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l'hose machines sew from two spools, as put
:tamed from the store, requiring no rewinding of.
thread; they Hem, Fell, Gather, and Stitch in
a superior style, finishing each seam by their own
. =- operation, without recourse lb the handneedle, as
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durability, ease F f management, 113.0 adaptation
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either heavy or fine work with equal fanility, and
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without special adjustment,
: -- As- , evidence of the unquestioned superiority,
a their Machines, the GuovEn. & BAKER SEW.
ING MACITINE COMPANY beg leive to respectfully.
refer to the following 1
TESTI.7IO7(I*LS:
...Having had one of Gruver & Baker's -.Ma
chines in my family for nearly, a year and a half,
I take pleasure in commending it as every way
reliable for the purpo se for.which it is designed
—Family Sewing. —Mrs. JoWas" Leavitt, wife
of Rev. Dr.- Leavitt, Editor of N. -Y. Indepen
dent.
a t confess myself delighted with your Sewing
Machine, which has beef in my family for many
• months. It has always been ready-fol. duty,
requiring no adjustment, and is easily.adapted
to every variety of family sewing, by simply
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Strickland, wife of Rev. Dr. Strickland, Editor
of N. V Christian Advocate.
"After trying several good machines, - Iptefer
yours, on account of its simplicity, and the per.
feet ease with which it is managed, as well as
the strength and durability of the seam. After
long experience, I feel compent to speak. in
thin maoner,and to confidently recommend it for
every variety of family Serving.7-=Mrs. E. B.
Spooner, wife of the Editor of Brooklyn Star.
a I have used Grover & Baker?'s Sewing . Ma
chine for two years. and have foirad it adapted
to all kinds of family sewing, frcim Cambric to
Broadcloth. Garments have been worn out with'
out the giving way of a stitch. The Machine is
easily kept in order, and easily used.. Mrs. A.
-B. %Vhipple, wife of Rey. Geo. Whipple, New' .
York. •
- " Yost: Sewing Machine has been in use in toy
family the past two-years; and the ladies request
Me to give youtheir testimonials to its perfect
adaptedness, as well as labor saving qualitiej in
the performance of family and household sew_
ink.'—Robert Boorman, New York.
". For:several months we hare used Grover &
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conclusion that ererys lady Oho-desires her sew.
lag beautifully and quickly done, would be mast
fortunate in-possessing one of these reliable and
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Gen. Geo. P. Morris, Editor of the Home Jour.
[Extract of a letter from Thol.M. Leavitt,
Esq 4 so American gentleman, now, resident in
Sydiey, New South 'Wales, dated January 12th,
1458.]
S had'a tent, made in 31eIbourn, in 1853, in
which there were ovit three thousand yards of
sewing done trim one of Grover & Baker's Ma
chines, and a sin4e seam orthat has outelood
all 'the double seams sewed by sailors wilt! . 'a
needle and twine."
"If Homer could be called up from his murky
hadee, he would sing the advent of Grover &
Baker as a more benignant miracle of art than
was ever Vulcan's smithy: He would denounce
midnight skirt-making as 'the direful spring of
woes unnumbered.'"—PpE North.
- "I take pleasure in saying, that the Grover &
Baker Sewing Machines have more than sus
tained my expectation. After trying and return.
ing others, I have three of thorn in operation in
my different places, , and, after four years! trial,
haie no fault to find.”—J. IL Hammond, Senator
of South Carolina.
4 My wife has had one of Grover & Maker's Fam-
MySewing Machines for some time,and I am antis.
Mealit is one of the best labor-saving michines
that has been-invented, halo much plensure
in recotnmending, it to the public."—J. G. Har
ris, Governor of Tennesse.
"It is a beautiful thing, and WA e"arybody
into_an excitement of rood humor.. Wire I a
Catholic, I should insist upon Saints Grover and
Baker having an eternal holiday in commemora s
tion of their good deeds for humanity."—Caashm
. IL Clay.
"I think it by far the best patent in use: This
Machine can be adapted from the finest cambric
to the heaviest cassimere. It: sews stronger,
faster,:ind more beautifully than ary one can
imagine. If mine could not be replaced; money
milli not bay J. IL Brown, Nashville,
Team.
• "It is speedy, very neat, and durable in its
work; is easily understood and kept in repair.
I earnestly recommend this Machine to all my
aotiaeiotaaees and - others.“—llrs. M. A. korrest,
Memphis, Tenn.
"We find this Machine to work to our satin.
faction, and with pleasure recommend it to the
Pub as we believe the Groyer.& Baker to be
the best Sewing Machine in use."—Deaiy Broth
ers, Allisooia,-,Tew
ulf used exelosively for family purposes, with
ordinary oars, I Will wager they will Leg one
`three score years sod ten,' and never get, out
of ty..”—John Erskine, Nashville, Tenn,
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"I bare bad your Machine for several weeks.
and sat perfectly satisfied that the workzit does
is the best And moat beautiful that ever was
mide."—Maggie Aimisoo, Nashville, Tenn.
sq use aiyimachiths upon costs, dressmaking,
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rable.-tar better than the best hand-sewing, or
any other machine I have ever seen ."—Lacy B.
Thompson, Nashville. Tenn. - - •
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• I-find the work the strongest and moat beano
•tifal I have ever seen, made either b► hand or
machine, and, regard the Grover & baker Ma
chfoe as one of the greatest blessings to oer
sex."--,lifra. Taylor, Nashville, Tam
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Written for the Montrose Democrat
SEUmelerecorus.
Ix many a place beside the study of the
mastoids!, the diss e cting room of the medical
College or tie charnel-house of Death, do we
find fleshless, grinning skeletons. It needs
• not the incantations of Macbeth's witches to
call them up. At other times are they pres
ent than
"When grisly night, with'stistge deadly sad,
And in foul, black, pitchy mantle clad,"
holds her sway.
12,00 to
Look not in the homes - of grim, guant pov
erty, when the flende of hunger, want and de
spair, are- holding their revels; t but in the
lordly dwelling of pride and luxury.
Push aside the regal sweep of tapestry—
r trip off the hollow mockery of g!eansinglew
eis and glitt;ring robes—l4en you shall Mart
back in affright from the horrid skeletons of
peace, love and joy.
"Look on this picture I"—We are standing
in a brilliant apartment where the soft, velvet
carpet gives back no echo to the footfall,--
where lofty mirrors multiply the glitter of bi
jouterie and the, bloom of flowers upon the
center-table,—where the heavy sweep of silk
en curtains shuts out the garnish sunlight,—
where pictures, vying in their luttset-hues of
coloring with the landscapes - of !eland° Lor
raine, or the stern master-strokes of the pencil
A:of Rembrandt, or the exquisite kidonnas of
Guido; are seen by the softened- light that
pervades the apartment.
In this room, rivaling an eastern seraglio
:in-prodigal magnificence,* woman in the very
flush and prime of beauty is half sitting, half
reclining upon a pile of crimson cu shions.
She is proud,_ as the curl of the red lips, the
curve of the white neck, and the haughty
flashing of the dark eyes -indicate. The shi
ning braids of black hair are circled around
her head like W coronet. The color comes
and gees in her clear, dark cheek ih fitful
shidowe..
She is regally beautiful; lint you will start
with horror when I telkyou that a Oman
skeleton sits beside her in the hour of maddest
mirth or most unbroken solitude.
2,50 to
She sold-her youth and loveliness to age
and decrepitude fur wealth : but wassail nor
reveling cannot shut out the sound of mock
ing laughter, or the flash of gems bide tLe
gaunt skeletons of her • dead peace and
Gladly would the proud woman barter all this
luxury for the _quiet happiness Of the " long
syne. - She remembers that, in a distant
clime, one to whom she plighted her solemn
troth is toiling and waiting through long,
weary years for her. Little dreauts he of her
falsehood ; yet would he pity, as well as
blame, could be know that all this splendor
cannot conceal from her gaze - the ghastly
skeletons of her withered, buried hopes.
"LOok on this picture!"—A. young man,
whose broad, high brow bears the impress of
genius.'stands amid his boon Companions.
Perhaps the -wine-cup in his hand may ac
count for the unnatural glow on his cheek
and the strange light in his clear, gray eyes.
The half-drunken song and ribald jest are
bushed to listen to the brilliant sayings of the
young orator.- Shouts of blughter greet the
scimetarAashing of his keen wit, and applau•
ding cheers answer -the eloquent play of his
poetic fancy. Grave or gay, witty or wise,
there is no anticipating the versatility of his
fertile and ingenious imagination.
Bacchus holds the blushing goblet to his
lips and thesiren voids of flattery is in hisear,
but mirth nor wine cannot hide from him the
grim skeleton that stands by his side at the
feast and peers up to him from the banquet
ing cup. The bony fingers point it him hrfiend
fish scorn and the lipleas mouth hisses of ruin.
That young man has youth, talents, wealth.
Who shall say what be might have been bad
he never wasted his energies, and squandered
his wealth, in dissipation I Fame beckoned
him to a high niche in her temple, but De
bauch detained him at her midnight orgies.
Had be not listened to the voice of temptation,
the skeletons - of blasted prospects would not
haunt him like phantom 2 shadows.
In bow many home& that wear the sem
blance of peace and joy—at how many feasts
where the merrv'jest and laugh go round--
sits the ghastly skeleton of the lust happines.
Like the long-dead Charlemagne clad in roy
al robes, the crown on his brow and the scep
tre in his -IsMy_ hand ; so, very often, the
sweep of costly fabrics, the gilding of outward
Xplendor, only serve to hide the skeletons
beneath..
HORACE GREELY SOLD.
The Lancaster Intelligencer is responsible
:for the - following good thing: "A good story
is told of Horace Greelf. Ile was anxious to
know all about the gold mines, and those
:Eastern Yankees now in that region, knowing
llorace's failure—a good sulject to be hum
-bugged and used—played a nice trick upon
him. An old bslifornian miner who had been
prospecting at Pike's Peak, very unsuccess
fully, and having in his possession about,s4oo
worth of California gold dust, concluded to
sell Horace, .and if he succeeded the specula.
tens and land sharks, in and around the mines,
were to present him with $lOO. 'Thereupon
the sharper look his $4OO in gold dust, and
Planted it upon a claim he had been working.
On for a month—not averaging 10 cents per
day,—Reported all around that be bad struck
'a rich lead, and invited everybody totall and
ate it, particularly HoriceOreely, who was
to be 'sold' for a consideration. Horace a
mong others went to see for himself and be
Convinced . . The miner commenced digging,
and in about a half hour he took out, $l5O,
yrbeeseveral, (thosein the speculation.) made
him offers for his claim, but' not enough to
justify him in disposing . of it. One man off
Bred him $4,000, but no take. The sharper
then asked Horaee - Greely to dig for himself
nod be - convinced of the richness of his claim.
porace dug for abott half as hour and took
out $ll5, which satisfied the philosopher that
the diains would pay. Greely told him be
would give him so,ooo l haff cash, or equiva
leak:and the balance as soon as the cute was
presented in New York. Theshaiper . agreed
to the proposition, with the understanding
that he biallowed one or two days' digging
for means to carry him borne.. Greely con
iented. Thrisharper staid on the claim just .
Long enough to find Ms dust, planted, • day
or two before, when be van:mediae ranohe,
l ik e n e d for New York and bad his note es&
id. Grady that wrote his famous gold letter,
Oriog oat to tha world that gold tilted in
abundance. Ibis was the PhilOsopher sold
it Pike's Peak". - '
- MONTROSE, Pk, AUGUST 25,,1859.
sr NILLIZ currox.
- s For the Democrat.
(Not) Stisfrsond-Satchel Paper.
1./I) 1.1:4111
-The most extensive preparations bad 'been
made by the citizens of West Chester to ac
commodate all attending the Association du
ring its sessions. All the members of the
Convention were to , become the welcome
guests If the people, and so boundless was
their h'oipitality that places for fifty remained
unfilled during the entireNweek.
Horticultural Hall, the room selected for
the meeting, is capable of bolding fifteen
hundred persons. It is a fine stone-building,
erected expressly for a Hall. It iscoostructed
of serpehtine-stone, which is found in con
siderable qu-ctities in Chester county, and is
counted very valuable u a building stone..
It has no seams, and is broken from the
quarry in all imaginable shapes, and when
laid up lends to the building a natural, half
haggard.style of beauty libich is positively a
relief to one in these days of right-angled
block-work and over-done 'architecture.
The ceiling of the Hall is at least twenty
five feet above the floor. There is an ample
orche,tral gallery immediately over the entry
and ante-rborns, and in the opposite end of
the IJall is a platform twenty feet - wide, raised
three feet, and running the entire length of
.the room.
, A more happy choice could hitrdly have
been made, considering the wants of our
meeting.
The citizens of the village, represented by
their local' committee, had employed Dr.
Cuunington's Philadelphiiißand, probably
the finest - orchestra in the State, to attend
the Association, paying them one hundred
dollars for three days,—and all the needs of,
therconventiob were provided for in'the same
liberal manner.
I have not time, and you have not apace,
for a detailed account of the proceedings of
the convention.' I shall, therefore, only go
,
Lice some of the; prominent points of most
general interest. !-
When the meeting was called to Order,
precisely at ten o'clock, there was pfobably
one thousand in attendance, and from the
Opening of the sfUrnoon session of the first ,
. day, (Tuesday,) the audience- ranged from
fifteen hundred to two thousand, till the con
vention adjourned finally on Thursday night.
The Hall was generally packed its utmost
capacity half an hour before the time for the
meeting to commence, and it was estimated
tat many times one thousand turned away
unable to
_find even a standing place within
hearing distance of the platform. •
The people came in for twenty miles around;
the stables of the betels were crowded to
overflowing with horses; carriages lined the
streets in -every direction; and although the
citizens found it necessary to resort to a
charge of twenty cents admittance for all
not members of the convention, there was at
no time any perceptible abatement. in the
overwhelming rush. -The vlsitors.from other
States were astonished—yes, almost astound
ed.
T. W. Valentine, Esq., of New York, -
said Ate hid been connected with the "New
York:State Teachers' Association" for fo*ur
teen years but had never witnessed such a
spectacle as the meeting at West Chester
presented. Such universal intelligence among
the people!—such enthusiasm, such a per
fect furor, on the subject of popular educa
tion.. The elite of polite, and political, so- .
ciety were there,—such as the Hons. John
M. Read, of the Supreme Court;. John Hick
man, Member of, Congress; Jobn S. Bell, of
the Penn's State Senate; Mr. Pierce, of the
House; Dr. Darlington, ex-M. C, and the
most celebrated botanist in the United States;
Judge Unities, of the Circuit Court; Judge
J. J. Lewis, and many others. The acting
President of the Association was Dr. Frank'
Taylor,-. County Superintendent of Chester
County, and cousin to Bayard Taylor, the
celebrated traveler, who lives at Kenneth
Square, only seven miles below West Chester.
At twelve o'clock on Wednesday, just
previous to adjournment, a telegram , was
brought into the meeting announcing the
death of the Hon. Mortice Mann, of Antioch.
College, Ohio. The whole appearance of
the assembly underwent a sudden transition.
The gay smile of joy and gladness was
changed to the pensive look of sadness and
regret. Nearly every countenance in that
great "sea of upturned faces" betokened a
sorrowing heart at the sad calamity which
every friend 'of _humanity had sustained in
the hreaking of that -pure and exalted type
"of a glorious MANN-HOOD. A Nation,—yes,
a civilized World, mourns his departure. 8o
sudden, so unexpected Was the event that I
can hardly yield the pleasant thought that
he is still living. In imagination I still see
his genial,sunny countenance, his erect, manly
form, his thin, snowy locks;-Isttil see him
on the platfortu animated by tie glowing
pathos that his theme inspires—his mellow,
silvery, 4ones falling upon the attentive ear as
sweetly as the merry chime of a mountain
brooklet.—l see him as he extends the warm
and sympathetic , band of brotherly' love,
'moving majestically - among his admirers ,
whihr the sparkling gems and pearls Wit
and Wisdom come bubbling, like crystal
waters, from the overflowing casket of his
soul.
It has been my fortune to look upon, and
be in the presence of some of the so•called
"great ones* of the world, and 1 must say
that he, more than any other within the range
of my knowledge seemed to pervade, with the
intensity of his glowing soul, the atmosphere
about him. Daniel Webster more nearly
equaled him in_tbis pacticular thin any oth
er man [-ever saw; audit might be he ex
celled him, Ishii) intellectual power is alone
considered, but in that divne, exalted, magi 6
influence which served to draw you to the
man achy a thousand silken threads, he was
almost without a rival.
Some of your readers mafnot have beard
Of the incident that occurred to him at the
death of his first wife, who was a daughter
of Dr. ?dewier, President of Brown University
at the time be greduated at that Institution.
Her.deatti took place but a few years after
their union. He was then comparatively a
yoing maw, having scarcely reached the
prime and vigor of life. So intense and ag
onizing WWI his grief, when the event occur
red, that his hair which was naturally a glossy
bhick, changed, during the spec* of * single
night, to be as white at snow, and remained
so doting the residue of his life. Efe,frequeat
iy, adierted to this airouinatiaie, vb.*. in
after years; the whiteness of his bait Was the
subjeet of remark.
Resolutions batting the evetit, were parsed
by the Association, and the President, Dr.
Taylor, paid a glowing tribute to his memo
ry in a few appropriate remarks,
Truly may we say of biut,ltrthe language
of that great delineator of human character.
"He was a. man, take him for all in all,
I shall not look upon his like agalm"
A resolution 'complimentary to Prof. Stod
dard, was adopted, and he came forward and
responded idle few well 7 timed and appropriate
remarks. He has a host of Mends in Chester
and other counties throughout Penn'a, that
very much regret his departure from the
State.
Among the personal incidents of my stay
in. West Chester, that of my acqriaintance
with Dr. Darlington and members of bia
family, is among the most pleasing of my
remembrances.
Dr. Darlington Is nearly eighty years of
age And more than forty years ago was in
Congress to) a period of six years. Re knew
Randolph, Madison, Monroe, Birbon, Archer,
Pinkney, Rufus King, Wirt, Crawfoidi Mar
shall, Macon, Calhoun, Clay, Webud, Ben
ton, J. Q. Adams, Londes, Taylor, (John W.
of N. Y.,) Tompkins, Otie,,and all the con
trolling spirits of the Republic fifty years
ago. To listen to his convent - Mica, to hear
him recount the thrilling incidents o'f a long
and eventful life, to feel that you are looking
upon one who-was an associate and cotempo
rary of some of the founders of the Govern
merit, is to fill you with delight and rever
ence that is, far more easily imagined than
expressed. 'Tits worth five years of the monot
onous routine of ordinary life.
Notwithbtanding my efforts at brevity, I
shall be compelled to defer a portion of this
subject to another Paper. B. F. T.
Daily Dying.
Not in a moment drops the rose
That in a summer garden grows—
A robin sings bonfrath the tree
A twilight heart of (=lacy. • ,
And the-red, red leaves at its fragrant heart,
Trembling so in delicious pain,
Fall to the ground with a sudden start,
And the grass is gay with a crimson stain;
And a honey-bee out of the fields of clover,
Heavily flying the garden over.
Brushes the stem as lipase' by
And'others fall where the heart-leaves He,
And nir and dew, ere the night is done,
' • Have stolen the pedals, every one.
The maple does not shed its leaves
In one tempestuons scarlet Milk
But softly when the South wind grieves,
Slow wandering over wood and plain,
One by one they , waver through
The India% Summer's hazy blue
And drop at last on the forest mould,
Coral and ruby and burning gold.
And sunset's Ithen of gorgeous dyes
Ne'or with one shadow fades away,
Dui:slowly o'er those radiant skies
There steals the evening cold.and gray,
And amber and violet linger still k
When stars are over the eastern bT.
Our death' is gradual like to these; ;
We die with every waning day;
There is no waft of sorrow's breeze
Bat bears some heart.leaf slow away !.
Up and on to the vast To Be,
Our life is going eternally!
Less of earth than we hid last yeltr
Throbs In your veins and throbs in mine,
But' the way to knives is growing clear,
While the gates of the city fairer shine.
Arid the day that our latest treasures flee,
Wide they will open for you and me!
From the DemNrat.
Twenty Tears Aim
Time's ever restless changing tide,
With its nixes - sing flow,
Can never from my mem'ry hide
The scenes that were my youthful, pride,
Some twenty years ago.
The old log hout;e7, the clustering Rowers,
Beneath its eaves so low,
That looked so bright 'neath summer showers
Still bloom as fresh in mem'ry's bowers,
As lwenty years ago. '
The winding path down by the spring
How ott I used to go ;-
And watch the wild bird•on - the wing,
How blithe their voices used to ring,
Some twenty years ago.
•
There brthe brook, 'Death sombre trees
With branches liending low,
I slept to-music that the bees,
Sent sol;tly,down upon the breeze, -
Sometwenty years ago.
And dreamed of brighter days in store,
When the little brook should Bow
A river grand, and I no more,
The little boy I wits`before
Those twenty years ago.
As backward rolis•the tide of years-, •
Those scenes are all aglow; ,
As plain the hopes, the smiles, the tears,
Through Time's dim vista still appears,
As twenty years ago.
• An Extract.
The'earth is beautiful in summer time,
When o'er the bills and in the quiet vale
There hangs a . drapery of living green;
When life seems breathing. upon every bough,
And every glossy leaf and modest flower
&ern a sweet harp, upon which fairy hinds
Are Ouching strings of music.
Dull thicsoll
That sends no echo back unto the.wOods,
The fields,the valleys and the ripplingstream.
CHANCE TO Gape.—The Worcester Palla
dium tells of a jolly, plump female witnees,•
wbo,on a recent trial, was asked by i lawyer, at
what time the ears passed • bar house on a
certain day. She replied that she begartto
knit ;that afterncion at 8 o'clock sad badknit
twice around the leg , of a stocking before the
train passed. Of course the lawyer asked her
bow long it would take to knit tiptoe around.
The judge reinarked that the time would de
-
peed on the on the sise of the stoolring4g,
Tim lady ealasli !spited that as the atothiiii
ir # 1144 . 44024 11a05mi1-OoliAss#
time Mil 4 o l -4 - : 7l *-Ww.i 6 11.1144.
the beuoh;ber;jory,"anst the orov d,
The Wonders of Invention.
Among .the thousand ciiarrelnusineentions
which American - gerdus has•produced, within
the last few years, .are the following, com
piled in an abstract from the Patent Office
Repntt. Read them over, and then say if you
eau, that there is nothing new under the inn.
The report explains "the principle of the
- celebrated Hobb Look: Its "unpickabillty"
depends upon • secondary or false set of
tumblers, which , prevent instruments used in
picking from teaching the real ones. More
over, the lock is powder-proof, and may be
loaded throtigh the key-hole and fired of till
the burglar is tired of his dirty work. or fears
the explosions. will bring to view his experi
ments more witnesses than he desires.
Doors and shutters have been wonted dust
cannot be broken through with either pick
or sledge-hammer. "The burg ' lar's
i occupa
tion
ton is gone.
A harpoon is described which makes the
whale kill himself. -The more he%pulls the
line, the deeper goes the harpoon.
An ice-making machine has been patented,
which is worked by_a steam, engine. In an
experimental trial, it froze several bottles of
sherry, and produced blocks of ice the size
of a cubic foot when the thermometer was
up to eighty degrees. It - is calculated that
for every ton s of coal put into thtfurnace,
it will turn out a ton of ice.
From one examitter's report, we gather
some idea of the value,of patents. A man who
had made a slight 'improvement itfstraw.
cutters, took a mode! of his machine through
the western States, and Mier ti tour of eight -
months,• returned With $40,000. Another
man hadi machine to thrash and clean grain,
which - in fifteen months be sold •for $OO,OOO.
'These are ordinary cases" while such inven
tions as the telegraph, the planing machine,
and india-rubber patents are worth millions
each.
. Another examiner's report describes new
electrical inventions. Among these is an
electrical wbaline apparatus, by. which the
whale is literally shocked to dealb." Anoth
er an electro-magnetic N alarni, which rings
bells and 'displays signali in case of fire and
burglars. Another is an electric clock, which
wakes you up, tells you wiiat time it is, and
lights a lamp for you at any Lour you Please.
There is a "sound gatherer," a sort of
huge ear-trumpet, to be placed in front of a
locomotive, bringing' to the engineer's ear
all the noises ahead perfectly distinct, not
withstanding the noise of the train.
There is an invention that pinks up pins •
(rem a confused heap, turns them around,.
with their heads up, and sticks them in pa
pers in regular rows.
' Another gses through the whole process of
cigar making, taking in leaves and turning
out finished cigars.
One macidue cuts cheese; another scours
knives and:forks; another rocks the cradle;
and seven or eight take in .Ratting and iron
ing.
There is parlor chairipateued that can
be - tipped back on two legs, and a railroaa
chair that can be tippeyl back in any posi
tion without any legs at all.
There is alio a plaint hen's nest, so com
pletely arranged that the hen is constantly
cheated into the belief that it has a real egg
to sit upon ;.'although the genuine-deposit is
carefully'rstnwed away out of her sight.
Another patent is for a machine that
counts passengers in an omnibus and takes
their fares. When a very fat gentleman gets
in it counts , two and charges double.
There are kniriety of patented guns that
load themselves, fishing line that adjusts
its own bait, - and a" rat trap that thrdws
away the rat, andttberi traits itself and stands
in the corner for another.
There is a machine also, by which aman
prints,,instead of writes, his thoughts. It is
played like a pianoforte. And speaking of
pianos, kis estimated that 7,000 are made
every year in the United States, giving con
stant employment to 1,900 persons, and cost
ing dvei $2,000,000. •
latitesting Varieties.
The books in the library belonging to the
British Museum occupy twelve miles of shelf.
, The printing and sculpture galleries of the
palace of Versailles extend over six miles.
The bark of trees is generidly thickest on
their northern sides.. • •
A ray of artificial light travels at the rate
of seventy' thousand leagues in a second of
time.
Astronomers have given the rate of solar
light at 192,500 miles a 141.100 d ..
!n'tbe course of three and a half years
270,000 trees were felled in order to get at.
the guttmperchs..
The'eyes of needles are patched by ,a ma
chine which, supenntauded by one boy, can
punch 20,000 in s day.
The tunnel the 'wait of the Pennsylva
nia Railroad was a more difficult work than
the tunnel under the Thames.
The national road over the Cumberland
mountains is more extensive_ and durable
than the celebrated Appian Way to Rome.
Every pound of cochineal oontaine-70,000
insects boiled to death; 700,000 pounds are
annually used for senile'. and crimson _ dyes.,
In the formation of a 'single loComotive en
gine there are over 5000 pieces'to be put
together, and these require to be as carefully
adjusted as the works of a watch. -
rarefy watch coulde of at least 202 pieces,
employing probably
.Ovet. 200 persons dis
tributed among 4\o trades—to say nothing of
the tool-makers for all these.
The Illioois Central Railroad is the long
est line ever constructed, by one company,
and in point of workmanship is equal to any
European•roail..
The strictures on the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad at Harper's Ferry, and the-Starrutica
viaduct on the New York and-Erie Railroad,
ara equal in rtinguificence to- anything
Barns' ever .did .in England, or Moran in
France.
`The United StatetDry Dock, in Brooklyn,
is the largest in, the world hymen) , feet. The
plates of iron need in the gates of this dock
are the largest that bad been made up to
the time they were rolled,
The suspension-bridge over the. Niagara
al Lewistown - , is 1,043 feet.lo inches
in one span, and 43 feet peater than any
other siogle span in the world, being nearly
twice is -grist as the celebrated. bridge over
Menai Straits in England.
The stotm arab over , Cabin John's Omsk,
blt VinilliPgherripluttiint, in 01°140 Am
grottet than any other' stone arob - itr the
world,g 11213 i is more beautiful in proportion
VOLUME - XVI, NUMBER 33."
than the arch over theoca, in Ital y , in
celebrated for its magnificence.
To find the contents of a cask in imperial
gallons, gage the bung diameter and multiply
its square by two. To the product , add the
square of the had diameter, and multiply
these by the inside length. Then divide thi
list product by 1,089 for kriteria! gallons.
' Thesestimate originally made by the Bel.
gian engineers for the wear of rails upon
their lines, was a hundred and-twenty years.
At present ten years. is not under the average
life of rails, _whilst, many are actually so
much worn in 12 months' as td .be-no longer
fit for use.
At present there is no really successful
ventilating and dust-excluding apparatus
combined for railroad cars. Much ingenuity
has-been displayed, and many patents have
been issued for devices for these purposes,
but as vet the system needs to be pertected.
Boiler explosions are always reported, bitt
simple ruptures, which often occur from over. -
pressure, and with no further consequences
than the loss of steam and local injury, to the
boiler, are seldouk publicly reported,, and
there are many who are-riot aware that such
casualities ever happen. -
Gas-lighting was unknown in 1800; It
was not until two years after this that Mur,
dock made his first public exhibition of it,
in London. Since that time his discovery
has encircled the globe. In Europe and this .
country all the principal chins and many
large towns are lighted with it; and even
New - Zealand villages, where no white man.
had built his residence in 1800, are nowil
leminated by the same subtle and beautiful
agent of human comfort• and happiness.
-State Agricultural Eihibition.
The list of premiums and regulations of the
Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society for
its ninth annual exhibition,
has just been is
sued. • The celebration will be held at Powel
ton, in West Philadelphia, from the 27th to
the 90th of Septerebei next. The program
ai excellent one. Many improvements
have been introduced, and great facilities are
afforded to exhibitors. We would call atten
tion to the following rules;
Exhibitors at the fair, bringing articles or
stock over the trailroads to. Philadelphia,_will
be required to 'deposit the usual fare with the
Agent at the local station, or the Agent at
Philadelphia—upon returning thearticles the
certificate of the Secretary of the Society must
be obtained and shown to the Railroad Com
pany's Agent in Philadelphia, when the arti
cles or stock will,be returned f r ee ; and upon
obtaining the voucher of the Railroad Agent
at the station whence they were originally
sent, and to which they-sit - all have been re
turned, the money deposited with the Rail
rad Companyi will be-returned to,the
iexbib
i tor.
•
There will be a public sale of stock, simple
menu, and farmers' and gardeners' books -on
ly, under the direction of the Officers 4f the
Society, every day during the continuance of
the exhibition. ,
A-commission CiC2-1 -per centum will be
charged on all stock sold on the grounds of
the Society, and 10 per centum upon
rim/tura/ books and implements, to covirr the
necessary outlay to be incurred in giving due
attention to this feature of the exhibition.
Articles manufactured in Philadelphia and
the immediate vicinity will be- regarded as
Philadelphia maanfirctures.
The premiums to be awarded have' beat!
.augmented considerably - in several depart
ments, and especially in that of Stoves, Silver
ware, Glass and Glassware, Cutlery and
. Brit=
annis ware, .lee. The rewards consist in money
rind diplomas. .1n certain cases it is at the
option of the rewarded manufacturer, wheth
er he, will accept of the money or a medal.
THE Mazy War.—The milky way forms
the grandest - feature of the firmament. It
completely encircles the whole fabric of the
skies, and send its light down upon us, accord
ing to the best observation, from no less thin
18,000,000 of suns. Theie are planted at vs-
rious distances, too remote to 'lse more than
feebly understood; but their light, the medi.
um-of measurement, requires for its transit to -
our earth periods ranging from ten to a thou- -
sand yesrs. Such is the sum of-the great
truth revealed to us by the• two Herschel;
who, with a zeal which no obstacle could
daunt, have explored every part of the prod
igious circle. Sir William Henschel, after
accomplishing his famous section, believed
that be bad gaged the milky way to its lowest -
depth, affirming that be corild follow a clus
ter of stars with the telescope, constructed ex
pressly for the investigation, as far back as
would require 330,000 years for the transmi
lien of its light. But, presumptuous. as 'it
may seem, we must be - permitted to doubt
this assertion, as the same telescope, in the
same master hand, was not sufficiently power
ful to resolve even the nebulas in Orion. Nor .
must we forget that light, our only aloe to
those unsearchable regions, expands . and de
composes in its progress, and coming from • a
point so remote, its radianrwaves would be
dispersed in space. Thus the reflection is
arced' upon us, that new clusters and systems,
whose beaming light will never reach our .
earth; still throng beyond; and that, though,
it is permitted to man to behold the immen
sity, he shall never see the bounds of creation.
Marvels of Science. . _ .
DREADFUL ACOIDENTI TO A Low.--The
Cleaveland Plaindealer bells of a fearful lIA3Oj.
dent in Van Amburgb'a menagerie / Some of
the new keepers commenced to torment the
lion. Wishing to bear him roar, thi brutes
spit tobacco juice in his eyes. This maddened him and.his frenzy was terrific.
The lion made a tremendous dash againatthe
cage bars—they gave way—be cleared. the
cage with a bound—and sprung for the at
flighted wretch on the pole. In the blindness
of his rage, the lion missed the man, striking
his own head agaiost the pole, and splitting
himself from head to4aill. It wu done es e
venly at though he bad been sawed , by an ex.
perieneed mechatijc. The uproar brought
Mr. Van. Amburgh to the spot. The ewer !
gency required promptness. This win 120
time for reflection or argument. Seising the
cleaved parts of the lion the great "tamer"
clapped theminstaotly together. They stuck,
and the lieu was soon- restored to . woolens%
bass. But imagine Van's agony when be saw
that betted put the lion. together is the wrong
way !--tbat two of the animal's legs wers_np -
and the other two dawn I 1:1; the lion got
well, and . seems to enjoy him If better than
ism. When be gets tired• of walkiog on two •
legs he bps over on the °Mir : two. Be is .
raid to be a curious looking Noe...