Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-05-01

since, was old LOGO wears ago
We kuoS that tho ~stcieut, mast haze been &C
quainied with the AtchimeJiau Screw, ar some
equaiIy effective instr,nl q of power. else they
never could have elevated the p,nderru' blocks al
stone which constitute their Pyramids and Col
Inns.
Ventilation is deemed Il very modern Art. Ba,
this IL n"t tHr fact Tor Aperatures uuqIestinnnbl,
made Tor the yurpu.e ct vertilaiion, are found il
s;c =, ranid tau,bs 0f E;Jt, Yes. thousands o
ears aeu,the blrbiruu4 Iagans nj; 80 lar a,
"a ~terIiate ihcir i"mh.. white VIC yet scarcely
kuuS h0w To- %Nentlrte our houses,
NJ u Steam. IS u lrcl NATIVE power, a ulUderu
ihNehii"t. INT power WAS urqAestiOu,bl
known % the At cieutr. Airsgi, the Freuch PHI
IoS"pter recently deceased 80 in.I.ts, aud give,
: iiciu-i'e evidence ~ Supp Ht ct his uuitiinn.-
TIE science Of lildt"siauc. Was also Known
There are Evidences stili ex'apt ia Monust.ries
where tins power VAS employ ed. thr"ugh The agen.
rv ct ingenious machinery. to work miracles. >
We have alsr. dfn"ing~ of Ships prupelledhy some
Invisible power aud Homer. who was a historian
hS well ~ a poet, says that ULYSSES was taker
''ack to Greece in II vessel ~ptolelled without thu
nses ct either oars or sails. What was that but
steam?
Mr. were they ignorant Of Canals. The cngi.
heers who accom- panied Napoleon into Egyrt dis
covered traces OF II vacant canal, $50 feet wide,
AZ feet deep, and some hundred miles in length
with locks, whOee gates suddenly closed Nhen
needinl to elevate vessels from ono level to another.
This canal is alluded to ly lleredi,us, as being in
existence during the time Of Pnnraoh and so
perfect was its original workmanship. that those
engineers expressed The opinion that it could be
PIT in perfect repair for bali a million of dol.
lara.
They had also Rail Roads. All the great cities
Of antiquity yer. inland. Alexandria was the first
erected on the SEA border. There WAS reason for
this. The merchants of that day vero little else
than slave traders and pirates and it vas 10 es.
cape their incursions that retirement was sought
Piracy is now out Of fashion hut slave trading
is not. Ready means Of communication with the
sea wss Important, and rail roads were resorted
to. They were constructed BIZ first laying upon a
level, huge bucks Ct granite. These blocks were
then giopved for the wheels to run in--;he equiva
lent of the iron rail Of our day. The same class
of rail roads wers seen in South America by our
own c"untryman. Mr.. Stephens who adds that
their wheel groves were lined with a laid metal =
thu. moro closely approIimating cur modern rail.
rUpd.
Oar Lrnda.terian system of ,eaching-so popu
lar, for n time. ns \ modern IN Improvement. is more
than l 600 years old. The Temperance principle
the pledge IF abstinepce-was known and prsc.
tIced upon the banks Of the GnnSes 200 years
ago. G~nano,-whnsr wonderful power was illus.
tra'cd by the remark of the Yatkee, that he plac
Ell y small quantity upon the earth where he tad
deposited = %timkpin seed, when instantly il com
menced growing, and the vine ran with such
rapidity that it entangled mis- legs while trying 10
get Out of it's way. and putting his hand in his
pocket for his iack'knife to cut it, it sent to seed
heture be could get his hard out-Guano was
known aud used long before it was sought for by
our people. 1t is not "A new discovery.
We are apt to insi t that Columbus fret discov
cred the neV world (; but 400 years before Christ,
it was Ia'eed about a., consisting of two islands
larger than all Africa and Asia.
Nor i Hobbs Lock anything new. II is but
a model % an Egg plian lock, thousands Of years
old. Mesmrrism is no modern idea. 1t is older
than tho New Testament. HyGropsthy was a
science centuries upon centuries since. Whether
it w.s practiced any more successfully then than
now, he can not say. 1t doubtless had its disCi
tiles and it, opponents as in our own dsy. Charles
Lamb once expressed bic hostility 20 it. by saving
that the delnge killed many more than il cured =
But the Undergraduates reply WAS, that all were say.
ed who we're worth saving. -....
lie had supposed that modern times might
claim the invention OF the loom; but on inresti
CATION he had come 10 believe that he was mis-.
taken. There are ancient pictures extant Of the
Loom; and here is still 10 be seen ancient muslin
called the Dacis mnslin-fncr than that Of our own
day. Juvenal the ancient IludiJras. says that
the women Of his day dressed in garments "wo
ven toy the Wind" Our muslin is called fine
which has but $50 threads to the sqnsre inch,
while the muslin IN which the Egyptian mummier
are envelup-d has 500 threads To The square iuci:
and many rf the colors OF the ancient clrtts are
believed to be the same recently discovered by the
Frrneh.
B tthe lecturer would not have the audience
90 away with the idea that We were ia no respect
in advance at the sncien =. We NAV act know
more, hat we use What Ne DO know differently
What was Known Of science and the arts bv the
anciehts. WAS used by the rulers aud the priest
hood T., deceive and hold 10 ruhiectiun the masses
When these CLASSES were over'hruun science wa.
trnldrn nut with sheen.
There can tow lie .ern in Rom" bricks brarin.
the stang "f their mrker's name ! 900 wears ag"
That stamp wa.'hmt the m,lsrh stcreptypn pl,ie
But this stereotype plate ~ used Tor other uurpn
spS than 10 stanp the name OF the manufactnre,
ui brick. II gives immortality 10 IDEAS. Ii rriu'.
he bouk. which renders il impossible that tie
knnwledac of the present day. like that IT the
PAST. si"nii 90 out with the men who, today,
possess that knuw ledge.
II is III the use "i Science TINT ve excel TIC
anticnts-in the principal excmpliGcation &c the
jurtrine that no man hasa right "a know any
hing which he is not Silling to make useful. Il
is his which prc rminently distinguishes NJ from
the anrients and it is to this, and the Recognition
of the rights IF the great brotherhood of man
which, under God, is To elevate us, in the ewes u
future generations, far above thuse whose Los
Arts" are the subject Of our wonder.
a STEAM ENGINE EXPERIMENTAL SCARED CLER
GYMAN.-"The first English model of n steam car
riage was made in 17S4. by VIM. Murdoch, thu
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