Paper: New Oxford Item City: New Oxford, Pennsylvania Date: Friday, March 14, 1890 Page: 4
At the home of Martin Kittringham, a large planter near Monticello, Miss., there was eaten Sunday a dinner, the cooking of which was in ancient and modern history. A large, glowing hot meteor passed over the town shortly after 10 o'clock in the morning, and the comparative slowness of its motion and its downward tendency it had clearly lost most of the force which was propelling it.
Parties abroad were much alarmed, thinking it about to fall upon them, for it was scarcely a hundred yards above the steeples of the churches. It passed over the town, however, and fell in the pasture of Mr. Kittringham. In this pasture Mr. Kittringham has, or had, a large fish pond which he had stocked with trout and perch, and the meteor fell as plump into the pond as it has been fired at by some dead show in another world.
The red hot stone struck the water with a loud hiss and soon converted the entire volume into steam, of course killing and cooking the fish at the same time. Mr. Kittringham and his hands went running to the spot when they saw the meteor fall and found the fish thrown out on the ground, and on examination saw that they were thoroughly cooked, upon which Mr. Kittringham had his men to secure as many of them as they could reach with long poles, for it was impossible to approach the still white hot mass.
Invitations were at once issued and a large number of friends of Mr. Kittringham sat down with him to a banquet prepared as banquet never was before by a recipe coming from the very skies.
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Mark Note: Lesson of this article is do not believe everything a dinner guest tells you....and please...don't make a rule to call the a newspaper reporter..:-)
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