Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1846-12-16
BURNING OF WATER.

er's National Magazine, the follow inp Gu.
r;ous statement, copied from Chamber,
Edinburgh Journal:
Burning Of Water.--It was once rema,.
ked by = ceIebraie chemist, when speak.
ing of the probable exhaustion of our coal.
fields, that he had little fear for that event.
as long ere then The progress Of science
would have enabled man 10 support The
combustion of water. Extravagant as this
opinion may appear 10 the unscieniifc, then
is nothing more likely. Water is a com.
pound of oxygen and hydrogen gases. with.
out without which it would be impossible
10 eliminate a single phenomenon of com.
bustion. Thus the gas which we hurn in
our houses, carburet-gas, which. on ignition,
gives US light and heat only. when in me.
dium containing oxygen---such rs the at.
mospheie. Here, then, hydrogen and OK.
ygen play most important paris; and could
we resolve wafer into its elements, which
il is quite possible to do, all that is neces,
ary to produce heat and light is Little car.
bon. But we a,e not left 10 speculate upon
this matter; the thing has been SO far done
by N. Jobard: and gas made from wafer,
possessing double the illuminating pro.
peri.ies of the ordinary conl. gas, has been
used both in France and in our own coun,
try. Nj. Jobard obtains his hydrogen gas
by the decomposition oil Steam in vertical
re,orts filled with incandescent coke, and
unites this gas, at the moment Of formation
with h,per carbuetted gas, produced BY
the dis,ila,lon Of any hydro caburet--a,
oil, tar, napihaline, and other products at
present rejected by our ordinary gas works.
1t 10 of no moment whence his hoydro car.
buretis are p'od"ced; indeed, the subslan.
ces which are rendered useless and njur.
Gus to The manufacture of gas by The pres.
emf mode Of operating, are precisely those
which are the richest in illuminating proper.
ties. NJ. Jobard's process and its details
have been submitted, since IFS invention in
1888, to several commissions Of inquiry,
both in Belgium and France, and the re.
ports of these have ben uniformly favorable
10th as to its cheapness and The higher ilIu.
minating power Of the gas SO produced. In
a recent number of the BdiIetin du Musee
d. Inda STRIFE, the inventor gives a full &C.
count Of his process. which is about to he
come pubic property; and mentions That
has been used IN afacIory near 81. Elenne,
in Dion and S rasbursh, partially in Ly.
ons and Paris, and by private individuals in
Dublin and London. He modes,fy con.
cludes his paper by observing. that he will
not be accused Of eqnggera'ion WREN he
states "that there is some value in process,
the principle of which is 10 decompose wa.
ter, "a substance Of no value. by means Of
coke, which is of liille value; as under this
process one POUND of oil, which costs half
penny, will supply a burner giving light
equal to ten candles during twenty hours"
Mr.. Jobard's is certainly discovery Of
great interest, and though not the complete
combustion of water predicted by Sir Hum.
phi ey Davy, is, at all events, as every one
must admit. an. important step in the right
Ii ec!on by and by il will be no absurd ly
10 say OF a man che SCI The liver on fire :"
MESMERIsM AND SwEDENBoRo.-Th
is the name o! tonk rccou'ly put forth by
Professor Bush, in The relation oil lie Mes.
meric Developments to The Spiritual Phi
losoIhy Of Swedeuhorg. The object Of
ineric phenomena, which he holds to be too
firmly established now 10 admit OF question,
but to show TIN, they are CO nc dent in man
y respects with the revelations OF Sweden.
borg. by whose philosophy alone they can
BE- explained. tie attempts 10 show Tint
tie psychological state Of he gre :, Swedish
thinker was entirely different from the con.
ditinn Of Mesmetc plien.s, and iha, he
was UNNECESSARILY above them, bu', al 'he
SINE time, thai he has accurately pcdrs
led the peculiar Developments of Mesiner.
ism, shown its nature. and indicated lis uses
Ga the Other hand, while he does not res,
the 'ru h of Swedenboig's doctrines on that
OF Mesmerism, he regards the latter as a
most substantial and important testimony
in their favor. The single fact that clair.
voyans who pretended to see INTO the spir.
iiuel world confirm the revelations of Swe.
denborg mostly, without having read page
OF his writings, is dwelt upon as striking
corroboraions of his claims. A great many
such facts are addnced, and elaborate com.
parsons instituted between The various dis
coveries Of The new modern science and
those oflh founder Of The New Church.
Among these we have accounts of the See.
ress of Provost, Of the Mr. Tennent, Of N.
}. and that most singular case all, that
OF young Davis, now of this city. The
work IS highly in:ere sting. even 10 those
who lock upon The subject Of i, with sus.
p;cion. John Allen, Of Nassau street, is
the publ sher-[N. Y Post.
LABoR.-A man was formed for life
of action and effort. He cannot repose.
like the eastern monarch, upon the down
cygnets, nor, like the volup'uous Sybare.
upon his bed Of roses. Labor in the law
ofexis,ence. "In The sweat Of thy face
shalt thou eat bread" was the judgment
passed upon him in Eden judgment that
will never be revoked, and from which,
consequently. it is Of no avail TO shrink -
AS for ourself, we would not forego tho
blessing Of physical labor for the greatest
gift in the capacity Of mortal to bestow: it
is. indeed, the true Spartan sauce which
gives zest and SAVIOR 10 LIES cup--bracing
the nerves, confirming tho health, and rem,
dering The intellectual economy more ef-
ficient in the development and consumma.