Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1881-11-03

Brown might possibly like to dispense
with such fruits of science. there will be
an electric 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 telephones: "Now. my dear, I'm
listening" He will gain nothing By
taking himself out of doors either, for
will not his wife be able to speak into
his photograph, so that the first time
he sets that instrument spinning her
words will burst forth in an afectionate
torrent, interspersed with sobs, 1t is
pleasant to reflect, however. that Brown
will be able to make peace by transmit
ting a kiss through the wires We.
to-day, transmit sounds and shocks to
great distance; why should not
our descendants forward pleasant
sensations by electricity? No doubt
some time will elapse before every
house will be fitted up with q perfect
electrical apparatus; but when these
contrivances get fairly established in
the dwellings Of the rich, there will be
public electrical offices for persons of
small means. Cannot we imagine what
such an Office would be with its vast
hall, its rows of batteries in compart-
ments like pews, and its crowds of
people streaming in to correspond with
friends far away? We may picture a
country couple coming in to have a
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
shilIings more TO set the Pepper proc
ess in motion; but q wistful look passes
over the mothers face. and the father
winks to the clerk: faye. 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 Messrs. Puller's .'Artiicial
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.
1t cannot be doubted that our de-
scendanLs will shoot electric currents
through their chops and steaks and
bring them up fixing in minute. The
Frenchman's cotelietfe a Ia minute will
then become 3 reality. All the produce
OF the earth-corn. fruit, flowers, vege-
tables will be cultivated by happy
combination of the sun and electricity
acting in concert. When the sun is coy.
the batteries, with their systems of col
ored glasses for intensifying the various
properties of the suns rays, will go 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 root by
galvanic currents. will have to wake up
and take its vivifying bath OF warmth
streaming through revolving glasses of
red. blue and yellow; and it will be
bad time for slugs, snails. caterpillars
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 Ma
ture and initiating the brains of children
to something like uniform size. At
present we see children stunted, who
would grow up finely if they
could live in q sunny climate.
and young adults are dying all around
us of consumption because they cannot
afford to go to Madeira But will it be
so impossible zoo or 500 years hence to
bring the climate of Madeira to London
by the help of the batteries and colored
glasses before mentioned? There will
be huge sanitariums b.ilt, like the
Crystal Palace, and containing dwell
ing houses. hotels. theaters and gar
dens, where the weak and the aged
will live and disport themselves. In
one the climate will be warm, in anoth-
er bracing. and the managers will an
nounce that they have arranged to
bring the benefits of their unrivaled
establishment (please observe the ad-
dress) within reach of the smallest
purses. At the same time means of
iocomotion will be largely increased.
so that it will be possible to reach any