The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1872-12-28

10 full Of them-some large and some
small, and of different degrees Of strength
They are continually racing past the moon.
They used to be very scary and wild, and
would not come near enough the moon to
be caught But that was . great many
centuries ago, when we were almost as ig-
norant as the people Of the earth are now.
II you will look behind you, she contin-
ued, you will see that long glow Of light
extending an immense distance behind us.
This quality Of heat is very elastic. and
also very tenacious, and in rushing through
the atmosphere at such great velocity the
friction of the air on the comet has ten
dency to draw out the lighter portions of
it into an elongated form, which is tena-
cious enough however to cling to the main
body of heat, ON which we sit
But, said John, show is it that we
don't feel the heat r.
IF should explain it to you, you could
not understand me, because there are in
tluences at work, and which we make use
Of, that are beyond your comprehension,
and it will require many hundred years Of
education before you earthly folks can un-
derstand But viii tell you, however,
that we cover our comets before using with
an invisible nsulator, which il entirely inn
pervious to heat. The component parts Of
the Heat InsulStor' comprise qualities
which it would be folly for me to enumer-
ate to you, rs they do not exist ON your
earth, but could be manufactured from
qualities that do exist there"
But how do you catch them rs they
rush past your moon I"
well, you know that all bodies have an
attraction for each other. Two bodies Of
equal size and Of eguSl density
have the same amount Of attraction
for each other. The sizs of any body
does not regulate its attractive force
SO much as its density, therefore the more
dense any body is the more influence it ex-
erts in attracting other bodies towards it.
So We have machines that compress matter
into a mass very many million times the
density of the mineral you call lead, and
i o. the density of our comets are much less
than water-as it exists on earth-we have
only to present a moderate sized piece of
our compressed matter towards comet As
they move round i'll the pasture in which
we keep the tanned OF treated ones, and they
4 come up 10 us as gently and as readily A. do
yonr horses. But" abe continued, do
you see that high pyramid /; that is our
Communication Observatory Your PEG
pie think it natural mountain, which il
a mistake 1t was built by our engineer t.
communicate with the inhabitants Of Ju-
piter."
The bright luminosity with which the
moon had appeared to John had disappear
ed, and upon looking in the direction point
ed out by his attendant, ne saw what ap
peared to be planet q great deal like his
own mother earth. But the light which
What is that immense planet directly
over our heads T. said John.
That Why that is the earth, VI course.
1t appears to US Of the moon Eboct thir-
teen times rs large az the .uesa does to
those On the earth. D~s ~o-.e, ter us geI
out here, she continued, q ~ a turn Of
the valve she stopped the ecsn'.t by--he side
Of richly carved ftatfo1n. John Smith,
Of earth, alighted from his ETHEREAL Hack
ney Coach. When he was well out, his
! lady attendant attached bell to the cush-
Toned seat they had just left, and after sun
dry manipulatiOns Of various parts Of its
mechanical arrangement, she opened the
valve a very little, and away went Mr.
Comet, off for the Pasture, she termed it.
(Which way now = said John, who re
ally felt very much at home, with his lady
of the moon.
"Well, just slip on these Gravity Ar
roster shoes" said she, land then we will
take stroll and see our capital city by
earth light.
John put on his shoes she gave him, and
found himself feeling very light and airy,
the least exertion sending him many feet
into the air.
''What in the world is in these shoes II
said he 81 weigh barely enough to keep
me on the ea-moon, mean"
1T would be useless for me to try to ex-
plain so you can understand all the novel
sights and improvements which we have
Acre on the moon, said she, but will
explain every thing to the extent Of ~,
capacity to appreciate. These shoes are
filled WITT gaseous matter very many mil
lion times lighter than the atmosphere sur
rounding us, and by its buoyancy ever
comes the weight of any one wearing them,
and enables them them to travel very ex-
peditiously, and with very little exhaus-
ton"
But when you take them of, won't
they rise into the air themselves r.
''They would if we did not counterfeit
their buoyancy, by placing piece Of our
compressed matter in each Of them. That
keeps them on the moon, and wherever we
place them"
How far is it TO your city r said John.
"About twenty miles. We will be there
in a few minutes. We might Just as well
have ridden there on the sonnet, but
thought you would like very much to see
the scenery along the route"
''You have no street cars here r. said
John.
''No; we done away with street cars
over 1000 years ago. Ne have what we
call the Perpetual Motion Transportation
Chairs"