The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-12
WONDERS OF rHIs NEW AGE.

The Keeley motor, with which CORE
spondents have amused popular creduIity,
is to draw, with gases evolved from cup
Of water, q train of cars, one hundred and
twenty miles an hour, across the continent.
II Keeley had resorted to whisky people
would have more faith in bis scheme Of be-
neficenee. We have seen and confessed, at
some period Of our fives, the capacity Of
whisky 10 prevent, and could imagint,its
potency in promoting iocomotion.5 But
Keeley is out done by SHREDDER whose aerial
ship is soon to transfer twelve thousand
pounds OF mail bags from New York to
Liverpool. An electric engine, to be- pro-
PEELED by the same forces that are generf.ted
in the acid-filled zinc cups of a telegraph
office, will soon drive the machinery Of
vessels, saw-mills and Of printing offices.
To make motion perpetual it is only nsces-
sary, now and then, to add to the acids a
companies will be no more, and coal oil ex-
plosions no longer knock good, innocent
danes into the seventh heaven of future
blessedness. An ingenious gentleman in
Pans uses an electric light, as brilliant as
that of the sun from which 1t is stolen, with
out cost. Eggs in New York are hatched
by electricity substituted for sober-sid ded
hens that used to cluck but now the chicks
are clicked out by lightning in the llveliest
manner. People not addicted to the use of
IL. - hot rit
messages are instantaneously sent over a
wire thousands of miles. Not only Is this
true, but two messages are transmitted in
opposite directions over the same wire at
neously printed by the same force that
hears them to their destination. The only
objection to these inventions and discover
les is found in the fact that even the best
of us, after time, as these great improve
ments and changes are evolved, will be
most unwilling to die. How can the church
reconcile Us to departure from world
wherein we will outstrip the winds when
we are whirled across the plains, and cutfly
birds of swiftest pinions when we move
through the air2 The Shredder air ship is
to take Bostonians to Paris in six hours,
and Keeley's motor railway trains will be
supplied with malleable gloss cooking
stoves, irrefragable glass cooking utensils,
and the DAILY STATESMAN, sent through
an exhausted tube in which postal clerks
will travel suspended in ''moving balls, !"
will out strip the laundering train. We
win yet read, here in Austin, the World
and Herald of the day of publication
at our breakfast tables; and, for the
life of US, we can't see the use Of dy-
ing at such time, in such an age and
in such country. Add to these sugges-
tive ''facts and fancies" the alleged incom-
ing of strange new faculties vouchsafed to
men ana women; the asserted enhancement
of all present human powers of intelligence,
the sublimation of human thought, the
condensation of language, the revival of
the lost and discovery of new arts, the in
auguration of magic as an universal science,
and we can begin to comprehend the value
and solemnity with which this present life
of ours is invested. ReligionIsts, dreamers
OF thinkers alike, have asserted that there
| is a gradual return of orderly mediatorial
experiences to those advancing in regenera-
ton, and that music in the atmosphere, as
Of choral angels chanting devinest melo-
dies, mingles with that of the human voice.
It is asserted that there are aromal conden-
sations of the air by means of which pal
\ pable representations of the invisible be-
come visible to the eye, even as of human
figures floating through the armament
Wailings are heard in the bright ernpyrean
and in human temples, temPests shake the
] earth, and sudden deaths occur from mex
plieable causes. These are only few Of
the physical and moral phenomena grow.
ing, it is alleged by modern philosophers
or enthusiasts, out of the supposed or rea
new dispensation now dawning upon the
hopes and facts and fortunes of cur race.
The New Church claims that the Apocalypse
/ tells of the establishment of this new age.