The New Orleans Democrat., 1876-06-04
THE FAMOUS MEN OF NEW ORLEANS.
ANOTHER ASPTRANT FOR FaME As A
DYSCOVERER AND YNvHN7OR
Perpetual Motion Established ny n Knife
Grinder and saw-Filcr.

strides that none Dut B'panIlc DTaln
have been enabled to keep apace will
the inventions, discoveries and scien
tific revolutions that have marked tha
period. Newton, himself, were he tt
resuscitate from among the dead, woulc
stand apalled in presence Of the solu
tions of the great scientific problems
that have occurred since his clear in
tellect itself had solved the problem
OF gravitation. From the successful
perfection of the application OF steam
through the discovery OF the electric
telegraph. the daguerreotype. friction
matches and the sewing machine. down
to chewing gum from the modern
French and German psychologists and
biologists, the evolutionist, Herbert
Spencer. the psychologist, Fernand Pa
pilIon. the caloricist. Tyndall. the miss
ing linkist and natural selectionist, Oar
win, the scientific polemist, Huxley.
Draper. Carpenter, Max Muller, and the
undulatorisis. wave motionlsts. spectre
scopists. down to Wingard, the name
less forcist, multitudinous, innumerable
experiments have been made to secure
to the world that priceless prize, pcrret-
ual motion.
The emotions caused by the wonder
full propdaition Of Thomassy to blow
up Fort tckens with his nameless
force, to her with his more curious
process ~ extracting salt from the
fresh waters OF the Mississippi, had not
vet ceased in the bosoms Of his ad
mirers. Simeon Doliany was still in
the midst OF his great labors, looking
towards the economy of fuel in
his sugar-making process, by
which one cord OF wood
would convert three thousand acres
OF cane into as many hogsheads of sac
charine. While he was yet planning his
weaving loom, to cheaper the
price OF gray cloth, and solving his
problem OF horizontal chimneys and
new process Of crab catching with an
alluring German mirror while keeler,
with the ardor and f-abnegation Of
the Italian sculptor in casting his Hebe,
was melting mines to construct a
cylinder powerful enough to generate
and contain the latent force Of homn-
pathic dose Of cold water. While Win
gard twho. like Dolliany, is looking
for a capitalist for new expert
ments), more fortunate than Thomassy,
was demonstrating by actual experiment
in the presence OF an lntelllgent com
mittee. how he could blow up a large
schooner at distance OF a mile and
three or four tifths, with no communities
tion between the vessel and his name
less force" consisting OF tin funnel or
glass tube and a silk glovel, except the
conducting properties OF the atmoS-
phere. While all this was occurring
and an enthusiastic world was on the
tiptoe OF expectation concerning the
achievement OF our above named fellow
citizens, who should surge out from the
depths OF obscurity but
Constant Brancourt.
He makes his appearances on the stage
OF scientific discovery in n modest
poster, which, translated literally from
the Indifferent French in which it is
printed, reads.
A God, master of perpetual motion.
will transmit this product to the Peo-
pies OF the nations who will come to pay
unto me hommages Of respect and gra-
titude.
The Prophets haves written that /
would come. Here am. Let my pres
ence be useful to you.
PERPETUAL MOTION,
A machine on new principles. by or
ranization of levers. having for its OBJ
iect the substitution for steam in mills
and manufactures.
(Signed) CONSTANT BRANCoUBT,
Master of Destiny,
800 Villere, New Orleans.
And in our yernacular he proceeds:
NEW PRINCIPLE.
No moro steam power for machinery !!
Infallible results! 100000 will pur-
chase the above extraordinary motor.
No success no pay. Address
CONSTANT BRANCouRT,
241 st. Ann street, between Nillere and
Marais, Now Orleans.
NOTE. 1t must be stated here that the
words underlined, Mr. Brancourt says,
were unauthorized and must have been
inserted in the poster through misap-
prehension.
Startled by the revelation, the scien-
{ific man Of the DEMOCRAT started in
search OF the man creator who prom
ises to undo tho universal cxterminator.
Unfortunately, Mr.. Brancourt, who is
an humble knife-grinder and saw
sharpener, was not at home, having
been called away on professional job.
We have, however, Cleaned from
friend some particulars Of this sublime
inventor. Our informant does not know
whence he comes, although his name
implies that he is Frenchman. And
rs our readers don't care about know
ing what our friend does not know, we
viii speak only of what he does know.
Constant Brancourt has devoted thirty
wears and four months to the compile
tion Of his apparatus, which is
destined to convulse the scien-
tifc world by its perfection and
simplicity. His first price for
the privilege of using his invention was
$4,000, 900, but he has since reduced
his price to s5oo,o only for the United
toiling at his profession, and with a
view to economize leg muscle, and he
has worked at it during his leisure
hours ever since. SO confident is Mr.:
Brancourt in the infallible qualities OF
his invention that he no longer buys
anything for cash in his neighborhood.
but takes what he needs, saying mys-
that i would come: here am" And
when you look for him he is not there
at all.
Our scientific man was enabled to get
IL, 80 h.,o n f1c fhrnnU h