Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-06-16
REMARKABLE PROJECTS.
Conceived by the Brain of Man, and
All Possible, Hut Unlikely.


Conceived by the Drain of Man, and
All Possible, Hut Unlikely.
How many projects have there been
put forth In all seriousness, for i'm
proving the weather? VINO shall deny
/ that IL needs Improvement, many and
many a time? No doubt there are lands
where the weather Is such as to con-
tent the inhabitants perfectly. But
in this country, and in many others,
though people have grumbled almost
without ceaslng, nothing appears yet
TO have been done towards devising
really effectual means Tor taking the
edge of the most disagreeable kinds OF
weather Tho typical Yankee genius
has brought his forces to bear on the
subject. as yet without much fruit, as,
for example, In the notorious rain-mok-
Ing experiments Of short time ago.
The latest weather amelloration scheme
is reported to be the formation OF a
| company under the imposing title Of
1.-THE International Cold Wave Com
! pany," with capital Of two million
dollars, and Its headquarters In South
| Dakota. The promoters declare that
| they have discovered method Of over
coming the hot winds that injure the
growing crops, by bringing counter
| wind from the north, II success crowns
| their organized efforts. It may be a
very serious task for the same people
| to devise n means for fetching round
a warm wind TO counterfeit cold north
wind Could this have been done dur
| ing the severe winter which We have
| been experiencing. everybody would
have rejoiced-except, perhaps, the
skaters.
OF ali the many wonderful projects
| that have been devised for use In war;
| surely those which have been sub
mltted to the French war office lately
bear the palm for ahsurdity. one
| genius generated the idea OF Impress
| ing into the French service numerous
regiments OF horse files, and training
them to attack the enemy by feeding
them on blood smeared beneath a
thin skin on dummy figures clothed in
the uniforms of the Triple Alliance
| armies When war broke out these
| Insects would have the juices of pol
sonous plants added TO their rItions,
so that, when the army took the hold.
all that would require 10 be done would
be Amply to send forward the fly resi-
munts, with the result that presently
| the forces OF the enemy would be cON-
| pletely annlhilated without the neces-
sIty OF striking single blow, Another
| genius suggested that bullets filled with
| pepper would both blind the foe and
| foster trade with the colonies OF France
| which produce pepper.
II was at one time seriously sug-
sested that an excellent way VI I'M
/ proving the health OF large cities would
| he to build very lofty towers. whose
tops would reach up into the purer and
/ fresher air above, and by suitable
means pump the invlgoraung oree@es
| 10 n lower level and distribute them.
| like gas or water, from house to mouse,
Grand idea. doubtless but 1t WAS evil
IDENTIFY abandoned, for reasons which
viii readily be understood, Here now
there comes along another Inventor,
4 a $50 .
method by which the health-giving
air OF the seaside or the mountain-top
can be bottled up, and let loose In ;he
back parlor Of musty London house,
with all It's original freshness and Yigor
intact. When the business OF supply
IL fully organized. one may nave AZ WIZ
bottles OF genuine Scottish heAthory
breezes, Of pure Davos PLATE Amos
nhere or Of a warranted gcrm-frce
North Cape mixture, at SO much a
whiff. with a deduction on taking 4
quantity.
The hypnotizlng experiments which
have been attracting attention recall
10 mind the notions OF a certain
swedish "professor' who Wanted the
sururising advantages OF his peculiar
process orouring diseases. He proposed
10 freeze sufferers from any and every
malady by slow degrees into a state
OF insensihllty. to cure their ills while
they remained In the torpid state, and
eventually 10 thaw them back to con-
sclousness and the fun enjoyment OF
their pristine health and strength, one
would say that It would be rather
easler to get subjects to submit 10
hvpnotlsm than to this freezing" pro-
cess. however III they might be-
The chairman OF the Tower bridge
committee, London, Is said to have once
received a letter from Belfast genius,
with a proposal which completely puts
in the shade any possibly imaginable
way OF bridging or tunnelinr the Eng
lish Channel He declared that he had
Invented nothing less than n submer-
sion railway and locomotive engine TO
cross the Atlantic. such details as the
provision OF afr for the passengers and
coal for the engine appear TO have been
too trivial for him 60 condescend 70
! consider but doubtless in due course
these trifes will be provided for, a
vary similar absurdity Is the proposal
az n French physician TO form q syndi-
cate-but what can that blessed busl-
ness. a syndicate, not door me pur-
nose Of constructing n submarine rail-
way along the bottom OK tne channel
the cars TO be provided with ar TUBES
reaching 10 the surface.
A moro genuine engineering proposal
ts MAJ f1r postal tubes between France
and England Eech tube Is projected
10 have a diamatcr OF three feet. "a
he suspended by steel cables at a heighi
~ ia ~ a bove The water. The cables
10 10 he fixed to pillars reaching from
No bottom 10 the required height
~ nj intervals OF 500 yards apart
Stt,,sture trains. each with suit
siIs load Of mall matter. VIII iur
throueh the tubes, a bigger dsveiop,
ment ~ this postal tube Is the loea q
n's sc Me ri 10 transmit letters In pneu-
,aijs tubes laid from South America
40 ~" Europe. BY which a letter Deposited
IN he tube at Rio Janelro would ar
rive in Europe the same day.