It is the looping and knotting of the two U> E S T 
tlireadd used. 
Docs that do any harm ? 
Yes; it wears off when garments are washed 
and ironed. It doea not look well unless as cm- gg|jS|3 
broidery. No one would like ahanderchief hem- fej||Jg|j|| 
mod with it, or any seam made that shows. A 
bsndsome stitch, you know, only shaws a single 
line of thread. DR, 
IIow much thread does it take fora yard of CQZLI 
seam f or I 
About six and one-half (6%) yards. The most T:;Cy vri11 !v< 
of any machine. SFEC'T. 
What machine makes this stitch * The most 
Hie Grover and Baker. nt.u “ ? 
Who use Sewing Machines? 
The Wheeler & Wilson are used by Seam- Overworked 
stresses, DrcBS MakcrB, Tailors, Manufacturers or obseurtt; 
of Shirts, Collars, Skirts, Cloaks, Mantillas, 
Clothing, Hate, Capa, Corsets, Ladies’ Boots and 
Shoes, Linen Goods, Umbrellas, Parasols, etc. 
They work equally well upon silk, linen, woolen 
and cotton goods, with silk, cotton, or linen 
thread. They will seam, quilt, gather, hem, fell, 
cord, braid, hind, and perform every species of 
Hewing, making a beautiful and perfect stitch, 
alike on both sides of the article sewed. 
How many Wheeler & Wilson machines have 
been soldi 1 
Nearly 800,000. 
How last can the machine work ? 
The Wheeler & Wilson Company has prepared 
tables showing, by actual experiments of four 
different workers, the time required to stitch 
each part of a garment by hand, and with the 
Wheeler it Wilson Sewing Machine. Subjoined 
is a summary of several of the tables: 
BY MACHINE. BY HAND. 
Hours. Minutes, Hours. Minnies. 
Gentlemen's Shirts.1 10 M 28 
Frock Coats.2 38 16 33 
Batin Vesta.1 H 7 19 
Linen Vests.0 48 3 14 
Cloth Pants.0 51 5 10 
Hummer Pants.0 88 2 00 
Silk Ureas.1 IS H 27 
Merino Dregs. 1 4 8 27 
Calico Dress.0 57 « 87 
Chemise.1 1 10 31 
Moreen bklrt.0 35 7 28 
Muslin Skirt.0 80 7 J 
Drawers.0 28 4 6 
Night Dress.1 7 10 2 
8111c Apron.0 35 4 16 
Plain Apron.0 0 1 28 
NUMBER OF STITCHES MADE PER MINCTK. 
By Hand. With Machine. Hat to. 
Stitching tine Linen.23 640 28 
Stitching Satin.24 520 22 
witching Silk.DO 550 18 
Seaming line Cloth.18 «M 15 
Patent Leather, line Stltch’g 7 175 25 
Fitting Laities' Gaiters.28 010 18 
Stitching Shoe Vamps.10 216 21 
Binding Hats.83 874 n 
When the machines are driven by power, the 
ratio is much higher—1,500 and 2,000 stitches 
per minute not being an unusual average. 
Think how much time is saved by using the 
machines. 
MATHEMATICAL PROBLEMS. 
The proportion of thread used in making the 
various stitches is as follows ; 
“Lockstitch” 1 “Chain Stitch,” 18-lOths; 
“ Double Chain Stitch,” 2 5-10ths. 
Prob. L If a “ Lock Stitch” machine uses 10 
cents worth of thread and silk in a day, how 
much would it use in a year of 300 working days ? 
Answer, $30. 
Prob. 2. How much would a “ Chain Stitch ” 
machine use in doing the same amount of sew¬ 
ing? Ans. $54 worth. 
Prob. 3. How much would a “Double Chain 
Stitch” machine use in doing the same amount 
of sewing ? Ans. $75 worth. 
Prob. 4, There will he ultimately at least a 
million of sewing machines used in the country; 
at the above rate, what value of thread and silk 
would be nsed annually If all of one klud 
were used? Ans. “Lock Stitch,” $30,000,000; 
“Chain Stitch,” $54,000,000; “Double Chain 
Stitch,” $75,000,000. 
Prob. 5. What value of thread would be wast¬ 
ed by the “ Chain Stitch ?” Ans. $24,000,000. 
Prob. 0. What value would be wasted by the 
“ Double Chain Stitch ?” Ans. $45,000,000. 
Prob. 7. If there be 0,000,000 of families in the 
United States, how much would it cost to 
send each a weekly newspaper at $1.50? Ans. 
$0,000,000. 
Prob. 8, IIow much to seuk a monthly maga¬ 
zine at $2.00? Ans. $12,000,000. 
Prob. 0. IIow much would remain of the $45,- 
000,000 of waste, for Missionary, Educational 
and Charitable purposes? Ans. $24,000. 
Ts it wicked to waste tilings ? Yes, 
Then what sewing machine should be used ? 
Ans. “ Whkelek and Wilson’s Lock Stitch 
Sewing Machine.” 
anything animate or inanimate could resist the 
mournful persuasiveness of its tone; yet the 
obdurate Latin would not come. If the Greek 
of Orpheus could charm the stones and trees and 
floods into harmony, why could not the Latin of 
this fair girl inspire some stone or tree with life 
to w diaper to her even another triplet of this pro¬ 
nominal cabala? 
But the rest came not. “ Hie, Tutc, hoc," she 
utters disconsolately, und the purl, purl, splash 1 
of the brook, as her feet darit up anil down in its 
limpid waters, seems to laugh derisively back— 
“ Hk, Jure, hoc." 
Surely, surely, this is nothing even aemi- 
terrestrlal. ’Tia In truth a thing of clay unal¬ 
loyed. Naiads and fairies and dryads have no 
need of a smattering of Latin; their ambition 
doesn’t run in that direction. They are Indige¬ 
nous where they dwell and have to do only with 
indigenous things. They are, therefore, only 
what they seem. Theirs are no false embellish* 
menta. The riddle is then easily Bolved. She 
who idles and muses and dreams in the day with 
her eyes open, thus being neither of the heaven 
above nor of the waters under the earth, nor of 
the subterranean world, must, it is left to infer, 
be naught after all but a molecule of vivlfled 
mortality. She knows what ? Ilk, here, hoc, and 
in all probability her knowledge in the future 
will not reach even (wala waf) h-unc , hanc, hoc. 
y et,G enlightened and liypercultivatcdBodety, 
when this beauteous and ingenuous being is re¬ 
ceived into thine idolizing bosom, will she not be 
greeted by thy votaries and by here as a young 
lady of classical attainments ? Why should she 
not ? Prithee answer. Her claims, are they not 
as well founded as are those of her contempora¬ 
ries, elegant and fair and gushing? Few young 
Who will deny that he was everything graceful, 
gallant and divine ? Be sure, Clabinda will not. 
Oh, there’s nothing so inclines yonngbearts to 
love and brings them to know the mutual flame 
more truly ami more quickly than a meeting or 
a tryst beneath the shade of the trees in the 
greenwood, where the birds sing blithely and 
the fragrance of rich blossoms ascends in the air; 
where fountains play and streams run freely and 
where the sky looks down calm and pure and 
silent and benignant, through the leafy boughs. 
Here nature sways, and here her voice speaks in 
everything, and to everything the kindest and 
most infallible of words. Happy, thrice happy ! 
they who, surrounded by her, yield to her mys¬ 
terious promptings, and permit to thaw away 
und break in pieces the euperlicial trammels of 
the world. 
If a youth and a maiden love, why should it be 
a secret and kept from each other? Let them 
take pattern by the birds, and love as innocently 
and as well. So loved our heroine and her 
Thujas (she persisted in calling him Hujus.) 
Their olfection, though sudden in its growth, 
was tried by the test of years, and was never 
found wanting. After the strange and unex¬ 
pected meeting in the grove, but a few short 
months had flown, and they were married. 
Many years are now gone by, and they are 
blest and happy In the affections of a flourishing 
family. The eldest ehild, a girl, a perfect picture, 
of her father all say, received at the baptismal 
font the name of Hujusia Clarinda ; the eldest 
son (also remarkably like his father) rejoices iu 
the euphemism of II 1 CHOCD 8 James. He is a 
promising young roan. Beside those there arc 
live other children, (all of whom bear a striking 
resemblance to their progenitor,) who arc the 
happiest, the handsomest and smartest young 
beggars in the world. 
And now, reader, I will tell you a secret. 
When you have heard it, I know you will think 
me, for certain reasons, the most confounded 
egotist in the world. However your opinion 
may be, here goes. I’ll out with it. Then, dear 
reader, know that 1 who recount this little talc — 
yes, I — am the identical Hujus himself, who won 
his Clarinda in so peculiar a way. And this 
family of seven children, the finest children in 
the land, call me father when I am at home. So 
farewell! and farewell the mossy bank where the 
maples grow with their thick foliage, and the 
birds sing so merrily and the water In the brook 
ever glides murmuringly along with its purl, 
purl, splash ! and its beaming over the white 
pebbles aud its flashing through the green sedges. 
Written for Moore’s Rural New-Yorker, 
MEMORY AND HOPE. 
BY MICHAEL O’CONNOE, 
Back through the mist and film of years. 
Through a cloud of blinding tears, 
O’er a file of silent biers 
We look with sighs, 
And boo, ranged on Memory’s shrine, 
Lights of love and pleasure shine, 
With the lustre of red wine 
And brilliant eyes. 
Still the farther back we gaze 
The more purely bright they blaze 
And the steadier shed their rays 
Forever more; 
While, an on through life wo go, 
Those lights that backward glow 
Dark and dreary shadows throw 
On all before. 
Written for Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
pERliVIAY fill AN O SUBSTITUTE! 
BAUCH’S RAW BONE 
SUPER-PHOSPHATE OF LIME. 
It was one of the pleasantest days of early 
summer. The sun was shining in a cloudless 
sky and the birds were singing merrily in the 
trees. A rill was laughing and sparkling along, 
winding through green meadows and shady 
groves. There was one spot embowered by 
the stateliest and most graceful trees; where the 
shade seemed the coolest of all, the rustling of 
the rivulet the merriest, and the. choral voice of 
birds the most joyous. There was a bank of the 
softest and most fragrant moss by which the 
water murmured and sang, and over which the 
houghs aud dense foliage of the oak and wild 
a] 1 pie tree waved, and played with the gentle 
Bummer breeze. 
A young girl was reclining on the velvety 
bank looking up through the long, dark fringes 
which shaded her eyes, into the foliage of the 
trceB above her. There came now and again 
throngh the vista of leaves and branches a 
glimpse of the unfathomable blue of the fleck- 
less sky. Her eyes were ns unfathomable a 
bine, and the calm which brooded above had iU 
reflex in their quiet and unmoved depths. Her 
hair of an ever-changing golden hue nestled in 
long, silken ringlets, around the snowiest Of 
necks, seeming as though it were coy of the 
stranger sunbeam which at times stole its way 
through the lubyrinth of leaves, and sought pro¬ 
tection where it wound Itself around and clung. 
The upturned face was classically beautiful, and 
though a cloud wonld fly across and darken for a 
moment its openness; yet one could easily read 
its pages. Tt was the natural seat of ingenuous¬ 
ness and intellect. 
Purl, purl, uphudi! went the brook. Her tiny 
feet were in Its waves, and they danced and 
leaped about them and kissed their dimples and 
caressed their marble, whiteness. No whiter or 
more sparkling pebbles in the bosom of the 
stream, one may dare be sworn, did those wave¬ 
lets kiss that day. 
What was she, this fair girl, looking so pensive 
and so spiritual? Was there any real romance 
about her? Was she alone? Was she sorrow¬ 
ful ? Hud she been deserted by some cruel ami 
forsworn lover, and had she wandered here all 
by herself to ponr her complaints on the passing 
breeze, to sigh w ith the trees, and to murmur 
with the gliding stream, turning the jocund 
melody of its waters into strains of sadness and 
despair ? Or, if it is permitted to navigate thus 
far the sea of conjecture, why not sail a little 
farther? Was she of the daughters of earth, 
earthy ? Was she a semi - terrestrial ? That 
lithe and airy form, which stretched itself out 
thus on the green moss, might well have been 
taken for some naiad disporting herself in her 
native stream, or wood-nymph at her mysterious 
and secret ablutions, a dryad looking into the 
arms of her fated oalc. Was she an out and out 
celestial ? She was fair enough, and good enough, 
who can doubt; but now and again there was a 
load of care on her brow. Angels do not carry 
troubled countenances — nay, not even for a 
moment, we are led to believe. Therefore, how 
could she be an ungel? They wear crowns of 
gold on their heads, our grandmothers tell US, 
and arc clad in robes of dazzling white, forever 
aud ever. They never cease singing, and, if pic¬ 
tures arc painted true, they are ever on the grin 
and carry pigeons’ wings attached to their hacks 
in a manner which must he exceedingly awkward 
if> my the least. 
Well, she could not really have been an ortho¬ 
dox ang^!, of course. She bore no crown press¬ 
ing down the freedom of her tresses, she was 
neither singing nor grinning, and if she had 
wings they were hidden beneath her; as to 
robes, Booth to say, here were not at all of the 
“ snowy and spotless white ” description. They 
were nmrky of hue, a little the worse lor wear 
and not a bit “flowing.” Her lips part, the 
shade returns aud clouds the brightness of 
her face. A low murmur like the music of the 
birds, or the tinkle of silver bells, or the soft 
sighing of zephyrs, or the liquid melody of fall¬ 
ing fountains, or any other fine simile you please, 
comes forth. The murmur forms itself into 
vocal sounds, and says as plainly as the Grecian 
contour of feature and exquisite symmetry of 
fonu before you — u Hie, hac, hoc —Me, here, 
hoc, oh! I can never learn it I Why, oh, why, 
will they persist in my learning this horrid 
nonsense! I never can do It, i know I cannot. 
Aie, Turc, hoc, hie, h<vc, hoe. What comes next I 
cannot say, J cannot remember, though to repeat 
another syllable of this disgusting rigmarole 
were to pour into my lap the riches of the world. 
Hie, here, hoe, oh! ” 
And though the music of the lips was like the 
voice of the bulbul, bo clear and soft and sweet, 
and though it were hard to understand how 
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ing, she refrained, llcr father received the 
world iu his mansion the coming eve; and the 
dear innocent wished to keep her eyes iu good 
ogling order for the occasion. So her dainty 
feet splashed and t he brook went purl, purl! 
“Oh dear,” she cried, “1 cml never learn it. 
I cannot ever remember it! Hie, Tunc, hoc. It is 
growing late, llie, lure, hoc. It is lime that I 
should begin my toilet. I wonder will that 
horrid Miss Hmi'ogs be here. Hie, lure, hoc. I 
perfectly detest that same piece. She has rod 
hair, and a squint, and a humpy shoulder, and a 
game — lire, hoc, hoc — I shall never know it, I 
know. And Mu sayB she lias only a common 
English education and knows nothing of French 
or Latin. Oh i slio is such a disgusting old crea¬ 
ture. She wears false— Hie, hoe, hoe, I know. 
Oh for somebody to nndoretaiul inc, some faith¬ 
ful breast to lean upon, some tender sympa¬ 
thetic heart! Hk, hue, hoc, I shall never” — 
“ ITttjus, hug us, Tntjun ” came low and deep and 
melancholy, like the love breathing coo of the 
wood-pigeon responsive to his tender mute, from 
a neighboring copse. “ JIujus, hujus, /rajas" 
and echo sent back tremulously, “ Hujus , hujus, 
hvjw / ” 
Ci.akinda, for indeed that was the maiden’s 
name, lay spell-bonnd; the purl, purl! of those 
twinkling little feet at last was stilled. Did she 
hear siright ? Was it a dream V was it a fantasy 
of an over-wrought, brain ? or was it a real, a 
living voice? So sweetly erotic and erotically 
sweet was the strain, as it stole upon her car, 
surely it could not be real. She would test, it,. 
Then, in tones measured and clear but somewhat 
shaken by 6trong emotion, she cried “ Hk, hire, 
hoe." 
“ Hujns, hujus, hujus" came back in strains 
lower, deeper, more erotically sweet, and more 
sweetly erotic. 
The voice died away; but the silence which 
followed was not long. There was a rustling of 
leaves, a crackling of dry twigs, and a blowing 
of the nose in gentle and mournful cadence; 
then a step,—aud a youth, tall, slight, hut com¬ 
pactly and symmetrically built, and of elegant and 
easy presence, dazzled the vision of Clarinda. 
There was a long and speechless gaze. Eye 
met eye and read It, and melted. Heart throbbed 
to heart, and son! answered to soul. In this 
moment the bli6S was so ineffable and supreme 
that to each it seemed years. They knew that 
they loved. They knew each the other’s secret. 
Shall 1 Bay that with a common and ungovern¬ 
able impulse, with a simultaneous, ecstatic 
shriek of “my own, my adored!” they flew into 
each other’s arms and sobbed upon each other’s 
irrepressible bosom ? No, I will not say it. Such 
a statement w ould be as devoid of truth as of 
literary decorum. Besides, we are recounting a 
true history. They did nothing of the kind; but 
if, overpowed by their surcharged feelings, they 
had in a moment of forgetfulness taken this mode 
of mutual relief, who could have the heart to 
censure ? 
He was from head to foot such a form as ladies 
love to look upon; and she, what man could 
withstand for a moment the witchery of her 
charms? Ladles doat on dark, curling locks 
floating in wavy luxuriance down broad and 
manly shoulders. He had exactly such locks, 
down precisely such shoulders. Dark and mys¬ 
terious eyes they adore. lie had two such eyes, 
black as Erebus, and as mysterious. Let a 
mustache of ebon hue (dyed? n'import?) come, 
and it has only to be seen to conquer. He had 
just such a mustache, und it was dyed. I 11 short, 
ladies love everything graceful, gallant, divine. 
WHAT IS A SEWING MACHINE? 
It is a machine for making clothing and doing 
Sewing of all kinds. 
Does it malic the same kind of stitch that a 
lady makes with her needle? 
No; it makes other kinds. 
What are they called ? 
“Lock Stitch.” “ChainStitch,” and “ Double 
Chain Stieh.” 
What is the difference? 
Here Is a picture of the Lock Stitch, as the 
thread looks w T hen stitched into the cloth, only 
this Is made larger and coarser that you may see 
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No. 1.—Lock Stitch. 
It is made with two threads, one on each side 
of the cloth, and “locked” together in the cen¬ 
ter. Hence it is called the “Lock Stitch.” It 
cannot be pulled out, nor raveled, and there Is 
only a single line of thread on each side of the 
seam. 
Is the seam strong and lirm ? 
Yes; just as Arm as the cloth when properly 
made. It is the principal stitch made by sewing 
machines siuce their first invention. 
How much thread does it take for a yard of 
seam ? 
About two yards and one half. 
What is the principal machine that makes the 
Lock Stitch? 
THE WHEELER & WILSON MACHINE. 
What is the “ Chain Stitch ?” 
Here is a picture of it. 
S liTS UP ITS OWN WORK, KNITS 
nil Mizes, widens and nun-own, knits the tie el into the 
stocking, and narrows off the too complete. Knits the 
single. double, ribbed aud limey flat web, predating all 
varieties of knit goods, irotu an Infant's stocking, mit¬ 
ten or glove to a lady’s shawl or hood. It Is Simple, 
Parable, and liistlu Operated- Women are earning from 
*15 to $20 per week knitting Hosiery, Staple aud Fancy 
Worsted Articles on this Machine. 
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all those cases of disease to which It is adapted. It is for 
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No. 2.— Chain-Stitch. 
It is such a stitch as the ladies make in knit¬ 
ting and crocheting, and it can be raveled in the 
same way. 
Is it much used in Sewing? 
No; because the seams made with it pull out 
60 easily. Think of garments coming apart 
when one is iu the street. 
How much thread does it take for a yard of 
seam ? 
About four and a half yards; or nearly twice 
as mnch as the “Lock-Stitch.” 
What is the principal muehiue making this 
Btiteli ? 
The Wilcox & Gibbs. 
What is the “Double Chain-Stitch?” 
It is very much like the Single Chain-Stitch, 
but it is made with two threads. 
Here is a picture of it. 
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No. 3.—Double Chain-Stitch. 
Can it be raveled? 
Yes; and shows a ridge on one side. 
What makes that ridge on the under side of 
the seam. 
