Nikola Tesla, Expert Electrician and Dreamer of Dreams

Nikola Tesla, expert electrician and dreamer of dreams, has dreamed that the greatest scientific achievement of this century will be interplanetary communication by means of wireless telegraphy. At this present writing the achievement has advanced no farther than the detection by Mr. Tesla of certain slight electrical disturbances whose origin the scientist has, by a process of elimination, located in the planets. That is to say, Mr. Tesla thinks that these electrical disturbances must be caused by the planets, because he can't think of any other cause for them. As Mr. Tesla spends his laborious days airily manipulating the most powerful and irresponsible electric thingumbobs known to man and incidentally dodging accidental electric flashes a hundred feet or so long, one would think that he need not have gone so far away from home as the planets to discover the probable cause of any such ordinary accidents of his peculiar environment as minor electric disturbances. Even, if for reasons satisfactory to Mr. Tesla, the obvious explanation of the minor electrical disturbances that have puzzled him is inadmissible, why planets? Why not cats? But this is probably frivolous, and far be it from the Chronicle to frivol with the mysterious and awesome possibilities of Mr. Tesla and his electrical laboratory. Surely though, there can be no offense in suggesting that "the greatest scientific achievement of the age" is still in the nebulous stage of its development and that many ifs stand between Mr. Tesla's dream and its realization. — Rochester Democrat.