The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1830-01-27

THREE HUNDRED YEARS HENCE. The fol.
lowing dialogue can hardly be regarded as an
extravagant commentary on the spirit of i'm
provemcnt and change which characterizes the
present times Without surprising literal full
fiment of the anticipations here made it NAV
be easily conceived that, in a shorter period
than three centuries, as great changes may take
place in the state of society, as those which the
fine Imagination of the writer of this article,
has described. The extract is made from the
London Keepsake, for 1880 Boston .4do
A DIALOGUE FOR THE YEAR 2l3O,
Extracted from the Album of Modern
SybiI, by the .4uthor of CRANKY.
Scene, Kensington-square, London.
Enter Lord A. and SIR James b., meeting
Mr.. c.
Lord .A.-Ah C. arm delighted to meet
you. You are an unexpected novelty-T
thought you were in Africa.
Mr.. CT haze been there, but left it a
month ago-every body was leaving it when
| came away. | am just arrived out of Scot
land; breakfasted this morning at Edinburgh,
and have not been in town above a couple
of hours. The roads are dreadfully heavy
now. Conceive my having been seven hours
and half coming from Edinburgh to Lon
don.
SIR James B.-An active snail would have
beaten you. But what have you been doing
in the north?
MIR. CT spent few days at the Duke
of Birmingham's. He had a shooting party,
chiefly foreigners. There was Chinese,
Ia pleasant man) two South Americans, the
Duke of Paramatta, the Australian Ambas-
sador, and New Zealand man..
SIR }. B.-Had you good sport?
M. C.-Toierable. On the last day we
killed between four and five thousand head:
but we might have done more, for we ali
shot ILL.,
Lord .a.-Yourself excepted.
Mr.. C-No, won't except myself; for
| missed two shots out of the first hundred.
had match with Paramatta, which
ought to have won, but he had greatly the
advantages In point OF equipment. His guns
would give twenty-seven discharges ia a
minute, and mine would give only twenty
five. Unjust really change my maker. Have
you seen the last new invention? the hy-
dro- potassium lock?
Lord .A-Not yet. Is i. good?
Mr.. C.-Yes, ngenious-certainly inge-
NOUS. The printing is ignited by drop
of water. But am afraid it won't succeed.
1t is found to be dangerous in rain, and apt
to go off then of its own accord.
Sir J. B-What did you do at Birming-
hams, beside shooting?
Mr.. Give hunted one day. They
turned out horse, and we had a pretty
good run. wish had had my own hunt
ing machine. flattef myself could have
led the field; but | was badly mounted
they gave me very ordinary thing, u reg
uiar screw, built only to clear fences eight
feet high, and, in fact, not safe for more
thap oiv u,bo 7 A.
mingham and Psramatta, with their crack
machines that would fly like balloons over
ten foot wall
Lord .A.-Here we are at the DIS
Touches spring on the door. A self
acting knocker gives a treble knock. The
door is opened by steam Porter, dressed
in the D. livery.]
Lord Ais Lady D. at home?
Figure mods its head. Lord A. and Mr..
C. enter, repeat their names through the
announcement tube, are conducted by the
Porter to the Introduction chair, in which
they place themselves. The chair mounts
with them through the ceiling, and they
find themselves in the presence Of Lady d 4
Lady Dab! Lord A.. Mr.. c.! most
unexpected persons both. | heard, only
yesterday, that one of You was in Green.
land and the other in Africa. What false
reports they circulate
Lord .d.--Fhe reports were true, not long
ago; and | believe we returned about the
same time. You, Lady ID. have also been
travelling believer
Lady Dyes, we were out of England
in the winter. Our physician recommended
warmer climate for Lord D., so we took
a villa on the Niger, and afterwards spent
short time at Sackatoo.
Mr. C.-l suppose you found it full oil
English?
Lady Doh! quite full, and such a set
we knew hardly any of them. In fact we
did not go there for society. We met a
few pleasant people, Australians; the Aver.
shaws, the Hardy Vauxes, and Sir William
and LaAy Soames.
Mr.. C.-Did you go by the new Tanrie,
and Timbuctoo road
Lady D.-Ycs, we did, and we found i,
excellent. BY the by, to digress to differ
ent latitude, how did you succeed in your
excursion to the North Pole
Lord A.-To tell you the truth, extreme.
iy i'll; we had most improvidently taken
with us scarcely enough of The solvent tc
work our way through the ice, and our con.
centrated essence of calorc was found to
be of very inferior quality.
Lady D.--Ah, then | am afraid you did
not get il at the right place.
Lord 4.--But am about to build new
iron yacht, and shall try it again next
summer.
Lady Dbl believe we shall 20 to Spitz-
bergen ourselves.