The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-03-26

London Times that that paper is now printed
with an improved machine, the invention of
Mi. Applegath, which strikes off the aston
ishing number of four thousand copies an
hour, or seventy copies in minute. This
speed is ttrenty times greater than could
have been attained with the kind of press
in use dozen years ago. for with that
press paper of the size Of the Times could
not have been worked, ON one side only at
the rate gilmore than four hundred impress
sions in an hour,-that is, two hundred an
hour on both sides.
1t would be curious to make computa-
ton Of the increased power given to man by
the press for the circulation of knowledge );
and though this cannot be done with accu-
racy, we may form some idea of it from cal
culating the saving of human labor produc-
ed by printing the Times, instead of ,Vrit-
ing out the copies by an amanuensis. To
write out the contents of one of its numbers
with the pen would occupy an amanuensis
six days; the extent of its circulation is, we
believe, between 5000 and 5000 copies
taking it, therefore, at the lowest number, til
would require $4,000 persons to write out
in one day all the copies of that journal
published daily. But this is a very defective
view of the case: we have yet made nc al
lowance for the great power of compression,
and the vast utility of that power, which the
art of printing affords. The paper requisite
J for an amanuensis to write out in an ordinary
hand, the contents of that newspaper, would
cost twelve times as much as the paper that
is used for printing it: the great bulk of
this paper would make it very inconvenient
to read, and almost impossible to circulate,
| the journal. The Importance of compress
sion then is obvious, and if, for the sake of
it, the amanuensis should be obliged to
compress his writing into the same space as
( the printing, supposing this possible, it
would take at least four times as long TO
perform his task. To write out in this way
the Times newspaper would therefore, oc-
cupy 1872, 000 scribes. But the press which
works off this newspaper is moved by steam,
and completes the impression in two hours ::
if it were necessary, the same press might
be going "a hours. in which time it would
i, do the work of tao million tico hundred
I and four thousand ScribeS Yet all the
manual operations which produce this result
are performed by about t,co dozen hands |!
Such are the advantages we owe to me-
chanical art, that, one man can do in the
present day what, four centuries ago, would
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London paper.
AMERICAN CASTOR Or. This very val
liable medicine is made by expressing the
oil from the bean of the plant Palma Chris
IT," ard is now cultivated in some of the
middle and western states to great advan-
!. tage. L: was not until the foreign coun-
tries, on which we heretofore were depend
ent for this article, laid high export duty
on it, that led to the manufacture of castor
oil in the United States, where it is now
made in great abundance, of better quality
and at less price. Large quantities Of
t American cold pressed castor oil were ship
ped to London in 1896, which paid the ship
per handsome profit, when Parliament deem
: ed it necessary to protect their possessions
in tha- East and. West. Ipdies, hY inGrfeaSinq
now equal to S160 per gallon; and even
, under these disadvantages, it will paw a
profit to the shipper. 1t is supposed that
the consumption of castor oil in the United
States is, on the most moderate calculation.
about one thousand barrels, or thirty thou
sand gallons a year. The crop Of the last
season will not, from the best information.
exceed two hundred barrels, or six thousand
gallons. This great deficiency is owing en-
tirey to the low price the article had fallen
to the year previous, when the crop was
more than fifteen hundred barrels.-Anoth-
er striking proof Of the resources of our
country.-Niles's Register.
ANIsrA1 SAGAciTY. 4 gentleman had
pointer, which, whenever he went shoot
ing, he was seen to take out with him. The
gentleman's custom was, on his return from
his diversions, to discharge his piece at
magpIes or carrlon-crows, which he would
take some pains to look for in the trees as
he passed along. The dog on these occa-
slons always kept behind, suppose that he
might not frighten those birds away, but
that his master might have fair chance at
them. 1t happened one day as he was upon
this business, that magpie, perched on the
top of large eak, escaped the gentleman's
notice. The dog, ever attentive to his mas
ter's pleasures, peeps into the tree himself.
and espies the party-colored animal, where
upon he runs up to his master, who has got
some yards from the place, lays hold of the
lap of his coat behind, and gives it a small
pull with his teeth. The gentleman, sur
prised, turns about to see what was the
matter, when the dog Immediately starts
back to the tree, and shows him the bird.
which the gentlemen very soon brought to
the ground. wonder, after such an in
stance of sagacity, any person can have the
effrontery to maintain that brutes are only
intelligent machines.-Imperiat Magazine.
SOUTHERN DIET. A gentleman in Geor-
gia writes to his correspondent in this town
as follows, respecting his ordinary fare
For eatables, we have fresh shad, green
peas, radlshes, rice, homny and sweet
! potatoes, which man would he foolish to
starve oyer. We have a story of two Vir-
! pinians. one of whom asked the otber uI,@t