American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1845-06-14


nor a square inch Of cntcle dry-and coin par
agraphs that arc worth reading (unIcss they he
about smallpox, death, or taxes he IS worse
conductor and more irigid animal than we are
We do not believe in the existence OF such a
human hcng--ond do not think that the devil
himself(of course we mean the prutcr'3) could
! stand it long without finding his horns give
way and his tail curl up And if we could on
! ly find Il substitute mpchine edltor-who
would grind out paragraphs pro re-nata until
our return, we would be off TOMORROW to one
| Of the many watering places that are FIRE qnent-
cd or ought 10 be at this season Of the year,
''that is to say, provided neverthelcss'' that we
| could furnish ourselves with the "open sesame
TO country quarters. How dclightful--how
refreshing it would be to us, body and mind, to
get up in the morning and find ourselves at
| Bath, New York; with the cool breeze from
the sea invigorating our nerVes-lnd the roar
ING surf inviting us to beat him down: IounGs
how equally agreeable and glorious 1t would be
to find ourselves at Newport-at Saratoga
at the White Sulphur--at any place rather
than in oar not room, in this hot city, with
every thing burning and smoking, and perspr-
ing and melting around us! And yet we can
not-we must not go. In one eternal, never
ending, celscIcss paragra ph-scnbbling round,
we are bound to 'sweat out' our brains and
our existence the whole livelong Summer
We won't say that we envy those who can and
do 90 to the Springs and the country during
! this "pping time" of heat--for that ,couH be
sinful. We won't say that we pity those, who,
| having the means and the time to enjoy them
selves, and to turn the Summer of discomfort
into pleasant and delightful season of Winter,
prefer to stay at home and roast-for we really
| don't pity such miserable money-makers and
| momey-savcrs, who would sacrifice their health
and lives to a dollar: but we will say, what we
/ have already insinuated that if, by some acct
/ dent or turn of luck, we could lay hands on
the Sinners" we would be off without ever
bidding our friendly readers-good- bye;-and
we hope that they would bear with a good
grace 1--WE mean those who are obliged to sweat
the Summer through, with the Spring Gardens
as their only watering place. the loss which
our absence would entail on them. Their loss
would be gain in the end-ior we should re-
turn so fresh so full of new ideas, so pregnant
with precious thoughts, that advertisements
would have to give way for season-and even
the Coffee seekers" would read our editorials
Do, dear readers, reflect on what we have said
and aid us, for your own sakes, to refresh at
the Springs-and if you won't let as go, do 90
yourselves by all means and may the hot
) weather go with you! You have our aoa,mest
wishes
NATIONAL INSTITUTE. The National Intel
ligencer of yesterday contains an interesting
article on the Economy of Science in relation
to Government, from the pen of the Rev.
Hector HUMPHREYS, d. d., President of St.
Johns college, Annapolis, and which was read
before the National Institute, in April, 1914
The writer remarks, that ''it would have been
Just as rational to have questioned the economy
of the steps which led to the safety-lamp,
strange as they seemed at the time, as it would
be now to see no hope Of profit from the fur
Their study of light. This field is not yet fully
explored, either by sea or by land, though the
blessings are as common to US all as the silt
that we mix with our daily food" At this
point of the article, the reverend gentleman
appends note, which, as it contains some facts
with which few persons, we presume, are ia
miliar, we copy. 1t is as follows:
"Reierence was had not only to the action
of hight on the vegetable world but on the ocean,
The suns rays pass through pure and transpa-
rent water without heating it. Large bodies of
fresh water, like Lake Superior, do not become
warm even in the hot season. The effect from
the bottom, the shores, and the air, is not enough
to raise their temperature much above that Of
icedwater. When fresh water is tubid, how
ever, the enthy particles arrest the heat from the
solar beam, and thus some rivers though deep,
are highly warmed. The Red river shows SO
much evaporation that we may attribute part
of the effect to this increased action of the SUM-
Here is, perhaps, a novel explanation of the
temperature of tn, ocean. The action of the
! light is due to the salt, in the combination
which forms one-thirteth of the whole weight
Salt water is heated more readily and cools
more sljwly than fresh; as may be easily shown
| by the pyrometer am not unmndful of the
peculiar Hanscalency of salt and of lcater. Boz
dies the most diathemanous, however, may not
transmit the caloric rays to indefinite distances.
We know that the light does not penetrate to
any great depth into the ocean; yet its waters
are ordinarily at a far higher temperature than
other waters on the globe; and particularly,
other things being equal, in the deep ocean and
remote from land, than over banks and shoals
and near shore. Without specializing, there
fore, as to the means by which the ocean has
become salt, am willing to believe that it was
so made for wise ends by the CREATOR. By
that sun which he has set to rule the day, he
thus forms the rivers, springs, and rains toge-
ther with the gentle dews distilled upon the