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METEORITES! 
         WANTED TO PURCHASE THEM

THE subscriber is studying and eagerly collecting these bodies. He will 
pay a liberal price for any kind which he has not. Correspondence is 
requested with parties having any of these specimens.

Nature and Character of Meteors

Meteors, familiarly called shooting-stars, are to be seen in the sky with a 
little watching on almost any clear night. This being in the small area 
which is reached by the eye of the spectator at any one place, it follows that. 
in the entire heavens over an entire country or quite around the globe, there 
are many thousands of them which sine out, fly in a short track, and disappear
abruptly in every night. They come, of course, in quite the same
way by day, but the light makes them invisible. Astronomers consider them 
to be solid objects of small size which, flying through space near our earth, 
are brought by its attraction downward toward it. Entering our atmosphere, 
the friction which they meet heats and melts them, giving out an incandescent 
light while they are wearing away and burning out. Only their ashes 
slowly fall to our earth as a fine, impalpable, cosmic dust. These bodies 
which thus suddenly glow, travel a short, quick track, vanish in the sky
usually high toward the zenith- are the more common class of Meteors. 
     Another class, also called Meteors, are a much greater and more astonishing 
phenomenon. They appear to the eye as great balls of fire, which, appearing 
in the lower heavens, travel across the country for long distances, 
sometimes passing over several States before they fall or disappear. They 
are so large and so brilliant that they illume their track with a light as of 
mid-day. They roar as they pass like a train of cars, or like a heavy wagon
rapidly crossing a bridge; and they frequently give forth heavy explosions as 
of a cannon. These meteors, when they finish their course, fall to the 
ground; and then show themselves to be solid masses, which often penetrate 
the earth for many feet in depth. These masses, large or small, are called

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                     METEORITES! 
        WANTED TO PURCHASE THEM

THE subscriber is studying and eagerly collecting these bodies. He will pay a liberal price for any kind which he has not. Correspondence is requested with parties having any of these specimens.

               Nature and Character of Meteors

     Meteors, familiarly called shooting-stars, are to be seen in the sky with a

little watching on almost any clear night. This being in the small area which is reached by the eye of the spectator at any one place, it follows that. in the entire heavens over an entire country or quite around the globe, there are many thousands of them which sine out, fly in a short track, and disappear abruptly in every night. They come, of course, in quite the same way by day, but the light makes them invisible. Astronomers consider them to be solid objects of small size which, flying through space near our earth, are brought by its attraction downward toward it. Entering our atmosphere, the friction which they meet heats and melts them, giving out an incandescent light while they are wearing away and burning out. Only their ashes slowly fall to our earth as a fine, impalpable, cosmic dust. These bodies which thus suddenly glow, travel a short, quick track, vanish in the sky usually high toward the zenith- are the more common class of Meteors.

    Another class, also called Meteors, are a much greater and more astonishing

phenomenon. They appear to the eye as great balls of fire, which, appearing in the lower heavens, travel across the country for long distances, sometimes passing over several States before they fall or disappear. They are so large and so brilliant that they illume their track with a light as of mid-day. They roar as they pass like a train of cars, or like a heavy wagon rapidly crossing a bridge; and they frequently give forth heavy explosions as of a cannon. These meteors, when they finish their course, fall to the ground; and then show themselves to be solid masses, which often penetrate the earth for many feet in depth. These masses, large or small, are called