Show FIFTY DAYS SOME time ago a sensational story was published by jules verne entitled around the world in eighty days ll 11 which was subsequently dramatized and not long since presented by a traveling dramatic company at the theatre in this city it was f full all of exciting situations and drew good houses it is true that the whole fabric was fic tl ti cious but like many other stories by the same author it was based upon a platform of facts sufficiently solid to make it appear plausible Jules Verne alt although bough a noted romancer is a fascinating writer and h his is imagination seems to revel in the development ot 0 scientific discoveries which shortly afterward become accomplished facts in one of his novels he describes the nautilus a submarine steamer which travels leagues under the sea at the time this book was published no such vessel existed but now we have frequent Ire quent accounts of submarine excursions sub ly on the system outlined by him in tue tae story again lie he gives us around the world in eighty days and it we may credit statements in regard to a recent russian enterprise the exuberant night flight of his imgana tion will soon be outstripped by accomplished complis hed facts it is asserted that the thellus russian sian government is about to construct a railroad irom from the borders of russia in europe across the vast expanse of siberia to the pacific terminating at the yort port ot tock on tae ane sea of i japan apan it is a great enterprise and will probably require five or six years to complete it at the expiration of that time however it is estimated that it will be possible to td travel from st petersburg to cladi on tile the pacific in fifteen days round bound the world in eighty days can be beaten with present facilities for rapid transportation but when this line shall be finished it would be possible for travelers to circumscribe the world in fifty days say new york to london seven days thence to st petersburg three days from that point to fifteen days thence by steamer to san francisco xin nineteen eteen days and by rail to new york six days this is all with within inthe the bounds of possibility and should the pacific steamers move with the celerity of the greyhounds grey hounds of the atlantic which eliere is no good reason to prevent the nineteen days allowed for that portion of the trip mi might lit be materially shortened the world moves |