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POPULAR MISCELLANY. 



Bodily Injuries from Falling Meteors 



In view of the estimate made by Mr. G. J. 

 Stoney in the paper elsewhere published in 

 the present number of the Monthly, the 

 following observations by Professor H. Kar- 

 sten, which we take from " Die Natur," can 

 not fail to be interesting. 



The accounts recently published, of the 

 falling of sundry small meteorites in the 

 vicinity of men or even upon their persons, 

 have vividly recalled to my mind another 

 instance, as I conceive, of this phenomenon. 

 In this case a man was wounded in such a 

 way as to lead the bystanders to conclude 

 that he had been wounded by a pistol-ball, 

 though the most thorough search failed to 

 discover any evidence confirmatory of that 

 opinion. 



The reader will perhaps remember how, 

 according to the " Cologne Zeitung," on 

 August 29th of year before last, at half- 

 past nine in the morning, a certain mar- 

 ried couple living in the house No. 32 Neu- 

 markt, in that city, were startled by a small 

 stone falling through the open window into 

 their room. " The wife ran and picked it 

 up a black-gray, prismatic stone of the 

 size of a small bean ; but, as it was red-hot 

 and burned the tips of her fingers, she 

 quickly dropped it again. Some minutes 

 later the husband again took it up and found 

 it to be still so hot that he could hardly 

 hold it in his hand." This stone, which 

 was immediately taken to the editor's office, 

 was by all recognized as a meteorite. 



Shortly before this, at Hanau, a boy was 

 hit on the thumb in the open fields by a 

 small, hot, falling stone ; this, too, was sup- 

 posed to be a meteorite. Unfortunately, it 

 was never found. 



At Schaffhausen, on the 2d of October, 

 1875, while a man was trundling a cart 

 from the village of Beringen to Neuhausen, 

 hence while going nearly due east, his right 

 forearm was perforated from front to back 

 as though by a musket-ball. The man was 

 in the company of his brother and an ac- 

 quaintance. At the moment of receiving 

 the wound he heard a peculiar whirr as of a 

 ball, but his companions say that they heard 

 nothing. They all three searched high and 

 low all around to discover the one who had 

 fired the ball, but in vain, though the high- 



