WHAT WE ARE COMING TO.

North Otago Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7466, 14 September 1892, Page 4

WHAT WE ARE COMING TO.

We are mastering the industrial use of energy ns fast as we comptebend its nature. Toil is to be pinged of its giiine and its iron hardsh p ; the mechanic and domestic arts will b« made refined and delcate. Tiausit ot persons and commodities and ide.is must be far more swif', sife, and econom cal than now. We shall whisper around the "lobe. An ins'rumenb will be devised which will give at once a legible and audible record of of the pulsat ons of human speech, and thus end that tedious and retarding conventionality, the alphabet. Energy will be made cheap. Flight through 'lie uppet air will be a daily matter of cruise. We sh.ill contrive numberless other things that have not yet entered into tho heart of man, all gi owing out of the co iS-rvition of energy. Meantime the other gieat sccre o* nature we Iiive discovered, biological evoluton, slowly unfolds its absorbing picture of the laws and phenomena oi life. Yet, stranue to siy, we have done almost nothing to make its istonishing revela'ious conduce to the phymcMl and moial welfate of the human r.ice. A trifle in med'eine, or, rither, suigery, and a beginniug in the b eeding of domestic animals, are all we have done. —The Forum.

What he was ch irged with. — Judge : " What is the man charged with?" Officer : '• Electricity, your honor. He stole a battery." Tiresome. — First Tramp : (t Is there anything that makes you more tired, Bill, thau to be asked to saw wood ?" Bill: "Oh, yes." First Tramp: » Wlutl ' Bill: "Sawiug it."