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the Arabs were much superior to the French and other Europeans, in 

 Knowledge, and in the arts. Huggins was the first person who 

 brought the art of clock making to any perfection ; and the first pen- 

 dulum clock made in England, was in the year 1662, by Fromantil, 

 a Dutchman, The expense of a clock was formerly so great, a few 

 only could own one ; but latterly they are manufactured with such 

 speed no one need be without an article so convenient for domestic 

 economy and for labor generally. The following facts respecting the 

 multiplication of clocks cannot be without interest. 



It is said there was resident in the town of Bristol, Conn., a 

 single clock-maker, who patiently wronght out time pieces by hand, 

 at an expense of sixty or seventy dollars each. About the year 1815, 

 some individuals, stimulated by the industry of the solitary clock- 

 maker, set up the business of making wooden clocks. This article 

 went all over the United States, and brought rich returns to the 

 inventors. When the market was supplied with these, cheap brass 

 clocks were made by machinery, which could be afforded as low as 

 two or three dollars each. The business of making clocks by machi- 

 nery, has been set up in at least twenty other towns in Con- 

 necticut ; and the whole world is now their customers. On the 

 authority of Fraser's Magazine, it is asserted that every hall and cot- 

 tage in England is furnished with one of them. 



CLOTHING. Nothing is more necessary to a comfortable state 

 of existence than that the body should be kept in nearly a uniform 

 temperature. The chief end proposed by clothing ought to be protec- 

 tion from the cold ; and it never can be too deeply impressed on the 

 mind, that a degree of cold that amounts to shivering cannot be felt, 

 under any circumstances, without injury to the health, and that the 

 strongest constitution cannot resist the benumbing influence of a sen- 

 sation of cold constantly present, even though it be so moderate as not 

 to occasion immediate complaint, or to induce the sufferer to seek 

 protection from it. This degree of cold often lays the foundation of 

 the whole host of chronic diseases, foremost amongst which are found 

 scrofula and consumption. 



The only kind of dress that can afford the protection required by 

 the change of temperature to which high northern climates are liable, 

 is woolen. Nor will it be of much avail that woolen be worn un- 

 less so much of it be worn, and it be so worn, as effectually to keep 

 out the cold. Those who would receive the advantage which the 

 wearing of woolen is capable of affording, must wear it next the 

 skin ; for it is in this situation only that its health-preserving power 

 can bft felt. The great advantages of woolen cloth are briefly these : 

 The readiness with which it allows the escape of the matter of per- 

 spiration through its texture ; its power of preserving the sensation 

 of warmth to the skin under all circumstances ; the difficulty there is 



