page’s stationary wind mill. 
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PAGE’S STATIONARY WIND MILL. 
The figure anil explanation below will enable 
the reader to judge, in a measure, of the construc¬ 
tion and appearance of a stationary wind mill, 
lately invented and patented. In addition to the 
usual application of machines of similar construc¬ 
tion, such as grinding corn, sugar cane, churning, 
raising water, propelling sawmills, &c., the inven¬ 
tor proposes to establish a water power, by pump¬ 
ing up water, by wind, from a pond or well, into a 
reservoir of several acres, which, when filled, he 
would apply to a water wheel, as in a river or 
stream. 
Several of these wind mills have been erected in 
different parts of the country, at the south, as well 
as at the west, and orders are said to be multiplying 
for them from places where they have not previ¬ 
ously been introduced. One has been put up in 
Rhode Island, by Mr. Josiah Chapin; another at 
Brushville, Long Island, by B, F. Manice, Esq.; 
and a third at Richmond, Staten Island, by Mr. S. 
J. Russ. The prices vary, according to size and 
mode of construction, say from $100 to $1,500. 
Legal Weights and Measures of the United 
States Custom Houses. —A complete set of standard 
weights and measures supplied by the government of the 
United States, consists of, first, a set of weights from one 
pound avoirdupois to fifty pounds, and a troy pound, 
secondly, a set of weights, from one ounce troy, to one 
ten-thousandth of an ounce ; thirdly, an English yard meas¬ 
ure ; fourthly, a set of liquid measures, consisting of the 
wine gallon and its parts, down to the half pint inclusive 
and fifthly, one half-bushel Winchester measuie. 
Keep Bees. —Bees cost nothing for their food, neither 
for their pasturage in summer, nor for their provisions in 
winter. 
