Show A NEW TRUST London Paper Says Astronomers Have Formed Monopoly in Stars An Idea once prevailed that antron omers won disinterested persons who stared at the stars without thought or hope of reward that they sat In draught domed turrets with their eyes glued to the lower end of telescopes and caught colds In the head all for nothing except glory and whatever fun was to IMJ extruded from the performance Itself But the charge Is now made that tho astronomers have slyly combined Into a monopoly and that they arc limiting the discovery of stirs just as the trusts curtail tho production of pork when It gets too cheap It IB 1 alleged that at Kiel In Germany the star monopoly has Its headquarters A haughty monopolist sits In state and controls all the other astronomers In tho world If one of them finds a star he Is compelled to send a telegram to tho Con traHtello at Kiel announcing tho dcd If ho doesnt the discovery Is not counted Ono of the results apparently of this corner In tho star market Is that tho supply of leonlds has boon cut down to a minimum A Iconld Is a shooting star that makes a livid Btro ik across tho sky to tho great delight of both oung and old Formerly leonlds were within tho reach of tho poorest All the equipment needed to enjoy them wits n pair of eyes and a perch on a roof No admission fee was charged But since tho establishment of the mo nopol at Kiel there Is hardly a single leonid left All tho free exhibitions shooting starE that had been advertised for this month havo been called off tho Stars sent back to their cages and the spectators disappointed A coso that demonstrates tho evils of this monopoly In planets Is just reported l A faint nebula was discovered surrounding surround-ing Nova Pcrsel and moving southeast one mlnuto arc In six weeks Until the establishment of tho monopoly this nebula isould have been the property of the whole world free of charge But It was at once shipped to Kiel and all tho rights title copyright and benefits in It appropriated by tho sky trust This nebula which should exist for the common advantage was found by Prof Pcrrlnc but under his contract with the Centralstelle ho was compelled to dls gorgo It Immediately It was found The nebula Jt Is supposed has been put In tho Mime cage with tho leonlds and Is not allowed out at night for us to admire Tho Nova Is traveling through apace at tho rato of 1000 miles a second and ef forts to catch and look It up at Kiel havo not sUcceded so far but no doubt tho sky trust will add It sooner or later to Its goods and chattels London Express |