Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1898 — POPULAR SCIENCE, [ARTICLE]

POPULAR SCIENCE,

1 AoCording to Paris publications the observations of Alva Clark and Pergival Lowell in Arizona have increased the number of canals visible on Mars grom seventy-nine to IS3, all in geometrical proportions. The seas under these observations have turned to prairies and the lakes to oases. In an old Indian mound, near Cedar- . Villa, Ohio, was found a stone Image of a woman in a sitting posture. It is smoothly and beautifully carved and shows the features clearly. Prof. Stahl thinks the find dates back many centuries, probably to the times of the Shepherd kings, and long prior tc the mound builders. The planet Mars resembles the earth more Closely than any other of the solar system that we know anything about. Mars is smaller than the earth, end its specific gravity is less. Its atmosphere is rarer than that on the highest mountains. It has probably no oceans and very little free water, except in spring, when the snow melts. As to Mare being inhabited, it is not impossible. G. Brinton in Science, “were developed tat Prof. Ranke at the last meeting of the German Anthropological Society, in relation to the relative weights of the brain and spinal cord in man. It is well known that man has not the heaviest brain of any animal j the whale and the elephant have heavier. Nor has he the heaviest in proportion to his weight; some singing birds, vailput small apes and the mole have proportionately heavier brains. What Ranke brings out is that the weight pf the human brain is much greater in proportion to the weight of the spinal cord than in any other veterbrate; and tbi* therefore, constitutes an anatomfepal distinction of man, strongly confrosting frlyn with all other animal teaml*