The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1853-08-04
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Dr. Hare on Table Turning.
PHILApELpHIA, July 81.

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DEAR am of opinion that it is utterly impossible
for six eight any number OF PERSONS seated round
q table, to produce an electrical current moreover,
.o"asirnt nas by any adsqua,o means an eiectrl
cal current were created, however f0cibe, II could not
be productive OF table turning dry. wooden table, is
almost conductor, but If forming link necessary
to compete circuit between the sky and EARTH i might
possibly be shattered by stroke OF lightning but II Tie
power OF all the gaivanc apparatus ever made were 10
be collected in current, there would be no power to
move or Otherwise effect such table
FRACTIONAL electricity such as produced by electrical
machines, must first be accumulated and then .ischarged
in order TO produce any striking effect II is W ansitu
that it's power il seen and felt U 3
insulated conductors, whether nanmale in the form
of animals may be electrified by the most powerful
means, without being injured or seriously incommoded
Before spark OF lightning poses, every object on the
terrestrial surface for great distance around is subject
TO portion OF The requisite previous accumulation Yet
um only those objects WHICH are made the medium OF
discharge that are sensbly Affected
j Powerful gavanc accumulation can only be produced
by those appropriate arrangements, which concentrate
upon comparatively small flament OF PARTICLES their
peculiar poarizng power; but nothing seems 10 me more
inconsistent with experience than 10 suppose table
moved by airy possible form mode OF galvanic reac
ton. l9EG.t eA HtHa UAH U E@f .@@ &C.
II was ascerianed by Gazot that one of the mos, pow
eriul gavanic batteries made could not give spark
btye contact 10 conductor presented TO it, at The smallest
distance which could be made by delicate micrometer
More than month since, at the house OF a friend, a
number OF respectable vsters observing CHARM
ing young lady, who was under the impression that
table caused the movements which actually resulted from
her touching it, then stated that The subject a
physiological mystery not purely physical mystery.
The only subject for inquiry how people could
deceive themselves suppose that what they really
moved. moved them. Putting my hand the table. il
displayed not the slightest tendency to motion. Yet
whatever admiring youngster might do, who would
suppose that table would readily for young
lady than for an old man L On.
II there any law which is eminent for its invari-
ability, it 10 that ianas matter per change its
respects motion rest. Were this law liable TO
any variation, should be poporonably liable TO per-
sh since. in that Case, the revolutions and rotations
Of planet and its satellite might undergo perturba-
items by which the might inundate the land. the
great proximity remoteness OF the TO
h. scorched or frozen. aEo sg .s..t
4: the globe did not carry the Pacific more steadily
inanihe most competent person could carry basin Of
water, should be drowned by the overflow OF the
land. 1aHh & z1Ha.t SUE. AZ
recommend TO your attention, and that of others in.
eresieo IN THIS hansoinsIio F.r.I~y'. md
experiments. recently published in some of
pectable newspapers. entirely in the conclu-
sioas Of that distinguished experimental expounder OF
Natures riddles.
moral may be drawn from this susceptibility of self.
deception. 10 moral conduct, 10 our physical
movements. sometimes take the effect for the
and blame others for tina, which has originated in our
selves