Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1868 — The Path of the Great Daylight Meteor [ARTICLE]

The Path of the Great Daylight Meteor

A correspondent of the London Daily News gives the following particulars of the great daylight meteor: The l'o' o ring are the calculated particulars relating to the roinarkuble daylight meteor of November 3, at seventeen minutes past three in the afternoon, G, M. T. The meteor appeared at an altitude of seventy miles over Luekfleld, and disappeared at an altitude of thirty milesovtr a place three miles n nthjuoit'least of Calais. Path 102 miles in three seconds, inclined to the horizontal plane twenty-two degrees, and projected from five degress south of west. Length of luminous body, three-quarters of a mile. Breadth. Indi a mile, lied flames or iguited substance of the meteor extouded two miles. Length of smoko trail, thirty miles. The meteor emnuted from the radiant in the British Association Meteor Atlas designated B (5) J(3), answering to Epsilon Virginia, a radiant producing inemsteois in Apnl and May. It dois to: therefore belong to the' November System. It suould be understood that the dimensions of the luminous body convey no idea ns to the real size of the nucleus, which may posaibly weigh but a few ounces. A closer examination of all the collected observations shows that the termination of the path was over Hern Bay, in Kent, at ivn altitude of twenty-five in ilea. Length of path, eighty milesinolined to west-sonth-c west, at uu angle of thirty-five degrees 11adiant Q (4); Answering to Arcturus; whose period of activity is the month of JulyItalian Revenue.— It appears from an. official report pubtisheOMta Florence that the rovenae- derived by the Italian Treasury from the. Government lotteries is 00,000,000 of trams, nearly as much ns the proceeds of the tobacco monopoly. Lott ry companies hive been oKtaUisfaefl at Turin, Florence and Romo; and in the province of Naples alone, which contains 808,000 inhabitants, the sums paid,-yearly for lottery tickets amount to from 26,000 to 26,000 of francs. This lottery mania is 16s* prevalent in the north; thus Turin, with a population of 612,000 pays only 6,000,000 a year for lottery tidtats. i? ilt is also looted the which have the —Two old ladies, in Hnllivan county, Teunestfmr latelyi ‘ffbe first, a widow named Cressweli. hung herself with a f hint of thread. -Mr*. OreseweH w»S '.best seventy yearhotage. Tliw Second waa ettre. Banes, who lived near Bknmtvi fie. She hnqg herself with a rope.' She was also seventy year* of age.