Show THE MOON INHABITED towns villages and field fields can be seen Tran ltd from the ya ny bregmen ot mel mei at the astronomical observatory of berlin a discovery has hits lately been made which without doubt id will cause the greatest greatt sensation not only among those not adepts in science but even among the most learned learn cd professor bienemann Blend mann in that city has found beyond a doubt that our old friend the moon is not a mere lantern which kindl kindly furnishes light for the loving youth and gaa gas companies compan ies of our p planet lanet but tho abode of liviu living 9 intelligent beings for which he i is s prepared to furnish proofs most colv convincing inching i i this question has agitated humanity from time immemorial and has been the object of the greatest interest but the opinions have always differed very widely and no two minds held one and the same already in ancient times the belief prevailed that the moon was inhabited with some higher organized intelligent beings somewhat resembling bli edg man kanand and in order to communicate with them the earthly enthusiasts planted rows of trees several miles in length EO to as to form the figure figura of the pythagorean theo rem the celear celebrated abed astronomer schroeder in the beginning of the present century fancied ite he could detect places on the surface of the moon which periodically grew lighter and darker and from this fact he derived the conclusion that the phenomenon was a proof for existing vegetation during the last few decades Je cades however lio vever the tile idea of life on the moon has been held up to ridicule and totally scorned hy by men of learning but nevertheless it has bus now been bein proven to be cor by accident dr Blend mann found that the observations of the moon gave but very unsatisfactory results owing to the intensity odthe of the light power of the moons atmos phere jhc re which is that strong that it affects the correctness of the observations in in a ver very high degree he then conceive conceived the idea to make th the object glass of the sena sensitive to the rays of light and for that purpose c he darkened it wit with h the 8 smoke moke of camphor it took mouths months of experimenting before ho he succeeded to find the right degree of obscurity ri ty of the glass and when finally faund he then with the res tractor fractor took a very accurate photo of the moons surface this he be placed in iu a n sun microscope which c tho the picture r R diameter of fifty jacc five ve and one half lf feet the revelation was most startling it perfectly overturned all hitherto entertained ideas of the moons surface face those level plains which formerly were held to be oceans of water proved to be verdant fields and what formerly was wits considered mountains turned out as deserts of sand and oceans of water towns and inhabitants of all kinds were plainly discernible as well as signs of industry and traffic the learned pro seora study study and observations kofold of old luna will be repeated every full moon when the sky is clear and we yen ven ture to predict that the time is not far off when we ahall shall know more about tho the man in the moon than as being an agent iu english politics |