The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1874-07-23
THE STANDARD.
THURSDAY. : July as, Is4a
The Possibilities of Future Discovery.

A striking illustration of the popular
lack of scientific reasoning IS to be found
in an editorial which recently appeared
in the New York Herald as follows:
"The widest imagination is unable to
predict the discoveries of the future.
For all we know. families in the next
century may pump fuel from the river
and illuminate their houses with ice and
electricity. Iron vessels, properly mag
netized may sail through the air like
balloons, and trip to the Rocky Noun
tains may be made in an hour Perhaps
within fifty years American grain will be
shot into Liverpool and Calcutta through
iron pipes laid under the sea- BY means
of condensed air and cold vapor englPSs.
excursion parties may travel alopS the
floor of the ocean, sailing past anclent
wrecks and mountains of coral On lanu
the intelligent farmer may turn tne SOL
of a thousand acres ID DAY, wnile ms
son cuts wood with a platinum wire and
shells corn by electricity. Inc matter
now contained in New York daily may
he produced ten thousand times min
ute. on little scraps of pasteboard, by inn
proved photography, and boys may sell
the news of the world printed on visiting
cards, which their customers will read
through artificial eyes. Five hundred
years hence a musician may play piano
in New York connected with instru-
ments In San Francisco, Chicago, Cincin-
natl New Orleans and other cities, which
will be listened to by half million OF
people speech delivered in New
York will be heard Instantly in the halls
of those cities; and when fashionable
audiences in San Francisco go to hear
some renowned singer, she will be per-
forming in New York or Philadelphia.
his inflated overcoat, with a pair of light
steering wings fastened to his arms, and
90 to Newark and back in an hour. All
the great battles will be fought in the
air. Patent thunderbolts will be used
instead of cannon. A boy in Hoboken
will go to Canada in the family air car
riage to see his sweetheart, and the next
dav his father will chasten him with a
magnetic rebuker because he did not re-
turn before midnight. The time is COM
ing when the Herald Will send reporter
to see man reduce one of the Rocky
Mountains to powder in half day.
Skiliful miners will extract gold from
quartz as easily as cider is squeezed from
apples A compound telescope will be
invented on entirely new principles, so
that one may see the planets as distinct
ly as we now see Staten Island. Micro
scopes will be made so powerful that a
particle of dust on gnat's back will ap-
pear larger than Pixies Peak. And mar
velous progress will be made in psyco
logical and mental sciences. Two men
will set in baths filled with chemical
liquids One of them may be in Denver
and the other in Montreal. A pipe filled
with the same liquid will connect the
vessels, and the fluid will be so sensitive
that each may know the others thoughts
In these coming days, our present mode
of telegraphing will be classed with the
wooden plows of Egypt, and people will
look back to steamships and locomotives
as we look back to sailboats and stage
coaches.