That such machine once built, the finding of a power for long flights will be easy, if not already close at hand in electricity.
That the easiest design for such actual machine should be adopted, leaving the adaptation of the principles involved to the making of more perfect machines, to a time after the success of the first.
That such design may be a propeller, and its engine at each end of a steel frame tube, supporting tube horizontally, a car to be supported by a universal joint from center of said tube, and the joint apparatus movable along the tube or a short distance transverse to it, to alter position of center of gravity.
That the machine so built might traverse the water as well as air.
THE LONGHAIRED POINTER MYLORD.
Pointers are trained to search for game, and to indicate that they have found the same by standing motionless in front of it, and, when it has been shot, to carry the game to the huntsman. Several kinds of pointers are known, such as smooth, longhaired, and bushyhaired pointers. The smoothhaired pointers are better for hunting on high land, whereas the longhaired or bushyhaired dogs are better for low, marshy countries, crossed by numerous streams, etc. Mylord, the dog represented in the annexed cut taken from the Illustrirte Zeitung, is an excellent specimen of the longhaired pointer, and is owned by Mr. G. Borcher, of Braunschweig, Germany.
The longhaired pointer is generally above the medium size, powerful, somewhat longer than the normal dog, the body is narrower and not quite as round as that of the smoothhaired dog, and the muscles of the shoulders and hind legs are not as well developed and not as prominent. The head and neck are erect, the head being specially long, and the tail is almost horizontal to the middle, and then curves upward slightly. The long hair hangs in wavy lines on both sides of his body. The expression of his face is intelligent, bright, and good-natured, and his step is light and almost noiseless.
The pointer is specially valuable, as it can be employed for many different purposes; he is an excellent dog for the woods, for the woodsman and hunter who uses only one dog for different kinds of game. The intelligence of the German pointer is very great, but he does not develop as rapidly as the English dog, which has been raised for generations for one purpose only. The German pointer hunts very slowly, but surely. It is not difficult to train this dog, but he cannot be trained until he has reached a certain age.