Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-06-06
The Discovery that's Destined e RevA
"A"1hOntze the Railroad Business.
Virginia cNev.) Chronicle.

in fact, and so pointed that the lsttor
| finally asked him if he had anv nrio,.
knowledge of the invention.
The pale young man replied that he had
not, but that he was perfecting an inyen-
ton which would prove to be one of the
most important of modern times,
Although closely pressed by reporters
and others present at the trial, he refused
to make any further statement concern
ing his invention, and the incident was
soon forgotten:
About three o'clock in the forenoon
of February %, as the shifts were being
changed at the Consolidated Virginia
works, ChrOnicle reporter standing near
the shaft Noticed miner who had just
come up the shaft whose face struck him
as very familiar. After a moments
thought the reporter became satisfied that
the young man was thepale, slight young
man. Following him as he descended
from the changing-room, the reporter ad-
dressed him, when he exclaimed:
ssI am glad to have met you, as want
to explain my invention to you. I was
not ready to speak, when I met you at
McIntosh's, some months ago, as my in
vention was not perfected, and had no
patent. But it is now ready. I received
a caveat from Washington last week, and
I don't mind showing up my plan to you.
If you will come with me to my cabin l
will show you my invention and explain
it, $50
The reporter acceded, and the cabin
only two blocks distant from the mine
was soon reached. Locking the door be-
hind him, the young man opened large
chest, from which he took small model
of an air-compressor of nearly the same
pattern as those used in the Comstock
mines, but mounted on wheels; also three
four-wheeled cars, and a delicate ladder
about four feet long and three inches
wide.
"This,'' said Alfred Marsden CHATS his
name,) s'is arailway, and that is the train.
You are probably aware that the nitro
gen, oxygen, ozone, of which the atmos-
phere is composed, can be both hquifed
and solidified separately. This is not
much more difficult than COMPRISING air;
it can be done by the same process, and
with the same kind of a machine, only the
machine will have to be much stronger,
since whereas air is only compressed to
our atmospheres, will have to compress
each of the elements of which it is COM
posed to pressure equal to at least one
hundred thousand atmospheres.
''There is all my secret. All my iuven-
ton. propose to liquify the atmosphere
and then solidify it. You can say that
propose to freeze it, if you will, and you
will not be out of the way, as that is what
it amounts to. The balance of my inVen-
ton is simply the application of the rail-
way principal on stupendOus scale. I
shall start my air compressor to work,
the compressed air being elected in the
shape of molecules that will have such
strong affinity that they will unite the
instant they are elected, and will form
solid roadway upon which the rails viii
be laid in sections, the train advancing as
the way is ready. There will be no delay
as the air will be compressed and elected
instantly with the same velocity as q
strong wind, and the train will travel at
the rate of two hundred miles or more
per hour.
GAS the compressed air will have
temperature of thirty-five hundred and
sixty-four degrees below zero, no natural
heat can melt it, and it will thus form
roadbed that will always be smooth and
compact. twill never get out of order,
and will not cost cent for repairs. viii
give it ia grade of forty-fve degrees, so for
every mile of travel one will be gained In
height. In a comparatively short time
the moon will be reached, and communi-
cation can be established with this planet
and all the Others"
seBut what will you do when you reach
the moon, which has no atmosphere?' ?'
the reporter asked.
sEThe moon has an atmosphere, " the in
ventor replied, 'totherwise how could any
thing live there?' He then resumed:
''That is the object of my invention I
have worked at it for four years, and
know that it can be done. All I lack now
is the money required to carry out my
plans. About one hundred thousand win
do. That is nothing where the profits are
bound to be gigantic"
The reporter said the room was very
close, and raised the window near where
he sat as high as it would go, The inVen-
tor continued:
'eWhen get to the moon / will take
possession of it in the name of the Com
pany that 1 will organize to cooperate
with me. There are vast deposits Of dia-
| mOnds, gold, silver, tellurium, and even
| the more precious metals there, and as
soon as the moon is reached will impress
into our Company's service all the inhab-
itants of the new world before they can
recover from the astonishment which my
arrival will cause. The third month af-
ter our arrival we will declare dividends
of $I5, ZOO, 600 to O,0oO, 900 per month,
PAYABLE in diamonds of the first water.
We will revolutionize the universe, and
have gold for cents instead of copper,
with diamonds for currency. viii you
ioin in the first trip made by mortals from
| the earth to the moon? want the trip
| to be well written up
The reporter assured the inventor that
| nothing would afford him greater pleas
ure than to accompany him on the pro-
posed trip; and then, while the inVen-
| TORS attention was directed to his ma
chine, the quilI-driver sprang out of the
window and ran off as swiftly as his legs
could carry him.
Language Of the Hair.