Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1899 — TO FLIRT WITH MARS. [ARTICLE]

TO FLIRT WITH MARS.

Tesla Promises Wonders by Wireless Telegraphy. Nicola Tesla, the electrical inventor, proposes to establish communication be* tween the earth and the planet mars with an instrument so sensitive that it will feel disturbances created anywhere on the globe. Tesla says: “The coming century will be the era of the atmosphere. From the moment I discovered that the air under certain conditions was a better conductor than a brass rod, I saw possibilities which made me grow fairly dizzy at their extent. The transmission of force and influence to any distance, the use of the sun’s energy for ail the needs of man, the possibility of controlling things with which there is no visible connection, these and an endless number of smaller achievements have become facts that, in a short time, will have their practical demonstrations. “The idea of wireless telegraphy which arouses such interest now because it is developed to a new basis, is not wonderful at all compared to the principle of which it Is one application.” t-trange Suicide*. A Missouri girl killed herself because her sweetheart had gone to the war. Robert F. Hayes, a Boston clerk, hanged himself with his necktie as the noose. Forked branches of an apple tree were used as a noose by a Stroudsburg, Pa, suicide. Because Ms mother would not let him go to swimming an Arkansas boy cut his rnroat. ■ , Her husband wanted to move and she did not. That led a Connecticut woman to Wflfr ootaML