THUNDER AND LIGHTNING

It is only within comparatively modern -- that the abroad of mystery which had enveloped the causes of thunder

which had enveloped the causes of thunder and lightning, from the earliest records, has been dispersed. That these

“Oh, no

, guess not. Nobody will see

"Yes they will! and it will ruin me

That these phenomena were in some way connected, with a then equally mysterious agent

ed with a then equally mysterious agent,

electricity, was known to the Greeks and Romans, but their knowledge was confined to the obsenration that amber.

We rose and touched him impressively

ly on the shoulder.

"Well, we will admit that the people will see it ; but then, you know, they will never think of it again.

will

when rubbed attracted certain other bodies, that the shocks from the torpe do fish were of an electrical nature, and that under certain conditions electric sparks could be produced from the fur of animals. Such knowlege was not extended till the year 1600, when Dr. Gilbert, physician to Queen Elizabeth

Published a work in which he showed

that magnestism and electricity emanated from the same source. It was not till 1720 that any one was bold enough to

declare that electricity seemed to be of

the same nature with thunder and lightning

ing : and even then only with the pro-

viso "if we may compare great things with small ;" and for his audacious de

Gray was taken to

-claration Stephen Gray was taken to

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task by the scientific men of the age, and the set down as a man out of his senses.

publikin, an' some Demercrat had got

‘ made him believe that Gar-

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Famous Leyden jar was really

ly the first great step toward giving an

insight into the phenomena of electric-

ity, and the discovery of "bottling up" electricity was made in 1745, and is due to the university in the ancient Dutch city of Leydey. Louis XV, of France

city of Leydeu. Louis XV. Of France

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and some monk to be submitted to' a discharge from a Leyden jar ; and from France the mania for Experiments spread through Europe. In 1745 a body of London scientific inquirers investigated further, and found that the electric force traveled instantaneously. and a new field was opened for experiment, and peripatetic lecturers went through the kingdom endeavoring to explain the mysteries of electricity.

an' made him almos' b'lieve dat Gineral Hankcock would sell all de culled folkses into slavery if he war 'lected President Ole Daddy lost half a day on a cash job to trot aroun' wid such a fool -story on his tongue ; an' he need money if anybody does. It makes me discouraged when I see what fools some niggahs be What's de reason dat Daddy Smith Uncle Pebus an' Ebery odder daddy an uncle 'mong de culled tribe can't sot on de fence an' let de white folks fight.

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To Benjamin Franklin, of Philadelphia,

, who devoted his entire time and means to the stufy and development of

those crude ideas, are due the chief discoveries in electricity. It was he whofirst discovered the differences of posi-

will also got one in de crowd befo' de

tive and negative electricity, and that the electric fluid ran its course most e -ly from pointed metal ; he then established the identity between electricity

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and lightning, and invented the light

ning conductor ; and with the charac-

ATTEMPTED BRIBERY

it up to view, "I want de Secretary to.."

took a letter from his pocket and held

it up to view, "I want de Secretary to

read dis in a werry sonorous voice, so

I dat all kin h’ar."

The Secretary Thereupon read the fol-

lowing

liu communicated his discover to the world. The first lightning conductor was

erected near Pari*, and during the temporary absence of the'owner, a wealthy man of orieoee, lightning was first draw n from the clouds on May 10, 1752, and all Europe was startled by the marvelous discovery. Before yhe news reached America, Franklin had carried out his well-known experiment, of drawing the electric fluid by the aid of a kite,and praises and congratulation were forth with showered upon him. He was elected an honorary member of nearly all the than existing scientific bodies, and grandiloquently surnamed the modern , Prometheus, having brought fire from

In singular contrast with the burst of

applause with which the announcement was received, was the extreme slowness of the actual introduction of lightning conductors, into practic l use, and even when conductors, or Franklin Rods as they were called, were fixed up, they

were in many cases at once demolished

By the populace, and no withstanding that Franklin himself was greatly re-

sepected, yet his lightning conductors

created general abhorrence

nati artisan

Norfolk. VA July 5

Dear Bro. Gardner--At an auction

sale of condemned clothing at the Navy

Yard, this place I bought largely of Sec-ond-hand Uniforms. If your club has

any idea of forming a military organization I can furnish you with outfits at a ’

small figure. The uniforms are of two kinds. viz..: Marine and sailors. If you would use your influence and try and

convince the club of the importance of

becoming soldier I will furnish you a

uniform free and allow you the biggest kind of a commission. Of course the transaction between you and myself

will be strictly private

Yours truly. Hodeo Tirahefty, D. S. C. ,

Dealer in second- hand clothes.

There won a general groan of indignation around the room at tho finish of the letter, and the President resumed "Dis am de aige of fraudery, bribery, and corrupshun. Rubbers walk aroun' in high places an thieves sot on de

fence in broad daylight an' spot dar

prey. Dis Distardly attempt to bribe

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Nobody would ever see it.

A short time ago, says the Vallejo Cal.) Chronicle, we called upon a certain party in business in Vallejo, and asked him why be did not advertise in our pa-

per.

"Oh, Because," he answered, "What's the use ! Nobody will ever see it." "You're Mistaken," Said we ; "Every--"

page in our paper is read." “NimsewOc," he . repliod ; “er they did .read my ad., people never think of it again. I don't

to odvortSav." “But- "

“No buu at all. I don’t want 1 vertise, and t^on’t bother n»e %py i And b« walked ba< k into hi*

A communication from Mobile. Mgnii by Tumln-rlinc Weaver, m;*»l.> the iiuouncemcnl that htra*elf and wife ere joint inventors and proprietors of machine for extracting the seed* from atermelons, and that in cajw* both ere allowed to jtiin thc club *»i»e of the tiu'hides would at once be forwarded

> Paradise Hall."

De constitushun of dis club forbids any woman to become a member," said the President in reply. "De inwention, am no doubt jist what de cull'd race have long sighed for, but we shall have to go ahead apittin melon seeds out the window. Once permit de female sex to git a foothold head an dats de end of dis club an its inflooence fur good." The committee on the sick and relief reported that Blissful Cook and Truelove had been ill ever since the glorious Fourth, and both had made application to the relief fund for a weekly stipend.

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AND

1 saw Brudder Cook drink

and strangled a poor fly that was helping itself from a barrel of sugar

a cokernut inside of fo' minits by de

Time passed and we never again inti

litter uncertain as to how he would be

n, although

Yesterday the gen-

We cherished no hard feel

ings, and motioned him to a chair "I suppose you heard of that little af--"

fair of mine below?"

"Oh, yes, " said we. "that little escapad en Kearney street night before last? Yes, We've got all the particulars---"Huah ! Not so loud, please." said he ;

kase de stuffin' didn't

f am held ober fur one

"Of course you are going to say nothing, fore the meeting adjourned."

The committee cot judiciary reported that there was a strong and growing wausiani m firor of a new atoie law pretecting dogs to the. same extent that i pretactad.

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make it a misdemeanor for any person to throw a stone at a dog between May I and October 1, of each year, and the same was signed by every member be.

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