Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1858-08-13

encircles the maiden at thy side
But see. he rises suddenly, TO answer call
at the door.
"NIr. Linocll, believe"
That's my name, sir" replied Lndell
sharply.
81 called with a teegraphic dispatch, that
has Just arrived for you"
"a telegraphic dispatch?' exclaimed Mr..
Lindell quickly.
"Yes, sir. Mrs. Lindeli was found dead in
her arm chair this morning. Physicians we're
called, but they declared no earthly power
could reanimato the lifeless clay. that she died
Of disease of the heart
Oh, thou false and pcriured Iindell, return
to thy home, and clasp to thy bosom tho beau
tiful form Of thy wife. now cold and lifoless.
Listen for the beatings of her crushed heart,
brush back the dark curls from her marble
forehead, and kiss that lofty brow, clasp those
icy fingers round thy neck look in vain for
the light of those dark eyes. for the azure
veined lids have closed over them forever.
DISSECTION OF A THUNDER CLOUD.
Some Of the most surprising results yet
known to the scientific world. are related in a
recent article in the British Quarterly, on An
drew Crosse, the electrician. Our readers
will thank us for calling their attention to
tho following curious narrations
In visiting his scat at Broomsfeld, the
splendid apparatus he employed for extract
ing electricity from the atmosphere would
first arrest the attention. Fancy the cleo
trio telegraph of our railways stretching across
forest, with its posts mounted on the tops
Of the highest trees, and the reader will be
enabled to form some idea of the scene in Mr..
Crosses park. Far overhead ran wires sup
ported by poles which rose from SUBMITS of
the trees, and were provided with an insulat-
ed arrangement to prevent the dispersion Of
the fluid. The duty of these wires was to
fetch in the electricity of the clouds and fogs,
that it might be examined at ease by the
owner of the mansion. Within the build
ing there was large room, an arched roof,
originally intended for a music hall, but now
occupied by voltaic batteries. galvanic piles,
electrical jars, and other implements of phil
osophy. II was place where strange pro-
cesses were in progress, and where subtitle
streams of fluid, flowing in silent but cease
less currents, were busily employed in pill
ing up little mineral fabrics, and compelling
the obedient atoms to fashion themselves in
to exquisite forms of crystal architecture
But it was place, also, where the same ee-
ment might be seen in its PRIDE and where il
might also be heard in its wrath for all
those wires could be made to pour their sup
plies in a large brass conductor fixed and in
suated on a table in the organ gallery, and
fttngly inscribed with words, Noh me tan
gere. Not far from this conductor was anoth-
CT brass ball, forming the extremity of me-
tallic arrangement by which the electricity
might be conveyed out Of the building into
the moist ground around There was a CON
triyancc, too, by which tho current, when is
strength became perilously great, or when its
services were not required, might be turned
off altogether, and discharged into the soil
without entering the apartment. But If the
magician wished to observe the play of the
fiery element, it was easy to increase or di-
minish the two brass knobs, and thus to reg
ulate the charge to be received by the huge
battery employed. Then, if there were any
electricity astir in the atmosphere, those balls
would be sure to reveal the fact, and success
sion of sparks and explosions, augmcntng in
rapidity as the commotion increased, would
enable the observer to see into the storm as it
we're, and to listen to its doings related in its
own voice.
The results were surprising. With this
noble, searching apparatus, Mr.. Crosse sue
ceeded in obtaining insight into the com
position OF a thunder cloud, such as no one
else had done before him. Imagine dense
mass of yapour approaching the electrical OBJ
servatory sultry summers day. No
sooner does its margin arrive overhead the
exploring wire, than the brass balls begins to
announce the commencement of the fray. A
spark is seen, a detonation heard, and these
heralds of the tempest are followed by a Sc
ries of mimic flashes and explosions some
what slowly delivered, for they may not ex-
coed nine or ten during the first minute of
the convuson. Then there is pause, but
after while the apparatus gives forth anoth-
or set of sparks and snappings, equal in num-
Der, aud equal also in force TO those which
have been exhibited. but differing in this par
ticular---that if the first consisted of negative
electricity, the second will consist of tho con
trary description. Anothe- pause took place.
and then the sparks began TO leap from ball
to ball, but with greater vigor and rapidity
than before these are discharges of negative
electricity as at the outset, and when they
have passed. a similar set Of positive erup-
tions invariably ensues. Again the apparatus
becomes silent but il is only for a short in
tcryal. more numerous and brilliant sue
cession of flashes soon announce that another
zone of negative vapor is sweeping aloit, to be
followed, after brief respite, by cores
ponding zone of positive electricity. The in
teryals of repose now grow shorter, and at
length stream of fire is seen to pour from
one conductor to the other. broken only by
the change from one kind Of fluid to its OPP
posite.
When the center of the cloud has reached
the spot, and the exploring wires are sucking
the lightnings from its heart the effect is in
concciyably fine. With the thunder roaring
around the building, the windows rattling in
their frames, the rain dashing against the
panes, the electric fire bounding madly from
ball to ball. and bursting necessarily, as if
enraged at the prosumptuous mortal who had
dared to drag il from its native sky, bis must
be stout heart who could witness such a
scene without some feeling of awe or even of
alarm; for there is death in every discharge,
if those conductors were rashly approached,
and thousands of Rchmans might perish in
the emptying of single cloud. But as the