MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER, 
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STATE FAIR HORTICULTURAL EXHIBITION. 
One of the most pleasing features of our 
Annual State Fairs, is the tine show of fruits, 
Dowers and plants, and tho one just held at 
Utica, in some respects, was of more than 
usual interest. Though somewhat early to 
secure a full show of autumn fruits, espec¬ 
ially of apples, and from a scarcity of peach¬ 
es, not so full in these as desired; yet, as a 
whole, it must have been not only useful in 
an eminent degree, but highly satisfactory 
to all concerned. 
Tho collection of Green-house plants and 
potted Dowers was not as large as when seen 
on similar occasions, but rather more select. 
To this department, Tiiorp, Smith, Han- 
ciiett & Co., of Syracuse; A. Frost & Co., 
and Ellwanger Sc Barry, of Rochester; 
and F. Boyce, of Utica, contributed valuable 
collections. Tho show of Dowers was good, 
but want of time prevented taking many 
notes. Rochester was well represented.— 
Wo noticed a very fine collection of Dahlias 
from E. M. Van Austine, of Greenbush, and 
a floral ornament by Mrs. S. E. Smith, Me- 
chanicsville. Of Verbenas, German asters 
and Petunias, tho display was good, and 
Western New York sent a full sharo. 
It was rather early for out of door grapes, 
and tho show was small. Of those grown 
under glass, fine specimens woro exhibited 
by II. L. Suydam, of Geneva, Hon. J. Greig, 
of Canandaigua, A. Frost Sc Co., of this 
city and others, though these composed the 
finest lots. Our attention was called to a 
new variety called tho Charter Oak Grape, 
said to bo the largest in tho world. . They 
were as large as damson plums and rather 
darker color than the Sweet-wator grape.— 
Tho vine is said to bo perfectly hardy, and 
the fruit juicy and sweet flavored. Ot their 
origin and value for genoral cultivation we 
are not informed. The price asked lor rooted 
vines smacked strongly of the days of moms 
multicaulis. 
Ellwanger Sc Barry exhibited some fine 
specimens of Figs, and Fig trees were also 
brought forward by others. 
Of Plums there were many varieties, 
some of which woro excellent. Peaches 
were not abundant, though we found some 
good specimens. Tho only plato noticed 
from this county wore from the garden of 
C. F. Crossman, who also presented melons, 
plums and quinces. Apples were on hand 
in good profusion, embracing the many fine 
sorts now seasonable, for which tho State is 
noted. Mr. Faiienstocic, of Syracuso, had 
twenty varieties, Frost Sc Co., twenty, E. 
S. Hayward, twenty, Ellwanger Sc Bar¬ 
ry, sixty; all from Monro© Co.; and J. J. 
Thomas, of Macedon, presented sixty-two. 
The number of varieties from other parts 
of the State was equally creditable. 
The great show of tho season was in 
Pears. This fine fruit has attracted much 
attention, and induced a spirited competi¬ 
tion. The specimens presented were in fine 
order, and embraced a large number of va¬ 
rieties. Ellwanger Sc Barry bad one hun¬ 
dred and thirty, Frost & Co., six, J. J. Thom¬ 
as sixteen, Thorp, Smith, IIanchett & Co., 
sixteen, T. C. Maxwell, Geneva, thirty, 
Henry Vail, Troy, seventy, and Messrs. 
Hovey Sc Co., well known horticulturists, 
of Boston, one hundred varieties. In addi¬ 
tion to this there were small lots from all 
parts of tho State, showing conclusively that 
this fruit is growing into favor with all, and 
can bo cultivated with ordinary care. Groat 
benefit must accrue to growers in being 
thus enabled to compare tho same fruit 
grown in different localities, as also to as¬ 
certain whether the same varieties are known 
by a common or by different names in dif¬ 
ferent localities. Too much credit cannot 
bo awarded to Messrs. IIovey, Sc Co. for their 
attendance, and wo trust much good may 
result from this interchange of comparison. 
Wo understand tho present to bo a very la- 
vorablo season for pears in New England 
and particularly about Boston, and though 
not very excellent in Western Now York, 
every one could not fail to see at a glance, 
tho great superiority of thoso exhibited by 
our nurserymen over tho samples presented 
by Messrs. Hovey Sc Co. Wo had always 
hoard much of tho success of the Bostoni¬ 
ans in raising pears, and were tho more sur¬ 
prised and gratified with tho result of this 
comparison. Fruit growing, especially that 
of pears, is still in its infancy and we trust 
much of practical value has been elicited in 
tho comparisons and consultations that have 
been made during tho wook of tho State 
Fair. Tho list of premiums will bo given 
hereafter. + 
We are informed in the Prairie Farmer, 
that a man who supplies tho Boston market 
with that early vegetable, tho dandelion, ob¬ 
tains annually from one-fourth of an acre, 
the sum of $200. 
Be sure your ground is good, and then bo 
sure you maintain your ground. 
THE TASTE FIR PLANTING. 
Our agricultural and horticultural peri¬ 
odicals. are doing great things in popular¬ 
izing this taste among our country people, 
and planting ouce the fashion , every body’s 
house will be smothered in trees and climb¬ 
ers. Railroads, too, help the people to 
travel. They thus see what other folks do ; 
and they—that is the most observant of the 
travelers—go homo and do likewise. Rely 
upon it, the taste for planting is in progress. 
Compare tho recently built farm houses all 
over the country, with those of our boyhood, 
and mark tho change! Then, they wore as 
utterly bare of trees as of out-houses ; and 
all alone by themselves, naked, inhospitable, 
and desolate to the eye. Now, even the 
the same old tenements, inhabited by peo¬ 
ple of better taste, are changed in their out¬ 
ward style; various offices are attached, and 
they are comfortably nestled amid the deep 
shadow of fine trees, and rejoice in plats of 
shrubbery and Dowers. 
It is wonderful to compare the taste of 
tho laboring English with that of the same 
class of people in our own country. The 
one you can scarcely keep from cultivating 
his Dowers; and if iie, himself, iias no time 
to attend to it, his wife and daughters will. 
The other you can neither drive nor coax 
into the slightest attempt of tho kind. I 
have a quiet little cottage at one end of my 
principal farm—the tenement itself humble 
m appearance—scarcely worth a hundred 
dollars. I put into it an American •• hired 
man,” who chopped wood in winter, worked 
on tiio farm in summer, and was a capital 
hand at all sorts of rough labor. I irad 
somo Due young forest trees about the place, 
a comfortable garden stored with currant 
bushes, roses, and such like little affairs, as 
would make a laborer's home cheerful—for 
I like to see every body about me in the en¬ 
joyment of such little pleasant things 
not costing much, and looking pretty.— 
When he removed into it, I told him how 
comfortable and convenient these little ap¬ 
pendages would be about the place, yet ob¬ 
served the incredulous staring look he gave 
me by way of reply. To cut tho matter 
short, during tho year the man occupied 
the place, his “young barbarians” backed 
into, girdled and spoiled several of trees; 
the currant bushes were mostly stripped or 
their branches to carry into the “shanty” 
to pick the fruit from, while the cow came 
in to browse tho remainder. The pig was 
lot loose into the wretched, weedy garden, 
after the potato and cabbage patches wore 
cleared, and lie rooted up tho roses and 
hollyhocks, and tho place was sadly in ruins. 
When I remonstrated against such vile de¬ 
struction, the answer was, that “they had 
no use for such knick-nacks, and didn’t see 
the need of them 1” 
'This man “ walked Spanish,” of course, at 
the end of his year, and was succeeded by 
a quiet English laborer in like capacity, 
bating the “wood chopping”—Englishmen 
usually knowing little of such labor. And 
now came a change truly. “ Oh, what de¬ 
struction has been made here,” he would 
often exclaim. “I must Dx theso little 
things all up again. A nice bit of fruit we’ll 
get from these currants, and properly trim¬ 
med they’ll grow some good shoots again; 
and. sir, may I go into your house-garden 
and take up a few side-roots from the peo¬ 
nies and roses, and sum’mut of other things 
that can be spared and put in hero ? for 1 
hate to see a place naked, and without 
something to rest one’s eye on of a Sunday, 
and to give my wife a flower pot now and 
then.” "• To be suro you can,” was the re¬ 
ply and the “ more of them tho better.” All 
this was done in the course of tho spring, 
and no time lost either—for it was accom¬ 
plished out of tho regular work hours ; and 
in less than a twelvemonth tho place was 
turned into a little paradise, whero I often 
drop in and take a quiet chat as I pass, and 
learn from the laborer and his good-man¬ 
nered wile, much of tho humble and rural 
Life of England. 
The parallel will hardly, perhaps, hold 
good with the higher classes in America, but 
the difference in tho taste of the two peo¬ 
ple is surprising. This difference is partly 
incidental to the newness of our land, but 
much more owing to a want of taste —that’s 
tho flat reason. Here, we go blundering 
and daundoring along, looking to the “main 
chance,” and to the main chance only, as if 
to gather together dollars and estates, with 
which to bespoil our children who are to 
come after us—and in which latter purpose 
we usually succeed to admiration—were 
the only object worth striving for in life !— 
On tho whole, however, wo aro improving 
—but not half fast enough.— Downing’s 
Horticulturist. 
TO PRESERVE GRAFES FRESH. 
A correspondent of the Newark Adver¬ 
tiser says that for several years past he has 
succeeded in preserving Isabella grapes till 
March. “ We have had the luxury of hav¬ 
ing fresh grapes all through the winter; and 
have found them very useful and refreshing 
to the sick, especially to consumptive peo¬ 
ple. We pick ours to preserve for the win¬ 
ter as late as we can and save them from 
tho frost; gathering them when they are 
perfectly dry, say in tho middle of a sunny 
day. We take a dry box—a common can¬ 
dle box is very convenient for the purpose 
—first covering the bottom with cotton bat¬ 
ting. We then put down a layer of grapes, 
one cluster after another, as closely as they 
can well Ho. Care should bo taken that no 
broken or green ones are in tho clusters.— 
If there are. they will cause the others to 
mould and decay. We then put down an¬ 
other layer of cotton batting, and then an¬ 
other layer of grapes, until the box is full. 
Somo havo been at tho trouble to seal the 
end of each stem with wax. We do not 
believe it is of any service. As tho stems 
are brittle, it is necessary to handle them 
with a great deal of caro. When they aro 
thus laid down, much depends upon tho 
place where ^ou deposit the box. It should 
bo placed in tho dryest and coolest place 
you have in the house.” 
How to Eat Grapes. —Few peoplo know 
how to eat grapes. Some swallow pulp, 
seeds, and skin; others swallow only the 
pulp, ejecting both the seeds and skin. In 
a conversation with Dr. Underhill on this 
subject, he advised to observe the following 
rules, viz.: 
When in health, swallow only the pulp ; 
when the bowels aro costive, and you wish 
to relax them, swallow tho seeds with the 
pulp ejecting the skin. When you wish to 
check a too relaxed state of tho bowels, 
swallow the pulp with the skins, ejecting the 
seeds. Thus may the grape ho used as a 
medicine, whilst at tho same time, it serves 
as a relaxity unsurpassed by any other cul¬ 
tivated fruit. An adult may eat from three 
to four pounds per day with benefit. It is 
well to take them with, or immediately af¬ 
ter your regular meals. 
Strange Freak op Nature. — A large 
walnut tree, standing on the premises of Mr. 
Amos M. Johnson, of Southbury, during tho 
past season, has had the appearance of dy¬ 
ing—so much so that no life could be seen, 
except in one of the smallest limbs, grow¬ 
ing near tho base. During the early part 
of tho season this limb put forth its blos¬ 
soms. and now hangs loaded with nuts.— 
And what is the strangest part of the story, 
the remaining portion of the tree has late¬ 
ly commenced showing signs of returning 
to life, and as if just awakened from its win¬ 
ter’s sleep, is now budding and blossoming 
as in M av ! Mr. J., whose word in this 
matter can bo relied upon, would like to 
have some of our philosophers account for 
this phenomenon on a “ scientific principle.” 
—JYew Haven Courier. 
Jamustit (Sronormj. 
TOMATOES FOR WINTER USE. 
Take tho largest ripe tomatoes, which 
wash and drain; cut them across, and lay 
them with tho cut side up, in an earthen or 
wooden vessel; sprinkle well with alternate 
layers of tomatoes and salt; fill your vessel 
and lot it stand all night. In tho morning, 
pour off tho juice, with as many seeds as 
possible, and throw it away. Put them over 
the fire, boil slowly until reduced to a pulp, 
which rub through a seive, to get rid of the 
skins. Add to this pulp, Cayenne pepper 
enough to season it highly, and, if necessary, 
more salt; boil slowly for two hours, until 
quite thick; stir well to prevent burning. 
When cold, put it into shallow, earthen 
plates to dry in the sun, or a slow oven.— 
When quite dry, put it into glass jars, and 
if kept in a dry place, where it will be free 
from mould, it will bo as good at the end of 
tho year, as when first made. A piece half 
an inch thick and three inches square, will 
season a gallon of soup. 
If wanted for sauce, soak it in warm 
water, add butter rubbed with crumbs of 
bread or flour, and stew for a few minutes 
before serving it. 
A CONVENIENT WAY TO PlCKLE CUCUMBERS. 
—Put some spiced vinegar in a. jar, with a 
little salt in it. Every time you gather a 
mess, pour boiling vinegar on them with a 
little alum in it. Then put them in the 
spiced vinegar. Keep tho same vinegar for 
scalding all. When you have enough take 
all from tho spiced vinegar, and scald in the 
alum vinegar two or three minutes till green, 
and then put them back in the spiced vine¬ 
gar.— Miss Beecher s Recipe Book. 
Apples in Clusters. —Mr. Rufus Tuttle, 
of this town, brought into our offico yester¬ 
day, a specimen from his orchard in the 
shape of a limb two feet long, having on it 
forty-five apples. They were clustered upon 
the branch nearly as thick as grapes. The 
vield of apples this year in our county, so 
far as our observation has extended, prom¬ 
ises to bo unusually plentiful.— Fredonia 
Censor. 
A writer in the New York Express, who 
seems to bo a physician, thinks that a pru¬ 
dent use of coffee is advisable, at least that 
is a valuable remedy in cholera. Ho also 
recommends Old Hyson tea in cholera in¬ 
fantum.—a teaspoonful of tea to a quart of 
boiling water, sweetened with white sugar, 
and given in moderation. 
The Curate’s Pudding. —To 1 lb. of 
mashed potatoes, while hot, add four ounces 
of suet, and two ounces of flour, a little salt, 
and as much milk as will give it tho consist¬ 
ency of common suet pudding. Put it into 
a dish, or roll it into dumplings, and bake a 
fine brown.— Lady’s Book. 
Jackson Sponge Cake. —Take one cup of 
flour, one cup of sugar, three eggs, and one 
teaspoonful of cream tartar, stir them well 
together, then dissolvo one-fourth of a tea¬ 
spoonful of saleratus in a tablespoonful of 
iiot water, add to the cake, stir briskly and 
bako half an hour. 
To Pickle Nasturtiums. — Pick them 
when young on a warm day; boil somo vin¬ 
egar with salt and spice, and when cold put 
in tho nasturtiums ; or they may be put into 
old vinegar from which green pickles or 
onions have been taken — only boil it up 
afresh. 
To Pickle Tomatoes. —Throw thorn into 
cold vinogar as you gather them. When 
you have enough, take them out, tie some 
spices in a bag. and scald them in good vin¬ 
egar. Pour tho vinegar hot over tho to¬ 
matoes. 
%icrljtmtc Jlrta & $rance. 
LIST OF PATENT CLAIMS 
ISSUED FROM TIIE UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 
For the week ending September 7, 1852. 
Federal C. Adams, of Aberdeen, Ohio, for im¬ 
provement in smoothing irons. 
Chauncey H. Guard, of Brownville, N. Y., for 
improvement in machines for making caniage- 
wheels. 
f Adolph Hammer, of Philadelphia, Pa., for im¬ 
provement in refrigerators of wort. 
Simeon W. Albee, of Walpole, N. H., for im¬ 
provement in apparatus for feeding chickens. 
Awriu Bugbee, of Charlton, Mass., for improve¬ 
ment in Railroad siguals. 
Fred'k Bronner, of Vera Cruz, Mexico, for im¬ 
provement in preserving India rubber. 
Daniel Fitzgerald, of the county of New York, 
N. Y., for improvement in graiu harvesters. 
James P. Haskin, of Syracuse, N. Y., for im¬ 
provement in the manufacture of common salt. 
Carl Hinrichs, of New York, N. Y., for improve¬ 
ment in the manufacture of sulphuric acid. 
John G. Dunn aud Alfred F. Howes, of Law- 
renceburgh, Ind., for improvement in the compo¬ 
sition of enamel. 
Israel P. Magoon, of St. Johnsbury Vt., for im¬ 
provement in apparatus for heating feed-water of 
locomotives, Ac. 
Edwin A. Palmer and Adolphus I. Simmons, of 
Clayville, N. Y., for improvement in whiffie-tree 
hook. 
Charles A. Robbins, of Iowa city, Iowa, and 
Harvey Allen, of Allen Grove, Wis., for improve¬ 
ment in air-tight mail bags. 
Julius Thompson, of Nor f h Bridgewater, Mass., 
for improvement in a blow-pipe for Dentists, Ac. 
Hiram Tucker, of Cambridgeport, Mass., for 
improvement in preparing stone in imitation of 
marble. 
Luther C. White, of Meriden, Conn., for method 
of making lamp-tops, rivets, Ac. 
DESIGNS. 
Peter Stephenson, of Boston, Mass, for design 
for a Medallion of General Scott. 
Peter Stephenson, of Boston, Mass., for design 
for a medallion of Fianklin Fierce. 
Wm. L. Sanderson, of Troy, N. Y., assignor to 
Reuben R. Finch, Sr. and Reuben R. Finch, Jr., 
of Peekskill, N. Y., for design for a coal stove. 
WATER-PROOF PAINTS. 
A writer in a late number of the Scien¬ 
tific American, supplies us with the follow¬ 
ing information with regard to paints, which 
may bo useful to our readers : 
Cheap and useful paint for roofs, walls, 
fences, outside plastering, See., may be made 
by using tar, made thin with spirits of tur¬ 
pentine. Let this be used instead of lin¬ 
seed oil, and to form the body add fine 
earthy matter such as dried clay or soft 
burnt bricks ground fine in a plaster mill. 
The soft shaly slates of different colors, 
like the “ Ohio Paint,” also answer a good 
purpose when finely pulverised to form the 
body of paint. For tho coarsest kind of 
work, dry fine sandy loam may be added as 
a body. Any of these earthy bodies when 
made sufficiently fine can be used to good 
purpose in painting either with the tar mix¬ 
ture or oil. Plastered walls on tho outside 
of buildings may thus be rendered water¬ 
proof and lasting by using the above cheap 
paints, and after one or two coats, it will 
take but a small quantity of oil paint with 
lead, to make a fine finish with a single coat 
of any desired color. Whenever a surface 
thus rendered impervious by this cheap 
means, is painted over with oil and lead, a 
single coat upon the surface instead of be¬ 
ing" absorbed will dry in a thin tough film 
on tho surface, and bo more effective than 
three coats of the samo paint put upon an 
unprepared surface, which, like that ot 
common wood-work, absorbs the oil from 
the lead. 
PLASTERING WALLS. 
The Scientific American lias an article 
on plastering walls, from which we copy the 
following : 
Tho lime generally used for this purpose 
is the white lime, which is slacked with a 
great deal of water, and runs from an up¬ 
per basin to a lower one, where the excess 
of water is allowed to evaporate. A gra¬ 
ting should be placed at the entry of the 
passago between the two basins, to keep 
back tho core, or any unslacked particles 
tho upper one might contain. The lime 
run in this manner is made into a mortar 
with a very fine sand ; and the hair is then 
added. For the first coats coarse hair will 
be most desirable ; for tho finishing coat it 
should bo finer. 
In well-finished works two coats aro giv¬ 
en, which are distinguished by the names of 
“ rendering” and “ floating.” A third coat 
is then added called tho setting coat, which 
is made of tho puro lime as it is run from 
the basin. Ceilings are afterwards covered 
with a very light coat of plaster, gauged 
thin, and laid on with a trowel. Such plas¬ 
tering is very cheap ; and if proper atten¬ 
tion be paid to its execution so as to avoid 
blisters from the uso of unslackod lime;— 
to fill tho cracks which frequently take place 
in the thicker coats, from the unequal con¬ 
traction of tho limo in setting; and to allow 
a proper interval for tho whole plastering 
to dry before tho painting, or subsequent 
decorations to bo added, is applied; the lime 
and hair may bo safely admitted as a sub¬ 
stitute for tho natural plaster. 
A new bottomless lifo-boat lias been invent¬ 
ed. It will not capsize in the water, and is 
so constructed that numbers of lives would 
be saved in caso of shipwreck or fire. 
CAST IRON BUILDINGS. 
Cast iron, for building purposes, is coming 
each day more into uso, as its capabilities 
aro more manifested by experience and its 
superiority over other material, for strength 
and durability, is made evident by trial.— 
Since public attention has been turned 
to its excellent qualities, iron buildings aro 
erected in all the principal cities. A writer 
in the Boston Transcript points out many of 
the advantages possessed by iron, for build¬ 
ing purposes, to say nothing of tho security 
against conflagration, which such buildings 
would afford. Frames of buildings can bo 
cast, according to any style of architecture 
or taste. Frames of iron will bo of much 
less dimensions than can be made of wood, 
for buildings of similar sizes. Thoy can bo 
cast so as to bo firmly united and jointed 
throughout the whole structure. And the 
parts and portions exposed to view may be 
highly ornamented by the pattern. Tho 
connecting and strengthening portions and 
parts may be curvelinear, or straight, making 
angles or squares or other forms, or bo va¬ 
riously ramified in these structures. 
Within tho frame work, panels of cast 
iron may be set, there being an outward arid 
an inward groove for the reception of an 
outward and inward panel or finish. Tho 
panels can be cast alter patterns of the 
greatest beauty and taste. Between these 
panels but little space will be necessary; 
therefore, upon a given lot, more indoor 
room will bo obtained therewith than by 
any other building materials. The sleepers 
and floorings being of iron, more height of 
stoi’y will be afforded, with the same height 
of building, than with the materials now in 
uso. Roofs should be double, so as to afford 
a current of air to pass between them in tho 
sultry season of the year. Thorough ventil¬ 
ation, may bo maintained throughout tho 
edifice, and a more equal temperature. 
Such buildings also would be a thorough 
protection against tho destructive effects of 
lightning, the electric fluid would find the 
best conductor to the ground, where it would 
be safely distributed. One can order his 
house from the foundry, of a particular size 
and pattern finished for erection, to the 
turning of the key, doors, windows, sashes, 
stairs, and all the fixtures, even to flues of 
good draught, provided or furnished there¬ 
with. These frames and plates need be only 
of tho necessary thickness and dimensions. 
Where much strength is required the sup¬ 
port may be increased by hollow castings, 
enlarged in dimensions, but not much of J 
any in weight. The foundation for such 
structures will therefore be less costly and 
extensive, than those required where other 
materials are used.— American Railway \ 
Times. 
SELF-OPENING RAILROAD GATE. 
Few branches of human interest offer j 
greater latitude for improvement than those 
connected with railroads. Every day sug¬ 
gests somo new object suited to render 
traffic along the lines of travel safer and 
easier, and then the wonder is that it was 
never so conceived before. Thinking thus, 
we aro pleased to notice that Mr. Fi. P. Car¬ 
ter, of Yorkshire, N. Y.. has secured a pa¬ 
tent for a Self-Opening Railroad Gate. It 
is simple in its construction, easily applied 
to the track, cheaper than a culvert, and 
safer. A set of gates has been tested on a j 
side track of the New York and Erie rail¬ 
road, at a station 65 miles east of Dunkirk, 1 
and are represented as having worked to a 
charm—so easy as to open equally to a | 
hand-cart at four miles an hour as to a lo¬ 
comotive at 40 miles. This gato is at tho 
same time so formidable as to head off cat- j 
tlo of any kind that may course along the 
track. The inventor is preparing engrav- j 
ings and description in full, and will then | 
test its utility before any railroad company 
whose interest and public spirit may prompt | 
them to add to the safety of railway travel. 
Mammoth Telescope. —We learn there is i 
an undertaking of great interest to scientific 
persons within a few miles of London. A 
wealthy country clergyman, named Craig, is 
constructing a new monster telescope, on tho 
achromatic principle, which will surpass the 
celebrated instrument constructed by Lord 
Ross, in Ireland. Its total length will be 85 
feet, and its greatest circumference 13 feet. 
The weight of the tube is three tons, and the 
contrivances adopted to prevent vibration, 
and to allow of its being rapidly turned to 
any required point, are described as being 
singularly perfect and ingenious. It is un¬ 
derstood that the observatory will be en¬ 
dowed by Mr. Craig, so that it may be main¬ 
tained in perpetuity for the advantage of 
astronomical science. From tho date of its 
completion, which may shortly bo expected, 
it will doubtless draw many persons from all 
parts of the world. 
Scientific Triumph. —Mr. Edward Clarko 
of Philadelphia, publishes a statement de¬ 
scribing a new nose made for him by Dr. 
Pancoast, of that city, to supply the one ho 
had lost some sixteen years ago. A pieco 
of flesh from the forehead was sewed into 
tho elioeks; a gutta percha mold of his fath¬ 
er’s nose was placed over it to give it the 
proper shape; and gold tubes were inserted 
for tho nostrils. He says he has now a new 
nose — sound, and well formed—with the 
senses of feeling and smell as fine as they 
ever wero. 
Hobb’s patent American lock is being 
manufactured at Birmingham. Sheffield, 
Wolverhampton, and in London, in large 
numbers, and of all sizes, at prices ranging 
from six shillings to fifty pounds each. In 
a few days tho office of “ Hobb’s American 
Lock Company ” will bo opened in Cheap 
side for the sale of these American locks.— 
The bank lock, price fifty pounds, has al¬ 
ready been placed on the vaults of the Bank 
of England, the East India Co., and several 
. private banking establishment iu the city. 
