The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1894-07-25
CHEMISTRY ACE.
All Things As They Now Are Will
Be Completely Revolution
lied Then.
We Will Live on Chemical Food,
Travel Through the Air and
Register Thoughts.
WILL BE GREAT GAMERS.

1t is difficult for ordinary mortals to
say what the Twentieth century may
have in store for us. Mr.. Tesla tells us
that we shall be able to light out houses
by disconnected globes of glass,
which we can make luminous or non-lu-
minous at will, by placing them within
or without the influence OF electrostatic
currents emanating from the walls OF the
apartments Mr.. Eddison says we shall
be able to see long distances by electric
ity; Prof Houston, that our thoughts
will be self registering; Prof. Silvanus
Thompson, that we will soon be speak
ing by telephone with England, and Mr..
Preece, that we shall some day do the
like with the planet Mars. Now comes
M. Berthelot, the French chemist, and
one OF the most eminant savants of the
day, who assures us that agriculture and
stock raising is doomed, and that our de-
scendants will feed on the dainties of
the chemical laboratory, prepared from
carbonic acid, nitrogen and hydrogen
gases. NJ. Berthelot foreshadows with a
very liberal hand all kinds of resources
of which we are ignorant, which will be
placed at the service of humanity in the
year 1000. There will be no use for coal
mines, as the problem Of combustibles
will be solved by the assistance OF chem
istry and physics. There will be no mi
ners' strikes, no custom duties, no pro-
tecionism, no wars and no frontiers wa
tered by human blood. Aerial naviga.
ton, with its motive power supplied by
chemical energy, will relegate all
such obsolete institutions to the past.
ave shall then be very near realizing
the dreams OF ocialism-provided we
succeed in discovering a spiritual chem
istry which will change the moral nature
OF man as profoundly as our chemistry
transforms his material nature" M.
Berthelots blan for utilizing the internal
heat OF the earth is ingenious. He says
that TO obtain the central heat it would
suffice to dig wells 5000 or 1000 meters
deep, which the engineers Of the future
should have no great difficulty in doing.
At the bottom of these wells the water
would reach very high temperature,
and would consequently develop press
ure capable of keeping in motion all the
machines in the world. There will be
no more harvest fields. no more vine
yard, and no more herds OF cattle, be-
cause nobody will eat bread or meat, or
drink wine, but confne himself to his
chemical lozenge. Man will gain in
nd morality, because he will
ton OF living creatus~-- tha dastr,c-
b. transformed into vast garden, wass.-
ed by the effusion of subterranean
springs, and the human race will live on
IL in abundance, as in the legendary age.
To the charge Of being visionary, M
Berthelot replies that railways, steam
boats, photography, telegraphy and tel
ephony are no more wonderful than
what he predicts, and they were treated
as chimercial before they were realized.
However mythical M. Berthelot's predic-
tions may be, they are, ON the whole,
comforting, and contain nothing that Is
calculated to cause alarm. -Courier-Jo
nal.