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Show :o. A SUN SPOTS. Much has been said or lato regard- .ng sun spots, 'all having been stirred up by tho recent girt by Carnegie of 10,)im,000 to tho Institute bearing his naino. It has long been known that there aro spots on tho suns, and theso nro supposed to have exercised : t some magnetic or. other, Influence up on the earth. On the theory has' been built tunny another fine Idea, until Tho scientific world Itself Is threaded' ' with opinions and theories of ' the probable eUect or theso sun spots on j mankind. Ono theory connects up financial panics with the appearance of - sun spots or various kinds. Another tho-ory tho-ory says that our weather conditions are largely determined by the extent of theso Bolar blemishes. Statistics nre brought forth showing how years j of depression havo traveled In cycles cmiespondlng to solar disturbances, and theso In turn related to weather conditions as well. j Hut in the fund or $10,000,000 recently recent-ly given by Carnegie will bo round a groat Unnncal source, part of which can bo used for further solar, plane-I plane-I tary and astral research to detormlue many of the perplexing problems 1 hinging on tho relations existing bo-twceu bo-twceu heavenly bodies and conditions ' on tho earth. |