Show life ou on azars it if tho the world Is to credit the announcements made from time to time almo by italis hawk eyed astronomer rell from the milan observatory some queer things must bo be going on on our nearest outer neighbor the planet mars tho the It italians allans latest discoveries discover loson on liis favorite planet are ft a Riga gigantic title bridge or bank of sand which seems to havo have been thrown across one of 0 the asser of the martial seas an isolated soa sea tar far in tile the planets east cast the tha bank or brid bridge go has a yellow line hue it divides the nearly circular sea a water about the size of 0 the clack black sea into two unequal parts another astronomer located in england has discovered live five immense canals on mars which are divided into double parts by straight central lines works or constructions which pass through them lengthwise those thosa canals had been seen by other astronomers some of 0 them ilya or six years ago and some observers had even suspected tho central line of division in at lout least two ol of them it is now apparently confirmed perhaps when the latest big retracting refracting telescope has been put in place under california skies but in another observatory we may get some new neur facts about our ur nearest neighbor tho the big glass at the ilia lick observatory is as either doing nothing for tho the uso use of popular astronomy tho cause for which james lick gave his money or else for some unknown reason the instruments discoveries co arc kept from the public mars Is at most times not loss than ac miles from the earth but at some times much less at its approaching opposition in the spring of 1803 1891 stars mars will present a peculiarly favorable tavor ablo opportunity for studying his appearance and conditions it 11 tho the clarks fiaush the great 40 inch object glass for the los angeles observatory on which they are now cow at work in time to permit a view 0 of mars through that medium in 1893 1 somo some facts may be di covered it is 14 very probable that mars is 19 peopled with sentient beings presumably much like human beings they may know a good deal more about earth and its people than earths people know about them it is known already that mars has hag annual seasons which correspond to ours Il artford times |