Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-11-15


 Other Worlds , The chief difficulty met with by all inventors of flying machines or airships is gravity. Now Keely's in- vention distinctly claims for itself the creation of an entirely new force and as much stronger than electricity as that is superior to steam.
 In Colonel Astor's book he describes new force, which makes flying for man possible. This force he calls s.apergy" and says that it is obtained by simply blending negative and posi- tive electricity with electricity of the third element or state, and by charging a body sufficiently with this fluid gravi- tation is nullified or partly reversed, and the earth repels the body with the same or greater power than that with which it still attracts or attracted it, so that it may be suspended or caused to move away into space.
 Now, this is precisely what Keely claims that his motor will do-produce "apergy.
 It is interesting to note that Colonel Astor remarks, ill his work regarding 'apergy, With this force what may we not achieve?"
 In describing the airship of the future he calls 1t an aerop1ane, " which, he asserts, came into use when suitable motor power was discovered. He says that this is to be obtained from very light paper cell batteries, which first must be charged from dynamo, after which they can supply full currents for 100 hours, enough to take the vessel around the globe. He says the power is to be applied through turbine screws, half of which are capable of propelling the flat deck in its inclined position at sufficient speed to prevent it's falling
 The airships-whose length varies from 50 to 900 feet-have rudders for giving vertical or horizontal motion and several strengthening keels that prevent leeway when turning. They are entirely on the principle of birds, main taining themselves mechanically, and differing thus from the unwieldy bal loon.
 With a Keely motor in such ship as described-supposing of course that the motor would do all that is claimed for it-Colonel Astor might have the satis- faction of seeing an invention existing only on paper so far a reality. In this connection, description of the airship ill which the heroes of Colonel Astor visited Jupiter is decidedly interesting. This vessel was glucinum cylinder 20 feet i'll diameter, 15 feet high on the sides, with a domed roof, bringing up the total height to 21 feet, with small gutter about 1t to catch the rain on Ju- bitter. The sides, roof and floor were of two sheets, each one third of an inch thick and six inches apart, the space be- tween filled with mineral wool, as protection against the intense cold of space. There were several keels under heath Large, toughened plate glass windows were in tbe roof and sides, and smaller ones in the floor, all furnished with thick shades and curtains. The floors were of lattice work, like those in the engine room of steamship There was crow's nest or observatory at the 1 top.
 That Colonel Astor will try to apply the Keely motor to flying machine seems positive, from the way his friends talk. He himself is reticent on the su5- ject, and will not state whether or not he will begin to apply the motor to air ship purposes as soon as it is in working condition, which, it is expected by the stockholders, will certainly not be later than next spring. New York Recorder. | The Tichborne Claimant Again.
 Arthur Orton, the Tichharne claim ant, who now keeps tobacco shop in Islington, was in a London police court the other day to prosecute a man wEo had stolen his watch and chain.