Show speculating ON THE unknowable professor hall of the naval observatory at washington Is said to be unable to Fic account count for the sudden develop snoot anent of popular interest in the subject of the abe planet maze mars and the beings who are presumed to inhabit it ithe the new york world seeks to make an explanation in the fact that a good many people believe there is a possible connection between the comet and the planet named we have all beard of the belief entertained and expressed by some of the earths men that the inhabitants of mars or some of them have for years been endeavoring to arrest our attention and establish sympathetic if not intelligible communication muni cation between the two wo planetary neighbors and we are now advised of the thought entertained by many that so Miling fol linK to attract the attention of the of the earth by means of the elaborate system of signals hu hung out last summer the highly cultivated cul tiva canal digging residents of the red planet may have hare fired off the comet an aa a parting shot however this may be the fact remains that the opposition of mare had been going on for several months without attracting any attention until the worlds astronomer pointed out the mystery surrounding surround lag its three lights and other seeming signals as seen through the lick tele scope fl I 1 here are some things which the clown knows as well as an the sage some effects the cause of which are no less a sealed book to the devotee of science than to the mind uncorrupted by book one of these subjects is what a comet especially the alleged one now in or near the solar system is what it is for and from whence it came that they are interstellar wanderers is understood but whether they are fragments hofsom faraway far away factor in the celestial economy or whether they are aggregations of meteoric matter resplendent in their own glow or are opaque and like our moon borrow their brilliancy from the sun we know not and may never know what the use what the athe purpose of a comet to is a mystery but to say that it has no purpose is to cast a reflection upon infinity |