Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1876 — Hydrostatic Experiments. [ARTICLE]

Hydrostatic Experiments.

Under the flame of the old |hw mill is an attractive place for flight bathing, wbioh is frequently Retorted to daring the lioated term now being experienced. The water is two or three feet deep, flows over in a broad sheet affording a magnificent shower-bath arrangement, and runs dowu to the river wrod or two away in a swift enrrent over a smooth bed of rock. Although very seductive to perspiring mortals, it is not exceptionally safe for those possessing false teeth, as aecidents that have oouurred within a week are ample evidence. The first gentleman to become a victim of misplaced confidence, bot satisfied with the luxury oi a bath alone, attempted to add a hydraulic sneeze thereto, when ont dropped a set of internal improvements, which was borne by tbe swift current out of reach and out of sight to become an objeot of centennial wonder to patriotic fishes. Another gentleman of confiding nature, who lives in an eastern county and was attending a term of the circuit court then in session, being an interested party in the suits against the Jasper County Ditching Company, was attracted by the limpid streams thatcame spouting through fissures in the flume, and perhaps ! having read newspaper accounts of | the manner which miners of Calij fornia, Nevada, and other districts I direct streams of water against hillsides to wash away the loose earth and gravel that overlay auriferous rock, being in an experimental mood concluded to put to practical test the power of hydrostatic pressure in cleaning off the debrie which had accumulated upon his teeth. Opening his mouth to its fullest extent he moved up so as to talce into it a generous stream. The result, so far as was necessary to forever rest any doubt in the miud of the experimenter respect* ing the adequacy of the agency to perform the effect-sought, was a complete success. A gold basis was reached much quicker than the most sanguine financier expects to arrive at it through any course of political «xperimenting yet suggested. Not only were all extraneous deposits borne away, but with them went the argentiferous foundation upon which they rested. Instantaneously everything moveablg was swept out, leaving the luckleks philosopher as toothless as in suckling infancy, and from thpt time until he started home his disf was confined to victuals of aqueobk' consistency.