Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1867-03-12
The Kingdoms Of Nature Becoming
Aeclimated.


creating, modifying and decompos>
ing. Among these elet tricity is do
ing a monstrous work, for which
thiss unseen agent Of Almighty au-
thority is receiving not much credit.
We shall make electricity a fourth
kingdom, and for its handiwork call
up all the other Kingdoms to bear
witness. Here are our lead and zine
ores, and the crystals Of lime about
them, most unquestionably all of
these the products of electric current
and precipitation. At present there
is hardly an old miner who doubts
"the electricity theory" as he calls
it.
'"But,' says one, "this is pulling
down the mineral kindom to sit up a
greater it suggests a creation ofthat
which is an original person in the ter
restrial trinity it is putting modern
cart before an original horse-a horse
which SCIENCE makes the first of The
magic three on earth" We know it.
but the ancients had quaturnity
ofprimary causes-earth, air, fire and
water. Why then may we hot add
afourth elementary, electricity to our
trio Of fancy accordants in the causal
enterprise, and write them thus
electrical, mineral, vegetable and an
imal? And then we shall have il
the electrical bears and brings forth
the mineral, the mineral the yeget-
able, and the vegetable the animal
This IS enough for our present pur-
pose, for it enables us to account for
some things otherwise unaccountable
and to reconcile observation with
what science teaches.
We offer nothing new ia making
electricity the spirit which moves
within and about, in circles and cross
currents, bearing everywhere the
burthens of creation. 1t is the intel
ligent reconstruction which drives on
the work Of carrying from one place
to another and CT reforming matter
into new being. And it oftimes tears
down bu,lding one place and moves
it to another. 1t hunts up the elc-
ments, needed making any min
eral quarts, carries item from every
where and deposits them in CRYSTALS
just where wanted for bearing the
metallic ores. 1t compounds an aQud
regla for dosolving the old and an
aqua reforma tor the neN lode, and
then dips the opposite ends into the
galvanic battely-carrying the liquid
metal a mile or thousand miles,
The lead and zine ores of our gaIcna
mines may have been transferred bv
galvanic process from Superior or
from Virginia or Missouri, and the
process may still be going on and
our lodes growing. The Reetown
ores may have gone to New Caifor-
MIA, the Shullsburgh ores to Hazel
Green, and those Of Platteville to
PotOsi. And the electric current
may now be transferring our ores to
the far west in advance Of the Pacific
railroad, And, though the fact of
such transfer of the metals by gal
yano electric agency are known to
science, aud practiced in the mechan
&c arts there Is deep mistery there
with connected. The causes are I'm
known save to Deity, Who alone di
reefs and controls this same element.
We have used the word Deitu. res
minding us and the reader that.
as electricity is the agent for trans
terring as it were great mountains
OF Weighty minerals TO distant parts
may not the souls of men be trans
terred in like manner from one
sphere to another. The spirit cur
rent which governs the soul and
moves it from sphere to sphere may
be more subtitle than electricity. In~
deed, the lightning is as nothing
compared with Him who arms 1t with
power. Eut we are off in the Die.
lures q thought and must return to
our starting point.
We were speaking Of electrical
transfers, or the trausplanting of
vegetable, mineral and animal mat
ters by electric agency. and we mean
to speak now of acclimating the body
when we naoye about from place to
place.
Each latitude Of the globe has veg
etables and fruits PECULIAR to itself,
all differing from each other essetial
ly in different places. Green apples,
pears and peaches grown in our lati-
tude of 49, north, differs incidentally.
ana e3cyy other wy from those
grown in 80 north latitude. This
we know, with the cause, the soil and
surrounding climates producing the
difference. And rs animals are but
vegetables OF a second growth, these
alao d,iier to correspond with the
Vegetables and fruits grown in wide
apart attitudes. The beef. melton
and pork raised in SO and so degrees
latitude are so unlike IS to produce
when eaten different conditions of
mind. ana body. And each mind and
body so produced in latitude 1872 diff
fers 4rom that of 30o, and requires
food as different rs the ATTITUDES and
their respective prodlcts
Now, sappo2a We suddenly change
our latitude from 43o to 30o north