Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-09-24

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! 1t only inspires us TO increase our efforts
! In behalf OF. and contributions TO- wall
eyed science. TO know that JEFFERSON
| threw his influence in his day. in me
4 same forward direction. The Top the
morning 10 TIL Jefferson
The Gazette finds the old statesman
/ writing as follows 20 Charles thomson.
/ from London, under date OK April ~ l.S,'
Il could write you volumes On the I'M
! provemcnts which | find made. and
/ making here. In the arts. one deserves
particular notice, because II Is simple
I great, and likely to have extensive con-
{ sequences II IS the application OF
/ steam az an agent for working grist-
/ mills. / have visited one lately made
! here. II was. at that time. turning eight
/ pair OF stones. II consumes 100 bushels
/ Of coal a day. 1t Is proposed 90 pat up
I thirty pair Of stones. ! DO not Know
whether the quantity of fuel is 20 be in
! creased i hear you are applying the
3 same agent In America, to navigate boats,
! and I nave little doubt but mat 81 VIII
J be applied generally TO machines, 50 as
to superscde the use OF water ponds, ana,
| or course. 10 Jay oDen all The streams iDr
/, navigation. We know That steam Is one
I OF the most powerful engines We can en-
! ploy, and in America fuel is abundant
/ What prophet the Old man was.
| Steam has had extensive consequences.
JEFFERSON moreover wrote TO james Mall
son as follows:
1t is impossible but you must have
heard long ago Of the machine for
copying letters al d SINGLE stroke IS
We had received it in America before
left there"
We queue at length from the Gazette:
1t is generally understood, we believe,
that Thomas jefferson invented and pro-
mulgated our decimal system OF count
ing mOney-namedly, 10 mills make
cent, 10 cents make dime. 10 dimes MAKE
81 so make a fellow feel line al over,
and so on. Moreover, we learned the other
day. from what source we cannot AT TINS
writng recall, that the same inventor
gave 10 the world the common REVOLVING
ofiice chair 80 useful and so convenient
10 modern editOrs. upon whom business
crowds from al directions; SO that, with
the aid Of this simple and great ONCE con
VcnienCe the editor can quickly ana 90 d
~ face anything-from a free-siiNer gaze
TO a uatenJ-medlcinc ADVERTISER
Now We even go further than this. ana
claim that to Thomas Jefferson Leionss
the credit of first catching on 10 the ldesI
OF screw-prOpeller for steamboats, aliu'
also. would YOU believe III the idea or a
tiviug-machinc. We are happily dule 10
cite chapter and verse to sustain thls Pc
sition. I'm the same letter from PARIS, al
ready mentioned. dated october > lo1
(see Jefferson's Correspondence, NOiulhc
l.. page $780, is found the Following para
graph: ..,, a ,,,,ci,ine
which offers something new. \ nan
had applied to a light-Doat very lalB@
screw. the thread Of which was lHll
plate feet broad, apphed pS - eu7o
spiraliy round small AXIS. sun ~,
what resembled a Ootue bfnsh,, ~
will suppose the hairs of the Oolue DrIs 81
Joining together. and forming a spllai
plane This turned on IT'S axis III 'tt
air. carried a vessel across the Seihc;
h. in fact "A screw which takes hOId OF
The air and draws itself along Dy ~
losing, indeed. much of its enort bE tI55
Welding nature Oi the bOdy u ia4S hpiu
of. 10 pull itself ON by. | think u hi1G
-, no
greater effect and TO very useful ini-
poses Perhaps it may be USED also Ior
the balloon ......,.
Whereup0n our Gastonia contemporary
very pertinenuy remarks as follows:
Here is prCof sufficient that the mol-
} en- screw-propeler Tor ships rs a strict
IS democratic institution. Heh Co ON,
the air-ship idea. Peihaps IL 'liie -. W
which takes hold Of the air ana draws
Itself along by 10 may be used also loI
I the balloon" Certainly. II was all an
error TO attempt TO pun snip IN tne
water by operating the screw IN the air.
Z For proper results in such case me
screw should be turned in The Wa,er 10
nun itself on BY. Bat If II Is 10 DE ope-
rated in the air, then balloon IS me
fnipg TO hitch TO it, \ balloon Sndow ed
| with capacity for horizontal navigation
is AN airship. or flying machine.
Yes. sir. We claim the nylng-macnihe
idea as one OF the ancient, dislihct Nl'
original tenets of JeifersOnian demOc-
racy. We call upon All VINO are set Tor
tbe defence of the farm to stand by the
4 airship. No paper which, Ike the CHAR
.1t:c Observer, tenders us hospitality 70
these inventions Of the people, lOr the
people and by the people. can ever be
cast utterly without the fold Of the or
thodox or ever get caught without some
thing TO pull itself on by.
! II would by no means amaze us 10
discover in our tunnellng tours that
there is good Jeficrsonian authority for
the automobile and liquid air
! We make our bow To the Gazette ana
beg leave 10 say: Il thank thee Jew, LOT
. giving me that word" We take great
comfort from this information. or course
the Gazette knows that Thomas was a
/ tiD-top architect, and designed the grace
/ ful buildings Of the University OF Nlr-
] eiuia. setting the crowning dome in such
manner that il the arc described by us
! outer rim were carried on bg the {!
until a circle We're completed, the
! straight D-and-dOwn radius OF the CIR
| Gle woiIld lust Craze the ground-the cir
, Gle would Just lean down, as II Were 10
! print a kiss on the cheek or Mother
1 Earth. HOW cOmmendable the enthuslda'
tic progressiveness OF noHlaS t.i,., -,
compared with the frigid skepticiam VI
Daniel Webster who threw colo water
| an the steam-engine experiments OF NE
dav stating that il would be an enormous
peril to human life TO De Whlrleu c Stoin
| ut the giddy rate of twelve or nIteeu
miles an hour; and. besides when the TO-
connective stopped i'm the winter tIne !.
take on wood. the water IN lne Dol :.
would freeze, and the whole concern GERM pe
thereby prevented from further progress
| 1or{ci cnuId not believe even III sJllins
along on dead level, but Thomas's Ialtr
rose mo on wings into the air ana anu
cipated the fying-machine. ,- anu IN
! ebov,s the difference between teoei9i ls.l'
si,o ,,redccessor of pernicious Republican,
ism i.iT and the glorious old Democracy ~
FIN is Jeffersonian simplicity Give us
Thomas Jefferson every time. ...,,,,,o
1 ytata
| - ti,is mine of ,JeffeTsonian wealth, We
n s,H promise to sit on the ore pile al tht
nnnth If the shaft. and pass on what J.
! thrown out.
THE PHILIPPINE WAR.