The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-06-06
BLUE GLASS.

From the ". Z. Tribune.
Are we mistaken? Can it be that the first
warning note of the millennium has sounded
and of all places in the world has wakened
Philadelphia? What else does this mean?
Here we have, in a modest pamphlet, the
final discovery of all ages, discovery which
is to annlhilate death and disease in matter
and in mind, and restore the world to its
pristine freshness and beauty. What is the
Darwinian theory or wire-drawn hypothesis
OF correlation of forces, or any other pur-
blind cropping after primal causes, to this?
Here is the secret of the Sphynx unriddled;
here IL life itself, all in pane of blue glass;
The world has been searching for five thou
sand years, at least for the secret of its
being; for this in vain did astrologers ransack
the stars, alchemists summon Osiris and
Aetaroth to their laboratories, and Pence de
Leon lose himself in Mississippi mud; "pro-
phets and kings desired it long, and died
without the sight," and now, in the nine
teenth century, an old gentleman stumbles
upon 1t while walking about in his eight-by-
ten backyard, In pane of glass-blue glass!
Let us, if possible, calm ourselves, and
convey to our readers these good tidines.
The discoverer is, we learn, general, an
''armi" potent soldier, who, during our ma
tional struggle, necessarily and valiantly did
lead the puissant Home Guards up and down
the streets of Philadelphia. But although thus
bred in the wars like Coriolanus, he is by no
means ''ill-schooled in bolted language. His
warfare over, he devoted himself during
these piping times of peace to wooing
science and nature, with what result this
latest great birth of truth into the world
attests. The first conception of his dis
covery came upon him, he tells us, while
gazing at the sky, whose color he found to
be blue. How the second idea of glass
was suggested, we know not; but we next
find him with the theory firmly established
In his own mind that the germ of all
growth and life lay in blue glass He covered
grapery with it, and in five months two
inch vines had grown forty-fye feet; in year
they bore grapes by the wagon-load He
covered a piggery with it, the three sows
under the violet glass increased - lbs more
than three sows In common pen; a barrow
pig at the same time increased much more
rapidly, owing to the abnormal development
of greed and yiciousness which enabled him
to seize on more than his share of food.
Rising in the scale of animal nature the
General next sequestrated an Alderney bull
calf just born, and apparently dying, under
the violet glass. In few hours it got up and
ate with great viVacity; the next day it began
to grow. SITS growth was so apparent" says
the General, ''that as its hind-quarter was then
growing, directed my son to measure it,
1t grew SIX Inches in nifty days. carrying its
lateral development with it. The calf grew
and the General continued to measure its
hind quarter for four months, when the
experiment ceased. The calf was a full
grown, finished ANIMAL aud went out
from under the glass. The General has
unfortunately carried his experiments no
higher, but suggests that architects be at
once directed to roof our houses with the life
producing violet hue. Thus can health 1t
only be restored to the invalid, but youth to
the aged. We ''can produce in the temperate
regions the early maturity of the tropics,
and develop in the young a generation,
physically and intellectually, which will be-
| come marvel to mankind" We can be-
lieye it. The very contemplation of the idea
sfar off of these unborn generations seated
through the ages Of the vast hereafter at their
! pap and primers under blue glass, fills the
mind with awe aud astonishment. Or viii