Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1883-05-16
Coming Inventions.
WHAT MAY BE EXPECTED IN THE
NEXT DECADE.

WHAT MAY BE EXPECTED IN THE
NEXT DECADE.
what more can be invented? ask
ed an enthusiastic citizen on Saturday
listening 10 the talk over the line from
Chicago 10 New York.
why, we have only begun replied
gentleman who had paid some atten
ton TO the subject. TO talk six hun
dred miles or so is nothing. Why, yor
inst wait len years and l will tell yor
what you will see.'
We'll, lets hear you now
In the first place the present MolaC
system of telegraph will have entirely
passed away. Talking will be mucl
more rapid and accurate.
Yes, l admit that
'Well, that is not all. There will bt
perfect net work of telephone com
munication, and it will be very cheap.
But that will not be all. BY the pay
ment Of very small sum .he father il
northern OHIO can step to the tele
phone station at the township and tall
with the married daughter who many
years ago emigrated to Dakota. As h(
talks he will look into finely adjusted
mirror that stands before his face, and
IN that mirror he can see the face of hi;
beloved daughter as she talks 10 him.
She at her end of the line, Of course
will observe the coun tenance OF bel
! father clearly and distinctly also. Th'
conversation will run something likt
this:
You seem 10 be little pale to-day
father. Are you as well as usual?
Why, yes, l guess l am all right
How are the babies?'
oh, Sally was sick all night ant
don't seem 10 be just right this morn
ing. Here she is (holding her up TO th'
telephone). You must excuse her ap-
pearance. Her face is not very clean
[ have been so busy that have no
had time to wash it. and she has beer
playing around and got this apron very
dirty, too
Sally is all right; amt thee, LITTLE
one? How grasdpa does wish h0 coult
take her in his arms. He can see he
very clearly, though l think SIZE look
more like her mothers folks as sht
gets older, don't You?'
Yes, we all agree on that; William
has insisted almost ever siuce she wal
born that she was mothers girl. Bu
here is Henry and John both want Il
see and talk with grandpa a minut
this morning.
Bless their souls, grandpa wants t,
see them, too. Let them come 10 !h
'phone.'
And so the conversation will 90 on
aud all for ten cents
'But that will spoil the United State
mail. What will be the Use OF writlni
letters when we can all talk that way?
There will be none at all. But thi
telephone business will be run by th
government, and the price Of communi
cation will be kept down 10 the miui
mum. When we think that we cal
now talk over liue GOO miles long anC
hear what is said, do you think that
expecting very much? Who would hay,
believed that such thing as a tele
phone was possible ten years ago
tell you am not speaking atrandom il
what have SAID above. Through wit
wonders are we ? Why, man, we hav
only just begun. We have got to stud
up some means of rapid transit BY
which newspapers at any rate can b
sent to and from one part OF the coun
try to another much faster than now
News will get very old before tul
description can be sent from one par
of the country by telephone. Men ar
now studying the problem of electri'
locomotion, and in ten years it will be
an accomplished fact. This is fas
age Ha, Ha. This is an OK team
and covered wagon age compared t
what is coming. Twenty-Five mile
per hour for an express train Bah
who would be willing 10 wait for that
We shall spin along at least at The rat
of thirty or fourly miles per minr'
when there is any necessity for 50 doing
Not possible? Why, man, you are
skepuc! Anything is possible 10 mod
ern Yankee mind aud genius. W
can do anything we haye mind to do
aud we will
The man who thought the Inventor
had got TO the end OF their string wake
away in rt thectlye mood Cleretan
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