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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 414, 25 January 1909, Page 11

IZ- The Boston correspondent to tho\"Tribune" ;Btatos that he is informed by Professor Pcrci?yal Lowell, .the. astronomer, that tuo latter'? £ assistants ■ at the Lowell ..pbservatory,..Flag;;'staff,i. .liavp discovered thnt .water. v vapour is -preseni'-■ in .measurable: quantities •xori tho :: surface of Mars, V proving that the ;.planet Has an: atmosphero' Bomcwnat similar ■to that pf tlio earth, 'and strengthening tho f cuppositipn-that Mars is hihabitod. , '/..'..

'- : ~'i Tho' recent annual banquet of the , : Norr lifeboatiaen was: interrupted; by. a ; call to' duty.' The men wore'gathered at tab vieastj. wearing thoir.bcsticlothes,-: and;after Agoing through the. fish mid apup and entrees, ;■ they were contemplating:a selection. between ;:-a round-of .beef, lcEs - of;'mutto)i, &nd pork. ';Suddonly the detonating ' rpcketp from :tho - lifeboat station were heard. : The men threw •j down thoir serviettes and ; dasbed down to '.the station, where .they learned that tho ' brig JMith Beeoo had' stranded on tho Burbo ,>'Bank;at tho bar, Tho lifeboatmenV throw . their, oilskins on <jTcr their best , : clothes, and ; ; ■promptly. set out for tho distressed vessel, ■-which-- tnoy reached; in about half an ho«r. I:iThpy-v stood she -; floated ■, with .■j'th'e'tidei ; :'and?came saf«)y):t6"an anchdrago in /the.iiveii , '-;;-..-. 0 .;-"."-.■'.■,■-.■'.;■':.;■,■. .;■ :.:■ -.;.■ ■.