Show A TELEGRAM arofo TIM TIIE 3 amono amont I 1 the pr liabilities so hinks a inter in the engla english mechanic 11 al M ignazino agazine iga zine zino in vie view nr of the success of the anttn attn ot to thread ahn ad the channel between dover d calais Ca laiti by a sub submerged merced rope of wire lie ile says aan an electric telegraph tele griph to calais is not a thing that will stop tin there re it is a t ti raph ranh to 1 I ienna lenna arla aria t moscow to constanti constantinople to Is to delhi to careatta Cd leatta to the remotest bounds in short of europe and asi asly A few years ago people laughed when lord palmerston predicted at the tile southampton meeting of the british association that a time might come when the minister of the day ity being asked in parliament whether it was true that a war had broken out in india would reply wait walt an all instant till I 1 telegraph the governor general and I 1 will tell you what was thought but a good joke in is now in the tile course of being actually arciom shed and ere a few years more is likely to take its place among the sober realities of the tho age nor to the old world alone need our views view s of the ultimate progress of electro tele graphy raphy be confined for since the english channel has been crossed the crossing of the irish must follow next as but a matter of course and ireland once reached there lies but a couple of thom thousand sand miles of water or so between the old world and the new the atthe old and new world being thus thu united we should then tilen see the dream of the tha poet even more than realized the earth egird girdled ed round about not in forty v mutes but in a thousandth part of tile the time a single beat of the clock what would all other triumphs of human genius be to this time and distance utterly annihilated out the bounds bound of the planet which we inhabit A triumph only to be transcended when the planets shall themselves begin to telegraph one another which is one of the very few things which in this age of artand arn art and miracles one would venture without hesitation to say will never heppen hippen ex on FORD fond of linis illinois Il di bcd ed at fit his residence in peoria on sunday the zu 31 dinst ilis iiii lady died a few days previous messenger noy NOT 16 |