The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-03-22
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ence assembled in Wsshingtoi Hal
last night to hear Wendell hillip
speak on Lost Arts. Mr.. P. wa,dres,-
ed in faultless attire, face loseE
shaver, with the exception of ssligf
tuit OF grey whiskers. He his th
magnetic, magnificent presence which
Cicero says is 30 essential to the irefed
orator. His style Of oratory i9calnl
deliberative, incisive, and EN- hattie
There is an entire absence OF ran ant
violence, and, instead, we have an ratio
as a statue. ''it-N
Mr.. Phillips referred to one t tn,
earliest industries-Glass. 1t wa
nothing new. Plate, and cut, anc
ground glass, which we eau ueverhop,
TO equal, are buried in the ruins ollava
bound Pompeii. The glass whid tn,
ancients had, with golden tint
mordern chemistry very wisely say
nothing about. Malleable glass, vhicl
can be broken and again Hammered tc
gether as strong as ever, is sondhin
on which chemists are ominously slen,
The engineering marvels ssentiond b
Herodotus, have never been equalec
nor explained. They had sideThet
steamers, as may be seen on the marble
of Nineveh. They have mowers an
reapers now, at VIENNA, more than on
thousand years old. Photograph wa
known to the physician Galen 16O
years ago. Balloons as perfect as an
sent from Paris, can be seen today 0
the marbles of Nineyeh. representa-
the populace looking up to them.
/ Lissius says that on the Egyptia
marbles may be seen bas-reliefs OF tn
spinning wheel, and most Of the sinila
industries of modern civilization. Tn
electric telegraph was known in IT'S
and probably much earlier. Franklin
lightning rod is nearly three hundre
years old. SHERRY cobblers" ver
drank by Xerxes' soldiers-and the e!
tract was purer than the fire water |
to-day. The ancients invented la
guage-and that is feat that require
more intellect and genius than the i
vention of tbs steam engine.
There is not enough chemistry
| Eurone IN make another Barbar jI
vase, or explain the one mad
The secret of the stucco comp
sition Of the ancients is, ar
probably will remain a mystery. Me-
had his sardonyx ring and his opel
glass, for scanning the butchery whic
"graced Roman holiday" The seer
OF the manufacture of the Tyrean pu
pie has died with its inventors. The
had all the mechanical powers, ar
knew how to use them better than W
since they could transport blocks
masonry weighing 200 tons, one hui
bred and fifty miles. They ventilate
even their tombs, while we have NJ
learned to ventilate our dwelling
Canals were known in Egypt 1000 yea,
ago. Railways made to run in stor
grooves are older than christianit,
Metallargy is the first known Of the ar
as we read in Genesis, and the art
found only there in perfection to-da
The wisdom of Athens, the commerce
Phenicia, the science of Egypt, and Il
valor Of Rome will remain proverb
The art of mixing colors was carried
great perfection among the ancient
but it pershed with them. This is Il
general drift of Mr.. Phillips remark
He shows conclusively the hollowne:
of our vain-glorious Boosting about a
vanced science, &c ..
His illusions to the Germans in Il
recent attack on Paris were full Of b
terness, and marred what else won
lave been a pleasant lecture. One do
not like to hear the German soldier
called "the brutes who beseiged Paris
just because Mr.. Phillips don't think
they doabout the justness Of their caus
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