Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1851-05-02
PROGRESS.

"Thc world does mOve''-Said Calico, after hav-
ing been forced publicly to recant what was then
considered heresy at war with the teachings OF
the Bible, and the common sense, of mankind
and the experience of ages-but i'll spite of all
these said he, sit does more Yes, and the World
of mind moves too-the clouds of darkness and
error that have so long obcSured it, are slowly but
entirely dssovng There are, Notwithstanding
those whose eyes ever turned backward with
fond regret to the buried past who cannot discern
Truth unless she appears in the draperv of Antiq-
uty who believe that all Wisdom and Virtue died
with their FatherS-who are shocked at novelty be-
cause it is new
But these jewellers among the tombs" are COM
parauvely few. The spirit of the age is essentially
progressive. In every department of thourht-in
every sphere of actlon--we behold constantly in
creasing activity and energy. Old dogmas, creeds
and formulas are subjected TO thorough and fear
less scrutiny and ANALYSIS.
Science is constantly making discoveries of new
forces, and new and more powerful combination OF
old ones. throughout herwide domain. With mag
netic wires, We girdle the earth in less time than
Shakespeare tricksy spirit required to accomplish
1t. W 18th ire, water and iron, perform such
fcats, render insignificant the tabled exploit OF
the Gen of old-and we scarcely startled from
our equanimity, when are told that from water
alone We shall obtain light heat and power. almost
sufficient to create new void.
As education is more widely difTused, the
thoughts of original and profound minds find more
and more extended audience, receive more and
more thorough examination and discussion =; are
again and again anayzed sifted and compared
debated, denied and affirmed, till the error they
contain being left to perish-as is the inevitable
ultimate fate of all error-whateyer of truth thce
may possess, is silently and gradually but surely
appropriated by the general mind.
In the midst such an active and busting woll Id,
whoever would not be left behind in the onward
march of events has need every faculty and
all the energy of his nature. Thought and work
are the worlds masters and he who hopes succeed
without eftortuntiring, uncCasing eXertion of all
his powers of mind and body, is inevitably doomed
to experimentation York Organ.
Two Pennsylvania Dutcllmen had a regular fight
a Arkansas, during which one party bit off the
nose of his antagonist. The poor fellow who lost
his smeller applied to Dutch Justice-eyerything
is Dutch in that region-and complained that the
other had bitten of his but the other in his
defence insisted that the plaintiff had bitten off his
nose, this was issue not anticipated; "Mien
Cotn' exclaimed the sufferer, chow can that be?
How man pite off his own nose! Ii is inn
poSsible!" "mien fren, " said the Judge, gravely,
"tere is nothing impossible nit Got You have
pte off your own nose, pay de costs ant go home. "
VIRTUE A STATE OF EQUILIBIUx.-A cores
pendent sends us the following extract from Mr..
MacanIeys History of England. 1t is very COM
prehenSive proposition, stated i'll remarkable terse
and iorcible manner.
Virtue is nothing but just temper between
propensities, any of which, if INDUCED to ex-
cess, becomes vice. Nay, the perfection of the Su-
preme Being Himself consist in an exact equilih
rum of attributes, none of which could preponder-
ate without disturbing the whole moral and physi-
cal order of the world
FAST PRINTING PREssEs.-Mr, Taggart has
invented powerful printing press, adapted to a
sheet ofany size. by which both sides can be prin-
ted at once, giving from one to impressions in
a second, and the costof which will not exceed five
hundred dollars The model looks as though the
invention practicable. Mr.. S. has taken his
model TO New \ ork, TO exhibit TO Mr.. Bruce.
Mr. Luctus T. Guernsey, OF montpelier, Vt, an
experienced and IngenluS printer has invented and
brought into successful operation powerful print
ing press, which, with less than half the cost prom
lseS al the results of the great power used in
publishing our largest class of papers.
Yankee ingenuity will never permit the nece,si-
" of paving twelve thousand dollars for a
fast press to exist long.-Bosson Post.
Preach Small. -"Mother''' said little girl. sew
years old, Il could not understand our minister
to-day, he said many hard words. | wish he
would preach that little girls could understand
him. Won't he mother"
Yes, think so, if we ask him"
Soon after, her father saw her going over 10 the
minister's
Where are you agoing, Emma?"
| Il am going over to Mr.---'s, to ask hin
to preach sHaH"'