St. Landry democrat., 1893-04-08
POPULAR SCIENCE NOTES.

MIND CoNvERsATIoN-NIr w. II.
Prcece, chief engineer and electrician to
the postotlice, has put up wire a mile
long on the coast near Lavernock and a
shorter wire on Flatholm, little island
three miles off in the British Channel.
He fitted the latter wire with "sOund-
err to receive messages and sent a mes
sage through the former from a power
full telephone generator. That message
on the mainland was distinctly heard on
the island, though nothing connected
the two, or, in other words, the POSSIBLE
ity of a telephone between places uncon-
nectcd by wire was conclusively cstab
lished. There is a possibility here of
inter planetary communication a good
deal more worthy attention than any
scheme for making gigantic electric
flashes We do not know if
we can communicate by telephone
through the ether to New York or Mel
bourne, with or without cables but we
do know that if we cannot the fault is in
our generators and saunders and not in
any prohibitory natural law. Will our
habtual readers bear with us for a mo-
ment as we wander into another and, as
many of them will think, supersensual
region? The thought in a mans brain
which causes him to advance his foot
must move something in doing it, or
how could it be transmitted down that
five or six feet of distance? If it moves
a physical something, internal to the
body, why should it not move also
something external, wave, as we
all agree to call it, which on another
mind prepared to receive it-ftted with
a sounder, in fact-will make an impact
having all the effect in the conveyance Of
suggestion, or even of facts of the audi
bility of words? Why, in fact, if one
wire can talk to another without connec-
ton, save through ether, should not mind
talk to mind without any wire at all?
None of us understand accurately, or
eve as yet approximately, what the con-
ditons are; but many of us know for
certain that they have occasionally, and
by what we call accident, been present
to particular individuals. and that, when
present, the communication is completed
without cables, and mind speaks to mind
independently of any machinery not ex
listing within itself. Why, in the name of
science, is that more of miracle, that
is, an occurrence prohibited by i'm
mutable law, than the transmission of
Mr.. Freezes message from Lavernock to
to Flatholm?-L London Spectator.
ABOUT AERoLIrEs. Many of the
meteors that have fallen to the earth
have been subjected to chemical analysis.
They are composed of clements all of
which occur on the earth. There are
seventy clements on the earth and
twenty-four of them have been found in
meteors. The produce Of shower of
meteors may be divided into meteoric
iron and mcteoric stone, the latter being
OF volcanic origin. Not infrequently the
fall of meteors is attended by a loud de-
tonation. History records instances of
considerable damage having been done
to life and property by the descent of
these bodies. A Chinese catalogue re-
cites that meteor that fell i'll January,
GIG b. c., broke several chariots and
killed ten men. On the evening of Nov.
! 9th, 1885, brilliant meteor was seen in
the department of Aisne, France. 1t
the country in a north
eastcrly direction and burst near
a castle, setting fire to barn
and stables and burning the corn
and cattle in few minutes. A stony
substance. supposed to be an aerolite,
was found near the place after the oc-
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