Show A THOUGHT DETECTING MACHINE since the invention of the machine thit swallow mans voice and then talks back to him the world is prepared for almost anything in the way of scientific bur arises but the comprehension of the average citizen will scarcely grasp or believe at the first reading the wonders ot a new apparatus that waa described at the recent meeting of tho association for the advancement of science it is called a was invent ed by dr maaso ot turin and is to be used for the measurement of hu man thought from a description of this marvelous instrument in a late issue of tho chicago inter own we learn the following the hand and arm of A man are placed in a cylinder of water and sealed from the air an electric circuit is passed through them and gome apparatus describes upon a or paper certain corvea from which by a calculation can bo determined the relative amount of mental power required by different persona to analyze a given idea or a given problem such an would be very interesting inte retting to find out whether the beaver liberal really thought they could capture the august election by their flimsy wearing in of non voters or to ascertain cheth cr the labi of the territory are really intending to make flou them elTea by running to expenses in tho next november election somebody had better send to prof mosso for an instrument to learn about these two points instrument wo read furher on can alao be used to the amount of knowledge a person poi mein me in which regard t would be perfectly when applied to the polygamy and how much effort it require for a given party to produce any ro suit in which thought or U in vo lv for thi latter purpose it might interesting stati cal ata about the cerebral force ey bonded once a month by J 11 ot tho utah drw dr mosso relates that while the apparatus was set up in bis room in turin a classical roan acme in to see biro lie looked very contemptuously upon it as gen butler did on the liberals in salt jake and of what use it could be saying that it do anybody any good just like the republican platform of chicago dr replied well now I can tell you by that whether you can read greek aa caad ly as you can latin As the classicist would not believe it his own arm was put into the apparatus and ho was given a latin book to read A very slight sinking of the curve WM tho result the latcu book then taken away and a greek book was given liim tah produced immediately a much deeper curve had asserted before that it was quite as easy for him to read greek as latin and that there was no difficulty in doing either dr mosso however was able to show him that he was laboring under a delusion we wah we had this instrument to show certain soi e heads and hy in his territory under what delusion they are laboring by thinking their dirt slinging against this people would over result in anything moro than their own besmirching indeed science is a great thing and the is able institution |