MOORE’S R RAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
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MR. FINNEY’S ORCHARDS. 
We havo been furnished with a statement 
of Mr. Austin Pinney’s pear and poach or¬ 
chards, in Clarkson, in this county, by H. P. 
Norton, Esq., of Broekport. It speaks well 
for the Fruit interests of Western New Y ork. 
Mr. P. has four orchards. One near his 
houso contains one thousand peach trees— 
growing vigorously and rapidly—and all in 
tho finest order. The principal and stand¬ 
ard stocks in this orchard, are tho Early 
York, Crawford’s Early, Oldmixon, Jacques, 
Geo. 4th, and Langworthy’s Rareripe. It 
contains also ondless specimen trees from 
various localities throughout the country. 
Across the road is Mr. Pinney’s Pear Or¬ 
chard, which contains six hundred pear 
treos on quince stocks. The varieties are 
mainly White Doyenne, Louisa Bonne d’ 
Jersey, Bourro Diel, Golden Beurro of Bil- 
boa, and Bartlett, together with selections 
of one hundred others. IIo has also about 
two hundred standards, principally White 
Doyenne, Swan’s Orange, Flemish Beauty, 
Tyson, Bartlett, Seckel, &c. 
In the Farm Orchard there are upwards 
of two thousand peach trees of tho follow¬ 
ing standard sorts, viz: Fay’s Early Ann, 
Serrate Early York, Crawford’s Early and 
Late, Late Admirablo, Hayne’s Early, Yol- 
low Rare-ripe, Oldmixon, Morris’ White, 
Snow, Burr’s Late Red Rare-ripe, Tice 
Poach, President, Bergen’s Yollow, Stetson 
Seedling, Kenrick’s Heath, together with ono 
hundred other varieties, one-fourth of -which 
it is presumed cannot bo found elsewhere in 
this country. This orchard is 80 rods long, 
and about 25 rods wide. 
Mr. Pinney has anothor pear orchard 
across tho road from this, containing two 
thousand trees on quince stocks, and inclu¬ 
ding all tho most celebrated sorts of tho day, 
among them, Beurro Diel, Dutchess d’ An- 
goulemo, Vicar of Winkfield, Glout Mor- 
ceau, Beurro d’ Arromburgh, Madeline, Os- 
band’s Summer, Columbia, &c., &c.; also tho 
best native pears. 
SKINNING OLD APPLE TREES. 
We last year at this time made some re¬ 
marks upon tho subject of stripping the 
bark from those old apple trees which, while 
possessing a fair share of vigor, seem nev¬ 
ertheless to bo hide-bound, and do not ‘bear 
fruit as a good applo tree should. Strip¬ 
ping tho bark from tho trunk about this 
time of tho year, when it will strip easily, 
has been recommended by some as a good 
remedy, being careful in tho oporation not 
to disturb the alburnum, or sap-wood, that 
is forming. Wo believe wo mentioned that 
some experiments were made last summer 
—one of them on an applo tree belonging 
to'John May, Esq., and tho other by our 
old friend Smith, tho “venerablo hatter” of 
Winthrop. The tree operated upon by Mr. 
May, had not borne any for many years, if 
it ever had. The bark was stripped off the 
trunk, tho alburnum hardened into now 
bark, and now tho tree has an abundanco of 
little apples upon it. The other, by ‘Mr. 
Smith, was tho large limb of a large old tree. 
In this case, new bark was formed, and at 
the present time has an abundanco of small 
apples upon it. 
IIow often or how far it will do to carry 
this removal of old bark from applo trees is 
yot a matter of experiment. But, in the 
few instances that we havo heard of or seen, 
( it has boon productive of good to them.— 
Tho treos operated upon were all old and 
barren trees, and had bark upon them as 
thick as tho pelt of a rhinoceros.— Maine 
Fanner. 
Stealing Fruit. —One of tho host things 
for the prosperity of the country is plant¬ 
ing plenty of fine fruit; the incentives are 
heavy crops of delicious luxuries; the dis¬ 
couragements are fire blight, black knot, 
caterpillars, curculios, borers, yellows, cher- 
ry birds, and bad culture, and when all theso 
have been surmounted, then comes the l'ruit- 
thief for plunder. Some have endeavored 
to plant enough for all; the result has been 
that the thieves havo taken the very best, 
tho first pick, and left tho rest for the own¬ 
er. Where they cannot get good fruit, how¬ 
ever, they will take bad, wretchedly bad, 
rather than lose thoir booty. The Prairie 
Farmer says,—“We are called on yearly to 
mourn the loss of some villainously hard 
green winter apples, poached in August.”— 
He seems to feel some apprehensions that 
they may get tho cholera.— Alb. Cult. 
The Cypress Vine. —One of tho prettiest 
annuals for the flower garden is the cypress 
vine, for its chaste foliage and brilliant dow¬ 
ers. There is a secrot- in cultivating this 
vine, which a friend has imparted to us and 
which we vouch works like a charm, for wo 
have tried it. At night put your seed in a 
cup and pour in scalding water enough to 
cover completely the seed; let them soak 
until morning, when plant them half an 
inch deep in light rich loam, and cover tho 
spot with a piece of board, which do not re¬ 
move until forty-eight hours alter planting. 
Those that love dowers will bo thankful for 
this information.— Flushing Journal. 
Wet Lands. —All wot lands should bo 
ditched and under-drained, for it may truly 
be said to be throwing time, labor, money 
and manure away, to cultivate lands that are 
surcharged with water. To lime or manure 
such lands is only a waste of time and means 
KILL THE CATERPILLARS. 
Ip you havo not already destroyed tho 
caterpillars in your orchard, it should bo 
done soon, for they will change from the 
caterpillar to the chrysalis state, and thence 
into the winged state, and then will deposit 
millions of millions eggs, which will be the 
means of producing more catterpillars noxt 
spring than you will need. 
Thero are various ways of destroying this 
pest. Some tako a gun, and, with a small 
charge of powder, blow them “ sky high.” 
Others take an old newspaper, (afiery politi¬ 
cal ono is best,) put it on tho end of a pole, 
and setting it on fire, introduce it into their 
nest, and thus dostroy them with “fire and 
smoke.” Others take a ball of cotton, tie it 
on a polo, dip it in spirits of turpentine, set 
it on fire, and thus communicate lire to their 
domiciles. This preparation of cotton will 
burn some time, and may be used to destroy 
a great many nests before it is burnt out.— 
Somo tako ono of Pickering’s tree brushes, 
and putting it on the end of a polo, thrust 
it into the nest, twist it round, and bring 
them down, and crush them with the foot. 
No matter how you kill them, if you only 
do it.— Maine Farmer. 
HOW TO KILL THE CATERPILLARS. 
Yes; but don’t, for morcy’s sake, go- 
foremost to do the business, for killing cat¬ 
erpillars, liko every thing else, has a right 
and a wrong way to do it, or ten Avrong 
ways to one right Avay. 
Bo this as it may, friend Holmes, I don’t 
knoAV when I have seen, for many months 
past, so objectionable a “ Avind up” to an 
editorial in*the good Maino Farmer as your 
article has, which closes : “No matter how 
you kill them,-of you only do it.” 
Now I hold to the principle that if avo 
must take life by doctoring, or any other 
Avay, to take it in the easiest and quickest 
way possible, and havo it accomplish the ond 
aimed at. 
In tho business of killing caterpillars, I 
am decidedly opposed to using “ fire and 
brimstoneand I think evory ono Avill be 
aftor he has seen tho evil offects of it on his 
trees, which, if it is practised, he most as¬ 
suredly will, sooner or later. 
Let us suppose a case of killing, “ any 
how,” and look at tho result. You havo a 
young orchard, and your engagements are 
such that you cannot attend to tho exter¬ 
mination of the troublesomo “rascals,” per¬ 
sonally, so your son takes it into his head to 
“ kill "them any Iioav so in the middle of 
the day, Avitli his powder and old or may be 
young blunderbuss, Avith as many boys as 
there aro applo trees in tho orchard, he goes 
into tho Avork of blowing the little rogues 
“ sky high,” and instead of a small charge, 
in goes a doublo one to make the old gun 
speak well, and away goes the “ fire and brim¬ 
stone,” right into tho parlor and kitchen of 
tho poor caterpillars’ domicil, and, ton to 
one, unless some sick or dead ones are laid 
aAvay in tho nest, not a single caterpillar is 
any sky higher than the gun that spoke so 
loud to them. 
Tho fact is, at this A'ery time tho caterpil¬ 
lars aro scattered on the branches, seeking 
food, to obtain Avhich they must leave their 
nests, and they are in their nests but little 
of the time, except nights and cold, stormy 
days. 
Now AAdiat has been accomplished by gun 
and powder? Why, nine times out of ten, 
whero tho charge struck tho tree, tho fire 
and heat have caused a wound past recov¬ 
ery, and if it bo, as is generally tho case, 
near the body of a small tree, the tree is 
ruined. 
As for fiery political papers, or cotton 
balls, they are not needed, and are much 
Avorse than the poAvder, and are sure death, 
Avherever used. 
When I havo found caterpillars on ash, 
cherry, or other "forest trees, and out of my 
reach, I have supplied myself Avith a small 
polo of suitable length, and split the top 
and inserted a strip of Avhite birch bark, 
Avhich,* if it be dry, will blaze and smoke 
aAvay to the satisfaction of any reasonable 
man, and, after setting it on fire, apply it to 
thoir domicil, early in the morning or in tho 
evening, and it doos tho job effectually, both 
to tho caterpillars and tho limb that holds 
the nest. 
Other objections might be offered to 
burning the caterpillars, especially exposing 
our fields and buildings at this dry time, to 
fire. 
Perhaps you will ask what courso I Avould 
recommend to exterminate the caterpillar. 
I would say watch tho trees, and as soon as a 
caterpillars nest is visible use your thumb 
and finger about it a feAv moments, and the 
work is dQnc; or if, by neglect, the nest and 
caterpillars havo got along into the prime 
of life, I Avould take Pickering’s tree brush 
as recommended, or a Avoolen rag fastened 
to a polo,- and take a pail or tub full of 
strong soap suds, ( better take barrols, for 
it is an excellent Avash for treos, ) and at 
night or early in tho morning, wash the 
nests off; and if you wash the treo that 
boars the nest, you will accomplish two 
good objects — you kill the caterpillars and 
benefit tho tree very much by the Avash, as 
it servos to destroy other vermin on the 
tree, and cleanses tho bark of the same.— 
Me. Farmer. 
Tomatoes.—T hoso avIio Avish to hurry 
thoir tomatoes for market, may do so by 
proper shortening in. All must have ob¬ 
served that 90 per cent, of the tomatoes 
groAv within 18 inches of tho ground, and 
that ninety per cent, of the vine, containing 
only ten per cent, of the fruit, groAvs above 
this point; therefore cut it off, and remove 
it Avith tho small tomatoes. Tho vinos will 
not bleed, and tho large tomatoes left Avill 
increase in size more than equal to the val¬ 
ue of thoso removed, bosides getting them 
in market Avhilo tho price is sufficiently high 
to compensate for their culture.— Working 
Farmer. 
& ItittlCE. 
LIST OE PATENT CLAIMS 
ISSUED FROM THE UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE ( 
For the week ending June 29, J.852. 
Wilson Ager, of Rohrsburgh, Pa., for improve¬ 
ment in millstone dress. 
Wilson Ager, of Rohrsburgh, Pa., for improve¬ 
ment in hulling buckwheat. 
Samuel Barker, of New York, N. Y., for im¬ 
proved sail hank. 
Matthew A. Crookcr, of New York, N. Y., for , 
apparatus for propelling vessels. 
Henry C. DeWitt, of Napanock, N. Y., for im¬ 
proved revolving last-holder. 
Caleb R. Disbrow, of Bath, N. Y., for improve¬ 
ment in railroad car trucks. 
Jno. T. Foster, of New York, N. Y., for im¬ 
provement in potato-diggers aud stone-gatherers. 
Francis Garachon, of New York, N. Y., for im¬ 
proved lock. 
Gideon Hotchkiss, of Windsor, N. Y., for im¬ 
provement in hanging steps of mill spindles. 
Jasper Johnson, of Geneseo, N. Y., for improve¬ 
ment in bedstead fastenings. 
James J. Johnston, of Cincinnati, Ohio, for. im¬ 
provement in molding hollow Avare, tfcc. 
Henry McCarty, of Pittsburgh, Pa., for improved 
method of heating sheet iron, while in process of 
manufacture. 
Samuel N. Miller, of Roxbury, Mass., for im¬ 
proved compound anchor. 
Jesse Peck, of Buffalo, N. Y., for improvement 
in mixing mortar. 
Henry R. Remsen and P. M. Hutton, of Troy, 
N. Y., for improvement in locomotive engines. 
Nathaniel C. Sanford, of Meriden, Ct., for im¬ 
provement in skates. 
Albert M. Smith, of Rochester, N. Y., for im¬ 
proved belt clasp. 
Thos. V. Stran, of New Albany, Ind., for im¬ 
provement in method of ringing bells. 
R. A. Ver Yalen, of Haverstraw, N. Y., for im¬ 
provement in brick machines. 
Alfred Walker, of NeAV Haven, Ct., for improve¬ 
ment in sofa bedsteads. 
Chas. Waterbury, of Bridgeport, Ct., for im¬ 
provement in railroad cars. 
Daniel A. Webster, of Ncav York, N. Y., for im¬ 
provement in connecting cocks Avith pipes. 
Juan Ramos, of the Island of Porto Rico, as¬ 
signor to James C. Gallaher, of Philadelphia, Pa., 
and Wm. F. Tirado, of Ponce, Island of Porto 
Rico, for improvement in processes for the manu¬ 
facture of sugar. Dated June 29,1852. Patent¬ 
ed in Spain, April 29, 1851. 
Thos. Walker, of Birmingham, England, assign¬ 
or to Benj. B. Thayer, of Quincy, Mass., assignor 
to W. W. Churchill, of Boston, Mass., and Joseph 
Baxter, of Buincy, Mass., for improvement in re¬ 
volving boot heels. Dated June 29, 1852. Patent¬ 
ed in England, July 18, 1819. 
DESIGN. 
•Tamps TT. Conklin, of PoolroVill. N. Y., assignor 
to Reuben R. Finch, Sr., and Reuben R. Finch, Jr., 
of same place, for design for a cooking stove. 
REVIEW: THE STATIC PRESSURE ENGINE. 
Messrs. Editors :—As your paper is de¬ 
voted to tho very laudablo purpose of 
spreading information among the people, I 
would offer a revieAv of an article in the 
Rural of June 24th, over the signature of 
C. H. Stroavger. Tho design of the article 
referred to, is to sIioav, that “ tho whole plan 
of the inventors of tho ‘Static Pressure En¬ 
gine’ is predicated upon absurdities.” This 
unqualified assertion may be true. But, if 
it is so, I think that both Mr. S. and tho ed¬ 
itors of the Scientific American, Avhom he 
has quoted, havo failed to point out these 
“ absurdities.” 
What is claimed for the “ Static Pressure 
Engine,” as I understand it, is, that the 
centrifugal force produced by tho velocity 
of a wheel, is to be applied, in a certain 
manner, to keep up that velocity. “ Thus,” 
says tho New York Sunday Times, “the ro¬ 
tary movement dovolops the centifugal, and 
the centrifugal expands itself, (partly only) 
in keeping up the rotary,” and calls it, “ a 
machine that drives itself.” I confess that 
in speaking of a machine that drives itsolf, 
tho mind naturally thinks it as absurd, as it 
would be for a man to endeavor to lift him¬ 
self over tho fence by pulling on tho straps 
of his boots. But almost every day’s ex¬ 
perience teaches us, that, what we at first 
thought wrong, may yet bo right, and that 
which Ave at presont imagino absurd, may 
turn out hereaftor, in perfect accordance 
with sound reason. Tho only thing incom¬ 
prehensible to me, is, how this centrifugal 
force is to bo applied. This is the thing, 
Avhich I conceive, the inventors claim. This 
is tho thing then, which the Scientific Amer¬ 
ican “ proposes to show, is opposed to sound 
knowledge,” and Avhich Mr. S. asserts, is 
“predicted upon absurdities.” 
I will examine noAV, whether the Ameri¬ 
can has shoAvn, Avhat it proposes. They 
commence their demonstration by ridicul¬ 
ing tho answer Prof. Bull gives to a certain 
question. Tho American says, “ the ques¬ 
tion is asked him, (Prof. Bull,) hoAv much 
poAver is required to give a certain Aveight, 
a certain velocity, in a certain direction, and 
he says, so many pounds. He might more 
intelligently havo said ‘ 1 66 potatoes.’ ” Tho 
question that is asked Prof. Bull can bo 
ansAvered, or it cannot. If it cannot, Avhy 
do not the editors of tho American show it ? “ But if tho inventors of this tremendous 
If it can, and Prof. Bull has not ansAvered centrifugal force,” says tho American.— 
it right, why do not tho editors, or Mr. S. What! inventors of a centrifugal force ! ! 
do it, and correct him ? But no ! it is far I always supposed, Messrs. Editors, that this 
easier, and perhaps moro convenient to force was a law of nature, established by 
ridiculo. nature’s God. I will only notice another 
After demolishing Prof. Bull’s answer, in assertion, which tho Amorican lays doAvn, 
their self-judging wisdom, they proceed “to as a principle. “No body in motion can 
deal with tho main error.” “ What is this T give out a groator poAver, than that impres- 
they ask. “ Nothing less than when a body sed upon it.” Mr. Stroavger s illustration, 
receives motion in certain direction, a now if it proves any thing, proves this position 
force is originated, termed a centrifugal force false. I Avill tako his numbers, but instead 
and this power is said to bo greater than of a ball, I will use a Avheel. Tho volocity 
the power impressed upon it. Let us sIioav of a Avheel is 4, tho Aveight 4 lbs., the poAver 
how ridiculous tho assertion and claim is.” then, will bo W5. If the velocity is incroas- 
And how do they show it? They tell us, that od 4 times, then the poAver will bo 04. Hero 
this “centrifugal force does not belong to its velocity is increased only 4 times, Avith a 
all bodies as does gravitation.” They might gain from 16 to 04. It Prof. Bulls an¬ 
as well say, it doos not belong to any body swers to tho 1st and 2d questions aro correct, 
as does gravitation. Tho assertion is then (and noither tho American nor Mr. S. have 
mado, that this force does not belong to shoAvn them to bo incorrect,) they abun- 
bodies moving in a right line. Who ever dantly prove the falsity of tho position. A 
said it did? “According to tho now dis- certain wheel is, (according to the Ans,) im- 
coverer’s ideas,” says tho American, “a body pressed with a poiver of 100 lbs. lhis pio- 
may movo in a right lino till dooms-day, duces a centrifugal force of 2,716 lbs. which 
Avithout generating this plus of the impressed greater than tho force impressed upon it, 
force, but no sooner is it mado to move in a lbs. I am no advocato of the 
curvilinear direction, than this tromendous thousand and ono ephemeral inventions, 
force is originated. This brings tho whole tliat we road of evor y da y> a11 thoughts of 
theory to the reductio ad absurdum, ‘aline which - ar0 thrown awa y with tho P a P er 
nf n. for™ ’ ” wh »ch wo read, but neither would 1 de- 
of direction begets a force.’ ” 
In order to sIioav tho absurdity of this 
theory, thoy connect it Avith somo most ab¬ 
surd comparisons. Tho deduction which I 
make from their mode of demonstration is, 
because one thing is absurd, so is another. 
cry or ridicule. William Hart. 
York, Livingston County, N. Y.. 1852. 
NEW PLANING MACHINE. 
Tiie Detroit Free Press announces the in- 
XT , ,, . vention in that city of a neAv planing ma- 
No attention being paid, whatever, to their chine> We of fin J is hing in a workmanlike 
analogy or similarity. But what is tho manner, 3,500 feet per hour. It says:—The 
theory, which the American thinks it has inventor Mr. Wilder, a talented machinist 
reducod to the “reductio ad absurdum.”— of our city, has, avo think, effected the most 
Why this, “a line of direction begets a force.” desirable results in this irn ention. Its op- 
W1 . ,, . 0 T * * ii . eration, running gear, &c., is exceedingly 
\\ hose theory is this ? I cannot tell, except sim lo / and not liable to get out of order - 
it is the editor’s of tho American. They j s r emarablv small and compact, and can 
say, the inventors doctrine is, that as soon be used to advantage in a very limited busi- 
as a body is turned from a right line, “ and ness. A cursory examination onables us 
made to movo in a curvilinear direction, this P^ially to describe it as being not over 10 
„ . . . . „ XT x ,. . ’ feet in length, and between the sides, Avlnch 
force is originated. Now this is by no aro cast £ on? ther0 is an inclined plane, 
means tho theory, that “a line of direction U pon which the board of any width is run 
begets a force,” but that a change, in the under nine knives, which aro fixed in a 
line of direction begets it. To illustrate the frame by strong screws. These knives aie 
j. ,i. , ,, T i, „ verv similar to tho edge of a common plane, 
truth of this latter theory, I will relate a amfshav(1 off tho „, ho s lo length of a hoard. 
short story, of Avhich I was a witness 
The machine is moved by a band fastened to 
A foAV years ago, before-the temperanco a steam engino, which moves a crank attach- 
cause was in tho ascendant, a neighbor of ed to the outside of a cam-Avheel. As tho 
ours harnessed his team, and went to York a ™ s of this crank move to and fro the piece 
r , , tj. r,, . , to be smoothed is brought under the grad- 
Centre with a load of wood. It was Christ- uated knives by tho forward movement, and 
mas or New-Years, and, as it happened, ho hold in its place by “dogs” at each extremity 
met somo of his friends in toivn, ami they when it reverts. The boards are thus as 
got very jovial on “ suthing to drink.” Af- smoothly planod as possible by any mode, 
ter a while they thought it time to start for and of uniform thickness also. 
home. Accordingly the horses wore bro’t 
round, and tho “ b-hoys ” ranged themselves 
round tho Avood-rack, on the sleigh. This 
was a Avelcome support, as it enabled them, 
CLOTH MEASURING IN POWER LOOMS. 
centrifugal force generated in the arms.”— 
The American ridicules the idea, of a “ tre 
mendous” force being generated in a body, letters caveat for an invention of precisely 
because it moves in a curvilinear direction, tho same general character, and which needs 
It thus indirectly ridicules Mr. Comstock, 
W. II. Woodworth, of Salmon Falls, N. 
was a welcome support, as it enabled them, has tak . on measures to secure a patent 
.. ,. , . .. for measuring cloth as it is being woven m 
■to maintain their perpendicularity. Well, power looms & A spool of cords tiod t0 _ 
along they came, and they did’nt come sIoav, gether, of different colors, according to tho 
for repeated strokes of the Avhip, “gene- length of the cuts of the web in the loom, 
rated” considerable velocity. Faster, faster, ^ niade to wind up on a bobbin, worked by 
, ,, , , . i the action of the loom as it is being Avoven. 
onward they came, to a certain corner, whero Tho apparatus> with the cords, is very 
thoy Avoro under the necessity of turning.— neat and small, and is secured underneath 
With almost tho speed of a locomotive, tho tho breast beam. Thus, for example, a 
horses SAvept round the corner, and pro- blue cord will indicato 40 yards for a cut, 
ceeded on their homeward Avay, but minus and when this cordis Avound up on its bar- 
. . , , ITl rell, and the next cord, which may be a red 
the wood rack and the jovial crew. Where Qn0 ’ f it will i ot the weaver know ex- 
wero they 1 he writer saAv them swept “at ac tiy where to tako off the cut. It is a bet- 
one fell SAA'oop” from the sleigh, as you Avould ter plan than to mark the warp, and is very 
brush a fly from the table, and tho next simple. Part of this invention has been as- 
sight Avas part of the rack, and sundry legs s *S ned to ^ ^ a ^ e y> oi Salmon I alls. 
and arms projecting from a large snowbank. c , ~ , 
, „ 1 J ® . Steam on the Canal.— lhe steam tug 
I hey found by a painful experience, viz., the j aco p Hinds passed through this village, 
dislocation of certain shoulders, that a having in toAv four of the largest class of 
change in their “ lino of direction,” begot boats that can now navigate tho canal.— 
or developed, a “ tremendous” force. And Ihey were heavily loaded Avith railroad iron, 
, , ,, , . i vr c* and as eighty-four tons was the smallest 
had the editors of tho American, and Mr. S. ~r v * = V , , ,, . . 
, ’ . that any r of them had, the aggregate amount 
been m tho company, they aaouUI peihaps 0 £ f re igBt must havo been at least three 
have been painfully convinced, of tho great .hundred and twenty-six tons. With this 
power of the centrifugal force, by a practi- heavy lino of boats to drag, the steam tug 
cal experiment, which thoy no doubt would moved ahead at the rate of between three 
t , „ ,. , . » ,. and four miles an hour, notwithstanding the 
not have felt very desirous of repeating. o5stacles which the narrow and shallow wa- 
Boys knoAV Iioav to take advantage of this ^ er 0 f old canal in many places present- 
force in propelling stones. They whirl' ed. It made no SAvell to wash the banks, 
them in a sling, as rapidly as possible, till but moved on smoothly, hardly breaking 
they get tho centrifugal force at the highest the surface of the stfeam Avitli a lipplo. 
point, when they are let go with great velo- Lockpo i t em. _ _ 
city. In describing Dr. Barker’s contrifu- >p 1IE Tonograpii.—A few days since avo 
gal mill, Comstock observes, in his Philoso- published an item from a western paper to 
pliA’, “ After a few revolutions, the machine the effect that somo ingenious man had dis- 
Avill receive an additional impulse, by tho covered a use of the telegraphic principle 
0 ■ ± . „ by which music might be noted as it Avas 
pfmtritnD-a torefi sreneraze . di.rt t ie arms . — -t . n. i ^ _ nr r • tr--i 
played. We nOAv learn from Mr. Levi Wil¬ 
der, of Jersey City, that he has taken out 
only means to be put in successful opora- 
__ ------ - ^ - - - j - - tion. He has exhibited to us a model of his 
for he holds tho same view, Avhen ho siiys, j nven H 0 n, which, so far as we can judgo, 
“ the machine receives an additional im- confirms his claim.—JY. Y. Tribune. 
pulse, by ” a certain force, “ generated in 
tho arms.” Again, “ Tho centrifugal force, 
and tho force of tho discharge thus acting 
Iron Paper. —At a lato Prussian Indus¬ 
trial Exhibition, Count Renard, a large p: r>- 
^ i ,. , , • „ prietor of iron Avorks, exhibited sheet-iron 
at the same time, and each me, easing the P f guch a d of tenuity that tho leaves 
force of the other, this machine l evolves can p 0 used f 0 r paper. Ono of the finest 
with great velocity and proportionate pow- sor t the machinery rolls, is 7,040 squaro 
er.” Hero wo have, though indirectly, tho feet of what may be called loaf iron, from 
very principle of tho inventors, of the a CAvt. ot metal. A book binder of Breslau 
«f ^ •_» rr>u __ has mado an album of nothing else, the 
■■ Static Pressure Engine. Tho discharge of which tlm , as flexibly as the flnest 
of water makes tho mill rotate, this gene- f a p r i c 0 f linen rags. As yet no extensive 
rates the centrifugal force, Avhich causes a application for this form of the metal has 
more rapid discharge,” and each increases been found but tho manager says tho ma- 
■ the force of tho other. terial musfc P™cedo the use for it. 
