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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 413, 6 February 1890, Page 3

Albert Hurd, whose fondness for the hottie has secured him introductions to many learned gentleman who assist in the dispensation of justice, has again been consigned to the care of the benevolent Government officials. On Tuesday three days' rest was awarded to the weary one. Mr Hurd was supposed to have turned over s new leaf this year, but somehow he began st ths wrong end of the page, and not being gifted with a felicity ot expression he is unable get the Justices to see the matter in the same light as he does.

According to a Home paper a young Cossack engineer, named Leonide Apostaloff, has made a discovery and patented an invention, ” destined to change the face of the maritime world,” It consists ot a boat, which he calls tbe Bateau Plonflem’, which he declares will cross the Atlantic under water in twenty-six hours I The marvels claimed for the invention actually take one’s breath away, It is alleged that whoa under water it will travel at the rate of 120 knots an hour| it it is half out of the water it will, so to speak, dawdle along at the comparatively insignificant speed 0! 80 knots ah hour. It is made of the strongest steal, cylindrical in shape, and the peculiarity about it ie that the whole boat revolves, instead ot merely its shrew, as in ordinary vessels, ft has a spiral arrangement running right round ft, and so screws itself, so to epeak, through the water. Where do the passengers go? Well, inside, as the inventor says, fprthlq egg shaped form is only ap outelde shell. Jnaida. securely fastened ta the beam running through It, Is an under shell, cabin, &0., which remains absolutely steady as if on land. Every thirty-eight hours the craft comes up to the surface of the water to take in air. “Practically the only danger we have to fear," says the sanguine inventor, “ is the outer shell or corps tournant getting smashed either by running on a rock or encountering a whale. Still a powerful electrio light will Shine through the belt 0. thick glass running round tbe boat, and will 1 illuminate the water depths above, ibelow, and tor a hundred yards all rotind us.”