Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-04-10
A MARVELLOUS MACHINE.
An Apparatus that Works According to
the Directors VIII.

The visit of a certain French Count 10
London has given us much to think Of
beyond the limits OF the disease botT
mental and bodily, assailed This Count
? who. strange to say, seeks no public.
ity, Is one of the most learned men in the
century. His studies have been followed
in participation with the experiments of
the great experimentalist, the late Ruhn.
korff The latter was generous enough To
own that it was under the direction Of
Count p. that he accomplished most Of his
greatest Inventions The wondrous reel
invented by the Count is still considered
the most marvellous conquest of science.
Upon this reel is wound a length of silver
wire measuring -, 900 meters. The mag.
netic needles crossing each other in
contrary direction are fixed upon the reel
and suspended 10y slender thread. The
apparatus works under glass like a watch,
SO that no tampering with the mechanism
is possible. 1t is mounted moreover, on a
high stand. The count takes his hold Of
the two conductors, says the Birmingham
Post. to which are attached the two ends
of the silver thread rolled upon the reel,
and bids you order the machine to move 10
right or left. according to your will. I'M
der this power alone, hitherto msunder-
stood or understood the mlghtiest
power in the universe according to Count
F.. the power of the human will-the
machine will act without the contact Of
touch To right, 70 left will the reel re-
volve. according TO the fancy Of the Wis
itor
Without speech, with out touch, by the
mere mental influence alone, will the
machine move in obedience to the uney
pressed command But not in all cases
does the machine ms,;er unreseryedIy
1t is to the powerful will alone-the
concentrated and fixed determination
that it can be made to reply Ruhmkorf
usgd to laugh immediately at the yacI-
latiug movement OF Count p. S machine
when the savants Of the Academy were
induced to try the experiment With
some the wire would trembe and
yibrate, then start to one side, then move
toward the other: with others it would re-
fuse to move at all. but COntne its vbr-
ton to one spot. The experiments made by
Count Z. in London have all been exhibited
strictly in private His object in coming
is merely to obtain wire more finely spun
than any he has hitherto been able to get
in Paris
They say that, contrary to the general
rule. the Count. from having been all his
life confirmed materialist, has been con-
verified to the higbes degree Of religious
faith. to conviction of the lofty destinies Of
man. and his connection with the divinity
man has abused his gifts and delivered
himself to evil, but the divine essence Is
still within him. So fearful has the PHI
Iosopher been Of the pu suit Of the FASH
ionabe lotteries who. under pretext Of
scientific inquiry merely seeks 70 derive
amusements from the most serious expert
ments in science that ne has sought re-
treat in a convent near London, and ms
excuse of being compelled to return
thither by 8 o'clock is made to reply to al.
invitations to dinner or to select parties
or to "small-aud-edrlies with winch tae
ladies of London would seek to overwheIm
him