Show VENUS NOT MARS IS INHABITED Scientific News of London speculatIng Ing on Venus beIng inhabIted says Though many speculations ns as to tho ho possible of Mars and the supposed engineering works the canals etc have hao been beon mooted wih with more or less Jess ingenuity In our opinion the probabilities In fa faor a or of Venus are ro vasty vastly This his planet says Young Is the lie earths twin sister In dens deits densIty Ity and generl general constitutIon markings have havo been seen from Cram hue to Into upon the planet 1010 more observed In Italy ami other more favored latitudes than our own On account of oC Is ibm general generl to the lie regIon of the sky In which the sun Is found anti Its great bri brill laney In the lie telescope Venus is by byno I no means an eaRy ens object to scrutinize wih wIth results Its lt phases or changes of appearance like the lie moon are easily perceived wih very Or smal optical aId and were among the tho first fruits of lie of oC the lie telescope exactly three centurIes ago ngo From certain ii h upon tIle tho ter O oi of the tho an amid the blunted of one or of the Ito of the tho crescent various cn cis have havo concluded that lint there exIst hIgh hh mountains upon the lie planets ll sum face Sometimes when tho Is In the tho crescent phase brIght spots have hae been seen the polar regions thay inny bo be ice Ico icecaps caps like seen on Mars Ish markings indicating continents und anti SOiS seas visible are aro also at feen seen antI and a rough amp of Venus renus was ns made by long ago ngo His were by thou thousands sands or of by Do De rico and ld hi assistants so mu ho bo to represent real or of the mat We re have stated slated that there here Ii IH or of the lie exIstence of an at I and from rota observatiOns of at atthe I the transit or of tho planet across the tho i suns disc In 1871 It was concluded I that the atmosphere Is about ouo and anda a half to as aa extensive as OU Our own The existence of water l par por has heen shown by bv the At the lie ruri dark porton of lie tho planet b the light has bueti faintly from It has hos boon beon probable lint phenomena of the of oC the Au rom mm tulto Place front to La time upon Venus rOnIS So far as knowli Ito tho planet has no satellite or moon at upon It but to a great extent the want of a moon Is made mado up for to o time the possible inhabitants b by the earth When Venus Venue and the earth are arc near cst ns as we have haye already said tho they are aro aroon on the same side of the sun and the tho planet turning its dark side tov rd us Is the moon when new On the tho other hand the earth has the lie whole of its illumInated side turned tow toward rd the planet llanet Is on Oil the tho op part of Ibe the sly sky to lie tho tun sun and andIs andis Is visible os ns a l object ful till earth In the nIght skY of the ho planet planeL We know from the phe phenomenon of earth slime shIne that the earth reflects a considerable quantity or of light to o the moon part or of which I Is again reflected back to lS us and If we e suppose the tho Intrinsic power or of the earths surface to be equal to that of Venus It t may indeed be anti and probably is considerably less It may give gie much greater light to the planet and ho be a much more brilliant object In Is sk sky than Venus Tenus ever eer appears to tous lS us owing to the foll Coll iving circum circumstances circumstances stances When brightest only a smal small part of the lie planets illumInated sur surface surface face Is toward us hut but even cven so It appears more mora conspicuous than an another any other stal stat or planet In our skY and Is oron often visible In da daylIght On the thic oUter hand the whole of the tite earths atod hemisphere Is turned toward Ve Venus e nus when nhen the they are at their nearest together and the earth Is then on the tho at tho he planets midnight be being ing In opposition to the tho sun Thus as asa a aa I a night the earth to sonic somo extent plays toward Venus Vonus the part partI the moon does docs for us I |