The Red Cloud chief., 1881-12-15

bring tho climate OF Madeira 10 London
b. the help of the batteries and colotel
glasses before meptionedP There will
be huge sanitariums built. 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 win be warm, in ano;h-
err bracing. and the managers viii an
nounce that they have arranged 10
bring the benefits OF their unrivaled
establishment (pleasc observe the all
dress) within reach Of the smallest
purses. At the same time means OF
Iocomotion will be largely increased.
SO that il will be possible TO reach any
part OF the g.obe within twelve hours.
he principle of moving balloons by
electricity has already been discovered;
IL only remains TO manufacture an ap-
paratus which shall be light enough. as
well rs strong enough, TO be carried up
high. and To send a Big mass OF silk.
cordage and car whizzing through the
air. When this difficulty has been u r
mounted, Brown, from Bengal. wish
ing 20 spend from Saturday 10 Monday
with his wife in London. will step into
an aerial car and be waited hiiher with
his nose in the Mcssrs. Breathers
Artificial Respiration (patented), so
that he NAV not lose his wind in the
velocity Of his transit.
But what about standing armies and
the rivalry between Nations under the
forthcoming d~ispensation? Well. it il
highly probable that before the people
OF this earth consent 10 live ut amity
they will conscientiously try all the ap-
planes of science for the destruction
Of one another. There will be awful
battles. first at sea with torpedoes, then
on land with electrical artillery and dy-
Mantle shells, which will hash whole
army corps into bits, and finally the
aerial navies of this world will smash
each other heartily in the cloud. After
this, when they have done one another
all the harm they can. the people of the
earth may take rest and agree that war
is a poor way of killing time; but let
Generals and iingoes take heart. BY
the time Nations have begun To enjoy
universal peace some method will have
been discovered of putting this globe
in communication with our nearest
neighbor. the planet Mars, and it is
easy TO imagine what will follow then.
After a brief period passed in the ex-
change of polite messages it will be
unanimously admitted that Il globular
honor demands that we should de
clare war against Mars. Possibly
it will be found that our Mar
tian foes are more advanced in
science than we, and that the varia-
tons in our climate result from some
unjustitiable liberties which they have
been taking with the sun BY focusing
all its RAYS for themselves. We cannot
expect that our descendants will stand
this; so they will unite all their ener
gies for the fabrication Of mammoth en-
gines which will discharge ocean OF
water, metal and fire right into the face
of Mars. In return the Martians will
pclt them with aeroliths weighing three
thousand tons, which will chip whole
mountains off the Himalayas and make
a big hole where Mont Blanc now *
ISIS. 1t may not be forbidden us to
hope for a blessed time in the future,
when all the planets will be in conf
munion and plunged in continual wars,
to end, of course, in universal peace.
Then, doubtless, man will have mas
tered all that he is to know, and will
be ripe for other destinies which we
cannot even guess at. Giants will once
more inhabit the earth-giants of cult
ure, no more dressed in skins and
welding clubs-and we. their. pigmy
fOrefathers, with our small heads and
hearts and IL puny doings, will not be
SO much as remembered among them.
London Truth.