CONTENTS CHAPTER I Junius Cobb's Marvelous Discovery 9 CHAPTER II A Startling Proposition 31 CHAPTER III Preparing for the Test 45 CHAPTER IV Jean Colchis, Conspirator and Savant 61 CHAPTER V On the Eve of a Century's Sleep 80 CHAPTER VI Faithful unto Death 101 CHAPTER VII "You Say this is A. D. 2000?" 108 CHAPTER VIII San Francisco in the Twenty-First Century 130 CHAPTER IX The Central Pneumatic Railroad 150 CHAPTER X Under the Central Sea 168 CHAPTER XI The Army of Instruction 199 CHAPTER XII Junius Cobb Reads a Newspaper 235 CHAPTER XIII New York City--Population 4,000,000 245 CHAPTER XIV The Law of the Land 261 CHAPTER XV The Sympathetic Telegraph 278 CHAPTER XVI Chicago the Metropolis of the Country 299 CHAPTER XVII Niagara Falls Harnessed 309 CHAPTER XVIII The Mystery of the Copper Cylinder 315 CHAPTER XIX Resurrected 332 CHAPTER XX An Aerial Voyage 347 CHAPTER XXI The Transatlantic Life-Saving Stations 363 CHAPTER XXII Locating the North Pole 380 CHAPTER XXIII United at Last 396 CHAPTER XXIV Conclusion 404

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