Show A view from the moon I 1 from pr prof 0 f illustrated article on tho the planets and the moon in hia his on n tho the new j Astronomy 4 in the march century we vc quote thu the following the truth is bo however wever that looking at the earth from themo the moon ob the largest moving 11 animal the whale or ther elephant would bo be utterly beyond our keap ken aitio itts is quentio questionable 2 b ae whether the largest ship on fild ocean ocea n would be visible fur for the adli popular idea as to the magnifying P power of great telescopes is is exaggerated it is probable that under bany but extraordinary circumstances ei oui our lupar lunar observer with our best beat teles copes could not bring the earth within less leis 3 than thin an apparent distance office of five hundred miles and the reader nay judge tad how large a movi moving ag object inist ba bd tabe to be seen much less recognized by tho the naked eye at such a disia distance nep i of course a chief in terest of the supposition tion we are making lies in the f fact ac that irwill it will give us a me measure of our own ability to daco decover Z evidences of life in the moon if there are any such as vs exist here and in ghis point ofviey of view it is worth while to repeat that scarcely any rny temporary due to human action could be disable the moon under tinder the thel moat most favoring ing circumstances an arm army such as napoleon led to russia might conceivably be visible if it moved in a j t dark solid col column across the snow it is barely possible that such a vessel as one na cf of the largest ocean steam steamships bips might bo lye seen under r very vary favorably circumstances cum stances as a rt moving dol doff 1 an and it is even quite probable that such a conflagration as us the great fird of bf chicago wadid be visible in the lunar teles telescope dope hs ake la red reddish dih star to the n arde oi of our planet but igla ill thia this sort b that could bo discerned B by making minute maps or 66 baill better photographs and ad corns paring one year w with another another antich however might have been done lone by our lunar observer during this century in its beginning bei inning in comparison to tb ervast forests which then covered the north noih american continent tha nelds I 1 along its eastern astern seaboard would I 1 chave have looked to him like a gulden I 1 I 1 fringe fridge bordering i a broad mantle of I 1 green greem but fiut now ho he would seo that the golden fringe has pushed aside the green farther back than tho tile i mississippi arid and bould gather his best from the Tact surely ia a noteworthy one that man represented by the people of the united states ha ila eban changed ged one of the features of 4 his world during the present century to a degree degrie visible in in another planet |