The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1873-03-07

cutta throw a handful of floss silk into the
air, and a Hindoo sever it into pieces with
his sabre. We can produce nothing like
this.
EGYpT's MECHANICAL MARvELs.
Taking their employment Of the meehan
cal forces and their movement of large
masses from the earth, we know that the
Egyptians had the FIVE, seven or three me-
chanical powers, but we cannot account for
the multiplication and increase necessary
to perform the wonders they accomplished.
In Roston, lately, we have moved the
Pelham Hotel, weighing fifty thousand tons,
fourteen feet, are very proud OF it, and since
then we have moved q whole block of
houses twenty-three feet, and | have no
doubt we will write book about it but
there is book telling about how Dominica
Fontana, Of the sixteenth century, set up
the Egyptian obesk at Rome on end, in
the Papacy Of Sixtus v, Wonderful !
Yet the Egyptians quarred that stone and
carried it one hundred and fifty miles, and
the Romans brought it seven hundred and
fifty miles, and never said word about it.
Mr.. Patterson, of Hartfort, walking with
Brunei, the architect of the Thames tunnel,
in Egypt, asked him what he thought about
the mechanical power Of the Egyptians,
and he said: "There is Pompey's Pillar, it
is one hundred feet high, aud the capital
weighs two thousand pounds. 1t is some
thing Of a feat to hang two thousand pounds
at that height in the air and the few men
that can do it would better discuss Egyp-
tian mechanics
CANALS.
The Suez canal absorbs half its receipts
ia cleaning out the sand which fills it annu-
ally, aud it is not known yet whether it is a
pecuniary success The aucients built a
canal at right angles to ours, because they
knew it would not fill up if built in that
direction, and they knew such a one as ours
would There were magnificent canals in
the land of the Jews, with perfectly ar
ranged gates and sluices. We have only
Just begun to understand ventilation proper
ly for our houses yet late experiments at
the Pyramids in Egypt show that those
] Egyptian tombs were ventilated in the most
: perfect and scientific manner.
Again, cement is modern, for the ancients
J dressed and loined their stones 50 closely
/ that in buildings thousands Of years old
t tie thin blade Of u penkniie cannot be
t forced between them. The railroad dates
d back TO Egypt. Arago has claimed that
they had knowledge Of steam. a paint
/ ing has been discovered of ship full ol
i machinery, and French engineer said thai
!. the arrangement Of this machinery coulc
i only be accounted for by supposing tn,
4 motive power to have been steam. Bramal
1 acknowledges that he took the idea Of hi
!. celebrated lock from an ancient Egyptian
pattern. DE Tocqueville says there was "
social question that was not discussed Il
! rags in Egypt.
OLD HINTS OF NEW THINGS.
Y Years before Franklins invention Of th
!, lightning rod, and before muskets wer
4 thought OF, the old soldiers on guard on tn
! ! towers, if spark passed between them an
= the spear-head, ran and bore q warning c
:. the state and condition Of affairs. Solo
~ mons Temple lofty and situated on an ez
Y posed part Of hill, was guarded by
q sistem exactly like Franklins. The Duches
y Of Burgundy took a necklace from the nee
a. Of mummy and wore it to ball at th
Y lulleries, and everybody said they though
OF it was the newest thing there. A HiIdo
as princess came into court, and her fathe
2. seeing her said $50 home, you are not d
n Gently covered-go home;' and she sait
en- "Father, have seven suits on !" but th
q suits we're Of muslin so thin that the kin
l- could see through them. -Four hundred an
'er fifty years ago the spinning machine ws
= introduced irto Europe. Yet we hay
~ evidence to show that it made its appea
~ ance two thousand years before.
'te We have not an astrology in the sta
.er serving only the kings and priests; we ha'
iy an astrology serving all those around u
~ We have not chemistry hidden in unde
ne ground cells, striving for wealth, striving
at change everything into gold. No; we ha
vs. chemistry laboring with the farmer, al
w. digging gold out Of the earth with the mine
All! this is the nineteenth century, and
on the hundreds Of things we know, c.
ow show you ninety-nine of them which ha
is been anticipated. 1t is the liberty Of int
IDS leot and q diffusion Of knowledge that b
he caused this anticipation.
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ow "MARK TwAIN has bought a lot 10 Ha
lde ford aud will build in the spring" A sprl
ard house, we suppose : or maybe an imagni
ic dwelling? He builds extensively on |