Mississippi Democrat. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1845-12-03
MtsreIIamp, Arms, SC.

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MAN AN ELECTRIC MAcHrNB.-We ex-
tract the following, being very brief alb
stract of one of the popular lectures of Dr.
BoYNToN, from the Cleveland (O) Plain
dealer. Electricity, the most wonderful of
all the wonders Of nature, is beginning to
attract the attention of the learned and sci
entifc. In the same paper we read that
by means of this mysterious agent, its edi-
tors will next summer " be able to publish
in Cleveland, Ohio, the price of wheat in
Liverpool, England, before the steamer
which brings the news has made fast to the
wharf in New York;! But the lecturer
speaks of electricity in the human body,
whilst we are speaking of the rapidity with
which it is made to convey intelligence on
the Geographic wires. Hear him
Dr. Boynton had given out on the eve.
ming before, that this lecture would be to
prove that man is an electrical machine;
in fact, his brain being the gavanic bat.
terry, and his nerves and muscles the tele.
graphic wires that convey 10 the limbs,
through the body, the "will 10 do"
In proving THE, the DR.. showed himself
most minutely acquainted with that "fear-
fully and wonderfully made" structure
MAN; and possessed of rapidly of Ut
terance, uneXampled by any lecturer we
ever heard, he used it, for more than two
hours, in explaining his theories upon the
subject, Illustrating their correctness by
recltals of facts and anecdotes, as apt and
convincing as numerous.
Man, be says, like steam engine, must
"wood up'--have his three meals day,
in this climate, that the necessary carbon
be furnished, which by the means of the
lungs, coming in contact and uniting with
the nitrogen of the atmosphere, furnishes
the warmth or heat in the system, that
must exist, to keep the engine in running
order. That done, there must yet be some
power TO put that engine in motion. The
power that does this is electricity; and
electricity, strange as it may appear, has
been proved by numberless successful ex-
periments, to be generated in the ratio,
and with The generation of the heat of the
system. Heat, loo, is generated in sufi-
cient quantity in the space of twenty-four
hours in the human body, 10 boil fny-six
gallons of water. Electrty also, during
the same time, is acquired Of volume
large enough, were il retained in the sys-
lem, TO shock another, with as fatal an eff
ect as would follow blow from the de-
scending shaft from thunder cloud. Yet
The man suffers not, for notwithstanding
This quantity of heat and electrily is daily
generated in his system, there is no accu
mutation. He is no reservoir for that
purpose. They pass away with the hay-
ing performed their duties in his economy.
we will not attempt to give an abstract
even OF The lecture. For it contained so
much, that with our poor powers at con-
densatlon, an abstract, would run this co.
lumn on to the next and past it.
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There are, by courtesy, no old maids in
France. Those who don't drown them
selves, adopt the title Of Madame, and pass
for widows.
The whole line OF the Magnetic Tele.
graph, from Boston 10 New York, will he
completed in sixty days, and we under
stand the work is TO be commenced imme.
datey.
CENsUs OF NEW YoRK. The increase
Y Iorly.two counties OF The Stale, over
"e census Of 1910, is l67,726.
a young woman, brought before The
boston police, alledged, in defence Of her
.esPectabllity, that she was acquainted
Nm all the lawyers in New York. She
was Instantly committed for six months.
Ia person who had insured his life fol
vi"pOO IN August last, died lately in Pro-
l,ueoce, K. l., leaving the amount as q
egacy 10 bis family.
Mount lleclu, ia Iceland. at the latesr
S"es from that remote region, was in erup
A'0' Tor The first limo 10 50 years.