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THE HATUHALISTS’ COMPAHIOH. 
METEOES, 
Blossburgh, Pa., July 18.—One 
of the grandest sights ever witnessed 
by the inhabitants of this place oc¬ 
curred at about five minutes of nine 
o'clock last night. The sky was 
suddenly lit up, and a meteor shot 
through the air from a southerly 
direction, and when within about 
fifteen feet of the ground in the rear 
of Engineer Ben Glreen’s house it 
broke with a loud report, and two 
apparently red and white bail of fire 
descended to the earth. Two more 
meteors passed over the borough 
apparently about 100 feet high, go¬ 
ing in a northerly direction. 
Palmyra, H. Y., July iS.—A 
very brilliant meteor was seen at 
this place at 9:15 last night. It ex¬ 
ploded with a loud report pieces of 
different colors flying in all directions 
It was the largest ever seen at this 
place. 
Two large meteors passed over 
Brockport tne same evening about 
9:5 o'clock 
There is considerable discussion 
as to the origination of meteors. 
A number of prominent astronomers 
maintain that they are the fragments 
of some planet which have exploded, 
while a corresponding number ot 
astronomers hold that they have 
originated from some terrific volca- 
noic erruptions whith has hurled 
these fragment far beyond the earth's 
attraction. We are not prepared to 
say which of the above is correct. 
The earth passes through vast masses 
of these meteors during the month 
of August, and any of our young 
friends may see numbers of them 
any clear evening traversing the 
heavens in all directions, propelled 
by an irrepressible force. The bright ;; 
light displayed by the . meteors in , 
the evening is th^ j:’esult of friction, 1 
caused by the marvelous speed with ; 
which it passes through the air. ■ 
Meteors are generally composed of " 
iron. 
. THE SIAMESE SHAKES. 
A VEBY SCALY PA.1B OF TWIXS 
SEEN m THE WILDS OF WJilST 
VIRGINIA. 
Braxton county, West ■Virginia, ^ 
can down the state on snake wonders i 
A gentleman living not far from the 
county seat lately succeeded in cap¬ 
turing a snake or a pair ot snakes 
corresponding to the Siamese twins. 
The reptile has two heads and two 
tails, and the balance of the body, 
looks like that uf a single snake, 
with the exception of a slight de¬ 
pression both above and below, ex¬ 
tending the entire length. The 
bodies join about six inches from 
the head, the tails are almost a foot 
long after leaving the body, while 
the length of the proportion joined 
is two feet and nine inches. The 
tv/ins were first seen two weeks ago 
by a little son of the gentleman who 
possesses the wonder, wdio told 
his father that he had seen and 
showed him the track crossing: the 
road. The gentleman made a 
thorough search at the time, but fail¬ 
ed to capture the prize. He, how¬ 
ever, ran across it a few days since' 
and succeeded in noosing and taking 
it captive. Both the snakes are jet 
black, with ayellove ring just behind 
the head. Thej^ both eat and in 
traveling seem to be wholly of the 
same opinion as to direction, etc., 
stopping at precisely the same time, 
and appearing to have one mind 
about everything,— Tblegiiam. 
