Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1841-01-09

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Council then adjourned until Thursday evening".
THE PALLADIUM.
THE ATHENEUM.
Editor Of the Palladium:
Iso.aa...,ss pas- an r,ta-saining evening WIN
tho members of the Atheneum Their discus
sions of tho numerous and very various questions
continually recorded upon their slate, have e5pe-
cially interested me; and believing you 10 De
friendly to the dissemination of literary and SCI
en,ific knowledge, would ask the privilege OF IA
corner in your paper. to introduce some OF 'hese
discussions to the eye Of the public. venture
10 DO this without hesitation, as the society has
always avowed its design 70 be serviceablc to the
community at large; and has at all times weico-
med orderly citizens as spectators, to It's exerci-
scs.
I-shall this week introduce two questions, one
literary and tho other scientific, accompanied
with the substance CT their a2nitteG answers
1t occurs TO me shat it would be pleasant enter
tainnent for the family circle OF u winter eve
ming, 10 read these questions thus brought before
it; and leaving tho answers unit! every adult
member of the family group, had exercised his
skill in answering them; and then comparing their
answers with that given by the Atheneum.
Il was asked ,chether there ,Oas any literary be
nuisA in the follo,oing EPIrAPH ON AN INFANT:
A flower jus, bursting into bloom,
Enticed an angels eye;
TOO puro for earsh,' no said, 'come homo,'
And bade the howret die
II was agreed that tho first three lines perfect
ed the authors meaning; conveying beautiful
idea IN the fullest manner; that the last line was
xs-s -
InI sh,N a.. &. g
perHuity; but fault sentimen,a!iy; for, said tho
speaker, what is it that gives beauty to the stan
"a? It's the figure Of the flower just bursting
into bloom in the impure atmosphere of earth
ind heavenly angel sna,ching i, from uncou-
genial abode, and ransplan,ing il TO the native
regions of purity. But while contemplate
this pretty metaphor, shocked by the in
PRODUCTION Of their murderous line:
And badc 1ovre,die.
Beside the disagreeablc notion of killing this en-
blcm Of purity, which con,radicls the idea of a
transfer to the mansions of the beaiiied Arine
beings; what is there Of beauty of purity in
the conception Of dead flower2 If tho living
bud was 'too pure for EARTH surely the dead one
was too impure for heaven,
Another enquiry was: When t,co adjoining
rooms are heated by separate fires to different de-
grees, but both mtortably warm; and a door be
opened besircen them; ,rhy do persons sitting in
the room less heated feel cooler, until an equiii
briun' Of temperature is formed?
10 some OF the members il appeared paradox
cal, that the admission of warm air INTO u room
should make II cooler; and the question 10 them
implied that such q proposition true. 1t was
answered thai such was not the statement; that
II was to be determined whether the reduction of
temperature was real or apparent; that the bodies
OF the persons in question were cooler there was
no doubt. After a lively conversation on the
subject, it resulted in the following explanation.
Inc rooms being heated diieren nj jeerooe, ~ hon
the door Is opened, the air from the warmer room
flows into tho other apartments and the cooler
or OF this flows out into the warmer room accor-
ding to well known laws; and this NAV be
proved to DO the fact by holding a lighted candle
OF the upper, and also at the lower end of the
door, In the first situation, the warm air PASSING
In al that place will turn the blaze to,rard the
cooler room; below, the cooler air passing out.
~i' direct the blaze from the sitting room
'nese currents of air, though warm produce chill
hness by increasing the evaporation of moisture
from tho body; and the reduction of a,mospheric
temperature - only apparent. Persons often sup
Posc 10 be colder than il really ia who, n.
.o s"s. IS windy If the thermometer stand a,
'"u Is '''"dy. It will appear colder and re-
a"s cn' Inc system MORE than when The femme !
'a'ofe - 20 or less, and the air is calm H.nc.
'ne necessity OF avoiding currents. ,f o;, H.