It is a mere silly fancy to imagine that the stars, many of which are several times larger than our sun, and hundreds of light-years away (Betelgeuse 163; Spica Virginis 325; Procyon and Canopus 465) would fall upon our earth, All these bodies form systeris like our sun and attendant planets, and are held in place by the great law of gravitation. What we call falling stars are but small bodies or cosmic dust, found near the orbit of the earth, as it revolves annually round the sun. These small bodies may come so near our earth that they are drawn to its surface by the force of gravity, or they may sweep through the higher regions of the atmosphere, and lighting up through friction become lo to us, They thus give us the illusion of falling stars, and seem to fal! from the heavens, Tus Mid-Autumn Festival (the total 25th) has passed without incident and the "savants" who terrified the gullible with predict tions of wholesale disaster must feel particularly foolish. Like "Qld Moore" they'll bob up again next year though; and, so short is. human memory, -they'll again make profit at the expense of the thousands who will believe them. Meanwhile midnight firers of crackers are asking for-a charge of buckshot.—"South China Morning Post."
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