The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-04-04


! rectly supposed them to be peculiar to the
flesh of the animals affected with that disease.
These ectozoa had more or less conspicuous
vegetable affinities; that is to say, they resem-
bled the lowermost algg and the fungi IN
respect of their mode of growth and develop
ment.
THE EXPOSITION.
The earthworks of the Paris Exhibition, in
Guiding the Park, amount to upward OF hall a
million cubic yards. The ironwork amounts
to l3, 200 tons, of which 10000 tons are i'll the
great machinery gallery The windows of this
gallery present surface of $500 square
yards, and those of the other galleries 70, QUO.
The palace itself occupies an area Of l4O, lS4
square yards. OF this, 81 900 square yards is
occupied by France, q, ,653 by England, and
29OO by the United States
PHOTOGRAPHY.
M. Bazin, a foreign artist, has contrived an
apparatus for photographing objects at the
bottom of the sea. His Photographic studio
consists of a strong sheet-irOn chest, perfectly
watertight with water-tght windows, that
are in the form of lenses. The electric light is
used, and renders distinctly visibly and objects
lying at the bottom of the sea, so that they
may be photographed, and thus their value
and position be accurately marked. M. Bazin
has remained at depths of nearly 300 feet for
about ten minutes. This application of pho
Biography promises to facilitate the recovery of
lost objects and the raising of sunzen ships.
ELECTRIC GUNS.
A gun has been invented, says the Scientific
ReUieW in France in which electricity is very
ingeniousy applied to the ignition of the
charge. Two small electric batteries are in
closed in the stock, the conducting wires of
which emerge at the surface, near the breech,
and by very simple means are connected, at
pleasure, with a very fine platinum wire
within the charge, so as to render it mean
descent, and thus ignite the powder. Car
trdges thus prepared cannot as those con-
tanning illuminate often do, explode them
selves; but it is not probable that the contri-
vance will ever be more than a scientific curl
osity, unless found to answer for artillery.
MORE ROMAN ANTIQUITIES.
Inexhaustible Rome has lately yielded some
extremely interesting antiquities discovered
under San Crisogono, very curious church
in the Trastevere, which is supposed to date
from the time of Constantine the Great. The
discoveries consist of vaulted chambers covered
with inscriptions in black lead; tomb con-
tanning the skeleton of young girl, and some
very curious objects of iewelry. This church
is supposed to occupy the station of the 7th
Cohort of the Guards.
An English writer argues that the English
people mainly are indebted to Scott for their
LOVE OF LANDSCAPE.
He says:-"We are apt to attribute it all to
the influence of WORDSWORTH poetry in a
general way; and yet it is not very like
Wordsworth. He is no doubt its chief ANALYST
and spokesman but he did not exactly create
love of natural beauty. The taste for outdoor
life and green fields came back full tide on all
our writing after the coffee house life of the
last century; and Scott, we think, did most to
stimulate and raise it. Wordsworth tells us
all Wordsworth's thoughts about the paternal
pines of Bonowdae, and states that the cata-
racts blow their trumpets from the steep.
Scott throws himself into his scene and for
gets himself in it; he tells you what the cata-
Iact really was like with straightforward love
of color and brightness, and force and fern,
and heather, land birches, and big stones; it
does not occur to him that cataracts sound
like trumpets, and in point of fact they never
do; their sound is deeper than any which
metal ever made. And we think that most
young artists must begin with Scott, at least"
! Muscular Christianity has, perhaps, carried
| the love of mountain scenery too far in the
| direction Of adventure; but much is forever
due to him who cunningly mingled the sylvan
feeling with the cOntemplative, and taught
| the hunter to delight in the hills as much as
! in the deer.
The London Engineer afirms that
THE wHITwoRTH GUN
surpasses all others in use. 1t says:-''It is
time that the results of the Armstrong and
| Whitworth competition were well understood
and acted upon. We have now the know
ledge that, with thousands of costly guns
in the service, there is one every way supe-
rior, which we have not got-superior in range
and accuracy, and in respect of the cheapness
of its proectiles. As an instrument for pro-
pelling shot to great distances, and with the
certainty Of hitting the mark, the Whitworth
ritied cannon is superior to any other ordnance
ever known. This superiority is of course,
one of degree only; but it is very often by a
moderate amount of advantage, and not seldom
by even nice shades of difference, that actions
and the fate of nations are decided. Mr. Whit
worth, by his heXagonal bore and shot OF
corresponding form, can rifle gun with a
quicker twist than is practicable upon any
other plan"
writer in Macmilian's Naga=ine, in de-
scribing the life and traits of
GERMAN GIRLS,
says:-A child is seldom sent to another town
to school the extra expense of board and lodg-
ing is serious item, and the Germans are
proverbially frugal people. Thus, even in
the holidays, there is no change the children
do not, as with US, come home from
school; they are at home they only have
J more time for the discussion of their little
| sptes and jeaousies, more coffee drinking,
more gossip, and more liberty. As time goes
on, and the little girl buds into early maiden
= hood, this passing to and fro through the
public streets has serious disadvantages she
becomes selEconscious, has boWing ac-
| qualntance with her friends brothers, and
| system OF coquetry is carried on which
a | has no good influence on her character.
. | l say coquetry advisedly, for il is NOT
\ the irritation we see among younp