Litchfield enquirer., 1833-04-25

thlS property iu the most remarkable de- gree. The rays, which proceed from all parts of your couutenance, strike the nir- TOT, which, being coated on the opposite side, with an opaque amalgam, returns your exact image to your eyes, Milton, in painting celestial joys, disdained not,tO express the surprise and delight of the first woman, when she perceived herself in the crystal of the waters. Ancient history, too, speaks of the mirror of Ptolemy Euer- getes, which, elevated upon the Pharos of Alexandria, represented with precision all that passed in the level circumjacent coun- try.
 shall say nothing to you of the mirror invented by ArchimedeS to burn the Ro- man fleet. Deseartes refused credit to this historical account: Buffon composed similar one, to prove that the mirror of Archimedes was possible. By this sur prisng invention, although we can neither seize, nor agtate, nor inclose, nor trans po:t the rays of tue sun, we can manage. and direct them upon given point, and acquire with them a new power. In the hand of nature, light gives harvests, per- fumes, colors; in the hand of man, death.
 An Englishman, after profound study at hdy's toilette, conceived the happy idea of substituting mirrors, as instruments of death, to guns, cannons and bombs.- Every soldier was 10 carry mirror, which he was to direct in the faces of the enemy, as to dazzle, blind, and conquer them with the rays of the sun. For the whole appa- ratus of war, it would only be necessary, that each soldier, on the day of battle, should seize the looking-glass of his mis- tress, and march to combat with the same arms, which gave victory to beauty. A little address and clear day would be all ] the postulates. The most accomplished
 beau would be the most terrible warrior; and instead of announcing the result ot battles by the number of dead and wound- ed, it would only be, to state the number of the blind, and persons who had their mustachios scorched. The science oftac- tics would then be to learn, how to com
 bine the different effects of convex and
 concave mirrors, to produce the greatest
 possible ravages. Newton had learned,
 that the intervals, which separate the col-
 ors of the rainbow, are the same with
 those which form our muscal'scaie. lnl-
 agne then harpsichord with scale of
 colors following the diapason of the music
 al scale. It is the occular harpsichord of
 father Castel Instead of audible, we
 here have visible harmony.
 Upon this harpsicord painters can exc
 cute sonatas, and the deaf give concerts,- The art can be carried even to the lmlta- ton of tho movement of the passions. The eyes hearken, and colovs sing. It is like , the language of flowers, invented by ori- l, ental lovers. This beautiful harpsichord, . which would enable the ladies to set their toilette to music, and certainly to blend
 colors, in the establishment of the person,
 according to the laws of harmony, would
 not be unworthy to be played upon by tho
 Graces.
 4 Stretcher.-An elderly gentleman of
 unimpeacllable veracity, though by the way somewhat addicted to story telling, re-
 lates the following =
 During the early years of this town, be-
 fore carts came in vogue, he was accustom-
 ed to haul his wood by the aid of an old
 black mare, kept in his service. Now the
 old mares harness consisted of breast plate and traces, made of the untanned hide of an OK. At the close of rainy
 WCut tO WoVu tOtS ouuutOO SouO forty or fifty rods from his dwelling, for the purpose of fprocuring load of wood After having cut a log which he judged
 would be smart load for his beast, he fas- tened her to one end, set her head towards home, and gave her rein. The old marc continued her course till she arrived at his door, when to his surprise he discovered, that owing to the great extensibility of the traces, they had stretched the whole dis tance, without moving tho load an inch.-- Throwing down his axe, lie went to his beast. and removing the harness from her, threw ike breast plate over q post that stood near the door, aud went to bed.--. Upon rising in the morning he found the heat of the sun had so operated on the con- tractibility ofihe traces as to bring his wood up to his door, ready for hewing and split ting.-LoweN C0mpend.
 N. eS ISLANDER.
 He who can choke the sweetest flowers , of social love and taint them wiih disease. |, or in the paradise of earthly bliss, where l the plants of virtue flourish, spread the a blight and mldcw of desolaiion, hatred and n distrust: who can crush his neighbor's r.n,o =, Ins, and build on it's ruius--whO