The idea that the vast spaces between the sun and the various
planets are void and untenanted now belongs only to the history
of science. To-day it is known that these spaces are filled
with vast swarms of minute, dust-like bodies, each and every
one revolving about the sun in vast ellipses, each one being,
in fact, a microscopic planet. These bodies make their presence
known not only as meteors or shooting-stars, but also by their
power to reflect sunlight, and thus produce the peculiar evening
glow of the zodiacal light.--CHARLES LANE POOR, “The
Solar System.”
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=Sparrow and Sermon=--See SERMON, SAVING A.
=Speaking Extemporaneously=--See TACT.