The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1871-05-17

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thinks lie shows you, that thrtc is no
mechanical force that will explain tits
8 cam. We know they knew steam
There were pipes from the chambers
Of the priesthood, goi'g up under thc
altar, by which they worked off seem
ing miracles.
could stand here, ladies and
gentlemen much longer than you
would be..williny!to sit.thero and listen
and show you that there is nothing
new under the sun. AS Chauccr
says.
t.For,out Of the old ficlics ns men saith.
| Commeth nj this new cornc fro ycrc to
| ycrc,
And out Of old hookcs, in good faith,
| Commcth all this new science that mcu
! lere,
But now 10 purpose, as Of this mattcrc,
TO relc forth it gan me so dcltc,
| That all that day me thought it but q
Ny ncighbor Hobbs went to Lon.
dor ard picked the best lock it could
show. Locks are borrowed from
Egypt mi are something like twcnsy
five hundred years old. Take mowers
and re ,pers. You think when you
get out on the prairlcs that you have
got to the last invention. Pliny will
tell you that they had mowers and
reapcrs on the plains Of france just
like ours. When you 60 to Vienna
they will show you mower more
than thousand years old, with fans
, acting like ours. Take animal mag
netism in the cure Of disease. That
is two thousand years old. You can
trace 1T into Germany, to Constanti.,
noplc. down to Damascus, and then to
Calcutta, twelve hundred years back.
Take the water cure, che last Of the
medical theories, Of which Charles
Lamb said, you know, that he did not
consider it was very good, or very
new for it was at least as old
as tho deluge, and that killed n
great many more than it cured to
which the cold water man rctorted
that, at any rate it saved all that
were worthy saving. Take guano,
that last agricultural blessing,of which
the Yankee said, you know, that be
happened to spill little in his pock.
ct, aud as he tried to walk away, found
himself caught in Il vine, and putting
his hand into his pocket to get his
knife to cut his way out, fonnd a
cuou iii Der there, gone to seed that is
not new. II there is dentist here,
| would remind him that mummy
was found with every tooth most
scientifically plugged with gold !; and
every lawyer will remember that it
was on the twelve tables Of the law at
Rome that nobody should be buried
until every atom Of gold was taken
from the body except that in the
teeth. No doubt Col. Colt invented
HIS pistol, or bought the Invention,
but when you 60 to London they will
show youa frcaFm Oil the same prin-
ciple, and when you 60 TO Bcrin--
cursed be Berlin forover-you will
find five.barreled e,olver.
When you 60 to Madrid they will
shcw you the plans of a steamboat that
went ten miles an hour on the Spain,
in 1923. Then, you Will say, why
didn't they have revolvers and steam
boats ? Well, will tell you. The
brain was ahead Of the hands. They
could invent they could not multi
ply. The mechanic hadn't come.
Smiles says that when Watts first
took hold of the steam engine, the
cylinder was So imperfect it took q
fortnight to pack piston that would
work. When Brunei came and gave
him cylinder as perfect as watch
work, the steam engine began. Aud
Smiles says at that date. ninety years
ago, they could not get cog-wheels
that would fit. 1t took day or two
to file them into harmony. And he
describes q large piece OF machin, ry
put up in one of the English counties
where the workmen filed so long upon
j without success that they at last
flung their tools at it and said, "Work
it into harmony 5" and Smiles said
you could hear it grind half ~ mile
away. Now, when the works Of the
Great Eastern were brought from
workshops miles apart, and steam was
put into the cylinder, the great giant
began to move as noiselessly as a baby
breathcs. The mechanic had come.
Well, sherry -cobblers are not new
drinking liqnor through % straw.
Every boy that reads Xenophon re-.
members that when he brought the
Greek army ho'@o fsom Persia, they
Ca me through tribe that set their
liquor away until frozen with cold ,
and drank it through straw.
You thiuk stcreoscopcs are new.
When the last photographer showed
you one, you thought you had come
to the very end Galen, the great
! physician, u Grecian, nearly sixteen
hundred years ago, describes stereo.
scope just like what we use TO day.
might speak to you Of the fineDess
Of ancient manufacturers of jswelry
! We think them very cOars,: but the