South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1837-05-13
USEFUL.
ATOEs-USBFUL RECIPE.


We every day hear complaints abou
watery potatoes. Putsinto the pot
piece Of lime as large as a hens egg
| and how watery soever the potatoes
! may have been, when the water i!
poured of. the potatoes will be perfect
~ dry and mealy. Some persons use
salt-which only hardens potatoes.
How TO REMovE A PoTAToE FROM TIE
THROAT OF CHOKING Cow.-Fasten the
head of the animal, standing, firmly to a post
! Let strong man with lis hand, completely
stop the windpipe by his grasp just above the
potatoe. and keep firm hold for a minute Oh
two, until the animal gives an involuntary
spring forward. Should the first experiment
| not succeed, let more be made. Reason
{ the wind INSTRUCTED in its passage through
| the windpipe, expands OF largely opens the
other pipe below the p5tatoe. and when the
animal makes q violent effort, the potatoe
goes downwacds. This is factworth know
| ing TO farmers, and upon enquiry find that
| few do know ii. had fatting cow thus
choking with pota:oe. After trying IN yam
several methods commonly known, l sg sam
relieved the creature in the manner l have
described; and informed nc that in the same
way he had saved number Of cattle before.
A MOST raroRrANT INvENTIoN.-Thea an
nesed account of toe invention OF new APP
nlicat;on of power to produce motion Of amost
affective character, will be better understood
and the value of the invention more fully aP-
preciated by adding some information verbal
" given by Mr.. HAsLAM.
The motion is effected by the vibration OF
heavy pendulum, which receives Its impulse
from a moderate and continuous exsrdon OF
human forte, and operates alternately on the
pistons of the two cylinders, which In their
motion produce equally in each direction OF
the pendulum the hydrostatic pressure By the
use Of water or some equally incompresaibie
fluid acting upon confined ar.
Should the effect produced by tits lnVen,
ton be such As is described and at so small
an expense pcoportioned to the magnitude OF
the power the changes that will be effected,
the benefits that will be derived from the use
of go variable discovery. will exceed even
tboea which have resulted from the use Of
steam. -,
We learn, indeed, from Mr.. Haslam that
on. Of the effects produced in Pittsburg by
witnessing the operation Of the machine con-
strueted there, was the countermand OF an
order for the construction of one or more
steam engines.-Bat. Gag.
From the Baltimore Farmer and Gardener.
A NEW MOTIVE POWER.
BALTIMORE, April s., 1887.
Mr.. RECONSTRUCTION stated to you the
fact Of an intimate acquaintance OF mine nav
ing constructed a machine ofalmost unlimited
propelling power on the Hydrostatc prlacl-
Die. YOU were so much pleased with the &C
court as to request COMMUNICATION from me
for insertion III your periodical; VITA tnatr
quest cheeriuliy comply.
The inventor Of this wonderful and useful
machine is Mr.. Theophjlus Corbyne, an EN-.
incentive erinarian-a native OF Scotland, and
now residing in Pittsburg, Pennsyl vania, who,
while practicing his profession, has Tor the
last seven wears employed his leisure hours
on this subject, and has now the satisfaction
of seeing his plan matured by having con-
structed one Of twelve horse power, which
comes fully up TO his most sanguine expecta-
tons.
This machine he calls Corbyne's Ilydrcs-
tatic propeliing Machine--Inl Its construction
If is too sirnpla % admit Of Improvement, and
as no steam nor heat Of any kind is used In
IFS operation, there can be no explosion, there
fore IN Its use NE IL sdit, anu SHcui.' any i't
break it is by its simple construction, admls-
sable of speedy repair.
1t is applicable TO the plough and all pro-
pelling purposes, and as such must suPercede
the use ofsteam.
A machine 500 horse power can beEvork-
cd by one man, and neither its weight nor the
room required, will be more than one tenth
of the steam engine.
We of the present age, entered on a new
era when Fulton brought his extended scheme
Ii he application of steam to the propelling
Of boats on water, in which smoke and va
pour supplied the place of canvass. The
same are is now bringing forth another era in
more useful ana extended scale of operation
in this discovery ofmy friend, who is phi
losopher and philanthropist in every sense of
the terms.
Although our profession has for several
wears made us intimately acquainted, visiting
each other, and conyersing freely, for mutual
benefit in our profession-yet, true Phiioso-
pber like, he never intimated 10 me that he
was studying the subject, until on his way to
Washington, he called on me and showed me
the model, which is now in the Patent Once.
With nv respects, am yours truly,
JOHN HASLAM.
*The inventor is fully under the impression
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