Show tise wonders or braul horace greeley is credited with having thought that pneumatic tubes would stretch across the continent and make the passage between new york and san francisco a matter of hours instead of days one thousand milea per sixty minutes we believe was tho limit of hia imagination now comes a frenchman with a scheme which is said to be practicable to make steam locomotion accomplish com miles per hour and simultaneously is extended to the world a theory for building a railway from new york to london not under the atlantic but westward ever westward from new york to san francieco thence skirting the pacific coast into alaska tunneling JB ehring emerging into asia stretching across the vast plains and tunneling the mountains at st petersburg burg and there connecting with the railways for the british metropolis the these things may seem extravagant to conservative minds but they possible they are more than poss sible they arc certain and necessary unless better projects shall take their pance within the generation of adults now living a man will be able to eat his breakfast in new york and his dinner in san francisco ho may sleep one night in washington tho next in san francisco the next in sitka the next in st petersburg and next in london or paris this is a very agreeable prophecy but it has its drawbacks even in case of fulfillment the day records its opening at some point in the pacific ocean when travel gets BO rapid how shall a man tall whether it is today or yesterday or tomorrow to morrow |