Think of the railroads of the olden time, and you will be able to appreciate the pneumatic tubes through which to-day one travels at the rate of 1000 miles an hour. IN THE YEAR 2889 By Jules Verne and Michel Verne Redactors note: In the Year 2889 was first published in the Forum, February, 1889 p. Could they but duly appreciate the refinements of civilization in our day could they but compare the present with the past, and so better comprehend the advance we have made! How much fairer they would find our modern towns, with populations amounting sometimes to 10,000,000 souls their streets 300 feet wide, their houses 1000 feet in height with a temperature the same in all seasons with their lines of aƫrial locomotion crossing the sky in every direction! If they would but picture to themselves the state of things that once existed, when through muddy streets rumbling boxes on wheels, drawn by horses-yes, by horses!-were the only means of conveyance. Surfeited as they are with marvels, they are indifferent in presence of each new marvel. Little though they seem to think of it, the people of this twenty-ninth century live continually in fairyland. A classic Victorian science fiction novelfrom the author of Around the World in.
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