Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1881-10-28
THE YEAR OF GRACE sos1.

Paris will set unimaginative persons
wondering what kind of world this
will be in that twenty first century TO
which M. Gambetta alluded the other
day. nj. Gambetta remarked that If
people were impatient to get all posi-
BILE political reforms effected at once
there would be nothing left for the
twenty-tirst 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 work for it to do. 1t would have
been thought pretty conceit in Charles
lis reign to talk of bringing water
into every household by means OF leaden
piping. and even Lord Worcester, in
his "Century of Inventions never
imagined anything so fantastic as the
conl ewing 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 battery, serving manifold pur-
poses, 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 exhaustion of the coal mines.
Long before the last scuttleful of Goals
is drawn up from the last shaft coal
will have ceased 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 q visitor
calls. The visitor will touch button
that will sound u bell, and then he will
speak through tube: "Is MIR. Brown
at homem Answer, 'tNo." 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 oriiice
of a phonograph, will engrave them
selves on n roll OF tinfoil. When the
turn the handle of her phonograph,
and hear, in the very voices of her WIS.,
itors, what they had to say: II am MIR.
Jones, who has called for the third
time to know if it is convenient for you
to pay that little bill," and so on. Sup
posing Mrs Brown to be short of funds,
she'may want to communicate with her
husband in Bengal. HowP BY letter,
or by the present slow and roundabout
telegraphsp Oh, no! Brown, as he
goes out to dine with some friends, will
be- called back by his servant saying:
"Missis wants to speak to you, sir;
there's her bell ringing" and b., re-
turning to his study-let us hope with
cheer ul alacrity-will see the form of
his consort projected into his pres
ence by means of the Pepper and
Dirk's apparatus acting in conjunction
with electric wires. Brown will forth
worth project his own presentment into
Mrs. B. IS London boudoir, and the con-
versation will commence through the
telephone.
please, dear, send me check for
EGO this instant"
Here it is, my DEAR" and Brown,
taking his electric stylus, fastened
to wire, will write on tinfol draft
which will be reproduced word for word,
including his signature, on correspond
ing piece of metal thousands of miles
off. The best of this system will be that
it will enable ladies to administer cur
tain lectures at incalculable distances,
for you must remember that, although
Brown might possibly like to disnense
with such fruits of science, there will be
am 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 phonograph, so that the first time
he sets that instrument spinning her
words will burst forth in an afl'ectionate
torrent, interspersed with sohs 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, transm sounds and shocks to
great distance; why should not
our descendants forward pleasant
sensations by electricityp No doubt
some time will elapse before every
house will be fitted up with 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 awayp We may picture O
country couple coming in to have q
talk with their daughter in Australia:
"Do you want to see her or only to
speak to herP" asks the clerk. The
old couple hesitate, for it costs ten
shillings more TO set the Pepper proc
ess in motion; but 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 al
once by the Messrs. Puller's "Artifcial
Dairymaid" (patented), she will burst
into the little box all rosy, smiling and
crying, too, may be, with the halo oil
the electrical light round her
II cannot be doubted that our de.
scendanUs will shoot electric currents
through their chops and steaks and
bring them up fixing in minute. The
Frenchman's coteliette a la minute will
then become reality. All the produce
of the earth-corn, fruit, flowers, vege.
tables will be cultivated by a happy
combination of the sun and electricity
acting in concert. When the sun is coy,
shC pastOiiCot Wibh bnClI obtllib VI COL
ored glasses for intensifying the various
properties Of the SUMS rays. will go tc
work, and there will be no more talk oi
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 o.
red, blue and yellow; and It will be {
t6,S time for slugs, snails. caterpillar
and worms, who only exist at present
to- consume what man wastes. Mar
will waste nothing when he grows to bt
more knowing; and, of course, thu
schools of the future will have theii
systems for removing the defects of Ma
fure and initiating the brains of children
TO something like uniform size. Al
present we see children stunted, who
would grow up finely ii the,
could live in a sunny climate
and young adults are d. ing all arounC
US of consumption because they canno
Giord TO go TO Madeira. But will 1t b,
30 impossible zoo or 800 years hence I.