Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1849-08-18


selves at last in the flying, elevated, elec.
trIc.somethlng omnibus, which was an
open car some twenty feet long, 90 a
railroad, elevated about thirty feet above
the street. a double track was laid all
the way, and we met several cars or ON.
nibuses, rushing down, propelled by little
electric engines. Below, the street was
thronged with trucks, goods, merchants,
and carriers. On either side broad side
walks were filed with people, and above,
the houses rose from eight 10 ten stories.
all constructed from iron, gilded and paint
ed IN the most costly and beautiful manner.
At last. when we had come about ten
miles IN five minutes, as fast up hill as
down, we arrived al what should have
| supposed to be SoIomon's temple, restored;
but no, IT was the Ocean Hotel. OF our
entry into this place, the furniture, the
carving, the gliding, the painting, we will
not speak. After visiting a fashionable
tailor's shop, ! sat down with nv guide,
IN my room, to take rest preparatory to
seeing the elephant-no F.! the leriGthnn.
and 10 make the tour Of The State
What has happened, Mr. Jonathan,
since ls49 2 said | to the Yankee, who
was gazing at the sea of roofs. He nearly
tainted at the question, and said he merely
could mention few of the principal
changes and inventions.
General Taylor said he, was prcsi-
dent in 1e49, wasn't he yes, he was,
and we've had any quantity since. We're
a republic now, and the United States
! extend from the Arctic Ocean to Terra
del Fuego, and comprises, in short, all
America. England's republic, and
| Yankee is their president. There was
but one kingdom in the world six days ago,
but the transatlantic telegraph was then
oat of order. We haven't heard for most
week from tother side. and-here see
that flying car up there, see it It's going
to San Francisco, the largest city in Amer.
ica, or United States, all the same.
! There, it's out of sight but the Great
Aerial Electric Navigation Company are
/ building a car that will beat that-it's
manufacturing in that machine shop Won.
der said he as he pointed 10 building
| fourteen stories and half high.
'There's generally continued he, suni-
versal peace on earth, and the last dis.
patches from the moon said that the revo.
luton had been brought to close, and
that bloodshed had ceased TO stain that
paradise, and while we speak of it, there's
a fellow from the moon, who came down
on flying car yesterday, but their air is
so different from ours he can't stay long )
and he pointed to most perfect little man;
about three feet high. But we'll 90 up
to the moon by the next Car and stroll
about a day or two, and look-(here had
recourse to the camphor botte)-and look
about town. Yes, we wilI-hem, there's
some angels there-some girls, and they
think everything Of US ankees. Hurrah
there's the California, the last steamer
from Liverpool. She started day before
yesterday. She's made of iron, gutta per
cha, md durus. Durus is a mental re-
Gently discovered in Greenland, and small
quantities are found in Patagonia "a metal
which won't bend, break. or receive any
impression, except when the greatest de-
gree Of heat possible 10 be obtained is
applied to it. She ran through an Ice
berg on her last trip, but did not stop, and
you can't break her to pieces or sink her,
no, you can't. She's six hundred feet
long, and twenty five broad ; is covered
with gutta percha, made transparent all
over, and runs under " water half the time,
IN storm. There's the evening train of
flying cars for New Orleans-pretty good
load he electric train carries more mo,
this weather. More competition on this |
route Than any other in America. except /
tue New York and Rio Janero evening |
lines they run for four dimes. See that |
building there At one end they drive in |
a flock of sheep, and this door is mutton
market, and the other is a ready made |
clothing store. There's a printing office !
in this building, and there's machine in
it which will make spelling book out of
a shirt in seven minutes but they'll have
to give it up, as there's one in the very
next house which will make a spelling
book from cotton batting in six minutes
Fact, sir !
applied camphor to my temples and
nose.
Il tell you the truth but the crack
invention of the day is gumbuggum gas.
Goes ahead Of chIoroform, altogether.
Why, last night my brother in New Or
leans was smashed to pulp by the falling
of stone weighing twelve tons, but we
Immediately applied the extract of cold
water, and gumbuggum, and when | left
at two o'clock, he was comfortably well.
We don't die at all now. if we can manage
to get hold of extract of water and gum.
buggum gas before heat leaves the body.
If all warmth has left the body, life has .
left it; but if not, life is perfectly safe.
Now tea is ready; come let US get tea,
and then we'll have a ride
AT thoughts of supper | drote, and we
had just got to New Haven What slow,
good for nothing cars and steamboats, we
have cant 60 but mile in a minute