Month: September 2020

TTAWA, Nov. 29. – E. Stone Wiggins, the professor of meteorological, astronomical and weather lore, has a solution of meteoric problems. He says they are the result of Mars’ inhabitants stoning us. If that be true the Martians are an ill-bred race, and it is not worth our while to know them. He said the other day:
“Our earth – and probably all planets – is surrounded by a ring of floating stones. This ring is much broken, there being parts of the ring where there are no stones. Some are very large, but the greater number small. The flat part of direction of this ring does not lie exactly in the ecliptic, or they would be instantly crossing the sun’s disk. The ring sways sometimes and they are seen on the sun’s orb, and are what astronomers call ‘sun spots.’ The orbits of our two moons, like this ring, are inclined to the ecliptic, and hence, like these stones, only now and then come between us and the sun, when we say the sun is eclipsed.
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