weigh a.7OO pounds there.
"a be crushed by. your own weight.
lhis great pull of the sun on each Of
~ nseteroites makes them fall very
@siftly indeed; it is because the pull is
. strong that when they haye fallen
pward the sun to the place where the
lsrth is, we find them moving some
wsnty-six miles in single second.