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Show lbs Plan Will Take Huge Prize l'uils, Tub. I. -Tho Academy of Sciences evidently considers commun-latlon commun-latlon betvvaen tho earth and the planelK among tho possibilities, for It bus undertaken to act as judgo for a pilzu ot 2(J,000 to bo glveu for the host means of making a sign to a heavenly body and tho receipt of a reply. It has been the custom of tho academy aca-demy always to lefuse to luindlo prlres for uny feat which It considers n meio wusto of time. In presenting the present prize for competition, 'the academy makes piovlslon that "tho planet' Mars is Included us being sufficiently suf-ficiently known:" "Until a solution Is obtained," says tho acadqmy'n announcement, "tho Interest In tho prize money will form an award for scientists making tho gicatest progicss in kuovvlodgo of tho palno(s -and their i elation to tho earth,". ' ; , |