The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1861-10-03
Exhibition Of 1852 The EccentricitieS
Of Genius.

UI GcGlN5.
The London Times gives an
amusing account Of the cxtraordi-
nary demand made for space in
next years exhibition. England
and the colonies alone have de-
mandcd more than five times the
pace of the entire building:
One Of the earliest applications
for space was that Of an inventor,
who, though he does not specify
the nature OF the articles he intends
to exhibit, requires the space in
every class OF the industrial sec
tions to the amount OF $1,000
square feet. 1t must be taken,
we suppose, as a proof of the ver-
satiHty of genius that we always
dnd the professions and trades Of
those intractablo inventors have
not the rcmotest connection with
their valuable mechanical, chemic-
al and warliio discoveries. Thus
clergyman may send breech-Ioad-
crs and models of tremendously
destructive shells, while the nur-
seryman and market gardeners
protfer improvements in surgical
instruments, and the doctor con-
trivance for forwarding the ripcn.
ing Of fruit on walls. One grocer
demands space for the exhibition
of new axle applicable to all car,
riages, a new projectile for ord
nance, and new method for pro.
polling ships. y
A bookseller seems overAowing
with invention. lie has a plan OF
interminable suspension, applicable
to bridges, aqucduct8, &C., of great
span or length, anu by which he
means to do away with the costly
supports hitherto used; a target
shooting protector, for the safety
of those employed to note the score
a new paddIe-wheeI, by which tc
secure a greater amount of power
than is attainablc by any other ar
rangement; a new window-sasl
fastening and door bolt by whicl
to attain perfect security from the
impossibility of unfastening then
from the outside.
A barrister wishes to exhibit twt
architectural deigns; q pair o
spring-hceled boots, and drawin!
of a man equipped with ditto; dia
grams of Coryton's system Of fai
way lighting of the coast Of Grea
Britain; a type-composing ma
chine, and hand stamp; models ant
drawings, illustrative Of Coryton'
vertical wave line system Of shiI
construction; Coryton's atmospher
ic guide propeller, and Coryton'
self adjusting sails.
An organ builder, after mucl
correspondence, says he can not tel
how much space he will want
Another requires a horizontal spac
of two hundred feet by one hun
dred feet, or twenty Thousand
square feet, for the exhibition o
: some photographs; another want
one hundred feet by one hundred
or ten thousand square feet, 70
carriages. The agricultural nipple
mcnt makers, however, carry Of
the palm for cxorbitancy. The,
seem to think the building will b
rather larger than Salisbury Plain
for one eminent maker demands
space Of one thousand five hundre
feet by by one thousand five hun
dred feet, or two thousand tw
5 hundred and fifty square feet, neal
, ly three times the whole exhibitio
space in the building.
5 Equally curious applications wer
: made in connection with the dc
}, partment of Fine Arts. One gel
I, tleman desires to exhibit a Poem
= Another wants a stand for al
e Ftiquc bricks. A third claims spat
f IN the picture gallery for "a mod
4 room for q working shoemake
: showing sanitary arrangement al
: economical furniture, cooking al
i paratus. and bed"