Show A TINY MOONS inhabitants A viewed in comparison with the belaga ot ivorid in an installment of this department says a writer in the st louis republic during alie first half of the past year I1 gave some curious figures on the prob-able height and weight of the inhab-itants of the larger planets basing the calculations on ratios deduced from comparison with the representative specimens of the human family on this earth taking some of the smaller planets and satellites and using simi-lar ratios we get an equally interest-ing set of figures let us take the inner moon of mars as an illustration of this point it is named and is a tiny satellite only eight miles in diameter let us suppose that everything on our earth which is nearly 1000 times larger than the little chobian planet is to be found on the surface of this miniature moon reduced proportionately we find to begin with that a terrestrial man of 6 feet if transferred to phobea would be of an inch in height A good microscope would be necessary to determine the true shape and form of this speck of humanity and it would be wholly invisible to the unaided eye at a distance of three feet A ship of the dimensions of the great eastern would be but 7 inches in length if re-duced to the chobian standard and a duck pond would be a fathomless ocean to the lliilliliputian inhabitants of this marsian satellite A whale would be as small as a cheese mite and a real sea serpent which would be a terror to the obian mariner would be like a section of a hairworm five eighths of an inch in length the largest rivers can-not be more than a few feet in breadth and not more than two inches in depth A railway train like the chicago flyer could be carried in an earthly card case and a city alie size of new york could be covered with a blanket |