The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1849-12-27

Stuff said the king.

SuCOuOteTeO continent OF Immense extent
and Of prodigious solidity, but which, never
theless, was supported entirely upon the
back Of a sky-bIue-cow thnt had no fewer
than four hundred horns. 49,
THAI, now, I believe said the king, sbe.
cause have read something Of the kind be-
fore, 10 . book
We passed immediately beneath this
continent, Swimming In between the legs
Of the cow and. amer some hours, found
ourselves in wonderful country indeed,
which was informed by the tnan-animal,
was his own alive land, inhahltcd by things
Of his own species. This elegated the man
animal very much in my esteem; and 10
fact I now began to feel ashained of the
contemptuous familiarity with which Ind
treated him for found that the man-ani-
mails in general were nation Of the most
powerful magicians, who lived with worms
10 their brains,* which, no doubt, served to
stimulate them BY their painful writings
and wrigglings to the most miraculous Of
forts Of Imagination
sNonscnse!' said the king. NJ
"Among the magicians, were domestics-
ted several animals Of very singular kinds
for example, there was huge horse whose
bones were iron and whose blood was boil
ing water. In place Of corn he had black
stones for his usual food; and yet, in spite
Of 50 hard diet, he Y >ntrong and swift
that he would drug more weigbty
than the grandsst temple ~ this city. at a
rate surpassi6g that Of the fight Of most
birds''
sTwattle!' said the king. 4ss.s
81 saw, also, nrnong these people ben
without feathers, but bigger than a camel;
instead Of flesh and bone she had iron and
brick; her blood like that Of the horse, Ito
whom in fact she was nearly related, was
boiling water; and like him she eat nothing
but wood or black stones. This hen brought
forth very frequently, hundred chickens
in the day; and, after birth they took up
their residence for several weeks within
the stomach Of their nothcr.''t
gal lsl!' said the king
stOnc Of this nation Of mighty conjurcrs
created man out Of brass and wood, and
leather, and endowed him with such inge
uuity that he would have beaten At chess,
all the race Of mankind, with the exception
of,he great Caliph Haron Alraschid.t An
other Of these nngil constructed (of like
materially a creature that pnt to shame even
the genius Of him who made il; for 80 grent
were it's reasoning powers, that in second.
il performed calculations Of 90 vast an ex-
tent that they would have required the
united labor OF fifty thousand aeshy men
for a yeer.I But still more wonderful
coniurer fashioned FOR himself mighty
thing that was neither man nor beast, but
which had brains Of lead intermixed with
black mstter like pitch, and fingers that il
employed with such incredible speed and
dexterity that il would have had no trouble
in writing out twenty thousand copies OF
the Koran in IN hour; and this With 50 ex-
quisite precision that in all the copies
there should not he found one to vary from
another By the breadth Of the finest hair.
This thing was Of prodigious strength, SO
thst it erected or overthrow the mightiest
empires at breath; but its power was ex-
ercised equally for evil and for good.''
sRidiculonsr said the king.
s'Among this milton Of necromancers
there was also one who had in his veins the
blood Of the salamnnders; for he made no
scruple OF sitting down to smoke his chibouc
ia red hot oven until his dinner was thor
oUehly ronsted upon its foor.s Another
had the faculty Of converting the common
metals into gold, without even looking at
them during the process.f Another had
such delicacy Of touch that he made wire
50 fine as to be invisible. ~ Another had
such quickness ofpercep.ion that he count
ed all the separate motions Of an elastic DO.
dy, while il was springing backward and
forward at the rate Of nine hundred mil
lions Of times in sccond.''tf
sAbsurd!' said the king.
s.Another Of these magicians, BY means
Of a fluid that nobody ever yet saw, could
make the corpses Of his friends brandish
their arms, kick out their logs, fight, or even
got up and dsnce At his Wilt Another had
cultivated his voice To 30 great m extent
that he could have made himself heard from
one end Of the earth TO the other Hi An.
other had 20 long arm that hs could eli
s%ssThc earth 10 upheld by COW Of blue coll
or, having horns four hundred in number"
Sale's Koran.
snThe En.osoa, or intestinal worms; have Re.
been observed in the muscles, and ~
the cerebral substance Of men."--lSe See Hyafrs
Hyrioloey, p. l43. @
THE Eccalobein.
tNlaelzel's Automaton Ches.-player.
if3abbage's Calculating Machine.
SCxsberf, and since him an hundred others.
fThe Elcctrotype. 4
s%Wolla.som made Of platinum for the Held OF
views in a telescope wire one-cighteen thou
sandth part Of an inch in thickness II could
DO seen only by means of the microscope.
++Newton demonstrated that the retina be-
meath the influence Of the violet ray Of the spec
trum. yibra,ed 500 NOO, 900 of times in second
ttTae voltaic pill. :.
IlIThe Electro Telegraph transmits inteli- |
renee instantaneously--at least 50 far asrsgards
any distance upon earth.