Maumee express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1837-1838, 1837-04-22

lNvHNgIoNs.-lt is really both amusing and
instructive.to witness he inventions and dis
coyeries WHICH are daily made in all the arts
and sciences. The minds of all who possess a
taste for mechanics, seem to be on a continu-
al stretch after either some new invention, or
some improvement upon an old one, and the
newspapers of the present day are filed with
notices and descriptions of new machines,
new medicines, new discoveries, and new op-
erations. One man fills his balloon, and stears
his course across the British channel; an
other promises his friends trip from England
to America, as soon as he can complete his
newly invented machine for beating against
the wind. One man bends the whole ener-
gies Of mighty genius to the discovery ofthe
mode of applying the caloric produced from
the combustion of anthracite coal to the gen.
Grafton of steam for steamboats, another with
a mind equally bent upon the general, as well
as his own individual good, produces steam
engine, in which the rarfied air from the fur
mace, and the steam from boiler, are both
thrown into the cylinder together. One man
propels his boat by an immense sculling oar
from the stern while another claps wings to
his engine and blows her through the air, with
clatter like Yankee tanning mill. But of
all the matters upon which the projectors of
this world have puzzled themselves, the great
est, most sublime, and incomprehensible, is
that of the Perpetual Motion. This has been
discovered, to the immortal honor OF the for
tunate discoverer, at least as often as twelve
times in year, for the last twenty years, apd
so feeting and transitory are things OF this
life, that it is extremely doubtful whether the
results of any one of these discoveries are at
present in existence. True, one man has
made machine which will run for ever and
ever, and ever and another has constructed
one that will run till it wears out; and anoth-
er has set up one which would be per petu-
al motion, but that it will not go-or that there
ment of the machine that it either runs doaon,
or breaks itself to pieces in a short time. One
man propes his perpetually motive machine by
means of gavanism, another by magnetism,
and a third by y- some other " ISM" and
some do not propel them at all, and of course
they do not go. We might notice thousands
of other new inventions, equally valuable, but
we have made it rule to stop where we get
to the end of our sheet, so we must be short.
We cannot however help mentioning the new
machine invented at Hamburg, by which a
mans leg may be amputated, the arteries ta-
!:ken up, and all matters arranged in one Sc
,cond the new mode of building in New York,
by which arches are supported without abut-
sments, and buildings constructed which will
come down themselves without calling the
new steamboat invented in Portage county,
.and to be built with cast iron frame, and
wrought iron covering and the new way of
getting rich on the Maumee river, by {" mark
ing up" on the real estate.
HYDRopHoBIA-'rhe immense and rapidly
increasing number of deaths by this terrible
disease, in this country, presents "a subject
calculated, to. alarm every friend to humanity.
The papers are literally filled with distressing
delineations of the sufferings and deaths of
our felow-ctizens, caused by canine madness.
The cause of the prevalence of this disease
can Only be accounted for by the immense in
crease of worthless and vagabond dogs, bred
and owned byrowners as reckless and almost
rstg' dangerous as themselves, which fill the
\ streets of our cities and towns, and whose r-
>ASaar and loathsome lives, are the causes by
which the disease is.generated. 1t will be a
appy day when the legislatures of the differ
'cEt states shall unite in passing such laws in
relation to dogs, as shall amount to an absolute
prohibition, either Of raising or vending the
article.
GT- The Legislature of Massachusetts,, for
some weeks past, have been dabbling with
eseltion. Resolutions, affirming in strong
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