New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-01-16

to me 90 inconsistent that put forward myself or at
least adopted the theory that Mars is globe like our
earth where all similar take placeran wind.
storm clouds. rivers. being produced, liquidation YAK
ing pace-everythlng seemed so much IKE tne EARN;
But then came this annoying theory that would put
Mars altogether OF the scheme of an inhabited world
that it was only covered at night by hosr Frost ana
that there everything III Mars unlike
the earth instead Of like it. ! determined
to destroy that noIous theory, and began
an essay to destroy it. But ! found as went along
that the old theory was strong the one adopted
Ia its stead and nishod that essay by advocating the
theory that intended 10 destroy found tnere was
very good indeed TO believe that Mars Is IN
condition quite unlike our earth that has very rare
atmosphere, that atmosphere bearing the same
relation TO that Of this globe that the oceans Oh nafs
s continents bear 10 ours You VIII notice tha the
oceans IN Mars are very much smaller propOronatey
than the earth. There Is no Pacific
there. In fact there is Atlantic You have only oceans
comparatively small the lands ana seas are
You lake the Of our own earth The two Americas
form snge ISLAND Erope ASA ana acn ro %T
those islands. There Is nothing OF that In Mars You
travel from any one part OF Mars 10 another You
need not leave the land according to Your taste
II YOU InhabIant OF Mars. Here Is a chart OF
down. ana mere you VIII notice you can pass Nv "a,
from ocean all around on to the soc oceans anu
again northward in fact there Is no mli to me extent
OF the Journeys Ana there Is curious ieatuIe tne
existence OF botIlc-necked oceans, with narrow
nlets connecting them with c the I arslr
with thar matter has shown that II seas were 70
that; they would become many Oote-necheu -
therefore II Mars had smaller quantity OF
water proportion 10 It's surface tlil our hHu
so too IN respect TO the atmosphere Wnee ,mc 1s
phere also will not correspond there Will he much less
atmosphere to each square mile; ana we nav
condition OF things qulie unlike lnae nau ", ~
supposed. And then Is the small gravity OF te
planet II the gravity OF eur own tanh Mere eb wen
be reduced from 16 10 and the ar wOuid De
reduced in the proportion AT the llght Oh SIX
seven miles in balloon ascent with MI;
G I siEengt nf leaving i him While his companion was
nsensble. 1t only by the skin OF his teeh ne es
capped his being DenumDed seizng the valve ropo
fn IA faeth no
pheric pressure reduced TO one fourth Ana mere. III
The OF Mars, am speaking OF reduction 20 ond
sixth which would happcn ana N you ada the CONSUL
GRAFTON that the quantity OF air IS ness You nave
atmosphere. you nave condition altogether Ghangen'
80 tnat light. know II, would become lutpOssDlo
the would be greater than you can imagine ana
condition of things becomes altogether different
BILE quantity of the yap0r Of water would rise
in the air in daytime snow Would DO iornlea
That would necessarily arise and carry IT toward the
pole, and there would be u gathering Of snow at the
ton and the continuous sweeping OF thOSe
SHOWS toward the polar regions lac author OF tnat
would tend TO the formation of enormous glaciers
be broken no. looked out for evidence against tle
theory aud found evidence in favor OF H. Gen Mich
ell OF Cincinnati has given an account Oh an ODs'rVa-
IA this white region was broken of, and
seemed TO him to he carried up 10 Inc tae
polar regions. We never lOok at Mars nearer than
JOCOO0)c miles. You that 50 large mass carried OIL
though large mass as big a. spizbcFgen "r Nova
Z.nbla or Lar &c England, broken oil ~ some
great catastrophe. Tie Idea suggested ny the new
Theory as to Mars may have been Inhabited
past times, but present TOO bleak abode We
regions AT the night Coxwe and Gaisher reached
in Mars life only the kinds could possibly exist
l have yet to make lew relhark7 dpout
Mars have told You fine plane! mas b Seen
determined. 1t would seem strange how You eould
tell the time taken by a planet turning It's axis
actly within few seconds, part Of q second You
that spot in the middle of the planet You could not
be certain, within quarter OF an hour whether tnat
is "A %
you observe it in the planet in the second rotation
1t you quarter of an nor wrong III tat case that
quarter hour divided between the two rotations
Tue difference Is only seven ana hall minutes lha Is
divided into three rotations the next day, aud 80 the
error reduced five minutes; and 20 on for month.
until the error becomes smaller. ana you eau
that we you p cam know when exactly ii comes
back and how rotations IL has made IN tho IN
ton after rotation, until in tine OF many years
you get the tune OF rotation accurate within second or
much less IL had been shown by "A certain German
astronomer that the period OF rotation OF Mars was
hours 81 minutes 23 seconds VI thereabOuts Ihen
another German astronomer, keiser. improved on that
and he made the period rotation hours, 81 minutes
and % Clio seconds. Well, then. English student OF
astronomy, one who does call himself
astronomer. English student, Mr. Proctor,
thought he would try his hand at This problem
ionnd that mis- result was greater than the Germans By
whole tenth of secondhand it should be "a hours. ~
minutes ana ~ 10 OF second heser houkht heces
10 go over his work and publish paper on me SUD
ject-he died only year ago From his paper found
DC seemed to make OUT ms case very accurately ndeed
There was a wonderful amount OF German care ana
labor, details but tOuHN strangely TWO
mistakes. He called the years 400 aud 1900 leap
years, whereas know that in the GREGG
rian calendar they are not leap years, ana that
corrected found theory of the planet was correct,
and the actual IL turned around "a hours. 81
minutes and ~ 7-lO seconds. IL seem 10 you UNI
necessary IL exact. But there Is one important
question which may be solved by such information as
that 1t been found that earth Is rotating more
and more slowly centuries go by. The moon ftS the
tidal wave that tlds acts brake as II travels
in IA direction contrary 10 that Oh which the earth
travels and slowly indeed our earth Is losing
its speed. We cannot measure that charge ny
any ordinary clock because our clocks are
set by the rotation Of the earth We time clocks TO
the transit OF the stars. How answer question
that except 10y having some true clockl Here
Mars, this small planet, POCKET cIrOhOneter, anu
we can that chrOnometers time, ana so soon as
we have her time compare with that our own
terrestrial clock. There wcllndrked places on the
the planet and there Is this also, that the planet
nothing disturb its rotation The sun Is so far away
the solar tides do not affect II has no moon ana
the suited 10 the formation OF tldii
wave therefore the change Of the planets rotation
would be Insignificant The planet l. a suitable CLOCK
for getting at our earth's rotation.
THE ASTEROIDS AND THE GIANT PLANETS.
pass from these planets 10 the asteroids There
are now known 1874 Of these minor planets. There is
theory the that the asteroids produced by
the bursting planets That is not correct. Obserya-
tious on the orbit which would result from such catas
trophe completely demOlish that theory
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