The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1844-02-29
SUBSTITUTE FOR STEAM

La Reforme announces that an operative at Rue
has discovered substitute for steam The experiment
is to be made in few days on the Versailles railroad
Figure to yourself says the Retorme, an enormous
wheel, five yards in diameter, between The spokes.
Of which you place horse with his rider This large
wheel being fixed on four ordinary wheels, placed on
the rails of railroad it's sufficient to turn the large
wheel 10 make the carriage advance. But what motive
force does the inventor empoy2 1t is the horse placed
the interior of the Wheel and yoked, by means Of
two bars Of irons placed pependculary under the axle
The horse by drawing causes the wheel to turn IN the
same manner as a mouse or a squirrel in cage. In
order to permit the horse to enter into this singular
wheel it has been found necessary TO dig an excavation
near the station of the railroad into which the horse is
let down. The inventor pretends that ne can modify his
wheel SO as to admit three herses and that in that case
the heaviest train may be propelled along railroad
with velocity more rapid than that caused BY steam
He DIEp.-In these two short but comprehensive
words we read the cousummaton of the brief history OF
man-man whose life is like the vapor; who appears
moment, and then vanishes away. This terminates
the career of the conquerohe forth in the proud
resources Of his mind marshaling his legons for the
storms, and stirring up as with the breath of the whir
wind the hosprit Of desoating war; convusing society
sapping the foundations Of civil ordeG shaking the
thrones and kingdoms of the world, and opening the
food-gaes OF sorrow on mankind that he may gather
him little tinsel grandeur and associate hisname with
terror little space and in corner of an obscure
print we read-he died. The troubling waves his sp
rithad invoked are STILL and men contemplate what he
was, and is, with kind ofconemptuous wonder. The
man whose soul is wrapped up in ambition, tolls his
little hourfor fame, and gains, if Fortunate the sum of
his wishes; we hear his name sounded abroad and on
the next breath tembles the words-he Gied Then he
who calmly reasons feels the small worth of titles and
applauses hatend int this The rich the poor the grave
the gay; the ibecile, the wise the free man, and the
slave; all conclude the chapter thus But it is when
death strikes near and his arrows reach our own bos-
oms, that feel the force Of these expressive monosy
abes. He died-is written opposite the name of re-
ative or companion; and then we know that the form,
the ace the features with which we have been familiar
arehd away from our mortal vision forever-Kat the
voice we heard so often and SO gladly shall hear no
more-that themnd which could charm in its deveope-
ment power and knowledge is no longer tenant Of
the earth and the heart that loved will not beat again
while one sand remains in the hourgass oftie, rthe
pillars ofthe world remain unshaken. We seem to ap-
proachn to the veil that screens from our view the
hidden empire of death-we ask ourselves whittier at
this moment thesprtot the depared9 the involuntary
answer is, Where We shall shortly be. How strange
that when Death spreads among us his visible tokens
dailywhen he strikes so often into thesocia circle and
spares not even at the festive board-we should live in
so much seeming forgetfulness of his existence