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the nicest and best manner ; finished his pump 

 and placed it in tlie well ; and, with the utmost 

 confidence began to work tlu pump ; but could 

 not raise a drop of water to the top of the well. 

 He now felt that his rejjutation was at stake, and 

 he continued to labor and tug at the punip-handle, 

 but the water was still obstinate and would not 

 rise above the lower box ; when the handle was 

 by great strength forced down, it would fly back 

 with great violence ; and, in short, it required so 

 much icnver to work the jnunp, that had it raised 

 the water, it nuist have been useless. To our 

 practical man, all this was perfectly inexplicable. 

 He had spliced pumps before, and fotmd no diffi- 

 culty in making them work ; and, as he supposed 

 the (lifiiculty in this case, must be a leak in the 

 jomts of his pump, lie took it up, and examined it, 

 and re-examined it, and calked it, and re-calked it, 

 and put it back again. Blit, all would not do. 

 The pmnp wouJd not work. And after wasting 

 something more than a week's labor, and sufter- 

 ing all the perplexities, and mortifications of disap- 

 pointment, he was compelled, though with great 

 reluctance, to give it up. Now all must ac- 

 knowledge, that in this case, a little science would 

 have been of great practical use. Had our practi- 

 cal man possessed a competent knowledge of the 

 principles of hydraulics, and of the agency of tiie 

 atmosphere, in i-aisiug water in a common suction 

 pump ; and that water could not be raised in this 

 way more than thirty-two feet, or to such height 

 as to be equal to a column of the atmosphere 

 in weight (which in very few situations, exceeds 

 that elevation,) he could not have beeu subjected 

 to all this chagrm and loss of labor. 



From the Btirmtabk Joimi'll. 



durable: fence. 

 Deacon Winslow Marston, has on his farm a 

 kind offence which for durability and beaiUy can 

 hardly be exceeded. On each side of the road 

 adjacent his dwelling, are rows of large button- 

 wood trees, set ten or twelve feet asunder. Into 

 these, when young, cedar rails were inserted as 

 into common posts. As the trees mcreased in 

 size, the wood formed closely round the ends of 

 the rails and firmly secured them in their places. 

 We have nowhere else seen this experiment tried 

 on so large a scale. It is (Certainly a durable and 

 cheap fence, because it will require no repairs at 

 least for one generation, and is moreover constantly 

 increasing in value. Were our roads lined with 

 this kind of fence, it would add not a little to the 

 beauty of the country, and the comfort of the 

 traveller. 



GOOD TEMPER. 



Mr. Abauzit, a citizen of Geneva, venerable 

 for a long life, devoted to study and the practice 

 of every virtue, had never, it is said, been put out 

 of temper. Some persons applied to his maid- 

 servant to ascertain if such was the fact. She had 

 beeu thirty years ui his service, and she declared, 

 tliat during the whole of that period, she had never 

 seen hun give way to the slightest irritation. She 

 was promised a sum of money if she could suc- 

 ceed in excitmg him to anger. She consented to 

 make the experunent, and knowing that he was 

 particularly fond of sleeping comfortably, she omit- 

 ted to make his bed. BI. Abauzit perceived if, and 

 the next momuig mentioned it to her ; she replied 

 that she had forgotten it. He said nothiug more 

 on the subject ; in the evening she left the bed in 



the same state ; it was again mentioned the next 

 day, to which she replied with a pretended excuse, 

 worse than the former. The tliird time he said 

 to her, " You have again left my bed unmade : I 

 iippose you have made up your mind not to do it, 

 as you consider it too much trouble, well, after all 

 there is no great harm done, for I begin to get 

 used to it." She threw herself at his feet and 

 confessed the truth. 



From the Family Lyceut. 

 CAMPHOR. 



Camphor is the peculiar juice of a species of 

 laurel called the camphor tree, which is abundant 

 n China, in Borneo, and in Ceylon. It becomes 

 concrete by exposure to the air. It is remarkably 

 nflammable, and is used by the Indian princes to 

 ;ive light in their rooms. It is pungent, volatile, 

 acrid, and strongly aromatic. These qualities have 

 rendered it useful as a medicine, and in sick rooms 

 to prevent contagion. It is also placed in collec- 

 tions, to kee]) ofl' the small insects that prey upon 

 the specimens. 



CURIOUS MATTERS. 



It is worth the investigation of the curious, to 

 leant the variety of little matters which are con 

 cocted in every village in New England. In 

 Pittsfield, an establishment, employing eighty 

 hands, is occupied in manufacturing elastic stocks 

 for gentlemen's nc-cks. In Lanesborough, 10,000 

 little wafer boxes are turned out from one estab- 

 lilishment alone daily ; these articles are made by 

 iiiachmery, in the twinkling of a bed post. In 

 Middlefield and Chester in this count}', immense 

 ([uantities of green window blinds made of cane- 

 pole, are manufactured ; nearly one hundred iiands 

 are occupied in this productive branch of industry. 

 In Easthanipton, the reader knows what they are 

 about there, making wooden button moulds, and 

 other matters of that description, to kill. In 

 Williamsburg, too, lots of enterprize and industry 

 is building up the town ; there they make wooden 

 fatlier-boxes, and steel hammers, and lastin but- 

 tons too, oceans of 'em. In Hadley and Hatfield, 

 Why, what a dirty world this would be without 

 them, they supply half of Christendom with the 

 hidispeusable implement of household warfare and 

 lileanliness ; there's no mistake about Hatfield and 

 Hadley brooms. We an't duin nothin pertikler iu 

 this town, except a few ])adies digging a hole in 

 tiie canal, or rather shoveling out the dirt and leav- 

 ing the hole hehintl them. — JVorthampton Courier. 



Peaches. In the Covent Garden market, Lon- 

 don, in August, peaches are quoted in a price 

 current, at £1. Is. a £. 10s. per dozen. Necta- 

 rines are quoted at the same prices. 



The Hon. Mr. Woodbury, Secretai7 of the 

 Jfavy, has directed some of the Teak Seed to be 

 sent to Florida, and jilanted by way of experiment 

 on the Live Oak establishment ojjposite Pensacola. 

 The Teak is the growth of the East Indies, said to 

 be the most durable wood that grows, and the only 

 kind that is impervious to womis. 



Progress of the Arts. A few years since chrome 

 yellow was 16 dollars a pound ; it is now made 

 with such ease, in Baltimore, from a mineral 

 fomid m great abundance in the vicinity of that 

 city, as to be sold at twenty cents a pound. 



AU the copperas used in this country, was, until 

 recently imported from England ; it is now made 



in several places from a mineral found in great 

 abundance in many parts of our country ; and 

 the importation, it is believed, is wholly stopped. 



Fifteen or twenty years since, a pu])il of Pro- 

 fessor Silhnan, when out with him on a "eolou-ical 

 excursion in the vicinity of Yale College found 

 that many of the farmers there had built their com- 

 mon stone walls for one hundred and fifty years, 

 with some of the most beautiful marble in the 

 world, without a suspicion that it was any thing 

 more than cotnmon stone. — Family Lyceum. 



The Cashniire Shawl Goat has been successfully 

 introduced into England by C. T. Tower, of Weild 

 Hall, Essex ; and as that gentleman by this time 

 must have some of his flock to dispose of, the 

 Gardener's Magazme thinks their introduction 

 among farmers, for their wool and also for their 

 milk, a fair subject to speculate on. This variety of 

 the common goat (or probably, it may be of a dis- 

 tinct species) is a fine looking animal, .and would 

 be very ornamental in a park, on a ruin, on the 

 side of a rock, or in a church yard. The coat is a 

 mixture of long coarse hair, and of short fine wool, 

 this latter begins to be loosen early in April ; and is 

 collected easily and expeditiously, by combing the 

 animals with such a comb as is used for horse's 

 inanes. The produce of a male is about 4 oz : 

 and of a female 2 oz : 2 lbs. of wool, as it comes 

 oft' the goat's back may be estimated to make one 

 shawl 54 inches sc]uare. Mr. Tower has this year 

 had three shawls made of his wool, one of which 

 was examined by the committee of manufactures. 

 The flock, consisting in 1823 of two bucks and 

 two does, now (1832) consists of 51 animals. Mr. 

 Tower states that his flock produces an average 

 of two ounces and one-third of down annually from 

 each animal. 



A CASE of combustion occurred a few days 

 since, in the cellar of the new meeting-house, in 

 BrookljTi, Conn. Several barrels of unslacked 

 lime hod been deposited under the house, and 

 durmg s late storm sufiicient water had found its 

 way to the barrels to commence the process of 

 slackening. Two yoimg men on Sunday, went 

 into tin cellar, and found one cask on fire. Shav- 

 ings acruraulated duriug the building of the house, 

 were scattered over the cellar, which would soon 

 have increased the rapidity of the flames ; but 

 owing to the tunely discovery, the builduig was 

 fortunitely preserved. 



Sins;ular Ornaments among the Indians. Their 

 females have a singular mode of ornamenting them- 

 selvef. They bore a hole through the upper lip, 

 as lew do^ii towards the chin ^s nossible, and 

 stick several long thongs in the aperture, with the 

 points jirojecting outwards. Observing that sever- 

 al of the tribe had decorated their lips with com- 

 mon pins, I gave one of the squaws a few that I 

 happened to have in my possession. She imme- 

 diatdy called to her a girl of about twelve years 

 old, (apparently her doughtcr,) who had not, as 

 yet, beeu distinguished by this ornament, pierced 

 her lip, with equal indifference and dexterity, with 

 a sharp instrument made of an algiator's tooth, and 

 placed the pins in the orifice. The poor girl bore 

 this ojK'ration with great patience, and appeared to ^ 

 be perfectly consoled by the possession of her new- ^^ 

 ly acquired ornament for the pain it must have • 



given her. — Campaigns and Cruises in Sotith 

 America. 



