The Xenia sentinel. [volume] (Xenia [Ohio]) 1863-186?, 1864-01-05

Quite az TeI rat- 10 vas loleed tlGf
thg spires of t8 Hsranb churches IN th6
city vibraisd afar la &c several degrees,
the Weathsz-Tanes upoo den dipping and
ossiIlati8g ID the most sinet manner,
from the sane cause. die Ur of houses
fhrough0ui tbe city were as1si11 shaken,
furniture displaced, sls,, oausing many
timid persons % rush 20 the street, think--
ing G IN sarthqulkeE ss- r-utr
In the towns immsdialsy1 adiGining
Boston. the conclusion. also was supposed
to be an. earthquulze. A NsHbuEgp0gi i
was theueht that tie sound iudi1aiea ~
heavy naval engagement Of Boston harboEe
At Salem a jaTTiHg eoncussion and report
vas experienced, .Eessmhliug n sauna "a
hsaFY burden train spassiHg overs trsstls-
uoTk bridge AZ 1aHaiea Pains it Ras
thought 70 proceed from q thundef-st0rn
II tho dIrectioa 0f B0st6n, and, enTi0usly'
enough, tie Bazometsf fsll several 5lsg7eet
at. the point; and the same fact vas no.
ticed at Natiek, Lynn and as faT disianS
a. Taunton Ea'I7 8 gsaoi EL1EgI Az
The water rsseaed fronE Bosl8n hazbor
/ in a wave Of considerable magaiiuds, and
in its reirogade and return, saampeds
stranded, a6d kealea over several tsllslsg
doing no Httle damage p tas cOmmsEeiH
interests. t
Gold fish in globes, and fzh Of al kiaai
in aquariums, were instantly killed; and
what. for a time, vas nneEpiainable, Has
I the fact that they sank immediaislY, Until
It was asoartained 81 DF. Holmes that their
bladders had been burst by the s0neasaioa,
when, Of course; being minus their foai--
ing apparatus, they went down Ike lead.
Dr. Holmes states als0ihe remarkabls iaet
that numerous dead bodies of argNusd
/ persons we're brought to the surface e ihe-
barbor and IN Charles River b the slns
conclusion.
4 singular eject vas produced 81 IS
pulsation Of sound from TIE erssesado dsiF
onatiOn passing along The telegraph lines
from Boston in various directions, and
which Travelled dissa6cs Of from one hun
dred and fifty to two hundred miles over
/ some wires, or until considerable bodies Of
running water we're encountered, over
which, from some zneEplainable oauss y
acoustics, the eolian tone-Rhieh IL De-
seribed as wild, uneanny WaiL---Houldi y
no instance pass.
DR.. Holmes 6dmoFodslT notes tbat tie
same fact is recorded Of witches. e.,
that they can not pass over streams Of run
ming water
/ Another curious feature of this phs--
nomenon was the fact that The musieal
tone sWelled and contracted in regular
ereeendOs and diminueHdosat at equal inter-
vaIs along the wires. Thus at Woreester,
which Is forty-fve miles from Boston, ths
sound was barely Psroeptibles while 81
I Springfield, Just double the distance ths
tone approached 70 8 shrek IN volume.
4 DR.. Holmes thus explains this interest
ing fact. Il IS ven ka5Hn among muzi--
clans that the vibrations upon the strings
Of violi6, harp, OF any ssTingsd inslru-
ment, do not take the shape Of single
pulsatioB with is maximum expansion ss
the centre Of the string; but are divided
along the string, IN numerous smaller pub
sations or eTescendos crossing each ether at
Irregular diminusudo intervals, sc which
latter points the string is' nearly OF quite
mofiOnless. The knowledge Of this curi~
Gus law Of vibration readily. affords soln-
ton, says Dr.. Holmes, to the mystery of
the telegrapbie creseshdO freaks noticed.
DR.. Holmes, Who, IN company With Mayer
Lincoln, a delegation Of the Boston City
Councils, aud body Of leading saFsns Of
the Harvard persuasion, made an Interest
I ing pedestrian tour through some eight oE
ten miles Of the main pipes Of The mon
ster organ before jt was set up, has EEit-
ten a graphic description Of The trip and
Of the organ as the whole. The party
Z found no difieulty in waking quite erect
through at least SIX miles 0f the major
pipes, and got through the smaller eOlian
tubes quite comfortably on their hsndsand
knees. His description Of the great IN
strument has appeared in book form under
the aprop0s title Of 'iSoundings from tie
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