The Road-Town.—One of the suggested plans about which considerable is said at the present time is the building of what is called a road-town. This road-town will consist of one long, consecutive series of connected houses continuing for miles along the road. The purpose of it is to enable the country dwellers to have as good facilities in the matter of mail and other conveniences as the city dwellers. The thought is that the soil will be made to produce a great deal more; one will not need to ho
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The Road-Town.—One of the suggested plans about which considerable is said at the present time is the building of what is called a road-town. This road-town will consist of one long, consecutive series of connected houses continuing for miles along the road. The purpose of it is to enable the country dwellers to have as good facilities in the matter of mail and other conveniences as the city dwellers. The thought is that the soil will be made to produce a great deal more; one will not need to ho
It is a marvelous invention which will photograph "more than 2,000 stereoscopic images per second regularly spaced on a film with perfect clearness;" but that is what an apparatus patented by Mr. L. Bull will do, as described in the Literary Digest of May 28, which reproduces pictures of a bumblebee, dragon-fly, and a bullet passing through a soap-bubble. This means that the 17 pictures of the bullet and soap-bubble were taken in 85 ten thousandths of a second. If man can thus reproduce motion, is it not reasonable to suppose that God can record the complete record of each soul? The Road-Town.—One of the suggested plans about which considerable is said at the present time is the building of what is called a road-town. This road-town will consist of one long, consecutive series of connected houses continuing for miles along the road. The purpose of it is to enable the country dwellers to have as good facilities in the matter of mail and other conveniences as the city dwellers. The thought is that the soil will be made to produce a great deal more; one will not need to hold so many acres; each one of these who live in the road-town can have sufficient land to cultivate to supply all his needs and to help others; and this endless house will enable him to reduce rent, secure food outside of the trust, in fact to get the benefit of all inventions such as gas, power, telephone, and so on, without paying tribute to the various trusts. For such a town as that Thomas A. Edison has donated his cement house patent, and William A. Boyes his monorail patents. It certainly will be an interesting experiment, but it is a question whether it will not have an untoward effect in bringing families too close together.