Lynchburg Virginian

A Frenchman, Ambrose Tardieu, has lately published at Paris, a set of geographical globes, which he has employed three years in bringing to perfection. The globe of Mons. Tardieu is a spherical bag, composed of some flexible material, and rendered air tight.—This when blown up by means of an aperture at one of the poles, is a perfect globe, on which all the geographical features and divisions of the earth are delineated. When collapsed it can be carried in the pocket like an atlas. A globe of eighteen inches in diameter answers all the purposes of a complete Atlas of modern geography. It is constructed so as to show the latest improvements of the science; all the routes of discoveries from Christopher Columbus to Freycinet, Parry, Dorville and Beechey are traced upon it, and no recent and positive discovery is omitted.

The idea of inflated geographical globes is not a new invention, though we are not aware that it has been made use of. In one of Miss Edgeworth's Tales published some twenty years since, a scientific toy of this kind is mentioned. [N. Y. Post.