INHABITANTS OF THE MOON CURIOUS IF TRUE.

Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1168, 17 April 1874, Page 3

INHABITANTS OF THE MOON CURIOUS IF TRUE.

The most powerful telescopes present the moon so far off that only the larger objects can be seen. But a photograph here gives us some assistance. Such a picture presents all the minute details, and these can be magnified by a powerful microscope The latter may magnify many millions of

times. IS'ow, placing a minute section of such a moon photograph under such a microscope, there appears no obstacle to our penetrating all the mysteries of the moon, even down to the smallest rabbit that may inhabit it, were it not

for the unfortunato fact that the smoothest surface known to science becomes rough under the microscope as to obliterate all photographic impressions there may be on it. Nature must supply or art be able to furnish some surface that will remain smooth under the microscope, and that material is'the object now to bo found. A French scientist thinks he has obtained it in the silk-like floss of the common milk-weed, reduced by a chemical solvent to a pulp, and then manufactured into paper. It has answered so far every purpose, and a first copy taken by the camera afforded undeniable proof that the moon is inhabited by a queer race, that need neither air nor water to preserve life. But owing to the fact that the photograph was taken when the moon was full, the inhabitants presented an appearance like that of flies on the ceiling, so that nothing could be seen of them but the crown of their heads.