COMMUNICATION WITH MARS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CV, Issue 12422, 11 February 1901, Page 6

COMMUNICATION WITH MARS.

The above subject has attracted a good deal of attention from time to time, and anything that tends to show the possibilityof such communicaion has considerable interest for us. Two aerolites, wliich wc-ie discovered some two years ago,, bore sup- . posed evidence of artificial, though ummelligible markings; the.se were attributed at ■ the time to u laudable-zeal on,the part of the Martians for attaining a closer acquaintance with their inferior neighbours,. the inhabitants of: this planet, who are not gifted with- their- own gedly -attributes.. Now, as we took no notice of their little

bdlefc doux m the shape of Martian bricis, which, by the wAy/are- a trifle heavy af compared with our own. they have our scciriing indifference by mildly shaking our shoulder!, so to speak, which shaking is described by M. Teala, as three "mild earth vibrations," accounted for as being a slight galvanic shock sent by the irritated inhabitants of Mars. Now, it appears ttf us that if these same Martians,- each. oi» of which, according to scientists is a little god unto himself, and struts about Ms bacls yard with an ordinary stature of soma' 20ft, and at their annual Caledonian sports, - tluows the hammer, weighing a couple o$ tons a distance of some two miles or so,, we think it would be very undesirable .Ui cultivate their acquaintance to auy extenV -uch accomplishments as compared "with our own little efforts would be bound sooner* ut later to cause heartburnings and' jea-lou- , «ies, and no doub& from their superior bc.ght, they would look down' upon -,nd treat us as being very much beheathi 'hem, and who knows they may be gifted a ith a very captious spirit, but, as a worthy • doctor put it the other day, if they xvouldj .shoun their good feeling and bonne cama* 1 >.derie towards usi by sending us an aerolite, carriage paid order to land in Cathedral! Square for a poun i of '* Arab " or " Shah '* tea. the flavour of vhicb. is enough to de« !,ighfc the palate of even a wooden god, there is no doubt it would be a very strong argument m tivour of a closer acquamtnecship and conducive to a better mutual understanding of each othei 1988