Litchfield enquirer., 1830-03-04

orS means. Long IIIe 10 your nonoE loI the same! May ye live a long hundred and leap-years every one of them!
 Hoods Comic Annual. Insect Paper Mdker.-The wasp is a 1 paper-maker, and most perfect and in- 1 telligent one. While mankind are arri-
 wing, by slow degrees, at the art of fabri- eating this invaluable substance, the wasp
 was making it before their eyes, by very
 much the same process as that by which
 hnman hands now manufacture it with the best aid of chemistry and machinery.- While some nations carved their records 1 on wood, and stone and brass and leaden tablctS--otherS, more advanced, wrote with style on wax-othcrS employed the inner bark of trees, and others the skins of l animals rudeiy prepared-,he wasp was manufacturing firm and durable paper. Even when the papyrus was rendered
 more fit, by process of art, for the trans
 mission of ideas in writing, the wasp was
 better artizan than the Egyptians for the
 early attempts at paper-making were so
 rude that the substance produced was all
 most useless, from being extremely f'iable. The paper of the papyrus was formed of
 the leaves of the plant, dried, pressed
 and polished the wasp alone knew how
 to reduce vegetable flores to pulp, and
 then unite them by size or glue, spread 1 ing the substance out in d smooth and
 delicate leaf This is exactly the pro-
 cess of paper-making. It would seem
 that the wasp knows, as modern paper
 makers now know, that the flores of rags, 1 whether linen or cotton, are not the only
 materials that can be used in the formation ! of paper; she employs other vegetable
 matters, converting them into a proper
 consistency by her assiduous exertions.- In some respects she is more skilful even than our paper-makers, for she takes care to retain her flores of sufficient length, by which she renders her paper as strong as she requires. Many manufacturers of the present day cut their materials into small DIts, and thus produce rotten article.- One great distinction between good and 1 bad paper is its toughness and this differ ence is invariably produced by the fibre ot which it is composed being long, and therefore tough; or short, and therefore 1 friable.-Library of Ent'g KnoUl.
 O"tVSCtCS v tNUSyCOUHGUs-AnO OrdW" ford county, on an extensive plain, there l is a vast mound ofstones, containing seve- ral hundred thousand cart loads. This pyramid has stood through so many ages that it has become covered with soil, and ] from the top rises a noble pine tree, the roots of which, running down on the sides, fasten themselves in the earth below. The stones are many of them SO large that two l men can only move them with difficulty. and yet they are unlike any others found in the .neighborhood. Indeed there are not. in the neighborhood ,any quarries from which so large quantity could have been 1 taken. This artificial curiosity is on the borders of Oil Creek a name derived from natural curiosity no less remarka- ble than the foregoing. Springs exist on its margin from which there is constant flow of oil, floating on the surface of the water and running into the creek, which may be seen for great distance down the stream. The oil is burned in lamps, and lsed in various ways; but is particularly { valued for its medicinal qualities. The , inhabitants make excavations in the low md mnrshy ground which arc immedi- ,tcly filled with water covered with oil, which they skim off. Considerable quan- titles are annually brought to this city and sold to the apothecaries.
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