The Connecticut labor news., 1921-05-06
METEOR SHOWER
 TO FILL SKIES ON
 OR ABOUT JUNE 27
Will Follow in Wake of Comet Nearing Earth Then and
 Be Brilliant.

If by the same process by which the daylight saving scheme was arrived at it was possible by public proclamation for some city official to declare that the Fourth of July would come on June 2, the men charged with the proper Celc- bration of Independence Dav might be saved the expense cntailed by pyrO- technical displays The reason is that on June 27 in the wake of the Pons- Winnecke comet, which IS now approach ing the earth, there are to be meteorlc showers which may SurpaSS III brlll1anCy and spectacular features the best efforts of the fireworks manufacturers.
 The unfortunate feature of the comets approach Is that the comet it. self will probably not be visible to the naked eye, and only those pQssessing telescopes will be able to see it. There will be sufficient opportunity, however, for all who care to see the comet, to visit the possessors of telescopes, for while 1t will be most brilliant on June 12 it will be still be in a position for observation for several months.
 Meteoric Showers.
 These meteoric showers are believed by some to be particles of matter which have broken loose from comets, and which move about the sun in their own orbits. If seen by night these showers are spectacles of great wonder and beauty Each meteorite as 1t dashes through the sky has behind 1t a train of light, like the path made in the midnight sky by the beam of a powerful search light The showers may be accompanied by sounds similar to those heard on the western front during the hardest days of the World War Rumbling noises like the voices of heavy pieces of artillery are heard, and there are sharp crashes like the quick explosion of a schrapnel she'll
 Sometimes Dangerous.
 The speed at which the particles com posing this meteoric shower travel de- bends upon the relative directions of the motions of both the earth and the meteorite Before it reaches the earth, however, the speed of the flying missile has been considerably checked, so that it falls more or less febly and is e1n- bedded in the earth only a short distance. Despite this fact, though, t here have been some records of damages done dur ing meteoric showers, the most recent being that in Madrid in 1896 when me teorite flew into fragments above the C1Iy d1lQ lIe COllCuSSIOll O1 WHICH LII Oh1 countless window panes and shook the walls of houses.
 Almost all of the remains of meteOric showers found on tle earth are Of stony nature and arc covered with layer of crust formed during its passage to the earth by the outside of the body. This crust is seen only when the meteorite does not burst before falling. On the outside of the stones one usually finds numerous pits caused by the cohesion.
 Cant Be Too Sure.
 Like April weather one cannot put too much trust in these meteoric showers. Now and then some prognostiCating occupant of university astronomy chair is more or less perturbed by the failure of the bodies to fall as he had predicted. There was such an incident in 1899.
 The shower which has been predicted by Professor Leuschner of the University of California for June 27, may be some what spectacular, it is said, but, when speaking of it to friends, it is advised that one be careful to emphasize may" rather ti)an twill y