Volume 7 - Iapsop.com

18 it a Mere (~ddence?
Spenking of EdlBOlI's pbOllOgroph, the New
York Hemld relW>l"ke thot "the AmeriCllDll
ore the ment inventive people in the world,
lUId bt>sideB 11 mnllitude of minor inventions
of more or lcas alility they blln contributed
more than their shore to those greater couquesta
of m .... over nature wbleb outrank aU
the other intellectual achievements of our
time. Even in the early beginninga of oW"
blstory, at 110 time wben our population had
not J:('aebed two milliOns, Franklin's discover-
, ies in electricity ga.e b1m a p...,....minenee iu
that froltfol braneb of scieoce whleh willne ..-
er be eclipsed. Wben be announced his capita!
discovery of fbe identity of lightning and
electricity the Royal Society laughed at his
theory, bot the langbers were soon subdued
by the cogeoey of his t'xperiments, aud the
Royal Society in 1763 made amende by conferring
on him, unsolicited, Its highest honor,
the Copley medal. It was thUB an AmericaD
. who sct in motion ihe train of dbcoveries
whose most important practical reBDlt is the
electric telegrapb. It was our Morse who
made the final application and established the
Iirat telegrapb. It wu our Fulton that made
- the fi1'IIt Bucces.rul application of steam to
navigation. Our Draper preceded Daguerre
in making SUD pictures, a1thougb the I-"rcncbman
got ahead of bim io turning the discovery .
to use. That m08t beneficent discovery of
tbe age, the usc of 8D11&stbctica in medicine
-and surgery r is of American origin. All ths
thingo 00 whlcb we have now toucbed, as
well 88 tbe latest lo,!,eotion of Edison, de.ene
a place in tb~ highest ranks of succ_ful'
pbysical research. Of inventions which con­
.ist in pnrely mechanical applications of well
known principle. Americana have distanced
aU competition in multitude, in va.riety, and
in importance. A catalogue even of the moet
usefnl and noteworthy would be tiresome by
it. length. To' My not!>ing of Whitney's cotton
gin and other early inventiollll, enongb
has been done in the lifetime of person's .till
, young to confer lUIlteron American ingenuity.
The sewing machine, the mowing and reaping
macblnes, the machines for planting seede
and thrasbing grain, are a few amoug the
maDy wbicb are as the leave. of the fore.t
for mwtilllde. Witbont dwelling on achinemente
wbleb have gnne into bistory we may
. oately challenge ell Europe to show an in·
ventive geuillll wbo deaerves to stand by.tbe
, 8 ide of Edison."
GENEB.t1L MENTION .iJND GOSSIP. 1r,7
In connection with the nooVe comes the
thought to lIS thnt there n.re more medium8 in
the UDited Stoles, nnd their Pfreentnge, in
propori.ion 10 the popDlntiou, Is mneb lD.rger
thnn in any other country hi the world. Is
there not n Ipgitimnle deduction between thls
fnet anI! the observntion of the Herald "thot
the ADlericana are the most inventive people
in the world?
Mrs. Em 10 l1anUnge Britten.
Mrs. Britten 8aY': "J am IIot present In
MelboUrne, where I bave been for nearly a
week, and wbere I have lectured once to a
very huge audience. The secular pt'ellS, despite
all reports alld anticipa tiOUll to tho contrary,
bave given me most complimentary
notices, and wben my busband can seeure
ballo, and make arrangemonts for me to give
m~re leetlU'e8 weekly th .... the single one provided
tor by' the Victorian Association of
Spirli.u8Jists, by wbom 1 am engaged-I bope
, I may be able.to do my sbare toward. the
work 8Q mneb needed in MelbourDo, as tho
only otber cantre of Australl .... SplrltuaU.m
besides Sydney.'"
TwI: RKv. MB, CLARK, of Xenia, Ohio,
startled his congregatlob' a. few Sunday" ago
by declaring In one uf biB sermons, that It
was a precious doctrine with blm to ~lle'e
and know that all (".od'. people bad mlnlsterlog
angels, wbo bad' power to come back to
tbls world and encourage and comfort all
Sneb as put their trust 10 Him; and that
these ministering angels were nnqnestionably
those who bad once lived with them, and
taken an earthly interest In them. He claim·
ed that he had' a right, though a Methodist
minister, to tble faith; claiming that Jobn
We.ley aud Adam Clarke, two of Ibe great·
est e:xponento of . the eburcb, bad long ago
taken ttlls positlon.-!Independent Age.
. Tim Duke Nicolas of ~uchtenbeJ'g, one of .
the fi ve or Biz European princes annoUDced to
take part in the official opening of, the .Paris
EzposiuoD, is a 6rm and .erlollS Spiritualist.
beiogan bon orary member of the Britisb National
Association of Spiritualists. He is the
eldest sOD of tbe recently deceased Orand
Duchess Mary (aisIP.r of the Emperor of R_
sia) aud of !heDoke Mumilian of J,enchU!n.
berg, SOD of the Prince Eugene I1eaubarnai8,
nepbew of Qnl't'n RortellSe, and grandBon of
the Emprese Josephine, first wife of Napo.
lean I. .
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