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Show TIIK I'AMIM' 11T. With ocean steamers reeling off miles at tbe rato ola hundred lu four hcurs we thought a point somewhere near ths limit had beeu reached, but It begins to look nslf we might be mistaken; not raltUken a little, but greatly and bewllderlngly no. It now stem! that an Inventive geutui named Ubeflleld, who operates In New Vork, hai Incubated and applied an Idea for a mctor which li to drive tlioiu marine monsters through tbo foaming main at the rale if eighty miles an liourl Thla would lend a ablp from Kaaluet to Handy Honk lu a day, and It aouhds a little too Utopian to be received and entertained all at once. The New York J'rut aays that fast ocean travel Is SheMo!d' hobby. It la mori; It la Ills life. Ho proposes to replace re-place ateam as a motive power; to pro. pel a ressel across the Atlaullo with a few gallons of tulphurlo acid and a fewbarrelaof sugar aud chlorate of potaih. Gnat steam tiollers and Capacious coal bunkera lie will maku things of the tall. J)y means of completed air tbe potaih aud tugar ars blown together and tnlxelln a compartment, whloh takes tbe place of the boiler lu an ou-glne. ou-glne. l)ros of tulphurlo acid fall upcu this combination, cauilng a erlea ol rapidly recurring explosions, the ihock of which takea the place of atenra lu forcing ths piston baok and forth. The cylinder la kept cool and the refute washed away by en Ingenl-oua Ingenl-oua proceaa of applying water, which aerveaitlll another purpoiu In abiorb. lug the imoke. During an Interview he aaldi "Walt, wait," Ida face lighting tip and Ida eyea twinkling; ' all until I gel Hlu aoulo great octun vraaeta. '1 ben the world will not acotr. 'I tier won't be atnamahtpa any longer, Why, ahoMI skip through tho water at the rato of eighty uilloi an hour. Tho faster tlio eater that's right. If you send It fuat enough you cainlrlvo a candle through a board, you know. Yis, slri that's right." He lias been working on his "great Invention" for two yeara and though seventy cars old Is still quite vigorous. He keeps hammering away at his work, which Is all done lu a garret from which ho seldom emerges, aud Is nipiuited b) grown-up sous and daughters, ile seems to liavo a reputation repu-tation as a crank, Lut then we can't alwayi Judgu by that; Itobert I'ulton was similarly gauged unce uou a time. |
