Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, W.T. [i.e. Wis.]) 1843-1844, 1843-11-18
Potosi, Nov. Is, 1913.

SNAKE.

PERPETUAL POLYTECHNIC EXHIBITION.
An important movement has been made in favor
Of getting up in New York "a Perpetual POiytect-
mic Exhibition" And as only one establishment
of the kind can be sustained in this city, the several
Associations Of New York and Brooklyn have been
invited to send members to Convention OF Dele
gates 10 assemble at the New York Society Libra
ry rooms, on Thursday evening next, at O'Clock
p. NJ, to take the suggestion Into consideration.
We hope MI the Societies organized ITO Promote
the Arts Science aud Literature, wli be fully rep
resented. 4 Central Convention of this kind may
lead TO some useful result, even should not the m-
mediate object proposed for consideration be acted
on. circular proposing this Convention, was
addressed by the Mechanics Institute to the other
Societies Of this city, which, we were happy TO
learn, has bees responded TO ia favorable terms by
several OF our most respectable Institutions.
The object is one Of great Importance, aud { got
~ in a STYLE commensurate with its utility, will
prove OF the greatest advantage to our whole com
muniy.
The idea, ia, to raise up something analogous. if
not superior 10 the "Polylechnic Institution" in
Lon46n, which is kept open to the public the year
round, and is the admiration OF all VINO visit that
large city.
il this establishment there IS a 6nc steam en-
CINE always at work, and used fol driving working
models of every kind ofmachinery. 1t also has on
on the surface OF which, float models OF every kind
of water craft; sde suices are also formed for the
purpose Of illustrating Improvements i'll Canal
Locks Water Wheels, &c.
There are besipes, rooms for Paintings and
Sculpture, and for Chemica aud Philosophical In
strumenis. The whole is attended by persons COM
petent 10 explain them.
From four 70 six Lectures, are delivered during
the day and evening, nn all the leading branches
L D, nod
els, or other striking means, aud delivered in
STYLE of popular eiocu;on. To witness all the
objects il this splendid Institutions, and hear all
lie ecturee on one day, only one shilling ster-
ling
The best lecture the writer OF this article ever
head on the seam engine. was delivered IN tins
place. And so popular had the Institution be-
come, thatwe were told by the Superintendent
that hundred persons or an average, visited rs
SALOONS daily. Large Numbers OF parents with their
children atiendrd in order thar their minds might
be amused and Instructed al the same time. II
was truly pleasing TO wisnsss the intense interest
manifested BY chtldren OF all age, IN every thing
they saw and heard. No question can exist but
such an institution wonld confer infinitely greater
bench on the community ia New lors than IN
st,u,,ohs Of any oihri : nd. Every man OF prop
srty-sve1y father OF a iamily-eveTy phIianthro-
pi,t "a New NO.k, are interested ~ creating such
al lnsttat.oA Ne trust and nope mat the time
viii arrive ~nen me Genital mst,illon OF th's de-
scriptoh shall De permanently opened oh the most
hbesal scale
IT. 4 writer "a a Mnerte paper ofSt Adams,
VI, makes a sinsalat caICdiNuoh 10 dlspro.e The
idea OF a millennium previous 10 the resurrection.
tie undertakes 10 cyphei u o1t that - the popuia-
ton OF the earth goes on increasing thraus1 tat pc
roi a. 'asI a. he tnaks Il must, there WA De be-
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