Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1853-06-22
spiritRappings in Earope.

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Spirit RaPpings in Europe.
The following is from the London Correspond
snt ofthe Philadelphia Register:
aInaober earnest, (if the epithet can really be
applied 10 the subjeet) the tabis-moping business
referred to in one of my late letters, has taken
such an astonishing Development on this side the
oceah. within the last fortnight, that it throws
every other consideration into the shade! The
continental orrnals are full Of the subject detail
ing the experiments, Sssexperiment FIRST, = sex
periment second, up TO the seventeen, and
threatenlng e stop heaven only knows whereD
on scaie OF minuteness that excludes almost all
other rmsfter. The article from Dr. Andre, in
the esfazetfe DsAugsburgs copied into the Bremen
zeetung. the Lloyd Of Vienna, the Paris Constitu-
tionel and the London Times, having set all Eu-
rope IN blaze. and raised up such hosts OF eek.
perimenters," !" that you cannot now find Journal,
Except the Italian and Spanish, which seem to
have been slower IN taking the infection that is
not crowded with these astounding reports. Hum;
noidt, though not denying the facts, has come out
with a disclaimer OF there being any magnetism,
or in fact anything strange inthe matter; but des-
pte the dictnm of tins iiustrIous savant, the pub
Ac is everywhere forming ''the ehain' ana loud
lyexpresses its sense or the strangeness OF SO
violent revolution in the habits and behavior OF
hitherto peaceabie mahogany.
The King OF Prussia has succeeded IN sending
small centre-tabie on journey up and down
his private apartments and since this fact has
got touf, people begin to hope that the friendly
visiting now going OF, at Schonbrunn, and other
royal dwellings, may be devoted to the consider
alton topics less dangerous to the peace of Eu-
ropes however they may menace the hitherto un-
disputed sway of old ideas. 1tweuld be only te-
dio1s 10 quot the names of the European jour
nals most busiiy occupied with the question of
table-moving; and TO give an idea of the mass of
statements now coming out from the successful
movers, would be qui,eimposs bic. It 8 amusing
see the amazemente everybody is in; sand also to
notice that nine-tenths of those who are getting
out their first report on the subject, wind up with
quoting in English, French, German. or the orig
inal Italian the ever memorable words of Calico,
tsE psr S; mouue.'' while the more ,discursively
minded dimly espying new iuimital ililias of pos
si5;lit;es are launching ont into speculations up
on Pypmalian statues, and new order of ma
chinery, that are to revolutionize alike our ideas
of art, and our domestic manufacturing and agri-
cultural arrangements and all this with the most
profound seriousness
The Iadependeuce Beige, for instance, winds up
long tissue Of the marvels if has seen by Wis
ing its readers s.to stop laughing on the subject
or, t least if they must laugh, to remember hat
when Mes TIN was comically bumped on the nose
nv an ample. from this comieality sprang the dis
eoverv Of the laws which regulate the gravitation
Of the universes,' sAro.her paper describes ta-
BILE that has been made purposely to test the pae-
nomena, and furnished with seats fixed around its
ton. so that the experimentors are raised entirely
above the floor; and states that the whole con-
.cern-table and experiment tors-was soon rotat-
ing on its axis, and whirling round the room to
ment OF all the spectators and of themselves
Another Belgian journal declares that some
Heidelberg students being assembled in the studio
of d young painter there, and having read aloud
Dr.Andre s letter before referred to, determined
forthwith to test the thing for themselves. 1t SO
happened that there was no table in the apart
sment, and they therefore pounced upon wooden
nannikin, jointed, which serves the young painter
sometimes as a model, and having placed this in
teresting efigy of humanity on its hands and
knees upon the floor, ssformed the chain'' around
H. with their hands upon its back, "wilIing it to
dance, with such energy that,it not only jerked
about ii, the most surprising manner, but at
lenoth moi unor its feet dealing shower of fist
cuffs in every direction, am, chasing its magnetiz-
ers all about the room; the students rushing out
4, s,st of bnr3erino ,,nen distraction