Litchfield enquirer., 1833-07-11
No. 5.-WMoLE No. S60.
THE HAND.


 yet how free in its motions
 This ingenious and useful little instru- ment is also fitted up with nerves, veins and arteries, all wrought in together, so as to give it strength, feeling and life, and at the same time to give it greater freedom and ease ot motion than eau be found, perhaps. in any other machine which has ever been constructed.
 Then there are the nails upon the 6n- gers, how convenient they are. How should we pick upa pin or needle, piece of paper or thread without them2 How should we open penknife, or square ths nibs of our peus2
 '~ Is not this little machine, the hand, more curious and more useful than s,eam engine? Besides the frame and cordage, the bones and muscles, tendons, nerves, veins and arteries, composing the meclfihicai construction of this curious instrument it has the still more remarkable character, of moving itself. Try and see how many mos tions the hand can make. It can move at the wrist without any other motion. So it can at the hnuckle joints, and lt the joints in the middle of the fingers. The thamb, or either finger can move while all the rest of the hand remains still. The wholo hand, and each finger can move back and forth. The fingers can spfeadthemselves apart, and come together again. The hand can shut itself with firm gripe and then throw itselfopen. IL can move pen and heavy beetle; apenknife and an axe. The operations and uses of tfiis constant living witness of Divine power and good- ness, are too numerous and too diversified to be named or imagined.
 TAF WRIST.
 In the wrist (carpus) are eigh, bonas. ar- ranged in two rows, closely packed, and strongly bound by fragments, or cords.
 The wrist bones have gentle motion on each other, and on the fingers also with the bones of the arm, and thus form an iDti-- mate and powerful connection between the arm and the hand.
 ARM AND HAND.
 In the hand, wrist and arm are thirty bones. That between the shoulder and el- bow is called the shoulder bone the one between the elbow and thumb, the radius that between the elbow and little finger, the ulma the wrist is called carpas and the bones between the wrist and fingers, the metacarpal bones.
 Frying Eggs.-S Schaffer. the dancing master, is now dead bul the memory of his weggery has survived him. He was onco a boarder at the Lan'b tavern, Boston, when that house was the resort of sundry genlle- men of the legislature. A party of the lasr had returned, one evening, from one of Pottcr's exhibitions; and while talking over what they had seen, in presence of Schaffer, confessed that nothing puzzled them so much as frying eggs in a hat. The modus Operandi of Potter's other tricks they thought they had detected but this particular feat quite exceeded their appre- hension. They couldn't for the life of them see throuehis. "Why, gentlemen" said Schaf1er, joining in the conversation, !" ! can't agree with you. It really strikes me that this trick of Potter's can be imita- ted with all the ease imaginable. Ifany gentleman here will accommodate me with the loan of his hat, I will do it in moment and if do not succeed, will forfeit bottle." All were eager to sec the perform- ance, and every hal was held out. Schaf- fer took the hat of one of the most strenu- ous doub.ers, and deliberately broke into it q dozen eggs. He then nnt,ered over the usual lincsniation--'' presto, vedo. change," &c. at the same time whirling tho hat pret- ,y vigorously, in order to give it's conto0tsa good stirring up. He then looked into the hat with face full of confidence. which vas instaDtaneously changed into blank, stu pid stare, on its being ascertaincd that the contents of the eggs SeMaiDed without change the hat, meanwhile, being pretty thoroughly soaked under the operalion.--- Having gazed for some moments at the rue- ful plight ofthe chapeau, Schaffer, recover ing from his apparent astonishment, at length exclaimed, !" well, gentlemen, am sorry to say, have lost the bet. But ! declare, I thought could do it.''
 Nr,eburyVors Herald.
 Early Rising.-In the will of the late MT. James Sergeant, oftbe borough of Lei cester, is tn. following clause relative to early rising :-As my nephews are fond of indnlging ia bed in the morning, and as wish them to improve their time while they are young, I direct that they shall prove to the satisfaction of my executors, that they have got out of bed in the morning, and ei- ther employed themselves in business or ta- ken exercise in the open air. from five o'- clock every morning, from the 5,h of April to the 10th of October, being three hours