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Physical Geo. and Meteor...
...students and faculty of St. John College in Minnesota are engaged in a hunt after a meteor which was seen to fall at no great distance from the college...
Doubtless many students noticed the brilliant ray of red light that illumined the sky on Monday evening, and not a few probably took it for a meteor. It was occasioned by a fire in Watertown, but so far there has been no explanation of this peculiar reflection...
...force of circumstances, and pliantly wound several times around said shaft. But there seemed to be no idea of permanence about that position, for the next instant, by some incalculable force, - the natural law of elasticity, I suppose, - I was unwound from that post like a flash, and shot, meteor-like, off into space. There I came in contact with several spokes, and a piece of the backbone, and in company we continued our perilous precipitation, with great accuracy of aim, to a remote corner of the hall. I wearily opened my eyes, expecting to see the Derby and dimples...
Ambition may emit a meteor blaze...