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magnet. The fixtures running from Princeton College buildings to the bells of a church in the Town of Princeton. Morse conceived the idea that if the bell clappers could be moved to chime the bells a mile or more distant from the hands of the electrical manipulator, it was possible to move a delicately poised pointed lever so as to make dots and lines upon paper any distance from the hands of the manipulator, provided he insulated his conducting wires from the earth by poles and nonconducting supports; and for that he secured patents and honors the world over.

The storm signals, now so prophetically published 24 hours in advance, are also due to [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] a system inaugurated by Henry some fifteen years ago. The writer of this was putting by his side, some years before the one of our Rebellion, as he was tracking the progress of a storm signalled from St Louis, Mo. by sticking little [[strikethrough]] iron [[/strikethrough]] metal pins into a large map before him, indicating the direction and progress of the storm eastward. This map was in his office in the Smithsonian building.

Such are a few of the things developed and turned to practical use by the great American Scientist Joseph Henry, the Humbolt [Humboldt] of America, and who, in his riper years, is still studious and rigorous in the application of Smithson's principles, "The increase and diffusion of knowledge among men." Long may he yet live to widen the domain of science, and to crown America with the laurels he reaps from the unexplored fields of [[strikethrough]] science [[/strikethrough]] things hidden in the "secret majesty of Nature."

W.