New-York daily tribune., 1858-10-01
HtTrrHS or SCIENCE.

IN the AfeflnfuiShrN sNs"' W
Arv. Nmsuc StrSds. born I" h'''' T" '''
s,;r, a. Professor Of Rhetoric IN the "'eso'nu
s,.I,.ec where he died in low lie " '"lo"!
49, =, The historian Of the BelSic war from
r~.,,.. y :, 1900: but that he SHARED not only IN
,A SEXUAL hu, also in the prophetic learning "i that
..,,, and calsi,ated sgc, TINS curious poem proves
rAsA h. describes with marvellous fidelity, as II
A.sw h second sight. the very details of the great
,,Nru,urr. the lsying of tie Atlantic telegraph.
d is too long 10 iuscr; in these notices of what IS
S.us in the world Of science from day 10 day, but
<rr is another and shorter relic of the past pro-
vlrtie of the present wonders, which is equally
worthy of being rescued from oblivion. Ii occurs
incidentally in the Travels in France Of Arthur
y.sus. who. On the 10th of October, l7s7. was
srAtsessns in Paris, aud thus writes on the lSoth
>ss, Of the second volume of his Journal
In The evening % Mons. Lomond. very ingenious
ars inventive mechanic, who has made an improve
rsrt fthe ienry fer spinning cotton Common ma
o. ines said o make toe hard thread ior CERTAIN
khrcs hR, ihls forms II loose and spongy. In eiec-
tic,y he has made remarkable discovery: fon
vrts iwo or three words on paper he taxes !, win
lua into room and turns machine lnciosed ~ a
SyhrdrcA case ST the top oi which Is an eieciroes
email 6ne pi,h ball; wire connects WIN siniliai
syhuecr ana cecromeer in distant apartment ana
his wife nv remaikiRg the corresponding mohons OF
Me ball writes down the words they nolSate, rom
vf;eh h srpears ,hsi he has formed an alphabet oil
we;Scns A. the length Of the wire makes no diner.
e,ec in the effect correspondence might be earned
On AZ sny iistsnee-wiilin and without Deslegcd
A., sor insiarce; for purpose much more
ne, rsrd thousand times more Observation-Disclosures
TIVE overs prohibited or prevented IRON any better
sssrec,ion. Whatever yhe use may be, the invention
4 beautiful Mons. louiond has many other curious
m.cbines sn The entire work OF his own hands; me-
siaaisl 'rveniion 10 be in him natural pro-
y~rsiiy In the evening, 10 the Comed,e Froneatse.
Aeia cid the Besrros Bientasant. and II is not easy
fes acting 10 be earned to greater PERFECTION
Thus wrote the smisbe, learned and talkatiye
eh traveller. straight ahead, IS the bird fes--or
Tme-unconsccus that he was writing for pre-
eis<iy lS5s, and no other year. either oi his own
or hrs childrens century, any more than the bell
founder in the mother country knew that the
Proclaim Liberty to all the Land, which he cast
about the collar of his bell, was given to him BY
The istes and only intended for the future fourth
day Of July, in Philadelphia, l776. So we see
again, in this example, how, in fact nothing is en-
trey new, or arrives into history unprepared and
uplerslded, as every comet gets ITS coma on It's
Nay tO the sun. The essential elements OF the
telegraph were undoubtedly worked out in Paris
before the proclamation OF peace in 17c2 While
Sir Edward Packinghan was leading his stagger-
inr ranks against the cotton-bale breastworks of
New Orleans. husband AID wife were cOncOcting
lovers comforts, and prophesying universal philan-
tbropy in that laboratory beside the Seine. Not
Hughes snd Henry and Faraday, but the great
Frpkin himself was anticipated. We suggest
that, of those innumerable submarine mountain
peaks which fancifully make up the now mythical
~plsteau' at the bottom of the Atlantic, that the
enc first actually touched and tried and fixed, the
enc firsi, in good sooth, plumbed and struck fair
up on the head and mapped by the Coast Survey,
be christened Morse ben LOmond; and may it be
the tallest Of them all, the Mont Blanc, nay, the
Mount Everest of the chain.
During the dry silence of Mr. De Sanity and the
new quite ntolerable delays of even the fastest of
our ocean mail steamers the slightest hint OF what
may be the difficulty 'down below" is welcomed
ty the American public, who find themselves In
situation most unpeasanty like that of the boys IN
tle Pickwick Papers, who stood pertinaciously
fattening their noses against the apothecarys win
dow, while the unfortunate patient was operated
upon in back room; seeing nothing, they could
only vent their curiosity in diverse kickings and
hootings to show their right to have some interest
In the proceedings. The last Cosmos copies from
the English builder a curious item of news bearing
on the subject:
"On examining piece Of submarine cable cut from
Ne end Of the La Manchc Nnc, Kong in use, there
noticed indefinite series O raptures or subdivs
il the wire had been chopped into morsels or hal
been dstey rated unuer the l.ucnce oi thc ectric ii
vii rations Since, in the case Of the Irans alta tic
cable, positive and negative alternately are
launched through 1t, such dsinegration of te WIRE
must be expected 10 come about even more ralidly
The fact itself too mysterious To be discussed at
present
II is not unwise, however, tobring il into analogy
with what we know OF thermal action in cases of
cross capitalization such as the chilling of the
face of iron the fbrous radiation of brown hema-
ti,e ore, and the cohmnar structure of basalt and
other slowly cooled iayas. Where life resembles
these mponderable agencies We may compare it
with the annuated division Of al stenlmed animals
the fine discs of encionita footstalks for example
or the ringed structural deposits in worms.
Copper wire is but cylindrical arrangement of a
crowd of molecules, and electricity seems to be
merely the driving through them of ring waves,
which must in the end pack them into discs, of u
regular size and very minute, because the waves
are regular and very minute, the waves OF hight
being about So coo in an inch and these discs when
sufficiently compact should concentrate TO COIN u
word, conlaminate as certainly AS the nebulous
matter of our solar system, when once broken into
zones conglobed into planets.
The first number OF the new or rather revived
Aanaks IIisgrophiqaes has appeared. Ii is pub
hshed every two months under the direction of y