Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1881-11-03
THE YEAR OF GRACE sOs1.
A Forecast pr How Affairs VIII he
Couduci Two Hundred Years

Condu cled Two Hundred Years
Hence.
A visit to the electrical exhibition in
Paris will set unimaginative persons
wondering what kind of a 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-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 work for it to do. 1t would have
been thought a 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
conveying OF combustible gas by such
= method; but we have become used
now to marvels, and can easily foresee
the time when every house win 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 q button
that will sound bell, and then he will
speak through tube: .'is Mr.. Brown
at home" Answer, mo" 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 q photograph. will engrave them
selves on roll of tinfoil. When the
lady of the house comes home she will
turn the handle of her monograph,
and hear. in the very voices of her Wis
itors, what they had to say. Il am Mr..
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. How?- BY letter,
or by the present slow and roundabout
telegraphs? 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
cheerful alscrity-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. BIS London boudoir, and the con-
versation will commence through the
telephone.
"Please. dear. send me a check for
Ego this instant"
Here it is, my DEAR" and Brown,
taking up his electric stylus, fastened
to wire, will write on tinfoil draft
which will be reproduced wordfor word,
including his signature, OH correspond
ing piece of metal thousands of miles
of. The best Of this system will be that
1t will enable ladies to administer cur