What's Going To Happen


In fifty years the steam engine will be as old a notion, and as queer an

invention, as the press Ben. Franklin worked is now. In fifty years,

copper-plate, steel-plate, lithography, and other fine engravings, will

be multiplied for a mere song, in a beautiful manner, by the now

infantile art of Daguerreotyping. A passage to California will then be

accomplished in twenty-four hours, by air carriages and electricity; or,

perhaps, they'll go in buckets down Artesian holes, clean through the

earth! The arts of agriculture and horticulture will produce hams ready

roasted, natural pies, baked with all sorts of cookies. About that

time, a man may live forever at a cent a day, and sell for all he's

worth at last--for soap fat!



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