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The third resolution was adopted without dis- 

 cussion. 



The sixth resolution was taken up and discussed 

 to considerable length, and then passed. Adjourned 

 to seven o'clock. 



EVENING SESSION. 



The seventh resolution was taken under consid- 

 eration. 



Gov. Boutwell, in compliance with a call from 

 the chair, made a few remarks upon the subject, 

 and the resolution was adopted. 



The fourth and fifth resolutions were then taken 

 up, and discussed at length, and then adopted. 



The eighth and last resolution was adopted. 



Col. Page offered the following resolution, which 

 was adopted. 



Resolved, That the President and Secretaries of 

 this Convention be requested to present to the Leg- 

 islature as a memorial, a certified copy of the res- 

 olutions now adopted, with explanatory remarks, 

 and request that the Legislature will take such 

 action on the subject as to their wisdom may seem 

 best. 



The Convention was dissolved at rather a late 

 hour. 



iUa!)auiC3' pcpartiuiut, ^it5, ^c. 



IMPROVEMENT IN PLANING, TONGUE- 

 ID^G AND GROOVING MACHINES. 



Messrs. Rufus and C. S. Bixby, and John Garst, 

 of Dayton, Ohio, have taken measures to secure a 

 patent for improvements in planing, and stationary 

 tongueing and grooving cutters. The planing 

 knives are stationary; a set of section roughing 

 planes are set transversely to the motion of the 

 boards, to cut off small portions of the rough sur- 

 face at once, and then the whole face is finished by 

 a single smoothing plane set behind those which 

 operate upon the rough surface. Each plane, 

 therefore, is made to perform but a small part of 

 the operation, and thus far ease of working the 

 planing action is spread over, it may be said, a 

 wide surfice. The tongueing and grooving is per- 

 formed by stationary gouges set in the frame be- 

 hind the planes, so as to take into the edges of the 

 board and match them after the planing operation. 

 The principal new feature in this does not relate to 

 the cutters but to a finerevolving chain belt on each 

 side under the gouges, which, by its continual re- 

 volving, keep the cutters clear of chips. This is a 

 very important improvement. 



New Style. — Our attention was yesterday 

 called to a sleigh upon a plan diilbrent from any- 

 thing wc have before seen. The bottom is entire- 

 ly of wrought iron, the runners being plated with 

 steel, and the fender of zinc and Russia iron. It 

 is so constructed as to be very light, and a common 

 single sliiigh, we are assured, will sustain a weight 

 of half a ton. The improvement was suggested 

 and we bfdieve has been patented by Mr. John J. 

 Ililey, of Sebago. It strikes us that the improve- 

 ment is a valuable one to the public, and we hope 

 it may prove a valuable one to the inventor. — Port- 

 land Advertiser. 



Improvement for Bending Carriage Springs. 

 — Mr. James Watson, of this city, has invented 

 and taken measures to secure a patent for an im- 

 provement in presses for setting eliptical carriage 

 springs. The way to set the spring is to bend one 

 half of the spring first, then turn back the feed rol- 

 ler by reversing its motion, and set the other half 

 of the spring. The improvement of Mr. Watson 

 is in the gearing for reversing the motion, whereby 

 one-half the time is economized by setting a spring 

 and with fewer attendants to tlie machine. — Scien- 

 tific American. 



Respirator Cravat. — A new cravat has just 

 been brought out in Manchester, England, for the 

 benefit of those who have weak lungs in that foggy 

 country. It consists of a cloth which allows the 

 wearer to breathe freely through it, so that it is 

 warmer for the lungs. The moisture of the at- 

 mosphere is also, as it were, screened, and the 

 lungs thereby relieved from burdensome pressure. 



Caliies' Prpavtmcut. 



COURAGE OF WOMAN. 



There is a branch of general education which is 

 not thought at all necessary for women — as regards 

 which, indeed, it is well if they are not brought up 

 to cultivate the opposite. Women are not taught 

 to be courageous. Indeed, to some persons cour- 

 age may seem as unnecessary for woman as Latin 

 and Greek. Yet there are few things that would 

 tend to make women happier in tliemselves, and 

 more acceptable to others with whom they live, than 

 courage. So far from courage being unfeminine, 

 there is a peculiar grace and dignity in those be- 

 ings, who have little active powers of attack or de- 

 fence, passing through danger with a moral cour- 

 age which is equal to that of the strongest. We 

 see this in great things. We perfectly appreciate 

 the sweet and noble dignity of an Anne Bullen, a 

 Mary, Queen of Scots, or a Marie Antoinette. 

 We see that it is grand for those delicately-bred, 

 high-nurtured, helpless personages to meet death 

 with silence and confidence. But there would be 

 a singular dignity in woman's bearing small ter- 

 rors with fortitude. There is no beauty in fear. It 

 is a mean, ugly, dishevelled creature. No statue 

 can be made of it tluit a woman would wish to see 

 herself like. Woman are pre-eminent in steady 

 endurance of tiresome suffering; they need not be 

 far behind men in becoming courageous to meet that 

 which is sudden and sharp. The dangers and the 

 troubles, too, which we may venture to say they 

 now start at unreasonably, arc many of them mere 

 creatures of imagination — sucli as, in their way, 

 disturb high mettled animals, brouglit up to see too 

 little, and therefore frightened at any leaf blown 

 across the road. We may be quite sure that, with- 

 out losing any of the most delicate and refined of 

 feminine graces, woman may be taugiil not to give 

 way to unreasonable fears, which should belong no 

 more to the fragile than the robust. 



Watery Potatoes. — The following receipt for 

 remedying watery potatoes is well wortii trying: 

 If your potatoes are ''watery," put into the water, 

 before boiling, a small piece of lime. Tliis will 

 render them perfectly dry and mealy. This is an 



