The age is becoming essentially and terrifyingly Frankenstinian. Within a few months of America acts as a: salesman and can even answer certain questions, Britain Preduces a ship so uncanny as practically to be able to sail the seas herself, at least so we gather from the telegram yesterday regarding the alllectrie ship Bruns. wick that has been undergoing her trials on the Clyde. One can imagine somebody on the Clyde, for example, designing to send the vessel to New. York, and performing: no more complicated an act than inserting into some part of the machinery a perforated roll such we use with a piano-player, and then letting things take their course,, The objection will at once be raised that the piano-player attachment could take no account of drift on the ship's part caused by tides and currents, but apparently this would be no more difficult to overcome than the introduction an adagio passage into a piece which the moment before had been some Jers also enable this monster to spect the rule of the read and avoid other ships, and the plot to do the sailorman out. of his job will then bbe complete. We forgot to mention in introducing this subject the automatic hydro-electric plant which has already been put into operation with 90 much success in Sweden that ie has been decided there to construct others of a similar nature, and that gives a yet greater significance to this new type of ship. All the tame it is impossible to get out of our minds the fact that it took the bravest and most capable of men in the past to wrest from the sea such mastery a8 we have, and whatever may evolve in other realms, we still have the suspicion, that "where the sea is concerned ence earn never be more than an aid to the human factor.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.