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cubic meters of gas and is driven by
two DAIMLER motors, each Of eighty five
horsepower. Inside the aluminium
shell are placed sixteen isolated gas
bags Of globular shape. There is pas!
senger accommodation for ten persons.
Although the count is sixty-nine years
old. he fully believes he will live long
enough to perfect his machine so that
it will be- acknowledged to be q
thoroughly reliable airship.
Farm Boy Comet Catcher.
j. +. Mellish. q Wisconsin farmer
boy hardly out of his teens, has be-
come one of the interesting figures in
the scientific world through his dis
covery within six months OF two
comets which had escaped the atten-
ton of professional astronomers. The
young man has. after working hard on
the farm during the day, been studying
the heavens ut night, using apparatus
largely of his own construction. His
recent achievements have opened the
way for him to pursue his studies in
the Washburn observatory, and a
bright future is confidently predicted
for him.
The Scientific immortality.
Sir Oliver Lodge. the noted British
scientist. has delivered another pro
nouncement OH the subject Of the inn
mortality of the soul. He says first
that the simple important truth to be
kept in sight is the commonplace fact
that there is nothing immortal or per-
sistent about the body except the ma
teral atoms of which it is composed.
He dismisses utterly the notion, still
taught by part of the Christian church,
that these atoms will some day be
tute complete man as he appeared on
the earth and who thereafter will last
forever This he regards as merely a
clumsy expedient to make pleasing the
idea Of the homeless, wandering spirit
or ghost of the departed individual.
Sir Oliver says that nobody knows
what the soul is. but that common
sense rebels against its being nothing.
and that no genuine science had as
sumed to declare it n purely imaginary
nonentity. He holds 1t must be ac-
knowledged by science that no really
existing thing perishes: 1t only changes
form. AS this has been shown clearly
in the case Of matter and energy 1t
must also be true of mind. conscious
ness, will, memory, love and other ac-
tivities which interact with matter and
appeal to the bodily senses. These
facts Of the individual human con-
seriousness, he says. cannot be regarded
as nothing, and they will never vanish
into nothingness. They did arise with
us. They never sprang suddenly into
being from previous nonexistence.
They are as eternal as the Godhead
itself and will in eternal being endure
forever.
New Race at the North.
Curator Gordon Of the University OF
Pennsylvania archaeological depart.
n1ent who has just returned from
Alaska. brings word Of new race
which he discovered on the hitherto
UNEMPLOYED Koskokwin river. He says
these people now number only about
400 and are unlike either Eskimos
or Athabascans. They show strong
traces of Asiatic ancestry. They had
never seen a white man before, and
crime is unknown among them. They
have no laws. being governed by
priests who are patriarchs. They are
all intelligent, and their religion is
nature worship of high order In
stead of dressing in skins they use
the breasts Of looms.
Knots In Saturn's Rings.
Professor w. w. Campbell, director
of the Lick observatory, says that
prominent knots have been visible
during the past week in Saturn's rings.
These appear to be Systematically
placed. but as yet have not been ac-
counted for, and no theory has been
formulated as to their meaning.