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Show THE VAGARIES OF INVENTORS i ' ' ' One Schemes to Gird the Earth'. Tho In en . lad en i' i .. hn. patent pat-ent ntl' iv, n-d ioM 1.I..I to "dn the bCiH'''e roold." He lad left hts blue piln oul plans, n'ld It nns up to the i.'ii tirv to tru.inl his secret. "I'll r' paid llio-Iawcr. when his client 1 . 1 cine, "what's In this ", lie u i!ilnl the plans. Across tho top w;- i'.Ih big headline: "De I n fur laying cables around the i( r'tl In 21 houm." "One end of the cable Is frstened to n post." the explanation said. "Tho rest of tho coll Is carried far up abovo tho clouds up, abovo the eni Ill's at-mospheie, at-mospheie, by an immense Imllnun. As the woild revolves tho balloon stands still nnd the cable will unwind Irom tho coll. In 24 hours (ho circuit will bo made, Tho earth will ho entwined en-twined " "And you couldn't convince that man in a month that hu was a fool," tho attorney sa'd. |