Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-04-13
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WINDMILLS IN HOLLAND.

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WlNDMILLS IN HOLLAND.
The continual winds blowing from the At
,an,ic furuish the power gratuitously TO whirl
the vapes and turn the water wheel attached
70 the windmill There has been little or no
imurovement made 90 this maehloe IN t1ol-
land for 600 years. No other power Is SO
cheap, simple, or reliable. Without It's apph.
cation two thirds It Holland aud one NTH OF
Belgium would even now, IN the MONDAY OF
steam power, of necessity have TO De yielded
back to the ocean, because the cost OF steam
macnihery, fuel repairs and attendance could
not he supplied from the profits of the land.
correspondent of the Chicago Tribune
saws: There are $4,000 siudmiIls in Holland
and Flemish Belgium, each doing from six to
ten.h horse power service, according to the
strength of the wiud, aud working twenty-four
hours per day, aud every day in the month
during the rainy season, aud when the SHOWS
and ice ale melting aud the streams arc high.
The anpual cost of the wisdmlls In Holland is
s4,OOO,OOO. Twenty times that sun would not
operate steam power sufficient TO do their
work: for recollect that all coal consumed iu
Holland has to be imported from England or
Belgium.
60 where you will you are never out
of sight of windmils 10 motion. On the
suburbs of large cities, and at certain points
where the water of the bitches and canals
is collected to be thrown over the en-
bankments they are coogregated like ar.
mics of giants, and never cease swinging
their long, huge arms. They are constructed
Of much larger dimensions than those seen in
the United States. The usual length of the
extended arms is about eighty feet, but many
of them are more than one hundred and twenty
feet.
But the wudmills in Holland are not ex-
clusively employed in lifting waters, but are
used for every purpose of the stationery steam
engine. observed number of them at Rot
terdam, Antwerp, the Hague. and at Amster,
dam, engaged 10 running saw mills, cutting up
logs brought from Norway, and others were
driving planning mills and hourlng mills, brick
making machipes, or beating hemp:
Those used to lift water out of bitches into
canals and embarked rivers have wheels instead
of pumps attached to them, as they are less
liable to get out of order, and are thought to
remove more water to given power
THE ORIGIN OF THE HoRsE-There is evil
deuce which is perfectly satisfactory to compe-
tent judges, that we have already learned the
actual historical process by which one existing
species-the horse-came iDto existence dur.
ing the Tertiary epoch. The evidence, based
on the analogy of known developmental facts
that three toed H:pparion forn, which lived
iu the Miocene epoch, gave rise, by suppress
sou of the phalaDges ct Its Iudlnental toes
and some other slight notifications. to the ap-
parently one toed later Tertiary horse, is as
satisfactory to my mind as the evidence, based
on the analogy of known structural facts, which
leads me to have no doubt that the said ex-
tioct Hpparion had simple stomach and
certain kind of heart If those so-called III
CONAN principles" which everybody talks
about and nobody dreams Of putting into prac-
tice forbid us to draw the one conclusion, they
forbid US to draw the other.
The alternative hypothesis are two: Either
tho Deity manifested his power on the earth,
iu the course of the Miocene epoch by max
ing the two primitive ancestors of all the horses
out of inorganic matter, or something more
uulike horse than Hipparion changed into
oue The former is not 10 itself absurd; tul,
unless the early chapters OF Genesis mean
something contrary to what they appear to
mean land one never knows what exegetic iu-
genui,y nay make of the Original Hebrew j
il is shockingly heretical, aud hasten to dis
own it, lest, by some such secret connection as
bound Goodwin Saods with Tenterden steeple,
it should land me in the crueltes OF Callgula,
and lead me to violate the precepts OF the sagest
OF physicians, by indulgiug in Heliobalian glut-
tony.
But, if the horse really has arisen in this
way, what imaginable ground can there be tor
the enormous and, 10 that case, highly ''un.
Bsconiau" umption that the deer, and the
OK, and the pig, have arisen in any other Way?
And if there is-not perhaps the complete evil
deuoe that we happen to possess 10 the case OF
the horse-but still much better evidence than
there is for the authenticity and genulneness
of the books called by the name OF Moses, that
these animals have been produced by similar
method, why may not the hypothesis that they
bave so arisen take it's rank among the prob.
able conclusions of science Even though 1t
must 10 candor be admitted that, as We cannot
live back in the Tertiary epoch and see what
went on at that time, the hypothesis must al.
ways remain, in the strictest sense of the word
unveri6able. HUXLEY.
No OLD LADIES IN FRANcE.--A Paris cor
respondent says: "a fallacy which bear dis
cussed is that good manners are disappearing
because men now neglect old ladies. This is
Indeed q most absurd theory. First of all,
.here are no old ladies left. 1t is only the day
after their decease that We learo of the exis
tepce of old ladies in France. Up to the mo
meut when they are stretched Oh their last bed
they maintain vigorous bait tle against old age.
They smper, they cover their shoulders with
powder, paint their veins blue and their eye
brows black, dye their hair, fill their mouths
With ivory, color their lips carmine, aed their
nails and ears pink, while their is lace Oh their
corsages, diamonds on their necks, tuile aud
flowers on their pet,icoats; their figures are
mechanically adjusted, their feet are ioclosed
In vises, and their hands in prisons of kid; they
ELL tho;~ ~ ,po,pol and allow q