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Take a fair view : you will find many a single article worth all 

 your trouble. See the gigantic Dick's Anti-Friction Press cut 

 iron half an inch thick, as you cut pasteboard with your scissors. 



Among other evidences of increasing prosperity, we may call 

 to our aid the recent supplies of peaches. In no land was there 

 ever seen such a perfect deluge of any fruit whatever, since the 

 days of Eden. Peaches of fine quality sold in the streets every- 

 where. Peaches sixpence a half peck I not half the common 

 price of potatoes ! 



When we recollect that in all other countries the peach is 

 confined to the dessert of the few, the rich, (I may say,) here have 

 we peaches more than enough for every human being ! Our 

 peach men as they are coming in steamers with their spacious 

 decks so full of peach baskets that one has hardly room to walk, 

 pelt the poor Immigrants just sailing up our bay, with thousands 

 of peaches ! 



One gentleman of our Institute, on his arrival from Europe 

 some years ago, saw for the first time, an orchard of peaches. 

 He^topped at the farm-house to which it belonged, and desired 

 from the farmer's wife, a bowl of milk, some bread and butter, 

 and peaches. He made a luxurious meal. Having finished, he 

 called for his bill, supposing that he had made a costly meal. 

 The good lady said her charge was sixpence ! But, madame, 

 how much.p3r the peaches ! Oh hi, said she, I ask nothing for 

 them, and if you want any more, you may carry away as many as 

 you please ! 



In these works of our heads and hands, we realize the glorious 

 fact that God made man after his own image. It is the triumph 

 of reason over all powers and all instincts — and it is going on to 

 a future of a brightness inconceivable at this time — for every 

 successive generation records by the agency of the arts of print- 

 ing and engraving, what has been gained from the first, and adds 

 new modifications and discoveries, new forces for further opera- 

 tions. 



The Indians of our Atlantic coast, told us of the Big Bull, who 

 anciently appeai-ed, destroying their ancestors; that the great 



