In view of the marvelous discoveries which the last half century
has witnessed no one can doubt that there is quite as much that
is marvelous to come. The dweller on the planet in the year
2000 will undoubtedly look back on these times with a good deal
of the same feeling that we of the present day have for those
who lived in the days of the stage-coach and the weekly mail;
and it is quite likely that the philosopher of that period will
speak of ours as “the good old times.” But however that may
be, and whatever the advance they have made in our condition,
we may be sure that they will find all their improvements as
necessary to existence as we now find the telegraph and railroad
and electric. If they have established intercommunication
between the planets, they will be just as dependent on those new
features as we are on the latest appliances of our civilization.
And if the air line to Jupiter should break down in such a way
as to cripple the Mars cut-off or the branch to Saturn, the
public will be just as much hindered and embarrassed as we are
by a wire-disabling blizzard in the commercial metropolis or a
fire in a central telegraph office.--Detroit _Free Press_.
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=Future, Forcasting the=--See PREVISION.