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Show CIIICACO AMI HP. LOUIS limit-HUM'. limit-HUM'. The w orkmeu and professors aro engaged en-gaged on n monster toleicupo for Chicago. Chi-cago. That city is not happy so long as any other place has auylhlrig bigger than it has, and this n fcrs to population, popula-tion, exhibitions, fires, Democratic liKjorltles and telctcojics as well ai to idhtr unmeutloued Item ; aud thus the Initrumentat Lltk observatory Is to bo made second o n the world's Hit ImteaJ uf tint as at prosent. 'Iho contract for ths Chicago teltsojpa was let ytsterday to Warner t Hwaxey, of Cleveland, Ohio, who built the ouu at Mount Hamilton; Ills to he finished Inn year and will be tweuty-llvo per cent larger than tho htttir. It will bo forty Inches In diameter, seventy-five feet long and weigh six tons. That ought to make the moon quite neighborly neigh-borly and will doubtless bo tho means of settling the case of the next comet that oomes wlthlu hailing dlstanoo after the Instrument Is Iu working order, Hpcaklngof telescope suggests tho working sf the Idol-smasher again. This time his guns aru trstued on the image of (Jallleo. Here Is tor wasj tue man wuu whs eu flrmlntboamvlotlon that his discovery discov-ery of mundane rotation was right aud must ho acci pled sooner or later, that his enforcod recuntatlon heforo the Inquisition In-quisition was given under n suoroce prutttt, whllo the petty annoyances to which hu was subjected were Innumerable. In-numerable. Vol "they are alter him," as tho following extract from the Ht. LoulstVi'uofl.Jemocraf shows: "Mo-tpooploaupMnethttt flnllloo ttas theftM mantoalvauco thu theory that Iho wntld Is a alobo and rut olves around tho bum, but this Is an error," said l'ro-feiMir l'ro-feiMir II. I, heanlan, onoot it party dls-ouuilng dls-ouuilng Chicago's big Icletoope In Iho eorrldursof ihu Southern. "More than LOO years beforo tlie birth of Christ, Tlislea of Mllo-m imightthal tho world ll n Biota wltti live rones, lie alsoexplslncd ths lunar eellp-es anil advanced theories tegardlng ttie inuoiiwhlchhate been eon tinned by aclonllllo Invesilgsttous during ihu luuttentury. Moro than .7)0 years hefnru tlio beginning or the CbrlslUu era 1'yttuiroraB taught those admitted to the colerlo sludliw thst the woild was globular globu-lar Iu form. Nearly Ml years beforo the htrlh uf the llibo In llstbleliem Atl-tarubus Atl-tarubus of hsiuos esuio nearloalng his lilo Tor maintaining that the tarth turna upon tUaslsand retotvos about the still, 'lliey illhl'l havo any tolescojie in Ihoso days, btit they bait, a wonderful Bight uf good horso Biuso." Thu ouu thing that Is more mystifying mystify-ing to the average reader than any other In this connection, Is that events of thousands of years ago aro su well authenticated and yet have Iwon kept from us with such oousplcuous sutcejs. Ualiluo's faiuu began to spread when the sixteenth six-teenth century closed nnd ho was nultu a voting man: It IncrcaicJ wllh the coming years and became universal univer-sal as soon as tho agents of coiuuiuui-cutliiu coiuuiuui-cutliiu wero sufficiently eOectlvs to carry It acrois thu waters. There Is scarcely a sohoolluy of ordinary advancement ad-vancement In this century but knows or knew thu great astronomer and whatliuootitrlbutoj to thu domain of science. For three hundred years Uallleu haa remained securely upon Ills pelestal, and now a man In n tit. Louis hotel comes to the front wllh a bin Igeon aud beats the Image to tho ground. |