The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-07-03
REMARKABLE PROJECTS.
Conceived BY the brain Of Man. ind All
Possible. but unlikely-Short Chapter
Cpou the ldio;ie Side Of the Inventive

Pos sibic. but Unlikely Short Chapter
upou the Idio;ic Side Of the Inventive
Instinct.
From the Cleveland World.
How many projects have there been put
forth. in all seriousness. for improving
the weather? Who shall deny that 1t
needs Improvement, many and many a
time? No doubt there are lands where the
weather Is such as to content the inhab!
tants perfectly. But in this country and
in many others. though people have grum-
bled almost without ceasing nothing APP
pears yet to have been done toward de-
vising really effectually means for TAX ing
the edge of the most d!sagreeable kind OF
weather The typical Yankee genius has
brought his forces to bear on the subject,
as yet without much fruit, as, for exam
Pile, in the notorious rain-making expert
men;s of a short time ago. The latest
weather amelorat.On scheme ts reported
to be the formation of a company under
the imposing title Of THE International
Cold Wave Company" with capital of
s2,GcO.C0o. and Its headquarters In South
Dakota. The promoters declare that they
have discovered method of overcoming
the hot winds that .njure the growing
crops, by bringing a counter wind from the
north. II success crowns their organized
efforts. II may not be u very serious task for
the same people to devise a means Cor
fetching round warm wind to counteract
a cold north wind. Could this have been
done during the severe winter which We
have been experiencing, everybody would
have rejoiced-exc@ pit, perhaps, the skaters.
To Tame Horse Flies.
OF all the many wonderful projects that
devised for use In war. surely those which
have been submitted to the French war
office lately bear the palm for absurdity.
One genius generated the idea Of Impress
ing into the French service numerous
regiments of horse flies, and training
them TO attack the enemy by feeding
them on blood smeared beneath a thin
skin on dummy figures clothed In the uni
forms Of the Triple Alliance armies. When
war broke out these insects would have the
juice of poisonous plants added to their
rat!ons, so that, when the army took the
field, all that would require to be done
would be simply to send forward the fly
regiments with the result that presently
the forces of the enemy would be COM
pletely annihiliated without the necessity
of striking a single blow. Another genius
sussestcu tHdt UuIiet5 IileO with pepper
would both blind the foe and foster trade
with the colonies of France which pro-
duce pepper
II was at one time seriously suggested
that an excellent way of improving the
health Of large cities would be to build
very lofty towers. whose tops would reach
UP into the purer and fresher air above,
and by suitable means pump the invigor-
ating breezes to a lower level and distrib-
ute them, like gas or water. from house
to house. Grand idea, doubtless, but 1t
was evidently abandoned for reasons
which will be readily understood. Here,
now, there comes along another inventor,
who claims to have discovered a method
by which the health-giving air of the sea-
side or the mountain top can be bottled
up, and let loose in the back room Of
musty London house, with all its original
freshness and vigor intact. When the bus
mess of supply Is fully organized one may
have at will bottles of genuine Scottish
heathery breezes. of pure Davos Platz
atmosphere, or of a warranted germ-free
North Cape mixture. at so much q whiff,
with reduction on taking a quantity.