, 1870-06-26

EHidge,' and sent an impulse through it
from une observer to another 1t wac, how l.
ever, merely shock: not signal to l,s,:utter-
,reted or discruuinatod. Tue a1zst talking
in 1887, when II. IA1prond, French electro
,ian, Arranged. TWO electr,cal machines in two
staf'usa OF his house, with = wire connecting
them. He agreed with Madame Lamont that
tho peculiar movements Of two little pith balls,
excited by an electric cu7ent, should denota
conversation vas carried on By working the
two electrical mschlnes in turn
Thotc who are old enough to remember the
Great Exhibition Of 1851, held in the first Crys-
tai Pa'aee, in Hyde Pa1k, may possibly cali to
time on some stanzaa By Chauecr, pointed out
BY one Of his admirers As prediction OF that
grand display. Striking it certainly IL, in many
rehpecta. The House Of Fame, consisting Of
some two hundred lines, Is fanciful descrip-
tion Of mighty aeeenhlage held in palace
Ger wrote II four hundred and seventy years
before the Great Exhibition was held, there
was quite temptation enough to quote. Tho
poet, in dream fancied he was
Within = temple y-mAde OF giss!
The present Queen Victoria, "a we know, sat
on raised dais OIL the opening day lst Of
May) Of the Exhibition. Look at Chaucer'a
words:
AL On high above daie,
Satte IN I See tnape1tkli
That made was Of ruby royal,
feminine creature
That never fO1mu by Nature
Was soche another one safe
OF course Her Majesty would not have nc
ceptcd f1attery quito 80 strong II this; but we
may p1rdon It in the poet. On thu exhibition
was performed; this was errellently prefgured
BY tho poet:
And the heavenlte melodle
or eonges full Of Arnonie
heard about her throne Of souE,
That Al the palace well Wrong.
Then the nave Of The palacc, full Of the guy
trappiuga and tho notable pezson.ssa wl3ch
marked the opening day:
Then BaN stcaLe On thother side.
st1elght dowpe to the doores wide,
From the cats, many plltero
OF METAL that shone oui full clere;
Bat though they were Of no rchessc,
let wetc they made for great noblesse.
II VIC want prediction of Ill nations coming
to The palace Of glass, the following looks vcsy
Then ga1c lokc atont and see
That there came entTtng Into the hail :
hight great company Wttha1l,
A1a,s Ano sSat ps9 81 = sondg s fc9sona,
That tHe1e On yearth under the Mooue,
Ppor and richie.
And when We remember that the exhibitors at
that grand display competed for such fame and
honor as prize mbdals, honorable mention, and
the admiration shared By millions of visitors
It only requires little stretch OF the srnagiEA-
ton to fancy then addressing the Queen IN tho
following words:
aMhdame." !" sald they, "wee bee
Ft.kc that here bcsecchcu thee
ThAt thou NrAnnt us now good fame,
.lNd let uur wuTkes hAve good name:
In full recoupens2eto1u
OF good worker, Kryc us good rcnouna-
:, Tho languagois here little modernized from
Gla1et.. but tho quaintness OF style IN pre-
served. These passages certainly 60 far to-
ward lrstsfy1ng the pleasant popular idea that
Chaucnr pse-invented the Crystal Palace and
the E1eAt Exhibition OF 1851.
De.oe threw OF mans thoughts which read
very much like anticipations Of the London
University, tho Founding Hospital, the Royal
Academy Of Music, and the Metropolitan Po-
lice. But these are not so much inventions As
establishments. In The same Light, perhaps,
may be regarded John Hills scheme for 4
Penny I'oat, brpached in 1859. Jasper, = Vest
phalian poAsAnt, may be eAid to have pre-
dictod OF imagined railways and loco
motives, 1t date when he certainly never
eaw such things in Germany, and when we
in Englsnd: In 1850 be wrote: "a great road
will be carried through our country from eaet
to veet, which will pass through thss(prest Of
ncde1echwing. On this road, carrhses vii!
run without horaes. and CAUSE a dreadful
Noise" There WAS Van Etten, already men-
toned, who put forth schemes bearing re.
markatle resemblance to real inventions Of
later date, Auch ss tho Air-gun, the steam gun,
the hydraulic rrees. and rhlsed letters for the
use OF the blind. The dihe1ential thetmcme-
I ter, quite a modern inrrnhon As to actual con-
etruction. was very CORRECTLY predgurod by the
Jesuit Lana In 1915 Daniel Schwepten, who
w1ote thick qua.to Volume Of descriptions in
! 1k9E &nRura1ly Ia rtst1ifa5 uif1 a kInA ~
p1efnscn.ion Of the cent1sfnEt pump, the
| diving bel1, ind the diving aXfs&. Defoo'a
| Captain Singleton, in his in1einkty Journey In
] Africa, sketches = central lake which bears 4
strong resemblance to one Of those which
Qrant, Spoke, Baker. Burton, and Livingstone
! have been exploring during the 1ast few years-
But this, it worth nothing 1t al, VIE pre-dis-
| coyely, not pre-inyeution and it Is aurtntscd
that somc Jesuit had previously marked down
come such lake on map, either rs mental
| creation CT "a tho result OF Investigation.
| The story Of the ste eAMboat ID 30 we'll known
that we need do little more than advert TO it.
There were several suggestions between 1f76
and 1913, for moving boAts on rivarx by means
Of paddles OF wheels; and some OF them wero
led upon; but the revolution OF the paddles
WIS brought about By mechanical mesus, not
BY steam power papin, The French inventor.
certainly had the true. ideA IN his mind, in
1880. when he said: "WIthoat doubt paddles
tixed 70 an k1ss could be most conyenieu.ly
made to revolve by ais cyGndsss- Il would
I teeth S Vhe1 =, might aa vt lns :. etootbe toothea
wheel, properly h1cd TO it, and which, being
fitted II the Axjs to which the paddlee we're As:
tachcd, would communicate s rotary motion
to IT," Jonathan Hn1ls actutlly did make =
email ste.mh@At in lsss, OF II Last model Of
one; 1t fnlel, but hc may havs had the germs
OF tho hue idea, nevertheless, There is said
to Lavc been popular vessiaod joke At Camp.
den, In Glouccstershi1e, where Hulls lived
and where his g1eAt-g1andsou v4s living il
1851, 10 the effect that
| Jonathan nuIls
With his paper akutis,
= Invented machine
To 60 against stTrAm;
But he, being an 1ss,
Couldn't bring It to pass
And 20 Wa a4hamed 70 be hecn.
The ciyility and the poetry oi. i.thisproductioz
Rre about Upon rar.
ThAre Vas bit OF 3oculatisy In one ct III,
which told Of wonderful Inventions likely 4
be pohhahed in the pspera of'(ss9) 49,. Th
rews-wTitaEs Nc supposed to hava to spe6 o
i xar between the Northern and tAs Southern
States Ct America, in which the former inra
ded the latter With an amy of 1,f1e; go men
The reality, eight yehrs ago. Approached near
CT to the actual wording OF the e1t.avag1n
idea, than the iokez could have possibly sup
posed. But he goes on to quote, from th
supposed newspaper Of 4197, h
following paragraphs: Genera Con
greve's nsw mechanical cannon VI
Tired last week 1t the siege Of Georgis- 1t fit
chaaged in An hour eleven hundred and fort
: balls, each weighing five hundred pound
! The distance OF the objects nrcd At vns elere
; miles; and 80 perfect WAS the engine that II
whole Of theso balls were lodged in the spae
, Of twenty square feet" OF course, in tho yea
: 1871, it was mere reckless fun to talk of sue
calibres, weight OF metal, repetitive or revol'
8 ing action, range, and accuracy: but our Arr
1 stTpngs, whitvorths, and Palliso.s ooua te
i us how steadily and wonderfuIly we are u
{ vzncing toward results which a1o 1t Lea
+ analogous, II not oKActly similar. Agar
b "Dr. Clsrk creased tho Atlantic In scyt
d dA1-~ 4 fiction. Bat bow near our Guns
. steamers constantly bring u To rsalityl