A Hole Through The Moon

Do the readers of the Republlc In general know that there are and hava been a great many brilllant astronomers of the present and past who belleve and have belie"ved that there is a great hole running entirely through the moon? Bishop Vraum, 1721, says: "Again on Sept. 12 I turned the glass toward the moon and saw what I was sure was a great cavity extending through the moon s body; and on th next nlght but one, Rector Jacob, who was wlth me, declared that to his yiew the' hole waa lumlnoua, as thouga cxtending into the moon's burnlng Interior." Again in 1778 Admiral Ulloa and hls companions perceived the same phenomenon during an eclipse, belng able to look through the hole at th Bun's disk just as though it were a. gigantic bead. At the time oí the sola? eclipse of Jujy, 1860, Bout and Mannhelm, French astronomers sUtloaed In Algerla, observed and notad tha umi wonder. In 1842 M. Valí oí Marseilles also gaw lt. Th Sclentlflc Annual for 1862 also mentlon lt on page 388 and closee by gaylng: "Ths only explanatlon posslblo would b that