Future Day Longer

Professor Darwin Predicts It Will Equal Fifty-Five Days of Present Time.

A LONDON magazine has taken pains to collect many of the facts concerning recent inventions and discoveries, and through them gives us an idea of what this world will be in future days. In the hrst place, the length of the day is to be materially greater. The authority for this is no less a person than Professor Darwin, son of the great naturalist and president of the British Association. In course of time the present day will be prolonged to fifty-five days. It has been discovered that the days are gradually lengthening at relative rates which are calculable, though the absolute rates in time are unknown. The time is coming when the day will be equal in length to two present days, though the month will be probably as long as thirty-seven present days.

With the lengthening of the days there is to be a prolongation of the length of man's life. It has been shown that the proper application of acetic acid will considerably prolong life, and, according to one authority, this can also be accomplished by drinking sour milk. It appears that sour milk contains a friendly bacillus, which, when introduced into the main intestine, benefits health.

There is said to be no doubt that the stature of man is increasing and it is possible that the future race may be giants. In fact, Dr. Hatal, professor of neurology at the University of Chicago, claims to have discovered a wonderful food substance called lecithin, which will produce giants. It makes animals grow abnormally large. The professor tried the food upon white rats, under unfavorable conditions they grew sixty per cent faster than ordinarily. It has a similar effect upon human beings and the growth is normal and healthy.

Then there is the invention of Nikola Tesla, which will put newspapers out of business. This invention will transmit messages to the uttermost parts of the world. In order to attain this end Tesla is erecting a gigantic transmitting tower on Long Island. If the invention proves a success a man may stand in the midst of the Sahara and by means of an inexpensive little instrument which he carries in his pocket he may receive the news of New York.

At that future day artificial diamonds and rubies will be quite common. The diamond, which is made of pure carbon, is the cheapest substance in the world. And when the electric furnace is developed it is expected that diamonds and rubies will no longer be precious stones.

There will be no fogs in those days, for they will be cleared away by electrifying the atmosphere on a large scale. An important experiment in this line was made at Liverpool. The air around University College was electrified by means of a Wimshurst machine. The result was that in a dense fog a space of from fifty to sixty yards' radius was kept clear. The discoverer of this use for electricity hopes to be able to provide a sufficient number of stations on each side of a river so that the positive current from one meeting the negative current from the other side of the river will form a collision which will clear the fog away.

The future man will have no need of glasses to help his vision. Eye massage, which is gentle and gradual and causes no pain, will cure any defect of vision. The stomach and intestines will also be unnecessary, and it has been suggested that these organs will be removed by a surgical operation. Their place will be taken by a tube, into which prepared food will be dropped. Tabloids of prepared, compressed and digested food will be used, and there will be no need to waste the amount of time necessary to obtain food nowadays.

There will be no need for watches, for there will be a clock at every street corner, illuminated at night. The city of Berlin has this system of timepieces in use already, and there are about three hundred clocks scattered about the city.