Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1853-03-03
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ago, what wear and tear of horse flesh il Tequir-
ed 10 get news for our daily papers! What a
trouble and delay there was in getting the news
from Halifax during the winter season! Now,
what change!
\ steamship arrives At Halifax, Boston. or New
York this morning, and the European news is
published in the New Orleans papers in the eve
ming The speeches delivered in the halls of Con-
gress TO day are delivered to the readers of the
newspapers n all our important cities next morn
ing.
Our astronomers, pale watchers of the rolling
spheres employ the lightning pen to register
their observations
The whole science Of YoltaiSrn, Electro ma gne-
tsrn, and Electrotypng are trophies of the dis
coyeries made during the last fifty years. Elec-
tromagnetism has been employed to separate
metals from their ores, to drive machinery, TO
make huge bars Of IRON dance in mid-air, ike the
( fabled collins Of MohamneI and what it may ac-
comPlzh in future times It Is not possible 10 pre-
dict
Before the beginning Of this century, what was
( the printing press in comparison 10 what it now
is A few years ago there was not single print
/ my press driven by steam now there is not a pa
/ per with large circulation printed without it
I From printing 1909, . 00O and 900 copies per
hour, the latest improved press can print 10000
ia that time. In other departments Of Typography,
/ the Improvements have been equally striking and
( beneficial.
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In Chemistry, what discoveries have been
made. in fact the whole science has been remod-
to chemistry whata strong man IS to great law
girer in executing his mandates In the hands OF
Dary, chemical compounds ofwhat were suppos-
eI mere earthly CRYSTALS were resolved into met
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ing progress has been made in the science
Agricultural chemistry IS but few years old
ant 8ra1n.He, iodine, palladium, Thodiun, &c, are
discoveries OF very late years The Animal Chem
lsiry OF Llebs has been bat recently given to the
world. Cotton and sawda7t are now made to
Propei cannon-JllIs aud rena rocks by a spark
from battery ChIoroform has come to the aid
OF surgery, and arms and limbs are amPutaied
from men and women every day, and they as ig-
Horant Of the operation performing on them as
the deed ~ their graves
1asliSRt was unknown n 1905 It was not un-
ul TWO years after tins that Murdoch made his
iTsi public exhibition II soho Since that time
hIs discovery has eneircled the earth IN Europe
and America, all the principal cities are lighted
with II and even n New Zealand, villages, where
no white man had built his residence II 500, are
now Illuminated by the Same subtle, but beautiful
agent OF human comfort and happiness.
Who If he were yoId. twenty years ago. tha,
the sunlight would lie used for a limners pencil
would have believed .t7 Not one: and vet this
has been done. When NJ. Daguerre. distinguish
81 chemist Of Paris arst published. in-ls39 that
he had discovered method Of taking pictures on
metal plates by the sun. the public regarded his
metal tablets with feelings Of wonder.
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