ITEMS OF INTEREST November 17, 1898 Issue

ITEMS OF INTEREST

Mr. Nikola Tesla is reported to have recently said: "War will cease to be possible when all the world knows that the most feeble of the nations can supply itself immediately with a weapon which will render its coasts secure, and its ports impregnable to the assaults of the united armadas of the world. Battleships will cease to be built, and the mightiest armor clads and the most tremendous repeller plates will be of no more use than so much scrap iron."

Mr. Tesla bases his statement upon his recent discovery of an electrical engine of destruction, which he claims to be almost unlimited in power. He claims that his scheme operates torpedo boats at any distance without intervening mechanism. From his American workshop he will control a boat at the Paris Exposition in 1900.

Mr. Tesla's claims of course yet remain to be verified. It will be gratifying to all good people to have wars cease, even as the result of the power of electricity. It would be much more gratifying if this result might be produced through the power of divine Love. But that wars and rumors of wars are nearing their end is one of the unmistakable signs of the times. May the happy day be speedily ushered in.

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