Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1865-11-10
Perpetual Motion Three Signal Instances
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Perpetual Motion Three Signal Instances
Of it.
/ \ Turin journal announces that the problem
Of perpetual motion has been solved by NJ.
Louis CAUCRE RIzzO, mechanic Of Strasburg,
who has invented machine which finds Its
motive force within itself without any external
aid. It has been applied to the raising OF
water, and it is thought capable Of universal
application.
Without going all the way to Strasburg, We
can point 10 several machines that exhibit
the wonders of perpetual motion. One is a
I political machine, invented at the North, and
known as Radical Republicanism. II knows
no rest from one years end to another. 1t is
always in motion, and one popularity il pos
sesses is, that it is not only always in motion
/ itself, but it keeps the whole country in motion.
/ Thus far, like N. RIzzO's machine, it has only
been applied 10 one purpose. That was ap-
/ piled to the raising of water this has been
applied 10 the raising Of the negro. But, IN
like VI. RIzzo's machine, which is supposed to
be capable Of universal application this Is
known TO be applicable solely, exclusively and
specifically to the elevation Of the negro. 1t IS
not a harp Of a thousand strings, but harp OF
one string.
There is another instance Of perpetual mo-
/ ton nearer TO us than Strasburg, though It has
/ been SO scattered about over the earth OF late
that we cannot precisely locate it. The last
time it was heard from, New York was the
scene of its labors. This machine was invented
in Fauquier county, Virginia, in the year 1900
afterwards it turned up in Mississippi, next III
California, then in Tennessee, subsequently, IN
the Confederate States, " so-called," as Bill
Arp would say, then in Canada, next IN Eng
land, afterwards in Fort Delaware, and then IN
the United States Court for the District Of New
York, in all of which places it attracted
large share Of public attention, being consld-
cred the most complete and satisfactory Illus
tration of perpetual motion ever introduced TO
the notice Of the American public. This cele-
brated machine is known as the Hon. Il. 5.
FoorE. Like the machine of NJ. RIzzO, it Is
capable of universal application. 1t talks
and night and day its tongue is running and it
talks on all subjects. The poet Moore, in
describing the critic, FADLADEEN, tells US that
he protested TO be judge of everything, from
the pencilling Of Circassian's eyebrow 10 the
abstruseSt question in mathematics. So it is
with the Hon. H. S. FooTE, in the matter Of
talking. The subject is immaterial. He can
talk, and does talk on all subjects. He has
what some people call the gift Of the CAB,
and others call " slack chat" lis head is a
magazine of knowledge, and his speech a cota-
ract, bubbliug, boiling, sparkling and cease
less. If he ever sleeps, he talks in his sleep,
and talks Unfortunately Latin, Greek, He
brew. French, English. He pOurs out history,
poetry, sciene, politics, indeed, everything
that the human organs can utter. No matter
what the subject, he can say, like the Irish
witness, Pm the mon that knows all about it,
The celebrated SIEYEs once said Of NAPo-
LEON " He is not only great General, but of
himself capable Of everything, and knows
everything. lie wants no counsellors, no as
sistance politics, laws, the art Of Government,
are as familiar to him as the manner Of com
handing an army" So it is with Mr.. FOoTE,
for he, too, was (militia) General!
lie has been talking now some siXty-tiye
wears, aud is as good at il now as he was in the
beginning. As game an old instance Of per
petual motion is the Hon. II. ). FooTE as we
ever expect or desire 10 see. One would sup
pose that his spirit would have been subdued
bv his many troubles in these latter days. Not
so, however. He rises superior 10 those mis-
fortunes that quel and crush ordinary men,
lie is like those shells that were fired at Sc
bastopol years ago, and have ever since been
exposed TO the rains and SHOWS Of the Crimea,
but explode now, when rudely handled. Gen.
SHERMAN. in one of his letters written during
the war. introduced this striking sentence - |
8. When my mind is bent on purpose, it is /
Jealous OF all clogs and distractions" Mr.. |
FoorE's mind is ever on the stretch. 1t is
always beut'' on some purpose or other, and
is perpetually "jeOlous of clogs and impedi-
ments." A remarkable man is Mr.. FooTE.-
Fauquier county, in producing him, far sur
passed the ingenious mechanic Of Strasburg, of
whom we have spoken.