The Invisible Fluid (1908)

Had the poor melancholy Dane Hamlet lived in this the twentieth century he would never have given voice to the remark Oh that this too too solid flesh would melt thaw and resolve itself into a dew No indeed He would have procured some of the mysterious fluid compounded by an erudite scientist by which things animate and inanimate were rendered non est for ten minutes at least by simply spraying them with it In an atomizer he sends a quantity accompanied by a letter to his brother In the hope of his putting it on the market The brother regards it as a joke and while toying with the atomizer accidentally sprays himself Presto he is gone to the amazement of the messenger boy who has carried the package thither The boy reads the letter and at once sees the amount of fun he can get out of it so he nips it