Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1891 — One Hundred and Twenty Miles an Hour. [ARTICLE]

One Hundred and Twenty Miles an Hour.

New York Recorder. An expert electrical engineer is authority for the statement that a speed of miles an hour can be obtained by using electricity as a motor, and he-believes that a greater degree of speed will be obtained m the A good deal has been written in »pleasant strain of exaggeration about the swiftness’of railroad travel which is to be developed hereafter, but it is true that experiments have demonstrated the feasibility at even greater speed than is here mentioned, and for very long distances. It is by no means a chimerical idea that the time between New York and Chicago will be lessened to ten or twelve hours, and from the results already reached it is not improbable that an electric railway v.-i!) be in operation between New York and Washington within a few years which will revolutionize methods ol transportation as completely as tlri fight between the Monitor and the Merrimac changed the methods ol naval warfare. First Assistant Postmaster-Gen eral Whitfield is authority for ths statement that the oldest postmaster in the country in point of service U Roswell Beardsley, who was appointed Postmaster at North Lansing,Tompkins County, N. Y., on June 28, 1828, and still holds the office. An elderly New Yorker, whose business takes him to Europe twice a year, always makes a special contract with the steamship company that if he should die on the voyage his body is not to be buried at sea. The editor of the Minneapolis Journal, is an imaginative genus. He savs: “It will be money in the early worm’s pocket to sleep late mornings | now on. t