The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1853-06-24
'able NIOvinngs and Spiritual Mani
festatiOns In England.

AAe A1ln10h correspondence the Enlla
ldelphia Register, under arecent date write
thus:
The King Of Prussia has succeeded i
sending centre table on q journey up ant
down his private apartments; and since thi.
fact has got ont, people begin 70 hope tina
the friendly visiting now going on at Schon
brunn. and other royal dwellings may be de
voted to the consideration Of topics less dan
] gerous to the peace Of Europe howeser they
{ may menace the hitherto undisputed sway
/ ofold ideas. It would be only tedious to
quote the names of the European journals
most busily 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 quite imposs.
bic. 1t is amusing to see the amazement
every bodyisin; and 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
original Italian the ever memorable words OF
Galiloe, "E pur So nauoveP while the more
discursively minded dimly espying new ~
limmitabiIlities Of possibilities launching out
into speculations upon Pygmalion statues,
and new order of machinery, that are to
revolutionize alike our ideas of art. and our
domestic manufacturing and agricultural ar
all
found seriousness.
The Independent Beige. for instance, winds
up long tissue of the marvels it has seen
by advising its readers "to stop laughing
on the subject; or, at least, if they must
laugh. to remember that when Newton was
comically bumped on the nose by an apple,
from this comicalty sprang the discovery
of the laws which regulate the gravitation
Of the universal Another paper describes
table that has been made purposely to test
these phenomena. and furnished with seats
fixed around its top, SO that the experiment.
ors are raised entirely above the floor; and
states that the whole concern table and
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES soon rotating on its ak
is. and whirling round the room to the per
feet conviction and Undesirable amazement
of all the spectators and of themselves.
Another Belgian journal declares that some
Heidelberg students being assembledsin the
studio of a young painter there. and having
read aloud DR.. Andres letter before referred
to, determined forthwith to test the thing
for themselves. It SO happened that there
was no sablein the apartment.& they there
fore ponnced upon wooden mannikin,
iointed, which serves the young painter
sometimes as model; and having placed
this interesting effgy Of humanity on its
hands and knees on the floor, .formed the
chain around il: with their hands upon its
back, s'willing, ittodance. with such ener-
gy that it not only lerked about in the most
name but At length got upon
its feet. dealing shower of ftscuff in every
direction, and chasing its magnetizers all /
about the room. the.students rushing out
of it in state Of horror bordering upon dis /
traction and slamming the door in the man
nikin's face who thereupon deprived Of his
Fictitious energy. fell straightway upon his !
back with a violent thump. The students
having satisfied themselves, through the
Of the overthrow of their redoubt-
able adversary, at last ventured back into
the room; and one, holder than the rest,
propose to secure the creatures hand
and feet in India rubber. and then repeat
the 0asimdtiag experiment; but as they had
all been more or less knocked, one having
even received so severe a blow on the face
that he will carry the marks Of It for 3 fort
night. this proposal was energesically over
ruled And let it not be imagined that this
cock and -bulI' story is hoax
Il Is voached for as a literal, 50 literal indeed
that Professor Mettermayer, Of the Heidel-
berg University. has published learned
dissertation in defence and explanation ofitl
What however shall we say Of the declara-
ton in recent number Of journal Of Dun
kirk which assures Us thata few dayssince
a brig in the harbor having occasion to tack.
the crew to save themselves the trouble of
working the capstan formed ths chain round
EDGE of the deck. and had the satisfaction
after the expiration Of I minutes 70 see Che
vessel turn. itself gently and smoothly. as
though by enchanlment, il TIE desired di-
rectianlll must also mention that the per-
ambnlatinr tables when Ieqasetea got uF
"a one side. aud holding one lag = she aii.