Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-04-22
Progress.
The following is from the April number of III


The following is from the April number Of tho
Knickerbocker Magazine
Here is scrlbblement' entitled. ' A Sketch Of
Modern improvements in 20l2,'' for which we are
indebted to Rapper," who can call spirits from
the vastly deep" of the Future as well as the Past.
Perhaps the ''Sprit' is little cracked, but that's
his business. bis is progressive age. Everybody
says So and it is an old maxim that what everybody
says is generally true Many and great improve,
ments have been made in every thing in the last e.
| ty or one hundred years. and many more will pro-
baby be made during the next century. One hun
dred and fifty years ago, it would have taken from
eight to sixteen months to go around the world
One hundred years ago, it could be done in three
months: 1860, it was accomplished in three weeks;
but now a traveller, by taking the Lightning Driv.
en- Flying Machine,' can sleep at Detroit and by
starting at SUNRISE can breakfast at New York dine
at Jeddo. sup at Francisco, and be at Detroit again
at bed time. Thirty thousand sheets were once
thought to constitute good hours work for any
printing press now two hundred thousand sheets
an hour is slow working" the type being set and
the press being driven by electricity. Schoolbu
no longer write compositions, each one having
miniature printing press Of his own, worked by eN
tricity, by which he can print his compositions as
fast as he can think them. There more
oceans and but few mountains now a. days the noun
tains having been leveled, the ocean partially filled
in with them, leaving nothing but large inland seas
where were the Atlantic and Pacific thus great
ly increasing the land Winter is no longer the
cold season it was in the olden time even at the
North Pole. Immense furnaces have been built un
der ground, and the fire being let into them from
the centre of the earth, the heat is conveyed in
ry direction by large pipes, making winter nearly
as warm as summer. Safety-valves have been put
in every volcano, and they can do more damage
1t was lately announced that japanese philosopher
whose name is unspelled, has discovered means to
prevent earthquakes, which he will make pub.
lie. The universe, in the night time, is now lighted
by gas procured from vast natural reservoirs, few
miles below the surface of the earth The whole
world, in short is now vast repabllc OF when
Detroit is the capital, and Sandwich Islander the
president. Slavery was abolished when Africa was
7 annexed, and everybody is now free '"OmanS
rights have had their day. The cause lost all lis
male adherents when it was found that the treasur
} ess who had been elected had appropriated ioof
millions of the publc's dollars to keep herself ID
half-dresscs All these Improvements, however, are
t nothing to what are expected to be maze IN ~"
4 years. We are looking forward to the DAY Wen
the circuit of the earth can be performed IN gu
hours when the press can strike OH one nll"pn
sheets an hour; when grain and Vege'aoeS 70" oil
manufactured instead of grown; ana ABOVE on
e when we annex Mars Venus, and Mercury
which we are bound to do
RAILROADS IN Russ1A-The Scientific American !;F an
:, states that the great railroad which was pun u
: American engineers between st. Petersburg az"
j Moscow in 400 miles long. and has double G| Ta
the whole length 1t is substantially bn'' anu Tr
, trains ran at the rate of 80 miles per hour: nUr
regularity and speed it perhaps has no equai are
country. As in all monarchical countries ' nrront
cars of different grades for the people OF Wn " a
classes. For the first class of the price, C., the
: ticket for the 400 miles is fifteen dollars W. dd
second class it is ten dollars, for the thru I Of
lars. The grandecs only ride in the hrSI u" free
. cars the peasants in the third class ana 'D'
y merchants in The middle class
II The whole sum received by Byron for bis ME- ,..
J., hundred and twenty-five thousand uoJ three
e The publishers of his works probably sal""'
: times as much Sspch
d Believe me-, says Thackeray in the parIso ,,,np
l. Book, there is the face OF this world Nv # sour
like English one no BLACKBOARD like one r VI
5. half English gentlemen, so mean, so low IDnoaeg
IS ludcrousy ignorant and concelted, so 5 roas
l. heartcss and depraved" This is frank anu '''
~ The Palmer Journal man thus winds Oh . CO..
% ing notice of the death of its Shanghai l0 rng Of
ID ''His voice, when heard amidst the er n arches
other ROSTERS, was like the trombone VI dr amid
10 ira of volins, the bass of rumbllns 'n""
| the hum of dozen spinning wheels Iii.
: Farewell faithful servant, a lasting fare"sH'
From thy fate let all ROSTERS take % warn swell ZEE
at Awake u.s. to get up and go TO work. @"
IS O'Clock in the morning d, rc.
es Is FALLING OVERHEARD CONTAGIOUS On pa
re TIoUs ?-The marine report OF one oil me more sell
le pers has this paragraph, which suggests aornIoe
'h Gus question than whether saltpetre VIII n Stue
OF "Arrived at ST Jago. 21st nit bark A. Tin. ~ for
Avery from New York (pIacsd IN 1os5 man
l le en- the passage)" ean.
ds late Paris letter says =" The Anen;dty viii
h. not help noticing and admlrlng .ns Goa Thirtys
cd which the French fleet went to SCI" .be admiral,
hours after the despatch was handed to the
IS his twelve vessels left the roads OF lou to ay
p they be ordered as secretly promptly before
" Cuba they would arrive at their hot they had e"
I'd it could be known at Washington VIZ"
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