Delaware State journal and statesman., 1869-08-20
CITY NOTICES.

THE WINDS PRESENT, AND SOME or Their |
EFFECTS FIFTY YEARS HENoE.-Were to un-
dertake to go on in long strain in attempting |
to anayze or define wind, should come 10 no |
other conclusion than that wind is wind. 1t |
is the breath of OmnipOtence an immaterial, |
invisible, mysterious something and yet it is |
nothing. 1t is never seen, but its influence is
felt and its effect is witnessed everywhere. At
times it is peaceable enough, and again as up
roarious as an all earthquake troubled with
the delirium tremens. have seen them gently
draw their fairy fingers through the light locks
OF the child, and lightly lift the green leaf to
get kiss from the lilly and | have seen
them, too, take back hug with the giant oak
OF the mountains, and come OIL victorious.
have also seen them scatter into fragments
the strongest Notifications of man. When
their angry propensities are once aroused, all
the hemp matters in Wilmington can't hold
them and when theyare once fairly asleep on
their earthly pillows, you might as well un-
dertalSe to talk law into a sick monkey as to
attempt to awaken them-they will have their
own way. Man, with his restless and ingeni-
GUS mind, is ever grasping with the present
age to accomplish all his enterprises, which
shows the power of intellect over physical
matter. He has also been busy in endeavoring
to make the Winds like electricity, do his bid
ding and his work To navigate the winds
with an air ship attached to balloon appears
to be the great object of the present day, in
fact ever since Napoleon gained a great victory
over the Austrians by observing their position
from balloon. We learn that balloon has
lately been constructed in San Francisco which
traverses the air from one town to another
with as much accuracy as a ship upon the
water. Judging from the rapid stride made in
surmounting, together with electricity, in the
last ten years, we will venture to predict that,
within the uext fifty years, merchant will sit
in his office in New York and order his arial
ship, at a moments notice, to go to any given
point. Thus Old Gent to his erial ship clerk:
John-John, get my balloon ready, want you
/ TO go to China and get me a cargo of nice cats
puppies, rats, silk and tea of John Chinaman.
Take my second servant with you, return by
! the way of France, and tell the Emperor shall
he happy to have him sup with me on Monday
] evening next. Never mind your coat, John
do go quick" Word comes &" all ready. -
John and his man fly over to China, take in
the designated cargo and fly over to France
and return on the second day, bringing word
that the Emperor of France-Napoleon the
IVth-wll come and sup with him, but ia
+ Obliged to 60 to 81. Petersburg first, and will
+ then be here. Old gent" Very well. Now,
John, start the machinery for setting the table,
o and telegraph to my wife that the Emperor OF
4 France is coming to sup with us next Monday;
then brush up my balloon, for have an en-
eagement in London tomorrow at IL O'Clock.
!. John hastens to execute the order, and of
/ goes the old gent; and is to stop on his way al
the West Indies, for cargo of fruit returns
h in good time and in good order. And the day
!, may not be far distant when the old gent will
say John take the balloon and go down tC
Wilmington, Del. hear of their good work
% in making the best iron-clads, gunpowder
ar morocco, flour. carriages, ships. car building,
. and of the cheap boots and shoes that are SOLD
v 1nraffYa GtvAl, a.,I - 30.
N five boxes OF them, and take them, with othei
in goods, to New Orleans They are so cheap
10 they will pay a handsome profit. Go quick
JShn."