Arizona silver belt., 1900-01-04
MAN AGES HENCE.
Some Queer Prophecies From The
 School of Science.

Here are some of the most remark able prophecies ever ventured by men of science. To savants in various scientific institutions this question
 was addressed:
 "Looking as far into the future as
 your minds eye can see, what changes are likely to occur to our brains, bodies and environments"
 "Man of the distant future" said
 Professor Otis Mason, twill occupy q
 belt near the equator. The earth is cooling, and as result the Esquimau
 must leave the polar regions. Lat, I the Yankee must quit New England.
 All savage people will be eliminated from the earth.
 "rhe entire human race will be hru- nette. The blonde people were once brunettes, and became as they are through some process of interbreeding The convoutions of the brain will be larger and will admit much greater blood flow to carry on the commerce of the mind. Man will be stronger physically. Labor-saying machinery will reduce physical labor, but an in crease of athletics will make the race stronger. Disappearance of small printing type will leave the eyes much stronger.
 "The ear can never take the place of the eye until some other heavenly body can be substituted for the sun. The hat will vanish and the hair will improve.
 "The home of this age will be great communal dwelling, where all people of the same kinship will live under the same children, parents, grand parents, uncleS, auntS and cousins. Rapid transit will eliminate sky-scra- pers. Increased artiticialization Of life will render cooperation more neces- sary. Separate establishments, such as the corner grocery, will be considered absurdities of bygOne days, as will also the keeping of servants.
 "Chemically pure drinking water will free the cells of the body from mineral matter and permit man to live to the age of Methuselah. Com pressed foods will never come into use. If they should the stomach would atrophy. The death of an infant will be be an exception, whereas today one half of the human race never mature. The deadly microbe will suffer the fate of such dangerous animal pests as have already been made extinct. People who spread disease will be considered as enemies to mankind-punishable by severe penalties. Dress will be more perfectly adapted to comfort, health, longevity and beauty. It will never be deprived of ornamentation, and women and men will never dress alike.
 "Man will lose his wisdom teeth ut terly," said Curator Lucas, the anat- omist of the National Musem, "but modern systems of dentistry will prob ably save the other teeth. It is pos sible that there may be found the germ of third set, to cut after the disap pearance of the second. Mammals far back in the ages had third set of teeth, and man shows indications of l the same tendency. might add that l there is danger of the human race be- | coming homely rather than beautiful | as result of the growing tendency of man to marry for intelligence rather than beauty.
 That man of the distant future would be minus little toe was the only prophecy ventured by pr. D. S. Lamb, the patholOgist of the Medical Museum.
 Dr. Theodore N. Gill, biologist of the Smithsonian Institute, said that the wisdom teeth would disappear, as would possibly the yermiform appen- dix and little toe.
 Man himself, " said he, lis a striking evidence of the fact that he was not specially created. He is not only like the ape, but bears the impress of many inferior stocks. The appendix, for in- stance, was inherited from ancestors to whom it was important, and came to us through the apes from primitive forms somewhat like marsupial. Itl may disappear to slight extent The gray matter of the brain may increase somewhat in bulk, but cerebration is not dependent upon size of brain. It is possible that the little toe will dis appear, but doubtful. It has its use in giving greater basis to the foot.
 "The man of the remote future, :, slid Professor Elmer Gates, twill de- velop into creature as superior to man, zoologlcally, as man today is su- perior to the quadrumana. His nor nal span of life will be l50 years, with . chance for greater prolongation. His head will not be relatively larger. but his brain and spinal cord will have developed most. The number of fibre tracts connecting cell groups in the ; former will have greatly multiplied, , All bodily organs not needed will have