Litchfield enquirer., 1845-10-02
THE STEAM ENGINE.

Years have rolled away, and the visions of the tea.kettle have been realized.
 Talk of political revolutions, they are nothing to the revolutions of science, Amid the roar of con- fict which shook Europe, the ancient dynasty oi France falls prostrate, crumbled with the ruins of its own Bastile And now new bastiles are being created-new forts erected-the tools with which tyranny played ifs game of yore; the chains are a. gain clanking on the people who once so nobly burst them. But there IS no such reaction Tn the revolutions of science The echo of the cheery hiss of the old tea-kettle, when the boy Watt sat dreamingly Listening to it, is to be heard in the loud roar of the steam pipe rising often above the din of wind and waters, and proclaiming to both that mighty power is battling with their ferce- ness
 Steam has made this old world of ours a new one. It makes ocean voyages pleasant trips; It binds cities together literally with iron bands; it brings kingdoms into as close contiguity as parshes.- What does it not do for man! Services the most mighty and the most trivial. It hurries him a. cross the Atlantic in ten days, and grinds coffee in grocers' shops; it has power enough to pump up volumes of water from the bowels ot the earth, and deicacy enough to drive shuttle and weave fine linen Mighty as is its strength, the childhood of intellect can guide it. Up and down fly the huge beams and cylinders that hundreds ot horses would in vain crack sinews and muscles to control; and vet let there be but the touch of guiding lever the stopping of a valve-demanding no more than child's strength-and the vast moving fabric at once becomes motionless and passive-only so ma nv tons of wrought and hammered metal.
 There is, to our thinking, something awfully grand in the contemplation of vast steam engine. Stand amid it's beams and bars, wheels and cyln- ders, and watch their 0nceasing play how regular and how powerful-the machinery of lady's Ge- neva watch is not more nicely adjusted-the lush of the avalanche is not more awful m its strength. Old Gothic cathedrals are solemn places, preaching solemn lessons, touching solemn things; but to him who thinks, an inc room may preach more solemn lesson still It will tell him of tbe mind-mind yielding matter at its wili-mlnd tr- umphng over physical difficulties-man asserting his great upremacy-'inte!lect oat''irg w'th me elements" And how exqusitely complete IS eve " detail !-how subordinate every part toward the one great end !-how every little bar and screw fit together! Vast as is the machine, let bolt be but the tenth part of an inch too long too short. and the whole fabric is disorganlZed. It IS one com plete piece of harmony-an iron essay upon unity eff design and execution. There is deep poetry in the steam engine-more of the poetry of motion than in the bound of antelope, more of the poetry of power than in the dash of cataract. And ought it not to be lesson to those who laugn at novelties, and put no faith in inventions. to consd. CT that this complex fabric-this triumph ot art and science-was once inc laughlng-stock oi Jcering thousands, and only once the waking phantasy o a bows mind, as he sat in seeming dleness watching little column of vapor rise from the spout of a tea. kettle
 4 Giant at Lasi-The Madison Banner states on the most reliable authority. that person m Franklin county, Tennessee. while digging well, few weeks since, found human skeleton, at the depth of fifty feet, which measures eighteen feet m length The immense frame was entire, with an unimportant exception in one of the extrem'ties. It has been visited by several of the principal mem bers of the medical faculty in Nashville, and pro- nounced u"eqnvoea by s sas the skeleton Of feef and if was computed that the height of the living man, making the proper allowance for mus cles must have been at least twenty feet: The in. der had been offered ss.Ooo for it. but had deter. mined not to sell it at any price until after exhlbi- ting t for twelve months He G is no: now s having These unwr;tten records of the men and animals of other ages, that are from time to time dug out of the bowels of the earth. but conjecture to confuson and almost surpass imagination itself
 The ..bones" must be seen before this story can be believed. Pass along that hat.