Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-01-17
SELECT TALE.
ParpatuaI Motion.


Whenever man can Of a few pieces Of EARTH make
an independent self-moyiug automaton [shape Is
nothing) the feat will rival that of his own creation
out of dust. 1t would be greater one and mira
Gle not equaled on our globe. There ure omove-
ments on earth, in air, under the earth, without
an outlay of something's consuming of something
foreign to them. All organisms, vegetable and an
mated, are kept alive by means of food. With
hold this their energy fails, their movements cease,
they die; but the artificial machine is TO have
principle of nourishment within itself, rather to
need no external source of support or means of
newing its strength. This is 10 continue undnlin
ished and at The same time be continually going
out from it. Where the supply is to come from
who can tell? An unlimited issue of power out of
nothing! The protector is to impart an attribute
higher than he himself possesses 10 the work OF
his handS-to impant IN it a principle unknown to
nature-one beyond its power-for had she posses
Sed it, economist she is, someif not all her ma
chimes had been moved by it. There is no living
thing, nor anything else that can expend physical
force without lesSening its supply, and this is soon
used up when not repleniShed, no matter how large
the original amount hence it sin the consumption
of food that Divine Wisdom has provided for the
waste Of muscular force, and Divine benifence is
not less obvious in making the using OF it source
of qualification to all cteatures.-N Y. Tribune.
G7.A correspondent of the Florence (Ala.) Ga
is rather strong in his expressions of dsappro-
baton of those who are in favor OF the dissolution
of the Union. He says:
ga man that character could not get a meals
victuals OF bed TO sleep on at my house. My
dogs should not bark at him. III was to catch
buzzard eating the carcass Of disunonists, 1would
shoot it. They are the last of all creation; fit for
nothing but to be winked at by negroes, kicked at
by mules, gored by bulls, and butted BY rams.'
PoLIrIoAL LIrE.-Demosthenes, as Plutrarch
relates, once said, that if, at the commencement
of his public career. he had known what he after
wards learned of the miseres of public life, and
had been shown two roads, one Of them leading to
an early grave, and the other TO political power
he would have chosen the former.
| GTDean Swift happened to be in company with
a petulant young mau, who prided himself on say
ing pert things and at last, getting up with some
concened gesEculotionS, said with an confident
ar-''You must know, Mr.. Dean, | set up for Il
wit.' edo you so!'' said the Dean, tthen take
my advice, and set d0rn again.
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B-I never knew scolding person that was
able to govern family What makes people
scold2 because they cannot govern themselves
How, then, can they govern others? Those who
govern vel. are generally calm They are prompt
and resolute, but steady and mild.
GrSterne, who used his wife very i'll. was one
day talking to Garrnck, in fine sentimental man
ner, in praise of conjucal love and fidelity. The
husband said Sterne, who behaves unkindly to
his wife, deserves to have his house burnt over his
head III you think So said Garrack, Il hope
your house is insured
I5Park Benjamin, in his lecture on the Ridicu-
lous, said-"A friend of mine passing house
uhere there was a funeral sepped up 10 an Irish