Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1881-10-28

bring the climate OF Madeira to London
by the help of the batteries and colored
glasses before mentonedP There will
be huge sanitariums built, like the
Crystal Palace, and containing dwell
ing houses, hotels, tbeaters and gar
dens, where the weak and the aged
will live and disport themselves. In
one the climate will be warm, in anoth-
or bracing, and the managers will an
nounce that they have arranged to
bring the benefits of their unrivaled
establishment (please observe the adj
drcss) within reach of the smallest
purses. ut the same time means of
locomotion will bo largely increased,
so that it will be possible to reach any
part OF the globe within twelve hours.
l he principle OF moving balloons by
electricity has already been discovered:
iy only remains to manufacture an ap.
paratus which shall be light enough, as
well MS strong enough, to be carried up
high, and to send Big mass of silk,
cordage and car wbizzing through the
air. When this difficulty has been sur.
mounted, Brown, from Bengal wish.
ing to spend from Saturday to Monday
with his wife in London, will step into
an aerial car and be waited hther with
his nose in the Mossrs. Breathers'
"Artiiicial Respirator' (patented), sc
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 dispensationP Well, it is
highly probable that be ore the people
of this earth consent to live ut amity
they will conscientiously try all the ap.
plances of science for the destruction
of one another. There will be awfu
battles, first at sea with torpedoes, ther
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 clouds. After
this, when they have done one another
all the harm they can, the people of the
earth may take rest and agree that wal
is poor way of killing time; but lei
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 brief period passed in the ex-
change of polite messages it will be
unanimously admitted that our globula1
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-
tions in our climate result from some
unjustiiable liberties which they have
been taking with the sun by focusing
all its ravs for themselves. We cannot
expect that our descendants will stand
this; so they will unite all their ener-
gies for the fabrication of mammoth Ell.
gines which will discharge oceans oI
water, metal and fire right into the face
of Mars. In return the Martians will
pelt them with aeroliths weighing three
thousand tons, which will chip whole
mountains off the Himalayas and make
big hole where Mont Blanc now ex.
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 our puny doings, will not be
so much as remembered among them.
London Truth.