Year: 1871

streets Of Philadelphia. But although thus
bred in the wars, like Coriolanus. he is by no
means "ill-schooled in bolted language" His
warfare over, he devoted himself during these
piping times of peace TO wooing Science and
Nature, with what result this latest great birth
of Truth into the world attests. The first
conception of his discovery came upon him,
he tells us, while gazing at the sky, whose
color he found to be blue How the second
idea of glass was suggested, we know not:
but we next find him with the theory firmly
established in his own mind that the germ OF all
growth and life lag in blue glass. He covered
grapery with it, and in five months twD-
inch vines had grown forty-fve feet; in year
they bore grapes by the wagon-lcad., Ha
covered pggery with it; the three sows
under the violent glass increased II lbs. more
than three sows IN common pen; a bar
row pig at the same time increased much
more rapidly, owing to the abnormal develop
mcnt of greed and viciousness which enabled
him to seize on more than his share of food.
Rising in the scale of animal nature, the Gen
eral next sequestrated an Alderncy bull calf
just born, and apparently dying, under tic
violet glass. In a few hours it got up and ate
with great vivaciy; the next day it began to
grow. Its growth was 50 apparent says tho
General, "that as its hind-quarte1 was then


growing, ! directed my son to measure H.
" IL grew six inches in fifty days, carrying its
lateral development with it," The calf grew
and the General continued to heasure it'
hind-quarter for four months, when the
experiment ceased. The calf was full
grown, finished animal and vent out
from under the glass. The General has,
unfortunately carried his experiments no
higher; but suggests that architects be at once
directed to roof our houses with the life-pro-
ducing violet hue Thus can health not only
be restored to the invalid, but youth to tho
aged We "can produce in the temperate
"regiOns the early maturity of the tropics.
and develop in the young a generation.
physically and intellectually, which will be-
come marvel to mankind We can be-
lieve it. The very contemplation of the idea
afar off of these unbOm generations seated
through the ages of the vast hereafter at their
pap and primers under blue glass, fills tho
mind with awe and astOnishment. Or will
pap and primers be necessary? If the body
and brain of an Alderney calf lind develop
ment without them, why not a human beings





most vexing national problems just now;
women are trying to shirk them for their
higher duties, and men have not yet consented
to take them up. "Put them under blue
glass; says the General behold my grapes
and sOwsw ~ Was ever relief more timelyf
We look upon it as prOvdential interference
on behalf of the Advanced Female


But why should the benefit ,pf this great
discovery be left to posterity9 Why not roof
Tammany with blue glass; or the Capitol
If the glazier can supply abnormal virtue, and
wisdom, and knowledge at the expense of a
few panes and putty, let him go to work.
! Though it destroy the occupation OF press and
pulpit, glass is a less noisy refomer than
either. But stay! We reckon without our
host, tie General. His glass, he promises,
will develop only the germs air, ady present.
Can we hope it will make practical reasOners
and genial, gracious gentlemen out of the
material il has there to work OnY The most
violet of lenses did not turn his swine into
grapes. The barrow pig offers us a significant
hint. Its greed and viciousness increased in
proportion with its muscle. Let us be cautious.
The slight want of suavity, for instance. per
ceptible in Gen. Buffers character might de-
velop, in the space of time needed TO make
butting OK out of the calf, into a character
unpleasant for the country to deal with.
Imagine, too, Mr.. Carpenters personal graces
and powers of speech unfolded. under the
prism for six months. The nation may carry
| its debt, but there are some weights under
which it would tOtter and fall.


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