Des Arc citizen., 1860-06-23
Historical Facts.

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 scattered before the faithful shepherds. fHf7t - w aoi0@ Historical Facts. ao''e. VI | The tardiness with which mankind adopt improvements, may be in some degree illustrated by the following facts, hastily thrown together. aA
 Canal locks were invented it 1881, by engineers of Viterbe, in Italy. They were nearly hundred years getting fa'riy into use into France, and about one hun dred and fifty in crossing the British | Channel
 At this time it was made felony, in several European States, to ride In wheel carriages. 1'es la he I The steam engine was invented or rather the principle of it discovered, by the 1 Marquis of Worcester, as early as looO Few understood and encouraged 1t. He died in great morli6cation. The honor was afterwards engrossed by Savary.
 In 1875 the Earl of Stanhope applied the steam engine to propeliing a vessel. A steamboat was run twenty miles on the Sankey Canal Liverpool, in l797, and another on the Forth and Clyde Canal. 1901. A steamboat trip was made on the Delaware as early as l79l.
 In 1907, when Robert Fulton was fit- ting up his first steamboat at New York, respectable, sensible, and gray-headed men pronounced him fool for hs palns.ss Olivan Evans went before committees of Legislatures. first in Pennsylvania and then in Maryland, with a project oi steam carriage, as early as 1854. He asked litte aid to defray the expense. They could hardly be prevented from re- porting in favor, not of steam engines Tor carriages, but of straightjackel for him. self. Now almost all nations have the sagacity and ingenuity to seize and utilize the precious idea. A.'' o sol1 L5'i4 When Peter tue Great, in l76O or thereabouts, commenced a canal between the Wolga and the Don, the governors and bayards of the country opposed 1t earnestly. thinking 1t inpiety to turn rivers out of the channels which heaven had assigned them. gu
 When some Dutchmen proposed to make the river Manzares navigable to the Tagus, and that to Lisbon, the council said if it had been the will of God that the rivers should be navigable, he would have made them so. @N When Brinley the great engineer, told l a committee of Pariamentto to whom Brldg- waters petition was referred that canals were better than rivers, and would super- cede them for the purpose of navigation, the committee were shocked, and asked him, " And pray, sir, what were the rivers made for 2' ITO feed canals" was the answer. 1sil a@bic 9Y'' gi @8oe aa gew
 Dr. Franklin surveyed the route ot the Delaware and Chesapeake Canal, at his own expense, in l757. W fp9aA e1ieW Baron Napier surveyed the route of the Forth and Clyde Canal, at his own ex- pense, in 176l. 3s9 a0I l9l 9i.oala
 Both of these works were subsequently accomplished, but after great delay. s -g Dr. Zabdiel Boyalston introduced in- noculation for the small pox; at Boston, m I72l, and tried 1t first on his own son Thomas, and other members of the family; but such was the force of prejudice and |unbeief, that the other physicians gave unanimous opinion against 1t, and the mu' nicipal gouernment prohibited rs practice
 and the populace would have torn him to pieces if he had not retired from the city. 5i 4 --------------p-s s'-----------
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