Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1895 — Literary Notes. [ARTICLE]

Literary Notes.

A flying machine that actually flew —not wisely but too well, ot rather, not exactly when but dis* tinctly before it was required tolly —is described by Hiram S. Maxim in Harper's Young People for Jun. 2 >, A weight of eight thousand pounds, lifted from the ground and carried along through the air, in opposition to the will of the designer and in spite of the mechanical restraints which he had contrived, ponderously emphasizes the claims of this invention to be seriously no longer lightly dismissed ns a mi rc mechanical toy. Professor Maxim's failure in the instance now describee is the sore, of failure that proves strength and promises future success. ‘ . The volume of water that flows through New York city every dav Via the new aqueduct is equal to a river a hundred feet wide and three feet deep running at the rate of s' mile ah hour. If the full capacity of the aqueduct were used it would represent a similar river one hundred aud sixty-five feet wide.