I had expected Morgana Royal to grace the function, but I hear she is quite engrossed with the decoration and furnishing of her Sicilian palace, as well as with her advising artist, a very good-looking Marquis or Marchese as he is called.

It is also whispered that she has invented a wonderful air-ship which has no engines, and creates its own motive power as it goes! Sounds rather tall talk!--but this is an age of wonders and we never know what next.

There is a new Light Ray just out which prospects for gold, oil and all ores and minerals, and finds them in a fifty-mile circuit--so probably nobody need be poor for the future.

When we've all got most things we want, and there's nothing left to work for, I wonder what the world will be worth!" Seaton left off reading and thrust the letter again in his pocket.
"What will the world be worth ?" he soliloquised--"Why, nothing!" Suddenly struck by this thought, which had not always presented itself with such sharp and clear precision as now, he took time to consider it.

Capital and Labour, the two forces which are much more prone to rend each other than to co-operate--these would both possibly be non-existent if Science had its full way.