| Show MOON AT CLOSE ANGE A WONDERFUL INSTRUMENT WILL LIMN ten FlOUnC I l5ninl tt istot 1 I or I SIII Mrm It Him IU toy Quer 1Y I pin on Itet aeesrhesns IItp W IU lUullfl Cr OT only today but h In nil age men IIUI have been nnilous I It f I ly endeavoring to JI t sours I thus mystiry i 3l of ho moon The T + ancient made her IliPlr Koddm and it entered upon no I 1 now undertaking without first asking ask-ing her advice and consulting Iho probabilities of tho Influence In-fluence wllh which even today many superstition persons endow her I Tbo lens haa long been regarded aa the means by which 110 will bo enabled en-abled If at nil to study the moon mysteries The only question has been how to make a lens large enough It seems to hove been recognized that them la I n limit lo what may bo called Iho carrying power of a len Alvin Clark of Cambridge la I the man who make 8 big lenses and ho lion about reached hula limit Two of these record hreaking l nse are In the great Chicago telescope nnd two more urn about to bo net In tho recently re-cently mounted telescope In tho Paris Observatory A French scientist M 1 Deloncln propose to use these lenses for a novel purpose The plan la said to be more than threefourths realized It will require glasses of over fortynine Inches In diameter A famous French lensmaker la I nt work on throe glasses for an Instrument which M I Deloncln calls the aldernstal With this M Delonelo hope lo Interview In-terview the moon and lo establish onto for All whether that Interesting and mueh t11scuma cal planet la I Inhabited It will tell ua whether tho moon has cities monument and larger building and Tin BiuimosTAT HY wincii wi HiiALi 1110 ADM TO KII TIII propu IN TIII MOON also explain lit signals to us Jt It baa any anySaya a Trench wrller of It Tho Invention In-vention I nn Ingcnloua one and demands de-mands far his perfection n man con lnced he la I right having l so to poak plenl of pluck It la I the natural outcome out-come < f all that has gone before from Mtlin lo Manuals but U belong cope daily lo the particular genius of U author because no ono before him not even the mot learned Astronomers had dared to Imagine so trnngo and yet so useful nn Instrument for stellar observation obser-vation It la I Ibo cannon of 103 tons the Klffcl Tower the rent Kantcrn of optic The Blderostnt anrpussc nothing no-thing of Its kind It doe not even boar any resemblance to existing tcloicopci Tho 11 talon will uland and It will lie pointing Ito long horizontal tunnel at a mirror fourteen Inchca In thlcknes and weighing 13000 pounds The Image of the satellite will bo reflected and coming out of tho ocular will bo projected on a screen upon which two three five hundred vpectator may ace tho moon A magnifying ohms will enlarge en-large the Imago to enormous proportions propor-tions and a very dcllrato mechanical ronlrhanco nlll ret the mirror In motion mo-tion aa Hint II will follow tho apparent movements of tho planet The scheme will bo gigantic It will truly bo Twentieth Twen-tieth Cenlur1 I Thn quratlon arlsea among the doubtful Will It bo practical practi-cal Alter alt necat alter Unfortunately Mme Moon the In itlspenaablo prim donna of lulls lunar theater often dUappolnls us In Ibo drat place them will bo many oenlngi when following In the footstep of her ujprlcloua human sister she will de tllno to come forth from Iho ahadons of her cloud boudoir Photography may bo brought Into requisition and llko the understudlt on the real singe tuba sue rolo of tUo sulking prlma donna In which cuss the alderostat will be ulgarlzed to the mean part of a huge magic lantern which misfortune misfor-tune for the ako of science It la I to bo hoped will never Iranaplre |
