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THOSE MARS CANALS.
Mathematics Showing What Thej
liean to an Engineer.
A UAGKITDDE THAT IS APPALLING
If the Work Is opposed to E of Human
I ccomplisliment
WHT IT 18 PHISICAM.Y IMPOSSIBLE
IWBTTTEJf TOn THS DISPJLTCK.I
Whatever vre may know absolutely or
approximately of another world, mnsl
necessarily be measured by the absolute
nets or approximation that ire can bring to
bear on this. We have no other standard
of measurement 'Whatever physics were
lnvolred in producing this world
undoubtedly produced the others.
The conditions that wrought the
CTolution of man on this planet
would, beyond doubt, call for his apparition
an another, while his powers, with their re
strictions within natural limits, may be
postulated as bearing on these powers, re
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The merchant doing the largest business is sure to
have the largest and most varied stock. That's us in both
case?. If you have seen the other stocks about town you'll
know how true this is when you come to see ours.
LADIES' LONG CLOAKS.
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ANOTHER JACKET CHANCE.
i. 000 Ladies' Jackets in all the latest styles and colors,
I plain and fur-trimmed. Materials are Kerseys, Meltons,
I Cnevmt , Cheverons, etc These are all new and desira-
l ble and have been selling for
bargain for th s week we offer them at
N$12.00j"
OUR FUR DEPARTMENT
i Furnishes the greatest opportunity for economy in this
J class of goods. We wili give
1 bargain, in all kinds of furs in
S and Children's Sets.
UNDERWEAR AND HOSIERY
For Ladies and Children.
h lduica j-.g JLiau w 11 tun
1 $1.50. For 95c.
Al -Wool Union Suits, cream, black and natural,
wonh $2.75, For $2.
Ladies' Stainless Black Equestrian Tights, worth 75c,
For 50c.
Children's Wool Equestrian Drawers, black and nat
ural, worth 75c, For 49c.
Ladies' Jersey Vests, in cream" only, worth 25c,
For 17c.
Ladies' Camel's Hair Vests or Pants, worth 69c,
For 50c.
Ladies' Fine Australian Wool Vests or Pants, worth
; $1.50, For $1.00.
Children's White Merino
For 7c.
All-Wool Scarlet, Natural
Pants, worth 29c, For 15c.
Ladies Black Wool Hose,
Lades' Black Cashmere Hose, worth 39c. For 25c.
Ladies' Imp. Cashmere Hose, worth 75c, For 50c
Children's Wool Seamless Hose, all sizes, J2c.
gardless of locality. It Is proposed in the
matter now In 'view to carefully consider
certain physical features on the planet
Mars, and consider thuse features specifi
cally in their relation to congeneric stand
ards that govern -rith us.
It is affirmed by gentlemen high in the
science of astronomy that the higher grade
of glasses reveals peculiar lines on the face
of the planet mentioned, and that these
lines are canals, and as such are, and of
necessity must be, thecreation of a human
intelligence.
Dismissing now any consideration of ge
ology, ethnology or anthropology, as having
any bearing on the case, let us simply con
siderthe cinals as a fixed quantitr and
measure them by the only standards we
know of. There can be no doubt, if these
lines be canals, that they re D reseat a total
ity of 150,000 miles of length. This is a
long distance, but not longer than the lines
will aggregate. In width, it is claimed
they range from 150 to 450 miles, and the
depth is the feature which is most difficult
to determine. But if they were wrought by
hnman energy,then they were wrought for a
great purpose, and if there were reasons to
excavate them to such an amazing width,
assuredly whatever called for this would
call for some kind of proportionate depth.
A Conservative Estimate.
Without demanding this, let the estimate
be conservative, and, accepting the length
already given, the width at an average of
200 m'.les and a depth of, only 20 rods, we
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SUITS
That's what we are going
to interest you in for the first
two days of this w'eek.
An opportunity was offered
to secure the entire produc
tion of an Eastern manufac
turer. We seized it at a great loss
to him and profit to ourselves
to you. A line of handsome
NEWMARKETS
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Made to sell for not less than
$15, $18 and $20. We will
give you a free choice from
the entire lot at
$10.
$18 and $20. As a special
you this week the greatest
Capes, Muffs, Boas, Scarfs
ouiw, cuu ui uaiuiai, nuiui
Vests or Pants, worth 15c,
and Camel's Hair Vests or
worth 25c, For 15c.
may proceed to mathematical considera
tion of the inbieot.
. We bare then an area of 30.000,000 of
square miles. In a mile square are 102.400
rods, and 20 roda deep would give us 2,048,000
cubio rods of excavation for eaoh square
mile of these immense waterways. In the
entire system of canals there are 61,440,000,
000,000 cnbio rods, which reduced to cubio
miles makes the amazing number of 1,875,
0001 In one cubio rod of excavation there are
15 good carloads of material, and our canals
represent a total of 921,600,000,000,000
loads. Nine hundred and twenty-one trill
ions, six hundred billions I This is the
task to which the modern -curved glass fra
ternity would consign the luckless inhabit
ants of our ruddy neighbor of the sky. It
will take 3,771,428 railroad cars to reach
around our globe, and there are enough
loads of material to fill 244,387,271 trains,
each long enough to encircle the earth at
the equator. It n ill take 13,878.851,100,
500 cars to cover the distance of nearly
92,000,000 of miles to the sun, and this ex-
cavated material would fill more than 628
trains reaching from the earth to the great
solar luminary. (
The entire land and water surface of the
earth can be covered with 13,445,632,400
cars and these supposititious Marsians
have filled cars enough to cover our entire
planet 49 layers of cars deep and have dirt
enough leit over to- level the Ohio Valley
with all its tributaries down as far as Cincinnati.
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O VERCO ATS
Dur trade in Overcoats, an unusually large one, is strengthening our hold on the
lence ol the masses. Every garment we sell makes a pleased patroa JNo man
an Overcoat here to find that he could have gotten the same garment elsewhere
saved even 50 cents on the transaction. He more frequently finds he is many dol
in We'll divide our immense stock containing 10,000 coats into three and ask you
ok at the Beavers, Chinchillas, Cassimeres and Cheviots, strongly made and stylishly
which we offer at
THBIT SEE .
.ine of Meltons, Kprseys, finer Chinchillas, and Blue and Black Beavers, hand
ily made and trimmed, at. . . i . . , -
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II - YOU WANT THE BEST MADE
YouT l find in the line we show between, $20 and $40. Choice foreign fabrics,
elega? flt in make and trim, the rivals of the best that the custom tailor can produce and
at a tl. rd less cost than his price.
le can fit and please anybody and everybody.
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mcy Cassimeres and Cheviots, Black and Brown
ts, and many other materials in single and double
d sacks and stylish cutaways. A mammoth assort
)m which to make selection, with a price range from'
Cheviot;
breasteij
ment frcl
$5.00 TO $15.00.
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THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 97,
For the purpose of a simple and graphic
presentation of this subject the writer has
prepared a table showing given rates of car
loads per day and the oenturies required, at
such rate, to accomplish the labor. The
figures are all inside of mathematical pre
cision: Carloads Per Day.
40,000
80,000
160,000
20,000
640,000
1,280,000
8,660,000
5,1211,000
10,2(0,000
80,40 000 ,
40 960 000
81,920 000
163,810,000 ,
S27.(KO,OOJ
655,361,000
1.3.0.000.00J
2,6il,000,009
8,214,880,010
Centuries.
6,S01
,223,150
111,575
...I.. 65,787
27 893
13,946
6,973
, 3.488
1,743
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435
217
103
61
27
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We will now consider the work as having
been accomplished in 6,t)00 years and find
the output to be:
Cars.
.42,821.917
.. 17,842
2,970
49
Per day
Per hour
Per minute..
Per second...
For 60 long centuries, year in and year
out, day and night, wetand dry, Sundays,
holidays and election days, not a tirk of the
Marsian clocks dare be lost in all this vast
time 49 carloads of excavation per second
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AND ULSTERS.
must be taken from the eanals an"3 made
into artificial mountains! Bat let us con
sider a six-century rate:
Carloads per day ??iSS2-S22
Carloads per hour... - ijXHsl
CarloHds per minute . J"j"
Carloads per second 80,85
Just think of HI . ,
But it would seem that 40,000 carloads
per day would be great ork, and this
makes 1,666 carloads per hour, 27 carloads
per minute, and this had to be kept up at
an incessant rate for the amazing time of
44,630,100 years.
Volume of the Work.
Such is the Titanic volume of the work
that such intelligences would have had todo.
The question is, is it physically possible?
This may be said: With an adult male
human, on every square acre of the plant,
the force to do this, measured by earth
standards, would have proved wholly in
adequate, even on a three thousand century
rate.
But this is far from being all that is com
prehended in this Marsian Canal scheme.
There are hydraulic and hydrodynamic con
siderations of most appalling magnitude
that must be taken into consideration. The
great Chrysorrhoas Canal is 3.335J4 miles
long and over 400 miles wide. We will
consider a contractor on a section:17S miles
long: 175x40070,000. Here we have the
number ol squire miles that discharge their
precipitation into the Ohio river valliy to
a point a trifle above Cincinnati. On
these 70,000 square miles there si delivered
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MEN'S DKES5 SUITS.
In these' we show the finergrades of Black Cheviots,
imported Scotches and Worsteds, Diagonals and Cork
screws, made and finished in- the highest style of the tailors'
art and perfect every way, at from
$15.00 TO ' $30.00. '
1899.
annually 292,723,200,000 tons of water, and
assuming from the aqueous indications on
Mars, that the discharge on that sphere is
probably no less, we may direct our atten
tion to the piping and pumping that would
inevitably follow the handling f such
colossal quantities of water. This must be
provided for' to allow the canal-digging
Marsian to prosecute his aquatic pastime.
Who can estimate the tens of thonsands
of miles and the many millions ot tons of
4-foot pipe that would be required in this
branch of the work ? Those who remem
ber the flood in the Ohio Valley In Febru
ary, 1884, when the river at the Queen City
rose 71 feet 6 inches, may have some idea of
what may be involved in pumping the pre
cipitation and forcing in on the vast area of
70,000 square miles. Bo the astronomical
centlemen embrace these considerations
when they insist that the pbantasmical
lines on Mars are the creation of human
hands? Who, let us ask, attends to civil
government and agriculture durihg the
cycles of time involved in this canal con
struction 1
On Another Basis
. Bhall we go into the domain of American
hydraulics and plain machinery in keeping
w'ith the stupendous vastness of the scheme?
Are the inhabitants of any other stiller
worlds claiming that we due the Atlantic
and Pacifio valleys and ridged the Rocky
mountains? Let us conceive of pumps cov
ing 20 acres, with pistons 10 feet in thick
ness, 30-foot cylinders and fly wheels 200
leet in diameter! Fuel? , That also is to
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$10 TO $18
$20 TO $40
aarfhBafltetefi
be considered. Eeally, the entire proposi
tion resolves itself into s most complete
and beautifully gilt-edged reductio ad ab
surduml But this is not all. Unless the Marsian
crust is much thicker than that of the earth
the excavating ol such huge trenches and
piling the material on mountain-like
ridges would depress the crust under such
artificial mountains, which depression
would involve direful consequences An'!,
If the crust be too thick to yield to such de
pression, then would the water have fol
lowed in, to mainly lie in va crevices in
congealation, as in the case with the moon.
Viewed then from an standpoint, there
are no known log'cal factor to sustain tho
generally credited astronomical conclusion.
This is not claiming that there may not be
an iufinite number of spheres in space, hab
itable and Inhabited; the point urged is
simply this, that there Is absolutely noth
ing to sustain this popular view of the
Marsian line. m K".
Thibs Is no larger or better selected stock
of diamond, watches. Jewelry, etc., in this
city than you will find at SI. G. Cohen's, S6
Firth avenue. Call and examine the stock
and prices. It will pay you.
Four-tit linen collars and cuffs 2100 fine,
-go to-morrow at 7 cents for collars 11 cents
for ouffs. Sallkb,
Corner Smlthlleld and Diamond streets.
Brass front.
Drwrrr'a Little Early Msers. No griping,
no pain, no nausea: easy pill to take.
BOYS
A LARGE STOCK,
' A CHOICE STOCK,
A VARIED STOCK,
A LOW-PRICED STOCK.
We want every buyer of Boys' Clothing
to look at these specials for Monday and
Tuesday of this week.
We have made a price of 3 on several
lines of Children's Short-Pant Suits. They
come in Cassimeres, Cheviots and Worsteds,
arid are great value for the money. The
Jackets are single or double-breasted; which
ever are preferred.
Acq rnmnaninn bargain we have made
the price of $3 on a large line of Children's Overcoats, single
or double-breasted.
500 pairs of Jersey Pants at 79c
LARGE BOYS' SUITS
With long pants. See the lines we will offer on Monday and
Tuesday at $5.
And the stylish and serviceable Overcoats, in numerous
materials, which will go for the two days at the same
price , $5.
FREE MONDAY AND TUESDAY.
With every sale of $5 or over in Boys' or Children's
Clothing we give choice of
A FINE BANJO OR A LARGE TOOL CHEST.
NECKWEAR.
London, Paris and New York are all represented in our
grand line of Neckwear. Not to see our line before buying
would be to do yourself an injustice. We guarantee a saving
of 25 per cent
GLOVES.
Novjhere can be found a larger or more comprehensive
line than in our stock. Every grade, from the cheapest
Glove at 17c to the finest Seal Skin at $10, is fully represented.
Cardigan Jatt ai StociMe Goals.
A fine stock of these at extremely low prices. We
solicit an inspection, and know that you'll find our prices and
styles irresistible.
MUFFLERS.
A surprise awaits you in these. Our immense purchases,
as usual, produce small prices. Cashmere, 25c to $1. Silk,
50c to $7.
HOLIDAY GOODS., .
See our immense variety of Fancy Plush, Hardwood
and Leather. Cases. We are ready.
HATS AND CAPS.
In Winter Caps for Men and Boys we are showing an im
mense variety. It will pay you to see our mammoth stock
before you buy anything in this line.
We know that our marvelously low prices have no com
petition. No matter what style of Cap you want we have it,
and at a big saving to you on other dealers' prices.
Our Derby, in all the new and popular shapes, that we
offer at ,,
$1.98
Is still -in the lead. . It can't be approached anywhere for
the money. 1
Sundry Shoe Snaps.
Women's Beaver Slippers 50c.
Misses' Grain, buttop, heel and spring heel. . . . . . . -. OWC.
Men's Russian Calf Bluchers, double sole, worth $6. i-
Boys' fine Veal Calf, "button or lice, worth fcl.OO.
The Homestead Strflce.
The accounts of the Homestead strlkw
trials are not half so Interesting to tne aver
age man or woman as would nndoubtedly be
tbe perusal of one ofour cataloznes setting
forth the merits or the "Davis Tilter." The
purification or the water used In private
dwellings (or cooking, fur drinking, for the
bath and ror laundry purpo-e a subject
worthy the consideration of every thinking
man. The health of your family demands
that you give it attention. We manufacture
a device the use o which will insure clrar,
pure, wholesome water ijt all seasons or the
year. Do not imagine bi-cue water Is clear
as it comes from the spunt that it is pure
nothing but flltratio i cm accomplish this
desirable result. It shnnld not bt- a question
whether or not yon will pnt a Alter in your
house, but simply which filter on the roar.
test to-day is the best? We desire nothing
but an investigation Of the merit of the
different filters made, resting assured that
tbe sunerionty of the one manufactured by
us will be apparent. Send postal card for
catalogue and price list, which will be for
warded by return mall.
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No. 30 Sandnsky street, Allegheny. Branoa
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Pa.
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are free with every doz. better grade. Guar
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from Si 60 up. Xare asi'irttnent of frames.
Lowest prices. Lies' Portrait Studio, 10 and
13 Sixth street.
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