Show JULES VERNE DYING l 1 HE ANNOUNCEMENT AN NT that Jules T J Verne the celebrated French nov novelist list clist is 35 dying at his home In inti Amiens at the ti age ae of o 77 71 years o ars will ivill cause re reI I 1 gret ret among his hundreds of thousands of 0 readers readeth read em Vernes V novels have hav ha been bc n translated tr tea slated into irit l to every e r language i ng they the have been read r ad by b uncounted mul muI multitudes And fanciful l though llie tle works seemed at the time they made Thade their theIx up ap e mean such as twenty Th Under the Sea and nd tite In hi Eighty they do ad not seem So ao absurd now In 1870 when Twenty Thousand ea Umer the thc Sea made its ap appearance app p it was as proclaimed a splendid example of or what a vivid Imagination and a scholarly pen can produce There were crude diving lg bells bens and diving suits in those tho days dU 5 U t the submarine ves vessel vessel sel sd as a craft had ba not been dreamed of Today the submarine has almost ceased to t be a novelty It has not yet Jet done all ail that Captain Nemos emos wonderful vessel did but the time may maybe ma mabe maybe be near when when It will Around the World In Eighty Days Day was also l o 1 highly fanciful t tIt It was published In 1872 and almost im Ira immediately mediately wide popularity AU AH of us remember the struggles les Phileas Fog Fogg made to win his wager and the Ule success SS that finally anally noan crowned his laud laudable laudable able a le efforts He won the race and the sterling by b completing the circle as ruI the clock dock was striking the hc last hour o of the eightieth day Nowadays the theman theman theman man who occupies i s eighty ight days in go going going ing lug around the le world la is i looked ed upon as 55 a n It has been done in very ery much b Ic JQ s Wine time We have not the eec rec records at hand band but our recollection is that one traveler circled the globe in inless less lesis than fifty da lays days s Vernes Five Fhe Wo ks in a Balloon His Journey Jour ey to the Center C ter of the Earth and his Voyage to the Moon Muon have not yet been accomplished u in lu real life urea but bt he told t ld the tories StorieS so 50 well that he convinced eon many man of or his readers that they Ule might come true some some day And AndEO nd EO q they thc might come true Who Vho knows l |