The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1856-11-25
TI,E DAILY GAZETTE.
quF WONDERS OF THE ELECrfi'
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4 4fl{E NJ ,bN DEMO VI 49,
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From Ae Ims. october 10
There is an old Arabian tale III
which three young princes are repre-
fenled as having obtained possession
.f,hree implements, the works oil The
mi which were esteemed the most
SssIndertul OF which man had yet heard.
Tlrrc was Il small telescope which
-,uld assist the sight OF the observer
to ,euetratc thousands ot miles from
lht .pot on which he stood lkere
was i carpet which transported any
one who took his station upon 1t swift
asa wish TO any place to which he
desired 10 go. There was an apple
vLicb healed all diseases il the pa
t;eut but inhaled the fragrance ol It's
spnny rinl. Such were the SUBJECTS
II tie tales with which the Arabs
sn.tbed the monotouy of their md
NIGHT eucampments, and which the
indian story teller related to his sWar-
thy audience under the arch OF The
r,ty cate in the short twilights OF the
Fast Tie imaginatiSns OF the most
.oaoinative races had been taxed to
,beiT utmost stretch to conceive what
niraeles could be performed If the SUI
uernatural powers might be made Ia
y,rahle to man. and such were the re
sults Science in these modern times
md human reason, acting, as we be
fgre. under the immediate guidance
# Providence, has eutstripped these
isnciiuI legends Of the Eastern world.
THIS is no Oriental poet who yentured
10 imagine that a dweller 10 Damas
ems OF Bagdad could communicate his
thoughts 10 tho utmost limits OF the
habifable world instautaneously a.
hey were conceived in his own brain.
Their notions Of physical geography
were SO limited thar the Fasteners had
go conception Of the true form ofthe
,Ingnet which we inhabit. Had they,
however. been told that the world was
q sphere. and that the thought OF man
runII he made to encompass it like q
,irIle. rapidly As the flash which rent
the clouds asuuder and passed away
ne one cuuld say that il had lightened,
ryw poor in comparison with such a
aaplt would all the wonders have ap'
syar-d. which. IT'S they supposed, lay
hidden from human eye and sealed
... aces to come under the sacred
.,anct Of solomon, The electric tele-
1Arh is the miracle otmodern Times.
A vet this invention is bat in its
infancy. but already all Europe is tra
r4eI In liza wires and the continent
a.. North America. In the course oi
tA. next two or three years We trust
h. see results lar more extensive. The
wire is already coiled up which is to
ta cast into the depths otthe Atlantic.
The mountains and valleys Of that
-reat sea having been iathomed TO as
certain the most convenient course for
,g deposit. ain a brief space too the
electric spark which is generated in
London will pass as swiftly rs the eN-
Il .geuce3 Of It's own nature require to
the great cotton city Oh the delta OF
Tie Mississippi, and to that rude town,
aAicheyer it may be, which may then
t.e Iurthest westward OF the domains
Il ol the buffalo and the red man. Con-
\ t.uporaneously with this gigantic re-
ultwe have ether laborers in the same
field at work. who are busily engaged
IN liking the tramroad for the electric
park between the European continent
and the Northern shores OF Africa
i This limit once obtained, the tighten
ing thought can flash freely on its own
course across the old land of the EgyP-
lian. whether by the Red Sea oracross
the plains of Mcsopotamia, to the cit,
es Of oar Indian Empire, and in due
time, no doubt to the great centres OF
1 Chinese commerce. Nor is this all
Ghe wire which had been laid down
from l.ondonin one direction will soon
lee carried to the city Of the California
gold digger. The corresponding wire,
IA which we have Just marked few
stations, will then be borne across the
Il Chinese Seas and the Northern Pacii.
ic--touching, it may be, on its way at
4 the mysterious empire of Japan, and
Il win bo linked on at San Francisco t"
n the western chain. Then it will hap
n pen that "a man may generate spark
u at London which, with one fiery leap,
4 viii return back under his hand and
Il disappear, but in that moment oftima
Il It will have encompassed the planei
Y "n which we are whirling through
q space into eternity. That spark viii
q "e q human thought!
Il a-NATEuR q GARDENING 81 don I SEE
81 what in SINS become of them dahlia'
n let out this spring said Tapehorn
4 arvtircd slop,shop merchant, to his
4 "ilc, one morning a month ago, as h,
u hunted in vain among the weeds an,
q sIoss in his garden, 10 see where o
y when his two dollars-a piece dahli'
q "'ois We're going to appear
n Can't think what the matter Will
8 ,u he continued. "Goldblo5son
d aid they were the finest roots he eve
4 e".I~ ought TO be up and in bloom
& tTo months ago"
4 oh, pa, / forgot to tell you, sal
4 'tJea TapehorD, "thatow Patrick, on
] uomiug last spring, was digging /
Il the garden there, aud he turned II
."me things that looked Just lik
>weet potatoes; mother and | locke
anthem, and thought they were pots
Il l"osthoae Mackintoshes had left undu
Il when they moved away last winter''