The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-12-15
THE YEAR CT GRACE 2oa1.
4 Forecast Of How Affairs Will Be
Conducted Two Hundred
Years Hence.

will be in that twenty-first century to
which N. Gambetta alluded the other
day. NJ. Gambetta remarked that il
people were impatient to get all possible
political reforms effected at once there
would be nothing left for the twenty
first century to accomplish; but it is
probable that in two centuries hence
the world will be as different from that
OF to-day as the latter is from the world
OF the seventeenth century, and we need
not trouble ourselves TO leave word for
it to do, 1t would have been thought a
pretty conceit in Charles HIS reign to
talk of bringing water into every house,
hold by means OF leaden piping, and
even Lord Worcester, in his "Century
of Inventions" never imagined any
thing so fantastic as the conveying of a
combustible gas by such method; but
we have become used now TO marvels,
and can easily fOresee the time when
every house will have Its electric bat
te'y, serving manifold purposes, and
when most of the things done for US at
present by steam will be performed by
electricity. We have no occasion to
worry ourselves about the possible eX-
haustion of the coal mines. Long before
the last scuttleful of Goals is drawn up
from the last shaft, coal will have ceas-
ed to be applied to most of its present
uses.
In the house of the future there will
be no knocking at doors and summon
ing up servants every time a visitor
calls. The visitor will touch a button
that will sound bell, and then he will
speak through tube: as Mr.. Brown
at homer" Answer, "No' Instead of
dropping his card Mr.. Robinson will
say that he leaves his compliments, with
kind inquiries; and these words passing
down the tube into the orifice OF a phon-
OgTaph, will cngraye themselves on a
roll of tinioil. When the lady of the
house comes home she will turn the ham
die of her phonogTaph, and hear, In the
very voices of her visitors, what they
had to say: al am Mr.. Jones, who has
called for the third time TO know il it is
convenient for you to pay that little
bill," and so on. Supposing Mrs.
Brown to be short of funds, she may
want to communicate with her husband
in Bengal. How? By letter, or by the
present slow and roundabout tele-
graphs? Oh, mol Brown, as he goes
out to dine with some friends, will be
called back by his servant saying
"Aissis wants to speak to you, sir;
there's her bell ringing" and B., re-
turning to his study-let US hope with
cheerful alacrity-will see the form OF
his consort projected into his presence
by means OF the Pepper and Dirk's APP
paratus acting in conjunction with cleo
trio wires. Brown will forthwith pro-
ject his own presentment into Mrs. BIS
London boudoir, and the conversation
Wilt commence through the telephone.
lease, dear, send me : check for
820this instant"
'sHer6 it is, my DEAR" and Brown,
taking up his electric stylus, fastened to
q wire, will write on tinfoil draft
which will be reproduced word for word
with his signature, oh corresponding
piece of metal thousands ofmiles off,
The best of this system will be that it
will enable ladies to administer curtain
lectures at incalculable distances, for
you must remember that, although
Brown might possibly like to dispense
with. such fruits of science, there win be
an electrical bell at the head of his bed
which will leave him no peace until he
starts up and says meekly, with his ear
to the telephone: "Now, my dear, Pm
He will gain nothing by
taking himself out of doors either, TOR
will not his wife be able to speak into
his phonOgraph, SO that the first time he
sets that instrument spinning her words
will burst forth an affectionate torrent,
interspersed with sobs! 1t is pleasant
to reflect, however, that Brown will be
able to make peace by transmitting a
kiss through the wires. We, to-day,
transmit sounds and shocks to a great
distance; why should not our descend
ants forward pleasant sensations by
electricity? No DOUBT some time will
elapse before every house will be fit
ted up with q perfect electrical appa-
ratus; but when these contriVances get
fairly established in the dwellings OF
the rich, there will be public electrical
offices for persons of small means. Can
not we imagine what such an office
would be with its vast hall, its rows of
batteries in compartments like pews,
and is crowds of people streaming in
to correspond with friends far away
We may picture a country couple COM
ing in to haYe talk with their daughter
in Australia: "Do you want to see her
or only to speak to herr" asks the clerk
The old couple hesitate, for it costs ten
shillings more to set the Pepper process
in motion; but a wistful look passes
over the mothers face, and the father
winks to the clerk: "Aye, we must see
the lass" and after the delay necessary
to call Betty from her electrical dairy,
where she is milking twelve cows all at
once by the Nessrs. Puller's "Artiticial
DairymaId" (patented), she will burst
into the little box all rosy, smiling and
crying, too, may be, with the halo OF the
electrical light round her.
II cannot be doubted that our de-
scendants will shoot electric currents
through their chops and steaks and
bring them up fizzing in a minute.
The Frenchman's cOtellette la minute
will then become reality. All the
produce of the earth-corn, fruit, flow
ers, VegetableE-will be cultivated by a
happy combination of the sun and cleo
tricity acting in concert. When the
sun is coy, the batteries. with their sys-
TENS of colOred glasses for intensifying
the various properties OF the suns rays,
will Sc to work, and there will be no
more talk OF backward potatoes then
than there will be of backward boys.
The sluggish vegetable, startled to its
very roots by galvRnic currents, will
have TO wake up and take its vivifying
bath of warmth strea aiming through re-
volving glasses of red, blue and yellow (;
and it will be r bad time for slugs,
snails, caterpillSrS and worms, who
only exist at present to consume what
man wastes. Man will waste nothing
when he grows to be more knowing /;
and, OF course, the schools of the future
will have their systems for removing
the defects of nature and Initiating the
brains of children to something like
uniform size. At present we see chill
dren stunted, who would grow up finely
If they could live in a sunny climate,
and young adults are dying all around
US of consumption because they cannot
afford to 90 to Madeira. But will il be
impossible 200 or 500 years hence 10
bring the climate OF Madeira to London
by the help of batteries aud colored
glasses before mentioned? There will
be huge sanitariums built, like the
Crystal Palace, and containing dwell
ing houses, hotels, theaters and gardens
where the weak and the aged will live
and disport themselves. In one the
climate will be warm, in another brsc-
ing, and the managers will announce
that they have arranged 10 bring the
benefits OF their unrivaled establishment
| (please observe the address) within
reach of the smallest purses. At the
same time means of locOmotion will be
| largely increased, so that il will be pos
sible u reach any part of the glob,
| within twelve hours. The principle o.
moving balloons by electricity has al
ready been discovered; it only remains