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Show M'KIUIAIIMI OX till'. UV. hMJIVAHLU. Professor Hall, of the naval olserva lory at Washington, Is eald to be unable un-able to nccouut for the au Jdon develo) men! of poular Interest In the subject of the plamt Mara and the beluga who aro primmed to Inhabit It. Thu New Vork World seeks to make an explanation explana-tion In the fact that a goad many peo plu believe there Is a possible connection connec-tion In-lHeen the conist nud the planet named. We have all llnard of the belief entertained and ixpresid by some of the earth' solentlllc men that thu Inlml Hants of Mars, or some of Hum, have for year been endeavoring to urrret our attention and establish sytupathitlo If not Intelligible communication com-munication between the two planetary neighbor; and we are now advlM.il of thu thought entertained by many that, "falllutrto attract the attention ut the Inhabitants of tie earth by mtaua uf the olaboratx aystcui of signals hung outlaileuinmer, (ha highly c titivated cannl-itlggliig rciideuts of the nil pi met may have fired off the comet a aiartlngr-hot. However this may Li, the fact remains that theoppofltlin of Msrs hai n going on for several mouths without nltrsotlug any at ten-Hon ten-Hon until the H'vrld't astronomer polnti-J out the mastery surrounding lla three light und other stinilng lg. ul, ai seu through the lilck tele, scuje." I here are some thing which the clown knowa as well as the eage,sorao elTrct the cauio of which are no lea a aisled book to tho devotee of science than tu thu "mind unoorruptol by liuok," one of these subjects Is what u comet (especially the alleged ouo now I u or mar tho solar system) Is, what It la for and from whence It came. That they aru Interstellar wanderer la understood; but whether thi y aru fragmi nts of aoun far-away factor fac-tor In the celestial economy or whether they ate aggregation of meteoric mat. ter riuplenuont lu their own glow ur are opaque, and like our moon borrow their brilliancy from the sun, wu know not and may never Know. What tho use, what the purpose of a comet la a mysterj; but to aay that It has no purpose pur-pose Is to Last a rellectlou Uioti Infinity. |
