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THE COUNTESS OF OXFORD AND ASQUITH wore this striking costume for the private view of the Royal Academy, at Burlington
Jause
WHO LIVES
ON MARS?.
IF ANY ONE!
MISS ULRICA FORBES, another Academy visitor, whose hat and deli struck an original store.
CRICKETS INVADE SHIP IN MID SEA
Steamer
Swarm Taken Refuge, an
Of Australian Coast-Decks Covered Inch Thick
Melbourne, June 1. Driven from the ground by grass and bush fires in the west- ern district of Victoria and car- ried out to sea by strong off- shore winds, a large swarm of.
MRS. COWAN DODSON, wife of the artist, in a remarkabló military dress with epaulettes and intriguing "helmet."
crickets found refuge on the WEDDING
coastal steamer Wannon.
The chief oliver, J. Fraser, who
was on watch at the time, sald OF THE about ten o'clock at night, when the
Wannon was about six miles off the
coast, the swarm flew over the ship. WATERS
and thousands fell on the decks.
"All through the night," he said,
"we could hear the ebirruping of
the
insects, and the crunching BALTIC AND ATLANTIC sound as they were crushed under WILL BE "MARRIED” our feet. They crawled into cabins even under our ASTRONOMER LOOKS and bunks, and
IN NEW YORK BAY clothes. Sleep for the men below AT OUR PLANETS
was Impossible."
SEASONS ON THE STARS
Some interesting details with regard to the possibility of life on the planet Mars were given
Fraser said the Wannon's decks
were carpeted an inch thick with dead and feeble erlekets, Boiling water had to be used to clear them
olt.
King Edward
by Mr. R. W. Wrigley, Assistant Leases Scots
Astronomer at the Royal Obser- vatory, Blackford Hill, when he: addressed members of the Edin- burgh Rotary Club at their week.
Shootings Near
ly luncheon in the North British Balmoral
Station Hotel, Edinburgh, re- cently.
that.
Estate
New York, June 1. For the first time in recorded history, the Baltic Sea will be officially united in "marriage" to the American side of the Atlantic, in solemn ceremonics in Upper New York Bay, when the new America motor liner Batory arrives here on her maiden voyage, May 27.
Gdynia
In a silver urn, the new Polish ship will carry the Baltic water.
which is to te mingled with that of
New York Harbour, according to an ancient Slavic tradition. Also fig- uring Importantly will be an amber ring, made from the amber found! Jalong the shores of Gdynia, Po- Mr. Wrigley, who took as his sub-
land's new gateway to the Bea and Ject "Life in Other Worlds," anid
The King has taken a lease of the Batory's home port. Officiating that many people would think that
the shootings on the Glen at the "marriage" ceremonies in the solution of this problem could be gaived by astronomers looking Callater estate, adjoining the full vestments will be the ship's chaplain, who will pour the Baltic through their telescopes and by a Balmoral estate, and extending water into the harbour from the deck long. patient scrutiny of the celes- to 16,000 acres, from the repre- of the Batory. The scaling of the tial worlds. It was not so easy as sentatives of the late Colonel pact will be accomplished with the A. H. Farquharson of Inver-casting of the amber ring into the Thero was only one body which could. The lease will extend delegation arriving on the liner, a Bay by the head of the Polish was near enough for them to tell from August 12, the opening of high Government official. whether or not life existed, and that the grouse shooting season, until At 2.30, 5.20,
SIMILAR "WEDDING" body was the moon, which was
The Baltic. figured in a similar absolutely dead. In the case of the October 14, thus enabling His
deer marine wedding on August 17 last majority of the other planets there Majesty to take part in were handicaps, because many of stalking from the middle of year, when it joined the Black Sea. A large delegation of Poles in mo- them were covered with clouds, and September.
torboats and canoes (kajak!) came in this Investigation the telescope had
His Majesty has also leased the all the way from the Baltic to Con- to be supplemented by certain auxi-
of the Polish llaries. There was the spectroscope, Mieras Moor from the representa-stanza. The head
oup handed a goblet of Baitie by means of which they could tell if tives of the late Colonel Farquhar group there was an atmosphere DI the son for grouse shooting. This is water to King Carol, of Rumania,
token from
the city of planet; there was an Instrument for an extensive moor on the northern telling the temperature: and there side of the Dec, immediately. op- Gdynia to the city of Constanza, When they knew posite the Balmoral Castle pollefes, tuvo nens and between Poland and to aymbolize the tle between the the temperature and the atmosphere, and la the moor on which King
Rumania.
Carol and by mathematics: the size and Edward VIII. and King George oc poured the water form the goblet
King weight, they were able to tell quite castonally enjoyed grouse shoot-into the Black Ses. This tile is
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Glen Callater is close to Lochnagar, the annual "Marriage of the Adri In a reference to the sun, Mr.hion is on the Balmoral estates, and atic" by the Doge of Venice. Wrigley said it was a most imposing contains Loch Callator, which is a
"The New York cerem will sim- from body, more than a million times the picturesque sheet of water. The yield the deck of the Batory, will size of the earth, but its temperature of the Glen Callater moor is stated tarly serve to symbolize the good was tremendously high, and there to be, on an average, 500 brace of will between Poland and the United was little or no possibility of life grouse, and the deer forest yields States," declares Roman Kutylow there.
about 50 stags.
ski, resident director of the Gdynia
Mr. Wrigley referred to Mercury, The leasing of the shootings does America Line. "It will further em- which, he said, was small, but very net necessarily mean that the King phasize the amity existing between hot, and to Pluto, which was also will spend a holiday this summer at the two nations as a result of the small, but very cold. Jupiter had no Baimoral. It is likely that the Duke increasing commerce and passenger oxygen and large quantities of am-and Duchess of York will go there for travel on both American and Pol- monia and marsh gas, and Venus had ja long stay during the summer ish trans-Atlantic liners. Like her a thick covering of cloud, no oxygen. months.
twinship, the Pilsudski, which en- and R a great deal of carbon dioxide.
tered the New York-Baltic service
There remained Mars, which was one reduced to be marsh ground pro-last September, the new Batory was b many ways the most interesting of duced by the melting snow.
built specially for American opera-
ONLY ONE EVENT
all the planets. They could see much
Others parts of the planet changed tion."
of the
the surface,
face, and so much had been colour with the seasons, which sug→ written about it and so much congested a growth of vegetation. The The traditional "Marriage of the jectured. They had all read the atmosphere was very rure, like we on Seas," or "Flowing Into Sea," will American professor's theory about the earth got on top of our highest be only one event in an elaborate the Marllans being great engineers mountains. The nights were very reception programme being planned who had constructed their series of cold-much colder than anything we for the Batory's arrival. "Ainerican waterways, thereby muintaining their got on earth, even in the polar re- Poles from all parts of the country life.
gions.
are expected to journey to New The facts about Mars he would It was thought that the light red- York to greet the new ship, as they give his lateners and leave them to dish parts of the planet were really did last September when, the Pil- deduce the rest for themselves. deserts, and the dark portions those sudsid arrived. Tho Entory will
Mars had a very clear atmosphere, on which some sort of vegetation join the Pilsudski In operating be and day and night much the same
grew.
tween New
Halifax, York,
Copen- as our own. Occasional clouds or Regarding the markings that had hogen and Gdynia. At normal dust storms could be seen. It seemed been taken for canals it was very speed of eighteen knots, the ships
a remarkably
flat country; dimcult to say exactly what they cut down the New York-Copenhagen there were no large sheets of water. were, because they were at the very run to eight days, and the Cdynia Two prominent features were the limit of the vision. They might be run to cight and one-half days. whille polar caps, one at each end, cracks in the surface. Ono really Each of the liners has a capnelty
the same as the earth.
There
for 760 passengers and a displace- were seasons like our own, only they could not tell.
ment of 10,000 tons,
to be a
Just
SEASONAL CHANGES
"IS IT LIKELY?"
Jasted twice as long, each sensan last- "We can say," said Mr. Wrigley,
The Batury, was bulit in Trieste ing six months instead of three. The that it would be possible to live on by an Italian shipyard in exchange planet got much less heal from the Mars. It would not be very enjoy for more than $3,000,000 worth of Bun because it was one and a half able, but in the course of many gell- coal to be shipped by Poland during times as far away us the earth.
erations we might become ocell-
In Ave-year period. There were very interesting sca- They could not say there was any sonal changes. In the winter the reason why there should be inhabit-of the earth as being in its prime.
In conclaslon he would ask them polar enps were very large, and as outs on the planet. It almost looked) spring and summer drew on the polar as though Mars represented an old was it likely that among the billions chps begon to melt, and round their stage in evolution; Venus a prelim- of stars there was only one which had edges appeared dark borders which Inary stage; and they liked to think a planet ben ing litet
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