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Stars look redder than most astrophysical criteria indicate that they actually are. This apparent astral rubrication might be due to 1) the speeding of stars away from Earth (the Doppler effect of lengthening waves) or 2) the scattering of starlight by star dust and star gases which permeate space...
...spiritualist seance where a sleazy medium calls upon her control, "Little Lulu," to bring tidings from the beyond for her customers. Suddenly there is a babble of tongues in the medium's mouth. The spirit of Jonathan Swift, no less, is deranging communication between Ireland and the astral shores. All the customers save a young Cambridge man want the savage Dean's spirit exorcised so that they can get on to more personal business, but Jonathan Swift has the upper hand, begins speaking with despairing eloquence about Vanessa, who proposed marriage to him; Stella, whom he loved; Ireland...
...received over thirty letters in answer to their announcement requesting all who saw the brilliant meteor in the southwestern sky last Wednesday night to write in details concerning size, shape, color, tail, duration of light, and accompanying noise. The notice even evoked a letter from Los Angeles describing an astral visitor, but since meteors are never visible until within 100 miles of the earth when there is sufficient atmosphere to afford combustion and the curvature of the earth is approximately seven inches for every mile, the meteor could not have been the one that P. M. Millman 2G, graduate student...
...where in 1890 he was made assistant professor of astronomy at Harvard. In 1891 he located the Harvard observatory at Arequipa, Peru, spent the following two years measuring the big Peruvian mountains. He built the Flagstaff station and the one at which he now works in Jamaica. Only one astral unit is definitely his discovery (Phoebe, the ninth satellite of Saturn), but he has a claim on the as yet unrecognized tenth satellite Themis...
...other minerals. When those pieces strike the Earth's atmosphere friction makes them terrifically hot. They burn with an intense blue flame. Some burn up entirely, some plunge into Earth's earth or seas, adding their mite to Earth's size and power among the astral bodies...