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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
261 
IBIDYS 4 ®TKL$> (GflXLTTMM 
Instructive Experiiiieiits. 
Take a wide-mouthed bottle — a fruit preserving jar will 
answer the purpose well — put it in a pail of water, allow 
it to fill, turn it upside down, and lift it partly from the 
water, but keep its mouth under the surface, so that the 
water will not run out from it. Have a tube, (a clean to- 
bacco pipe will do) ; place the lower end under the sur- 
face of the water, and under the mouth of the jar. so that 
when you blow through it. the bubbles will rise up into 
the jar. and drive the water down and out. Take a long 
full breath, and hold it in the lungs as long as can he 
done without inconvenience, and then blow through the 
pipe into the jar. Repeat this until the breath has filled 
the jar and expelled all the water from it. Be careful to 
keep the jar upright, with its mouth under -water, so as 
to retain what was sent there from the lungs. Next, cov- 
er the mouth of the jar with a piece of thick, wet paper, 
such as a bit of an old book cover, and then carefully turn 
the jar right side up, when you can set it on the table or 
other convenient place ; the wet paper, if it rests snugly 
on the mouth of the jar, will keep the contents from be- 
ing mixed with the air, for a little while. Have a short 
piece of candle attached to a bit of wire so that it can be 
lowered to the bottom of the jar. Light the candle, let 
it down, and the flame will go out as suddenly as though 
it had been thrust under water. The experiment may he 
repeated several times without refilling the jar with 
breath. If the candle be placed in such a jar containing 
only common air. it will continue to burn. The experi- 
ment then proves that what comes from the lungs is 
different from air, as it will not support a flame. 
M Experiment— Fill the jar with breath as before, and 
place it on the table. Light a short piece of candle aud 
place it in the bottom of a glass tumbler. Pour the breath 
out of the jar into the tumbler, exactly as though you 
were filling the latter with water, aud if the experiment 
he properly managed, the flame will be extinguished, 
although nothing cau be seen to pass from the jar into 
the tumbler. This proves that breath from the Jungs is 
heavier than air, otherwise it would not run out from 
the jar and into the tumbler like water. 
Having performed these experiments satisfactorily, try 
and find out the reason for the flame being extinguished, 
and what breath is; at another time we may have more 
to say ou the subject. 
Tlie Kiu<l-IIem*te<l Tanner. 
William Savery. an emi :it minister among the Quak- 
ers, was a tanner by trade. One night a quantity of hides 
were stolen from his tannery, aud he had reason to be 
lieve that, the thief was a quarrelsome, drunken neigh- 
bor, called John Smith. Next week the following adver- 
tisement appeared in the country newspaper : 
" Whoever Btole a quantity of hides on the fifth of this 
month, is hereby informed that the owner has a sincere de- 
tire to be his friend. If poverty tempted him to this false 
step, the owner will keep the whole transaction secret, 
aud will gladly put him in the way of obtaining money 
by means more likely to bring him peace of mind !*' 
This singular advertisement attracted considerable at- 
tention ; but the culprit alone knew who had made the 
kind offer. When he read it his heart melted within him. 
and he was filled with sorrow for what he had done. A 
few nights afterwards, as the tanner's family were about 
retiring to rest. they*henrda timid knock, and when the 
. door was opined there stood John Smith, with a load Of 
hides on his shoulders. Without looking up he said : 
11 Ihave brought these bark, Mr. Savery; where shall 1 
put them ?" — u Wait till I can get a lantern, and 1 will 
go to the barn with thee," he replied, "thru perhaps 
thou wilt come in* and tell me how this happened. We 
will sec what can be done for thee." As soon as they 
were gone out v his wife prepared some hot coffee, and 
XM*accd pies and meat on the table. When they returned 
from the barn, she said: "Xeighbor Smith, I thought 
some hot supper would be good for thee."" He turned 
his back towards her, and did not speak. After leaning 
against the fire-place in silence a few moments, he said in 
a choked voice : "It is the first time I ever stole any- 
thing, aud I have felt very bad about it. I am sure I 
didn't once think I should ever come to what I am. But 
I took to drinking and then to quarreling. Since I begau 
to go down hill everybody gives me a kick. You are the 
first man that has ever offered me a helping hand. My 
wife is sickly, and my children starving. You have sent 
them many a meal. God bless you! but yet I stole the 
hides. But I tell you the truth when I say it is the first 
time I was ever a thief." "Let it be the last, my friend,'" 
replied William Savery. ''The secret lies between our- 
selves. Thou art still young, aud it is in thy power to 
make up for lost time. Promise me that thou wilt not 
drink any intoxicating liquor for a year, and I will" em- 
ploy thee to-morrow on good wages. Thy little boy can 
pick up stones. But eat a bit now, and driuk some hot 
coffee ; perhaps it will keep thee from craving anything 
stronger tonight. Doubtless thou wilt find it hard at 
first : but keep up a brave heart for the sake of thy 
wife and children, and it will become easy. When thou 
hast need of coffee, tell Mary, and she will give it thee." 
The poor fellow tried to eat and driuk, but the food 
seemed to choke him. After vainly trying to compose 
his feelings, he bowed his head on the table, and wept 
like a child. After awhile he ate and drank, and his host 
parted with him for the night, with the friendly words, 
" try to do well, John, and thou wilt always find a friend 
in me."' John entered into his employ the next day, aud 
remained with him many years, a sober, honest, and 
steady man. The secret of the theft was kept between 
them : but after John's death, William Savery told the 
storv, to provu that evil might be overcome with good. 
Xo. *2(39. Puzzle Picture.— An old-time proverb ; we do 
not endorse it as being altogether true now-a-days. 
Iron sit $30,000 per Pound. 
A gentleman visiting the American Watch Company's 
fectory at Waltham, Mans., relates that a small vial, 
such a- homoeopathic pills are kept in, was handed to 
him, which was filled w tb what seemed to be grains of 
coarse sand, ol' the color of blue tempered steel. On ex- 
amination under a microscope, they proved to be perfect 
screw?, of which it required 300.000 to make a pound. 
Microscopic bits of steel, with the points exquisitely 
polished were al>«> shown, so small that fifty weighed 
only a single grain. These were sai.l to be worth $30,000 
per pound - . These, as well as every other of the running 
part- of the watch, are made entirely by machinery, 
which turns out each different piece exactly like its fellow. 
The following is his description of the method of mak- 
ing ttie One screws: what yon do see ;'t a tirst glance 
is a thin thread of steel, finer than the most delicate of 
pins. Blowly pushing its way through a little hole in a 
machino, and being grasped bya tiny tool which runs 
round It, as if embracing it ; and then, presto I change I 
on! comes a knife and cuts off it- head.*. All this i* done 
so qutcklythal yon have to wait and watch the operation, 
■.mi know what it i- all abou JTQU can B6fl 
the process T have described. The bits thus beheaded 
with a hug, look exactly like little grains of powder. 
But they are screws. Ton notice that when you take a 
microscope and examine them. They are complete — 
almost. Xot quite yet. A girl picks them up, one by 
one, with a dainty tool, and places them in rows, one in 
every hole in a flat piece of steel. This little plate, as 
soon as it is filled, is placed under another machine, and 
it would do any Irishman's soul good to see it work. It 
beats Doneybrook Fair "all hollow." I never had a 
more convincing proof of the superiority of mechan- 
ical over manual labor. For while a good hearty man 
with a stout bit of shillelah may break half a dozen heads 
of a day — with fair luck — this machine, without so much 
as saying " By yer lave.' 1 comes out of its hole, and runs 
along each row, quietly splitting the head of each one ol 
them exactly in the center. And now the screw is made. 
New Puzzles to be Answered. 
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No. 270.— Illustrated llebns.— Realized this year. 
No. 271- Arithmetical Problem.— A audi? each sold a 
hog to one dealer, for which he paid them .$3o. remarking 
that .IV hog was worth J^ per cent, per lb. more than E . 
but that they might settle that between themselves. A' 
hog weighed 400 lbs., B's, 300 Jbs. ; how much money 
should each receive ? 
Ans-»vers to Problems and. Puzzles. 
The following are answers to the puzzle-, etc., iu the 
June number, page 235. No. 23H. Illustrate! Bebua.— 1st 
Reading, (across the whole of each line!. Keep pushing, 
'tis wiser to struggle and climb : to beep your eyes open ; 
to conquer all fear : than be watching the seasons of tide 
and of time ; of aid aud of fortune ; be steadfast to this; 
in life's earnest battle they only prevail, marching right 
onward, who will not say fail.— Sd Reading, (half wsj 
across each line). Keep pushing; "tis wiser to keep 
your eyes open, than be watching the seasons of aid and 
of fortune, in life's earnest battle, marching right on 
ward. — 3d Reading, (commencing at the middle of eaeli 
line aud rending to the end). To struggle and climb, to 
conquer all fear of tide mid of time, be steadfast to thK 
they only prevail, who will not say fail .. No. 267. "• 
' guzzle. — American Agriculturist No. 268. 
■Noah and his family.. No. 364. Geographical Enig 
ina. iii May number, page 187.— Moosetocknoquntlc 
Lake, in Maine.... - Pusdi .—Place the men 
as directed on page 236; we will call them .1. />'. >',—/>. 
E. F. the first three representing the black men. Move 
/'towards A jump /> over C; move E towards C. and 
jump Cover A"; then jump .'.'over /> ; move .1 towards 
I), and jump Dover .1 .' jump A' over /.'. and F over C; 
move Cm the end place; jump TV over E. and .[ over A',- 
move A." towards D, and jump A' over .1 ; finish by mov 
ing .1 towards 11.— The following have sent in correct i 
answers: 11.. 1. Meixel. John Meyers. Jr., Sam'] I.. Moore. 
W. K Uptegrovc, Orlando 11. Oathout. "S.," M. B. 
Grigsby, William l>. Reese, Mamie and tonic Close, 
Thos. D. Smedley, John B. Haviland, r.mma Randall and 
P. E. Randall, Alice McMlchael, "Stupid," J. Fred. 
Scott, J. M. Whitman. Man- Keller. Sam'l Wolf. Jr., 
J. F. Day, J. Milton Snyder, Win. Anderson. ••Jeames," 
"S. L. C.." Mickey and Bird, "J. T. 11.." Ida aud Ber- 
tha ChaUis, Frank 11. Marslon, *G. ft C." (Thanks 
! for friendly criticism.) 
