HOW TO GET EOUND THE WORLD IN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3820, 26 March 1881, Page 4

HOW TO GET EOUND THE WORLD IN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS.

An eccentric Berlin philosopher announces that he has discovered a way to make a trip around the world in twentyfour hours. He says that he is informed by the captains of ships that birds are seen at sea 1,000 miles or more from land, and pronounces it self-evidnnt that they must reach shore in a very short time, since they cannot find a resting place in midocean. From this he conceived the idea that they merely raise themselves aloft, with only enough motion to keep afloat remain as nearly stationary as possible, while the earth revolves around under them. All they then have to do is to wait until the desired spot on the earth's surface comes, along, and therefore comfortably to: lower themselves to solid ground. This ingenious practice on the part of birds the Berlin man proposes to imitate for mankind with the assistance of balloon and passenger, car of peculiar construction that he has'invented, and which will soar aloft and remain stationary, while the restless earth rolls on below. It does not appear that he has successfully tried a trip with his balloon himself, but he has laid his theory before the Polytechnic Society of Berlin, and given an elaborate exposition of it. The .society received it apparently with levity, but the inventor is in dead earneet.