Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1849-05-01
MISCELLANEOUS
REPRODUCTIONS OF ANIMAL AND We
GETABLE FORMS.

REPRODUCTIONS OF ANIMAL AND We
GETABLE FORMS.
When the Apostle Paul assures us that there
will be a resurrection Of the human body ter
death, he takes care 10 exp ain that there wal
be a very essen,ia difference between the body
TO be raised and the body that perishes. ~ IS
soxn natural body, il is raised spiritual
body" "there is natural body, and there Is q
spiritual body" Whether science may ever
throw any light upon this sublime doctrine OF
revelation or not, II might be almost irreverence
to oGer a CONJECTURE. The christian phlIoso-
pher, however, has the high satisfaction OF
knowing that, as far as tho developments ct
science have yet gone in any direction, their
known truths are never found in conflict with
the undoubled records ard interpretations oil
the Sacred Scriptures That there IS some mys-
FERROUS essence ABOUT bodies, both animal aud
vegetable, by which their forms, separate from
the 'natural bod es,' are sometimes presented
TO the senses, By reflection OF some other means,
Inere seems 10 o. much eason 10 believe BY
the nelp Of some chemica preparations the ligh,
oi the sun tfan,ets 10 4 meiail!: plaie The appd
rent form OF any obIec. VIA ne greatest minute
ness and perfection, AMI leaves II thrie perma-
neplly fixed. VESTS hundreds OF niles al sea,
in certain states oi the atmosphere, have some
lines been seen floating 10 Inc air near SHORE
win perfect distincthcss. The appearance oi
human forms about burying grounds, though IN
most cases perha ps having no existence except IN
The excited Negotiations or supefsilions Tears q
the beh6ldeIs, u,ay sometimes be feaiiy the
result ot q natural cause, which nav perhaps
hereafter come 10 te frsatied nautal process
as much as rhe growth Of pant from the seed.
Nv Thoughts Were tutnei 10 tnl= subject al
81, l.rp n 81
number OF the London "WeccanIcs Magazine,
one oil which is nd 10 be an extract from work
OF Oeunyer entitled Thoughts on Inc two facui-
lies OF Feeling and Knowing" and which IS as
sollows:
II chopped up some balm, pat il into large
glass vi leou, poured rain water upon II, connec-
led The fetod win gcod-s'z@d receiver AID lei
il heat al a cuppel, gently al tlfs', then more
strongly. Upon this there went into The water a
yellow-greeni oil; il took Il? the whole space
Of The receiver, and swan on Inc surface OF The
wafer The thickness Of the back Of liable knife.
Thus OIL lad the form Of innumerable balm teares
which did not lap over or run INTO another, bu
lay side by side, each perfectly drawn, and with
the dslinclness Of all lne lines of balm Leaf
l let il stand long time, lha, all about me msh
observe it. Al last shook the receiver, because
had to pour il ou; the leaves ran together, but
in lees than minute restored t,emsslucs to hsi'
iornsr p'sitpn mUs, distinctly"
The wrlter in the Magazine follows this quo
iation by saying:
'After reading the shove, came quite unex
pectedly upon similar account in place
where one would certainly not imagine any
thing of the sort likely TO be found, viz: in p
tava.'s Causes Ceiebres col ection oil ih'
most celebrated criminal trials in the French
Courts. THE source whence Dumas has drawn
the greater part Of his popular work 'Cels
bratej Crimes.') In the IL h volume there !
ono entitled 'Le Sp.c re: al the end OF which n
laval enters INTO some reasoning on the subJec
of spectral illusions, aud brings forward I'M
following eIpe ,iments TO show thai the Jo''nS
things may eAi>, without their subject matter
The suoloined quotations from Pitaval are
given in The Magazine 10 French, which art
here transa ted into English for the readers o.
The lnellisencer
"Bgsldes, II IS possible that The appearance o
spec,re. NAV nave a natural cause, tor anutne
reason. Chemists show that The palinscneg'
{beins born agan) or the resurrecuoa OF plant
AZ very possible Aple chemists in great nui;'
beIs have made experiments ny when pi"c"'
the ashes oil a plant 10 wal these ashes e4hd'
and arrange themselves as nearly as ihey cal
In the veiy figure winch he Author OF Natur
hist impressed on taem
Line AOOe SdI!etlunt III MS UsdlSc VI WV
curiusities 10 nature anu art, reaches the secre
OF making lhi, patiageuesie. He says thai lathe
Scot jesuit, led hun that when he wa
In Rome he had the satisfaction 10 see the ros
made 10 arise from its ashes whenever II was oe
sired, by simply employing lit'le heat ln
same author also taught the art vi using som
mineral water which caused pao, dead dow
10 The roots, TO brcome green as N lie. rr"H
ibis patiagenes,e oi pants we come TO The pain
geaesH OF ANNALS. :,
"GalIerel, very able chemist, states thai NJ
Ducnene, one vi The best chemists of the age, re
ported that he had seen very able Polish physi
elan 10 Cracov who kept in vials ashes 9
almost all plants, SO that when any cuI,ou
person desired 10 see, for example, rose 10
vial. he took one containing lhs ashes Of the tts
we'll preserved and warming /. over lish's
.,Andle, alter becoming warm The ashes were see
to be 10 molio-. A iille cloud arose, and i.:e
some motion Of The vial, sooI assumed Inc lorn
and color OF rose, so fresh, and so petlec' an
beautiful, thai one would believe he could snel
ks sweet odor.
"Thal learned man said tina, he had often trle
10 do The same thing, bu, chance al last enable
him 10 come pretty near producing the same pre-
Dizzy and he had amused himself al nj. de Luyne
de FormenIieres, counsellor in Parliament, IN see
,os MANY curious experiments with the sails ,
xstllxs bHrn,. Putting the ley made rom lner
out Of doors 10 GEAR, cold night, and hiding
in the morning frozen, With this marvellous r.
suit, that the different kinds OIL the oeuies, 'nr
shapes and figures, were So clearly ana Pe'ieeu
rsprs,ented on tas ice THAI he living piai's we!
no better Gelineated"- National inssA'Se"ee''