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The new wonders of the last few months are:
New York’s 48-story office building
The new 30,000-ton ocean greyhound Lusitania
The War airships being perfected in Europe
Marconi’s transatlantic wireless telegraphy
The powerful electric locomotive for railways
The camera phonograph.
Edison’s $1000 concrete house, built in 12 hours.
These are by no means the “seven wonders of the modern world,” they are the seven wonders of today
Saw odd tribe of earth-beings busily engaged in destroying house ~~ As means of hastening process of destruction, made use of apparatus containing smoke, fluid and noise ~~ Attached to apparatus were long artificial snakes ~~ One earth-being fidgeted around barking at others through horn.
That Mars Is Inhabited, scientists are convinced, and for years efforts to communicate with the planet, 35,000,000 miles away, have been made without avail.
The Martian astronomer stepped forward with an expectant thrill. He was about to take his first peep through the newly perfected telescope at the earth. For many years the work on this wonderful instrument had been prosecuted. It was, at last, to enable the people of the red planet to learn just what kind of beings inhabited the interesting sphere which they had so long been studying. Telescopes which had served to bring the earth to within an apparent distance of 200 miles of
their own globe had long been in use by the Martian astronomers, but now they were to be able to see their neighbor at an advantage which they had never previously enjoyed. The new Instrument was so powerful that the observer gazing through it would see the earth as plainly as if it had had actually been within hailing distance. Continue reading “Martians View a Football Game”
When one speaks of Martians one is pat to think of those canal builders, those beings who, if we were to accept Mr. Lowell’s remarkably well-sustained conclusions, no irrigate with melting polar snows and cultivate what were once the ocean beds of their drying planet. Continue reading “Men of Mars and Other Things”
Saw female earth-being physician examining closely hand of male earth-being ~~ Seemed endeavoring to locate splinter or other foreign substance embedded under cuticle ~~ Diagram on wall showed effects of injuries possible to sustain ~~ Male earth-being pleased with diagnosis.
Saw earth-being wielding blunt club ad piece of sharp metal ~~ Was laboriously cleaning away thick crust from ossified giant ~~ No doubt giant died under pleasant conditions judging from reposeful posture of remains ~~ Have noticed numerous similar specimens conspiciously stationed in public places.
A coupe of articles concerning the The William Reed Hollow Earth Exploring Club
Continue reading “W.R.H.E.E.C., 1908”
At this writing I am in comparative seclusion, owing to general eruptive conditions obtaining over extensive area of earth surface ~~ Earth-beings, old and young, in spells of frenzy carelessly throw packages of noise and destruction in unexpected places ~~ May be due to adverse planetary influences. P.S. ~~ Am in sore need of body covering.
Saw anxious earth-being and intelligent brute wandering aimlessly about in deserted region ~~ On one occasion cloud of fowl rose from ground ~~ Earth-being looked at them through long metal stick which exploded, frightening several fowl to death ~~ Earth-being placed them in large pocket.