Terre Haute Evening Gazette, Volume 6, Number 270, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 2 May 1876 — Page 2
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ST. -'-liitU tt Wesson revolver. It was niid I—plated. but had worn off so as to show th ii 4 mounting. *t1n,pS,' on Mam sto-c, between Ninth aud ltniii. la«t night." A:iv person returning the same to the snulon "hoiiss will bo liberally rewarded. I-RANK BROW..
WANTED.
"ITrAlV'I'J--)O.—Situation—By a £p°d v?~ liable girl, acquainted with all kinds of house-work. Inquire at the northeast corner of Fifteenth and Locust streets.
WILTED.
Situation—By an oldLady,
to do any kind of work in a kitchen understands cooking thoroughly enn give excellent references, aud wishes a good home. Apply at this ofllcc.
-**rA2*XED.-Boarders cnu be accomoww dated^with suits or single rooms, inquire on Eaglu street, 2nd door east of 6th.
"BTjrAMED-Situation—To work at any thing can furnish references, address li. G. Arthur, P. O.
ANTK1).—Purchasers for a lot of old papers, which are just suitable for laynder carpets. Call at the Gazetcc of-
ing unde flee.
WANTED—Information
WAXTKB—Pupils
"W^OK KENT—Houses—In various parts J-1 of the city. Payment will be be received in painting' for one for six months, and boardings will be furnished for another. Apply immediately to William Joab, corher of Fo'urtheenth and Sycamore streets.
FOR
KENT—One five acre lot one mile from th Court House also an acre lot with a tlireee room house and good stable on it. Other houses in various parts of the city of from eight to nine rooms. Some of these, houses are suitable for boarding houses. Apply at once to Win. Joab, corner of Fourteenth and Sycamore streets.
[TlOIt RENT—Large rooms over the dry [_• goods establishment of Wilson Bros. ormerly occupied by the Y. M. C. A.
FOR
KENT—The rooms lately occupied by the Young Men's Christian Association, oil the corner of Fifth and Main. For particulars ball on Wilson Bros.
7710II RENT—Three good rooms onnort _1J Fourth street, li.'X squares from Main 2 up stair/* rooms and basement, large enough to sleep and eat in.
We are authorized to announce the name of HUGO UUIONWKG as a candidate for the olUce of countv Treasurer, subject to the de"cisiini of liiL-ilepuirtican Nominating Convention.
We are authorized to announce the name, of JOHN E. LAMB as a candidate for the office of Prosecuting Attorney of the Fourteenth Judicial Circuit, eo'mposcd of the counties of Vigo and Sullivan, subject to the decision of the Democratic District Nominating Convention.
WHY' WILL JriS "i™
Jewelrv, Cutlery, silver and Glassware •\yheu $1 will buv" the same articles. It is a fact that the N. ii. Dollar of Boston, is, does and has for years been selling an immense variety of goods well worth $2 to $3. at onlv ONE noi.t.AK. $10 will go as far as ?15 if v'ou will only believe what we say and buy where you can buy- cheapest. 5000 elegant new $2 and $3 books all for ?1. Dry jtnd Fancv Goods, Groceries, Spices, &c., &c., at half the usual prices. There is no ''ticke'U' trickery, no lotteries, no delays. All orders promptly filled. Goods sont C. O. D. You
can
see t'hem before paying. AVe dealt with f!,7t»0 people in Decbmber, 1875. Give us one trial am! like thousands of others we KNOW we. shall secure your cout inued patrouage. AVe sell one article for $1, or give splendid premiums for clubs. Try us and see. We
cannot
here give our list, it would fill the
cut ire paper. Our house is endorsed by the best merchants and papers of Boston and bv 78,000 patrons 30.000 patrons bought of us iii 1-S75. Send now for our great circulars. \ddvoss H. ORMISTON CO., N. E. DOLLAR SALE, 553 Broomfleld St. Boston Mass
HARDWARE-
Terre Haute, March 31, 1870.
I have this day sold my general stock of hardware to Messrs. AA'olf & Lyon, and I cordiallv recommend them to 'my former friends and hope they will extend "to them the same liberal patronage they have to me.
ERsaMBM^nBai ••IIPP
of the wherea
bouts of John Triscli, who left Terre Haute, in .fune 1875. Address Charles Triscli, Terre Haute, Ind. Western papers please copy.
to be taught to play
on the piano. Tuition fee $G for twenty-four lessons, without the use of the pianoj or £8 with the piano. Applv at the third house south of Eagle on the W'est side of Fifth street.
7"AM'ED—Everybody to know that Brunker's Carminative Balsam is inalible for diarrheae. flux, pain or congestion of the stomach.' or cholera morbus, children's teethin or choler ting afte. and safe to tako. Inquiref«r it at your druggist's.
lgeholic, hiccups, summer complaint, era, infantum,
Cures
without debilita-
rter all other remedies fail, Ploasant
TIRAVTED—Situation driving ft team delivery wagon or general work about a store. References if required.
For
P. O. Box 2031.
WANTED—Work
of any kind, by a
youngman able aud willing to work. Address Edward Cooper, Terre Haute.
FOR RENT OR SALE.
OR SALE— Old papers in bundles of 100 in smaller lots. Call at the Gazette Oillee. "ITMlll SALE-or Tor rent. Houses in varJ/ ious parts of the city good houses and lots at lowest rates. Apply immediately to William Joab, corner Fourteenth and Sycamore.
FOIt
KENT OK .SALE—A good house or !1 rooms, suitable for boarding. Good out buildings, etc. Apply on the premises on Ohio, between First and Second.
FOR RENT.
All newly papered
and in good condition, rent reasonable. Parties must bring satisfactory references. Inquire of Miller. of Miller & Cox, 522 Main street.
Announcements.
The GAZETTE is authorized to announce lie name of C. W. BROWN as a candidate for Clerk of the Vigo Circuit court, subject to the decision of the Republican County Conventio n.
We are authorized to announce tlie name ofSTAXLKY ROBBI.VS as a candidate for the otliee of Clerk of the Vigo Circuit Court, subject to the decision of the Republican County Convention.
We arc authorized to announce the name ofE. L. GIRDNER as a candidate for the oillce of County Clerk, subject to the decision of the Republican Nominating convention.
AVe are authorized to announce the. name of 1). C. GR1CINI2R us a candidate for the of-
tlce
of Countv Clerk, subject to the decision of the Republican County Convention.
The GAZETTK is authorized to announce the name of JXO. C. MYKR, as a candidate for commissioner from the First District of Vigo county, subject to the decision of the Repnblicairnominating convention-
The Gazette is authorized to announce the name of G. 1*. SHANKS for the office of Township Trustee, subject to the. decision of of the Republican nominating convention.
We are authorized to announce the name of C. 11. UOTTMAX as a candidate for the office of Countv Treasurer, subject to the decision of the" Republican Nominating Convention.
We are authorized to announce the name of JOSHUA M. HULL for theollice of Sheriff, subject to the decision of the Republican Co Co li io n.
JA.MKS M. LYONS.
Having purchased of Mr. James 51. Lvons, his general clock of hardware, at^ 130^ Maui st, we shall add such goods in this line as ihe wants of this community shall demand, and shall endeavor to keep fully supplied at all times with a complete stock, aud hone
bv
sollingat the lowest priccs to meet the p'atronage of the public.
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SAMVEI. G. LYON.
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JOHNN. AVOLK.
**Towe JIauto, March 31, 1877.
WOLF &
LYON,
successors toV
James M. Lyons,
Dealers in evcrvdescription,of Hardware, Iron. Steel. Nails, glass, ^sh,
CoJUn Trimmings. A\ ire, Paints, oils, Varnish, Broom Handless &c. Sign or the Brondax and 1 lain ana circti jai
"aia0 Main street, Terro Haute, Ind.
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vetting gazette.
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Haute, aud is sold for One copy por year, 3,2, nix month, $1* three months 50c. All subscriptions must be paid for in advance. No paper discontinued until all the arrearages are paid, unless nt the proprietors A failure jo notify a discontinuance at the cud of the year will bo considered now engagement.
Address all lottors. WM. C. BALL & CO., GAZETTE, Lerre 11 auto, Ind.
Tuesday, May 2. 1876.
THE Benders have been caught again.
WF. shall never have a truly good police force until we take theological students.
As wi: understand it, police officers ought to haunt the churches. The criminal classes always frequent the sanctuarv.
NOBODY has been asked in thi.-. election to vote as he shot, Who will say that the world does not move.-'
TWO-THIRDS of his time, now,Grant is sick. So the man has some nerves after all, and does feel the shame that has covered his administratton in these latter davs, as with a mantle.
THE Indianapolis Journal charges James D. Williams with having bought his way into the State Senate several times on the capital of his being a farmer. Not a very bad kind of capital to trade on.
OVER zealous friends are trying to bring out Bishop Simpson as a candidate for President. We should dislike to have investigating committees overhaul the records of the parsons. They had better continue at their chosen calling.
IT would seein as if Morton was envious of Blaine and his investigations, and had lent a helping hand in the proposed overhauling of his accounts as the war governor of Indiana. lie would like to get before the country at this time the story of his marvelous activity in the prosecution of the war.
BLMXE has made another explanation. With every explanation the gentleman from Maine makes friends. Once the conviction bccomcs general that Blaine is being persecuted—we will not say for righteousness sake, but to kill him off as a Presidential candidate—and all the "gates of hell" can not prevail against him in the Cincinnati Convention.
Ax exceedingly interesting review of a monograph of General Pleasanton appeared in the New York Herald, day before yesterday. We republish it in another column. For several years past General Pleasanton has been investigating the subject of heat, light and electricity, and has formulated a theory on the subject at once novel and startling. lie directly controverts all the present theories on those subjects and in doing so controdicts such eminent authorities as Newton and Tyndall. We have reason to beleve that the origin of heat will be an interesting topic at this present time when we have been witnesses of such marvelous evolutions of it in the conduct of the municipal campaign. We have an idea that Pleasanton's theory will not account for the tempest in a teapot raging here. Pure cussedness is at the bottom of it all.
IN his speech before the New ork Democratic State Convention, at Utica, the other day, ex-Go%-ernor Seymour struck the key note of the coming political campaign. There is a deal 31 truth in the following paragraph which we reprint. He said: ''Peace has brought to us more that has made us sad and sorrowful, more that has been hurtful to our national character more that has suppressed honest labor and thwarted the interests of those who attempted to build up our national prosperity than ever war did with all its sufferings. It needs no spirit of prophecy to toll what the future historian,' when he tells the events of the past fifteen cr twenty years of our country, will dwell upon when he comes to this period. He will warn all nations that a people may live against armed rebellion. It will teach the lesson that force can not destroy a Government when it is strong in the aft'eclions of a people, and it will teach the other great lesson that corruption in reference to public virtue and greed for gold will destroy those institutions that were powerful to resist all outward pressure and all belligerent attacks."
RUM'S VICTIMS.
Opening of the United States Court in St. Louis.
The Small Fry to be Disposed of This Week.
Seizures at San Francisco.
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St. Louis. May i.—The regular Ma term of the United States district cout canveened to-day, and it was expected that some of the parties who pleaded guilty to the whisky indictments would be sentenced, but action was postponded. Tomorrow the grand jury will be impanneled, after which some of the gaugers and storekeepers who pleaded guilty win be sentenced. The sentencing of distillers and rectifiers will follow in a fewdays, and the civil cases against forfeited property will be disposed of as speedily as possible. District Attorney Dyer expects to dispose of all the whisky cases during this term. It is stated that civil suit will be brought against Wm. McKee, and against the securities of Con. Maguire «md store keepers, also against all distillers and rectifiers.
XEW ORI.EAXS.
New Orleans, May i.—The jury in Fehrenback whisky case have not j:et agreed as to the other accused.
SAN FKAXCISCO.
San Francisco, May .1.—Revenue agents Clarke aiid Crane' to-day seized .Bay View, Oriental,•Cushing & Landerback's dfetiflerie's and lAmSfio •rectifying establishment also the' wholesale li:juor house of Kene & O'Leary and S. Lepman & 3o. for alleged violation of the revenue laws.
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BLENDED LIGHT.
wtonian Law itationv Assailed.
TYXDALL IMPUGNED.
All ft atural Forces Rel rretl to Light aiic* Magnetism.
STARTLING DEDUCTIONS.
Further Examples of General Pleasonton's Discoveries.
From the New York Herald. It mav seem interesting to the reader of the Herald to knowthat~in 1S71 General Pleasenton published a brief monograph of twenty-four pages, giving an account of the various experiments made by him with blended light up to that time, upon plalits and animals. This monograph was subsequently communicated to the Academic des Sciences at Paris, and the writer saw an account of the manner in which it was received by that body in the comptes rendus of the society.
LIGHT IS MATT ICR.
The first conclusion adopted by General Pleasenton is that light is matter. The vast interval between this planet and the sun must be filled with material matter— ether or whatever it may be called. Light passing through this with a velocity ot 186.000 miles per second, must everywhere produce enormous friction. Friction produces electricity. It is this electricity and its correlative magnetism (discovered by Oersted to be its constant accompaniment when opposits electrical polarities are united) which forms those tremendous forces of nature that produce, on and about our planet those changes which meet us at every turn. When the Creator, after having assembled in their respective positions the materials which compose the planetary and stellar worlds, uttered the words, "Let there be light,'' He called into being a power which became the generator of all the physical forces whigh control ami regulate the world.
The radiant reflection from every part of the photo-sphere of that great luminary the snn (which in its magnitude was intended to illumine and vitalize all an imated matter as well as to give form and consistency to whatever had been created), passing from every part thereof with a velocity of iS6,ooo miles per second, penetrating through planetary and stellar spaces, whole ether, however subtle and attenuated, must have offered some insistence to the passage of this material ltght, producing with it everywhere in its passage an enormous amount of friction and with it electricity and magnetism. Elqctricitv, by the Junction of its opposite polarities, evolves heat and also imparts to all substances that are capable of being invested wilh its magnetism. The sun the planets, the stars and all the bodies that stud the expanse of heaven are doubtlesss all magnets, to which magnetism was imparted when the Creator uttered in heaven the words without parallel in sublimity:—"'Let light be made." This, then, is the origin of all physical forces of tha universe.
ILL"AT DUE TO iMAGXETISM. Thus far General Pleasonton on the general subject of-light. In connection with light he considers heat as generated by it, and contends that terrestrial heat cannot be directly derived from the sun. lie argues that the tendency of heat is always to ascend into the atmosphere when it is derived from conbustion on the surface of the earth, or from radiation within it. The flame of a candle is vertically upward on every part of the earth's surwhen the air is still. The effort of heat is to deport necessarily from its source with a rapidty proportionate to the intenstiv of the conbustion. The force by which it is effected is a repellant one at the same time from its being associated with postive electricity, always associated with cold, which is opposed to positive electricity. The diffusion of heat, laterally or downwards, inconsiderable, as is constantly manifested in our rooms, when the fire in the grate emits very little heat below the bottom of the grate, and parts of the room distant from the fire arc very imperfectly heated by it. The sun, in its daily course, being above the earth, if it had any calorific rays, could not send them to the earth below it, through a space of92,000,000 miles, which according to calculations of Pouillett, has temperature of minus 142 degrees of centigrade theimometer. As an example, during the late war, at the seige of Fort- Sumter, in South Carolina', General Gilmore's heavy guns threw their enormous shells into the city of Chaeleston, four and a half miles distant. While the expansion of the powder in the chamber of these guns, in its combustion into gases, evolved a power which threw these shells so great a distance, it was totally inadequate to drive the heat disengaged in the conversion of the powder into those propelling gases to a greater distance from the muzzles of the guns than thirty feet. It ascended, instantly on leaving the guns, into the upper atmosphere, attracted by an opposite electricity- Any one familiar with the fire of artillery must have observed similar effects regarding the heat from the discharge.
To illustrate this by an example. "Mount Washington, in the White Mountains, in New Hampshire, is in north latitude 44 deg. i6min. 25 sec., and in west longitude from Greenwich 71 deg. 16 min. 26 sec. Its elevation above tidewater is 6,293 feet, and in altitude it is the second highest mountain northward of the gulf of Mexico, the highest mountain thereof being Clingman's peak, in the State of North Carolina, which is 6,707
teet
above tidewater. The limit of
the growth of trees on the north side of Mount Washington is 4,150 feet above tidewater. The climate of Mount Washington corresponds with that of the middle of Greenland, about 70 deg. of north latitude or 26 deg. further north than New Hampshire. It is an arctic island, so to speak, in the temperate zone, and, on acconnt of its great elevation, it exhibits also the condition of the atmosphere where the mercury does not rise above 24 inches in the barometer. For peculiar
:nterest,
therefore, the Mount Washing-
11 (meterological) station is not exuded by any point within the Arctic e." was on this mountain," says the gc ', "that a party of scientific gentleme, sed the winter of 1S70 and 1S71, amic, great privations and suffering for the purpose of investigating the physical conditions of the atmosphere and mountain at that great elevation, Observation shows that the climate of any country becomes colder in proportion to the heiglith of the land above the sea,- Thus in tropical regions there may be an arctic climate at an altitude of 12,000 to i?.ooo feet."
The room inhabited by these gentle men was in the southwest corner of the railroad depot, about twenty .le'et .long,. eleven feet wide and eight feet higH. It was well pratected from the. outer, cold, was heated by two stoves, one an ordinary cook stove, the other a Magee parlor stove, prized for its marvellous heating power. The journal reports as follows, viz "February 4,1S71, temperature at seven o'clock A. M-.,—33 degrees at nine o'clock -40 degrees.In the room the temperature was 35'degrees, and sometimes 60 degrees. To do thw^he stoves were kept at a red heat -The thetmometer hararo five feet-from sto:
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ture ten feet from the stovea at the floor was 12 degrees in other parts of the. room the temperature was 65 degrees midnight, wind fully up to 100 miles per hour and northwest," "February 5, some of the gusts of wind 110 miles per hour pat three o'clock A. M., temperature in the room 59 degrees, barometer 22.810 inches, attached thermometer 62 degrees, Yesterday, barometer 22.508 inches."
General Pleasonton thus explains these phenomena:—"Five feet from red hot stoves the thermometer marked 60 decrees ten feet from the same stoves on the floor the thermometer marked 12 degrees, being a loss of 48 degrees in a distance of five feet in length" and two feet below the sources of heat. Now, at the rate of radiation of heat, how hot must the sun be to transmit any degree of heat 92,000,000 of miles though a temperature of —142 degrees of centigrade to this planet, and not merely to this earth in a column of heat of 8,ooo miles in diameter to envelope it, but also to diffuse its heat through an ellipsoid of ether, whose circumference would be the orbit of the of the earth around the sun? But the actual loss of heat in its descent to the earth (if that could be possible, which it cannot be) per foot would be immensely more than is stated above, as the heat would have to pass though space chilled to —142 degrees of centigrade instead of in a room heated to 65 degrees of Fahrenheit. Again, in this latitude of 40 degrees north, we have in our winters falls of snow which lie out upon the ground sometimes for weeks, with the sun being unable to make any impression upon it—and when the snow does begin to melt it commences with the layer of snow in contact with the earth, and not with that on the upper surface exposed to the sun. Our farmers all know that when their fields in winter arc covered with snow thoir growing crops under it are kept warm, though no ray of sun could reach them through the snow, and they antisipatc there from a large yield in the ensueing harvest.
If terrestrial heat dorived directly from the sun how is this fact explained? A gentleman in the State of Maine during the early part of last winter, when the ground at his residence was deeply covered with snow in many places, made some experiments to ascertain the tem perature of the oarth under the snow. He found that the heat increased at the surface of the earth with the depth of snow above it. The following is the account, vis.
Experiments were made in the winter of 1S72-73, with a view to ascertain howfar the soil is protected from cold by snow. For four successive days in winter, there being four inches in depth of snow on the ground on a level, the average temperature, immediately above the snow, was found to be 14 degrees of Fahrenhoit's themometer below zero immediately beneath the snow in contact with the earth it was 10 degrees above zero, being an increase of 24 degrees in temperature, occasioned by a covering ot the earth with four inches of snow and under a drift of snow two feet deep the temperature was 27 degrees above zero, making an increase of temperature at the earth's surface, tinder two feet of snow, of 41 degrees of Fahrenheit over the temperature of the air just above the upper surface of the snow. No one can pretend that these variations ot temperature were derived from the sun.
General Pleasanton explains these^ phenomena as follows The radiation ot heat from the interior of the earth, positively electrified, meeting at the surface of the earth with the snow in contact with it, negatively electrifiefl, the conjunction of these' opposite polarities of electricity evolves heat, melting the under laver of the snow, irrigating the plants under it with water moderately warm and keeping the earth from being frozen, so that in the spring following, when the snow had disappeared, the plants were ready to receive the stimulating influence of sunlight and the blue light of the sky, of which they had been deprived during the winter.
AX ONSLAUGHT OX TYNDALL. The General is a downright believer in his own theories. In maintaining them, therefore, he docs not hesitate to set his lance in rest against so doughty a scientific champion as Professor Tyndall. "Some of Tyndall's theories and explanations really astound irie.'r said the General to the writer. "I could hardly have believed that he would have blundered so palpably on matters susceptible of 110 such explanation as he gives them. For instance, writing on what he calls solar radiation, he says 'Never did I suffer so much from solar heat as when descending from the corridor to the grand plateau of Mount Blanc, on the 13th of August, 1S57. While I sunk up to the waist in snow the sun darted its rays upon me with intolerable fierceness. On entering into the shade of the Dome de Goute these impressions instantly changed, for the air was cold as ice. It was not really much colder than the air traversed-by the solar rays, and I suffered not from contact with warm air,.but from the stroke of the sun's ravs, which reached me after passing through a medium as cold as ice.'
It is singular that to so learned and astute a scientist as Prof. Tyndall it did not occur that if his sensations, so distressing on this occasion, were derived from the heat of the sun's fierce rays, that he could not have walked throngh snow waist deep in such heat without the snow becoming melted by the same heat which oppressed him, and that he w.ould have been swept away by the torrent of water thus produced by the melting of the snow by this great heat but it does not appear that the snow was at all affected by it, while the water was drawn out of the Professor in profuse perspiration. "My explanation would be this:—The heat from which the Professor suffered came from his own body, and was derived from electrical action of sunlight upon his dark woollen clothcs, warmed by the animal heat of his system. He was struggling through deep snow in an atmosphere of icy coldness. The natural heat of his body, 98 degrees of temperature of Fahrenheit, was greatly increased by the muscular efforts he was making in his descent of the glacier. His woollen clothes had become positively electrtfied by the heat of his body. The strong sunlight of August having passed through the cold, dry ether of planetary space and the upper atmosphere of the earth, by its friction with them was negatively electrified, and falling upon his warm body and clothes, positively electrified, increased heat was evolved in and around his person, and his -sufferings were intensified. As soon as he left the sunlight his clothes by induction, became negatively electrified and the temperature of his body was soon lowered and his sufferings from heat ceased,"
THE
SUXIIASXO HEAT.
The non-existence of heat in the sun the General still fnrther attempts to prove as follows: "There is no heat ih the moon, which proves that the moon has not an atmosphere, as it also provos that there is no .no heat in the sun for if there was an atmosphere .about the moon, the sun's light penetrating it and producing friction bv the contact with it, would evolve electricity, which uniting with the opposite electricity of the moon's, atmosphere, would produce heat but no such effect has been perceptible with delicate instruments. Besides, if there was heat in the rays of the sunlight, that heat would be reflected with that light from the moon's surface-to the earth,, whjch we' know is not the case." .'-NoWj if the sun possessed heat, and could force it downward to the earth, which, according to our knowledge of the laws of heat, is impossihle, we could have no clouds in our atmosphere, as from, the absorbing power of.gases of heat the clouds would be so expanded and attenuated by the absorbed heat that they ri&ver could"be formed,.' "The sun is a great magnet, as are all the planets of the solar1 system, and it is by thgir weightofgravitation^.that their ^F'!®P!K^Ve -fOtlntg are*
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th^ sun. Now, as magnetic attraction orynepuUion varies inversely as the sqikres of the distances, which relation hnsvbe'en heretofore attributed to gravitation it is not difficult to assign to magnetism,ill its attraction and repulsion, the forces which have heretofore kept and now. keep our solar system in its various motions, nor need we hesitate to conceive that all the motions of ingnite systems, of suns and stars, of nebulae and cometary and meteoric matter, are in like manner regulated. The meteoric matter which has fallen to the earth has been found when examined to be h:ghlv magnetic. "If the sun is a magnet there is only sufficient heat generated in its interior by opposite electricities to cause its rotation 011 its axis, and it cannot be an incandescent body, since magnetism is destroyed by heat. "Wherever there are differences of temperature, there are opposite electricities— one electricity being always associated with what is called heat while the opposite electricity accompanies cold. These terms of heat and cold are mere expressions of relative differences in varied temperatures, without regard to the intensity of either condition."
From these statements it will be seen that General Pleasonton is at issue with Newton on the theory of gravitation, and further contends that the sun is nst an incandescent body. He smiles at the notion that the photosphere of the sun contains metallic gases at an inconceivably high temperature, holding that the existence of magnetism is
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Other analogous theories of Professor Tyndall are treated much in the same manner. Should the Generals strictures come under his notice, it will be interesting to hear him in reply. As the General is about to give his theories to the world in the shape of a comprehensive monograph, it is unnecessary in this article to do more than to indicate them.
He combats the idea that the compress, sion of the atmosphere produces heat, ar that condedsation (which, he says, is merely another form of expression for the same thing) produces cold. He .thus argues:— TV. I "If cold condenses why does it not condense the air in the upper atmosphere, where the greatest cold prevails, and the air is very dry, rarefied and attenuated: According to the theory of condensation by cold the air should be very much more dense at great elevation above the earth than it is at the surface of the ocean, but the reverse is known to be the case. The higher I f:S/ in the atmosphere a balloon inflated with hydrogen gas ascends the more the gas becomes expanded by the refraction of the atmosphere, which shows that the cold of the upper atmosphere cannot condense the gas in opposition to the expansive influence of the rarefied atmosphere at great elevation. Ice water poured into a glass tumbler in the heat of summer causes a deposit of drops of water on the outside of the tumbler resembling dew, which is the result of the conjunction of eposite electricities, the glass and the air within and around is being warm and positively electaified. Their conjunction envolves heat, which is absorbed by the molecules of air", holding in suspension the humidity of the atmosphere these molecules so heated, ascend immediately with inconceivable rapidity into the upper atmosphere, attracted by its opposite negative electricity, while the globules of water thus released from their suspension in the air on the outside of the glass, being now negatively electrified, are attracted by the vitreous or positive electricity, of the glass tumbler and are deposited on it."
In confirmation of this theory he alleges the following facts:— BLUE GLASS PRODUCES HEAT,
"On the 31st day of March,-A. D., 1872, I visited my farm to give directions to apply heat to start the growth of the vines in my grapery at the commencement of the season. "The weather was very cold, patches-of ice and snow lay in places on the fields, which the sun, shining with great brilliancy through a remarkably clear atmosphere, was unable ts. soften or melt. No semblance of cloud or vapor was any where visible. In the open air, piotected from sunlight, the thermometer (Fahrenheit's) marked 34 degrees, 2 degrees above the freezing point of water, On entering the grapery, in which there had been no artificial heat. from fuel of any kind for the space of nearly a year, my son and myself were astonished at the great heat there was within it". On examining the thermometer which hung on one of the middle posts of the grapery, completely sheltered from the sunlight, about four feet from the floor, we were amazed to find that It marked 110 degrees of Fahrenheit. Here was an increase of 76 degrees of temperature over that of
the
outside air, and produced by a film of glass not exceeding one-sixteenth of an inch-in thickness." "I have had many occasions to observe since that date that doring the passage of sunlight through the? blue and plain glass of the grapery,
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patible with any such condition. General Pleasanton quarrels with Tyndall, too, apropos of his article on "Mountain Condensers The English professor says "Imagine a southwest wind blowing across the Atlantic toward Ireland. In its passage it charges itself with aqueous vapor. In the south of Ireland it encounters the mountains of Kerry. The highest of these is Magillicuddy's Reeks, near Killarney. Now, the lowest stratum of this Atlantic wind is that which is most fully charged with vapor. When it encounters the base of the Kerry Mountains it is tilted up and flows bodily over them. Its load of vapor, is, therefore, carried to a height it expands on reaching the height it is chilled in consequence of the expansion and comes down in copious showers of rain. From this, in fact, arises the luxurious vegetation of Killarney to this, indeed, the lakes owe their water supply. The cold crests of the mountain also aid in the work of condensation."
General Pleasantsn will not accept this explanation of these phenomena, but gives his OAVII in the following terms: "The tilting up of the masses of cloud on coming in contact with the face of the mountain is the resultant of the impact of two forces, one being that of the wind from the southwest with any given velocity from twenty miles per hour to that of eighty or one hundred miles per hour the other the static force of the resistance of the mountain itself the diagonal of these two forces is the tilting up of the cloud after impact. Now, these two great masses of cloud and mountain, oppositely electrified, when the}' come together in contact, produce great friction of their molecules, which friction evolves positive electricity from the.higher temperature of the southwest wind this positive electricity thus evolved rushes into conjunction with the opposite electricity of the atmosphere, producing heat, which heat being absorbed by the air holding the water in suspension communicates to it positive electricity, and the air so electrified is attracted by the negative electricity of the upper atmosphere, carrying it up and by expansion so comminuting the particles of air that they can no longer obtain the globules of water they before held in suspension, which latter thus released then begin, being attracted by the positive electricity-Of the earth, to fall as rain oppositely electrified, and it is, therefore, these electricities thus excited with tjie. heat which is evolved by their' conjunction and the rain charged with amnionic and carbonic acid gas which furnish the stimulants to the remarkable vegetation of Killarney. During the prevalence of these rain bearing clouds, driven across the Atlantic by the southwest winds upon the above mentioned mountains, the sun must be obscured by them, and hence there cnn.be no radiations of solar, hea't to expand the air of the clouds after theirimpact with the mountains, and they have been titled up in their further pro gress over the crests of the mountains."
from. 32 degrees upward to 60 degreds or 65 degrees. "During the winter of 1S71 and 1872, which, in this city, was a very cold and rigorous one, two ladies of my family, residing 011 the northern side of Spruce street, east of Broad street, in this citv, .who, at my suggestion, had caused blue glass to be placed in one of the windows of their dwelling, associated with plain glass, informed me that they had observed that when the sun shone through those associated glasses in their window, the temperature ef their room, though in mid winter, was so much increased that on many occasions that they had been obliged during sunlight, to dispense entirely with the fire, which, ordinrrily, they kept in their room, or, when the fire was suffeted to remain, they found it necessary to lower the upper sashes of their windows, which were without the blue glass, in order to moderate the oppresssve heat.''
IMPORTANT TO THE POOR. Apropos of the General's experiments, a German scientist remarked "that the discovery of this extraordinary influence was destined to produce the most important and beneficial results on the comfort and happiness of mankind throughout the civilized world that fuel was everywhere recognized as the most indispensable element of social and domestic economy that it is, particularly in Europe, very expensive from its scarcity, which is becoming greater every .year, with its annual consumption, and in the northern parts of Europe, furs, skins of animals and the down of aquatic birds are extensively worn, sometimes with two or three suits of clothing at once, in order to preserve the animal heat of the body, owing to the great costliness of fuel and the severity of the cold. "That even in England apprehensions are being expressed of an exhaustion of their coal mines in the not distant future. Now since the wonderful discovery of the influence of the blue light of the sky in developing animal and vegetable life which is largely due to the heat and electricity developed by the passage of sunlight through these associated blue and plain glasses, I am of the opinion that during sunshine, for many hours in the day, by blue and colorless glass arranged together in doors and windows exposed to the sun, sufficient heat can be evolved to enable families and work people in factories to dispense with a large proportion of the fuel that they have heretofore been obliged to use. Let 11s say thst one-half of the fuel heretofore required can be saved by thus utilizing sunlight, and you will begin to comprehend how vast will be the benefit derived to mankind in the economy of" fuel alone by this discovery of General Pleasonton."
Tne conclusions of the German scientist, although savoring of enthusiasm, do not seem to be ill founded. At any rate this is a matter well deserving of extended experiment. Should the deductions be justified, the magnitude of the discovery need not be insisted upon.
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