The Newtown bee., 1880-06-16
London Pneumatic Dispatch Company in

London Pneumatic Dispatch Company in 1863.
 The balloon was m ancient Italian in yention, simply revived by Montgolfer long after the original had been forgotten.
 The reaping machine is described at some length in 6 German work entitled 'sThe whole Arte and Trade of Husban- drie.' published in 1877. Perhaps these primitive machines would scarcely per- form the work of those on the farms of our great west--but tho idea Is nothing new.
 The tunnel under tho Euphrates at an cient Babylon, and that under the wide mouth of the harbor at Marseilles are manifestatio ions of engineering genius comparing favorabiy with the exploits of the Thames and Mt. Cenis. Macadani- 1 ized roads date back to the Roman Elm pire.
 1 Suspension bridges have been employ ed in China for centuries.
 Gunpowdcr was used for the purposes of fireworks by the Romans, aud Greek l fire is destructive secret lost altogether. When gunpowder came to be used in war, invention busied itself upon instruments of destruction, and in the arsenal at Ven- ice are revolving pistols, rifed muskets breech-loading cannon manufactured in the firtsenth century. What is known as the Congreve rocket is Of Eastern origin, was employed by Tippoo Saib--and cyibbed from that warrior by Sir William Congreve.
 Coal gas was regularly used by the Chi. nese for lighting purposes ages before il was adopted by civilized @ people.
 Hydropathy was generally practised by the Romans, who established baths wher- ever they went. Chloroform was known to Albertus ration in 1900; and most annsthetics art of ancient origin. Shakespeare makes Cleopatra say:
 Give me to drink of mandraeon.
 That may sleep this lapse of time.''
 Tho Daguerrootype. sun painting. wal known to the artist Leonardo da Vino } in the fifteenth century.
 The Electric Telegraph was clearly in dicated in work published by Scher wenter in 1636, who then pointed out hoy two individuals could communicate witl each other by means of the magnetic needle.
 Astronomy Is perhaps the most ancien of sciences: an intelligent knowledge 0 the distribution, character, and move
 ments of the heavenly bodies havin; been evinced In observations of grea
 exactitude as early as 2170 B. c. Tn Pyramids ofEgypt are thought by many t.
 have been erected for astronomical pur
 posos. Who first ascertained that tn
 sun was precisely 9I ,430,0o miles iron this world. neither MT. Smiles. or tn ' Cyclop@dias inform us, and that he emake current of the heaven in just 365 days
 hours, 9.9-G seconds, is an authorativ
 point beyond the reach of this littl
 game of cribbage; but of one thing W are certaln--if msdern achievement ap l propriates this scientific exactitude right fully, it deprives King Solomon of muc . of his prestige-who said there was noth
 ing new under the sun, for we believe h did not speak for his own. but for al times.
 Finally VIC come to printing which lik n many achievements ascribed to the yer
 erable centuries was praeticed with n
 mean skill by the Chinese in the sixt century: and it is highly probable tha = the process that presents this artlcle t s our readers, is in point of the most al il proved nineteenth century pattern, lik ;, the process by which the matter was ob A tainod, Is one simply repeated by usae