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

VuNOOUsSsG q OOUSbUOuS VI JthtbJCUo0 OAsOUs
md Of prodisious solidity, but which, never
theless, WAS supported entirely upon the
back Of 4 sky blue-cow TINT had no fewer
than four hundred horns. ~
That, nov, I believe said the king, be-
cause have read something Of the kind be-
fore, 10 book e
We pissed 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 man-animal,
was his own naiive land, inhabited by things
ofhis own species, This elevated the man
animal very much in my esteem; end 10
fact ! now began to feel ashamed of the
confemptuous 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
them by their painful writings
and wrigglings TO the most miraculous Of
forts Of imagination
sNonscnse!' said the king.
"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, be strong and swift
that be would drug more weigbty
than tho grandsst temple III this city. a. a
rate surpassi6g that Of the flight Of most
birds.''
sTwattler said the king. U.s. 49,
IL saw, Also, among 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, TO
whom in fact she was nearly related, } was
boiling water; and like him sho eat noihing
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 nlother.''t
sFal lal!' said the king.
stOnc Of this nation Of mighty conjurcrs
created q man out Of brass and wood, and
leather, and endowed him with such inge-
nuisy that he would have beaten at chess,
al the race Of mankind, with the exception
ofthe great Caliph Haron Alraschid.t An
other Of these mngil constructed III like
materially a creature that pnt 10 shame even
the genius Of him who made il; for 80 grent
were its reasoning powers, that in second,
il performed calculations Of 20 vast an ex-
tent that they would have required the
united labor Of fifty thousand fieshy men
for = year. But still more wonderful
conjurer fashioned for himself mighty
thing that was neither man nor beast, but
which had brains Of lead infermixed with
black MISTER like pitch, and fingers that i
employed with such incredible speed and
dextetity that il would have had no trouble
in writing out twenty thousand copies Of
tho Koran in m hour; and this with so ex-
qnisite precision that in all the copies
there should not be found one to vary from
another by the breadth Of the finest hair.
This thing was Of prodieious strength, 50
that it erected or overthrow the mightiest
empires At breath; but it, power was ex-
ercised equally for evil aud for good.''
sRiciculons. said the king.
s'Among this nation Of necromancers
there was also one who had in his veinsthe
blood Of the saIamnnders; for he made no
scruple Of sitting down to smoke his chiborc
in red hot oven until his dinner was thor
ouehly ronsfed upon its foor.s Another
had the faculty Of converting the common
metals into gold, without even looking At
them during the process.T Another bad
such delicacy Of touch that he made wire
80 fine as to be invisible. ~ Another had
such quickness ofperception that he count
ed all the separate motions Of an elastic bo-
DIV, while il was springing backward and
forward At the rate Of nine hundred mil.
lions Of times in sccond.''tt
sAbsurd. said the king.
ssAnother Of these magicians, BY mems
Of a fluid that nobody ever yet saw, could
make the corpses Of his friends brandish
their arms, kick ont their logs, fight, Or even
got up and dance at his WILT Another had
cultivated his voice 10 % great an extent
that he could have made himself heard from
one end Of the earth to the other. Ill An
other had % long arm that he could sit
ssssThc earth 10 upheld by COW Of blue col
or, having horns four hundred in number"
SQtes Koran.
sHThe EM.osoa, or intestinal worms, have re-
peatedly been observed in the muscles, and ~
the cerebral substance Of men."-[See HydHs
Hsyaoloey, p. LAB. &
THE Eeealobein.
tNiaelzel's Automaton Chess-player.
HBabbage's Calculating Machine.
ICs.berl, and since him an hundred Others.
TTae Electrotype. =,
ssWollo,lon made Of platinum for the field OF
views in a telescope, q wire one-eighteen thou
sandth part Of an inch in thickness Il could
DO seen only by means Of the microscope.
++Newton demonstrated TINT the retna be-
meath the influence Of the violet ray OF the spec
rum. vibra.ed 900 1000, 900 Of times in second
ttTne voltnic pill. =.
IT1The Electro Telegraph transmits intelli-
pence instantaneously--at least 50 far asrsgardf
any distance upon earth.