The North-Carolina standard., 1842-11-09

"Reaily--I can't help--laughing! hal hal
said Mrs CLANCY, when she perceived him Jump
ing up without injury sst is well that no one but
yourself met with the first serious consequences of
you invention"
"It is very unkind in you, Mrs. CLANCY, posi-
lively quite unfeeling, to laugh at one on such an
occasion" returned MIR. CLANCY, getting in pas
sion to cover his notification; E'accidents may
happen to anybody's invention; if you had thought
moment, your own observation must have con-
vineed you of that How many steamboat and
railroad accidents have you heard of lately ?
Every newspaper, almost, brings intelligence of
some shocking catastrophe originating in the best
constructed machinery"
Mrs. Chancy was easily corrected she apollo
glsed with much humility, inquired if he was hurt,
and condoled with him so affectonately that he
soon recovered his wonted good humor. We
should have said almost A little pique still re-
maned, which instead of putting check upon
his new passion, ministered to its ardor To be
laughed at by his own wife it was more than a
man of his spirit ought to submit to, and Mr..
CLANCY determined that she, as we'll as the world,
should appreciate his abilities So, though the
chair was allowed little rest other projects went
actively on. Though previously not much of a
reader, he was now seldom seen in the house
without book in his hand some treatise or 9TH
er relating to the subjects uppermost in his head
1t was hard to get sentence out of him that did
COutdIIl the WOTQ machine, OF OF
synonyme. He talked about the lever, the full
crum, the wheel or axle the pully, the inclined
plane, the wedge and the screw, as understanding
y as schoolboy, reciting his well conned lesson
in mechanics. His old acquaintances were much
surprised, and his new ones inquired if Mr. Chan
cy was not rather eccentric.
The workstand was completed-a complication
of intricacies. There were drawers within draw
crs and boxes within boxes; an apartment for each
1ofo s,,r;tb 81, 10
yer TO lift it out; all requiring as much time in
opening and shutting, raising up, and pushing a.
side, as it would have taken to eXtricate various
implements and materials from disordered work
bag. Mrs. CLANCY did not presume to laugh this
time, but assuring the inventor that 1t was too IN
genious for any thing but curiosity, she declined
making any deposits in it. MIR. CLANCY himself
more delighted with it than with his first per-
formance; so much so, that he was not satisfied
with the admiration and appreciation of merely his
friends and neighbors, but he clandestinely slip
ped into the communication boxes ofs several print
ing Offices, COPIES in carefully disguised hand,
of note to the following effect: "The editor of
- is respectfully invited to examine highly
curious specimen of American mechanical ability;
workstand invented by our worthy and ingeni-
GUS townsman, Job CLANCY, Esq. 1t may be
seen at the furniture rooms of Mcssrs D.
G., &C." Thither it had been remanded for
exhibition.
The workstand was followed by workbox
and footstool, and coffee-roaster, and coffee
boiler. Mrs. CLANCY no longer felt any inclina-
ton to laugh She sighed at the footstool, and
groaned at the colfcc-pot She became apparently
the most concnted woman in the world being a.
fraid to complain of anything about the house,
however nconvenient it was, or out OF repair lest
she should hear the ominious response, ''Pll invent
you one" Another cause now operated against
her as much as her laughing had done. No ed
itors called, and Mr. CLANCY got no pufs, and he
felt compromised with his dignity 10 persevere,
until they should be compelled to lend him hand
on his way up the hill of Fame. To accomplish
this, some great effort must be made, and he de-
tcrmined that the result should be eooking-stove.
His readings were now doubled, and his draw
irgs quadruplcd. The margins of every news
paper brought into the house were covered with
squares and parallelograms, and triangles and cir
cles, and spheroitls, and the pans of the parlor
CRATES, whenever he was in the house. were to the
extreme annoyance of his wife, always Uttered with
WRITINGS So great an undertaking required a
more practical acquaintance with the mysteries of
powers than he possessed as yet, and
he daily frequentcd the manufactures where they
operated to the fullest extent AS his plan ma
tured he became more and more charmed with it.
and he concluded that he must have it patented
The construction of the model followed, and in
creased his labors as we'll as his satisfaction. 1t
was now rare chance to find him in his count
ing room. The clerks were running every day
TO his house in search of him, and of his resorts
his wife was as ignorant as they for he intended
that his production should remain a profound Sc
cret, until he should be able to present it to the
world all finished and furnished from pipe to feet.
Then came the time for the casting of the plates,
and as the foundry at which this was to be execu-
ted was at some distance nsthe country, his absen-
teeism was proportionably increased. His bust
ness, for want Of his attention, began to decline,
and in one week, the sometime honest and pune
tual Job CLANCY had two notes protested. Ofthis !,
Mrs CLANCY was informed, their eldest son being
employed in the bookkeeping and her uneasi-
ness became greater and greater, His friends, |
too, became acquainted with it, and adding it to
his frequent dsappcarances from his post, and the
distracted and restless manner which had grown
upon him, they began to question each other as to
whether CLANCY had not got himself into Difficult
ties.
A journey to Washington brought matters to
a climax He had never before left home with
out taking his wife with him, if ON pleasure, nor,
if on business, without giving her statement of
what was to be transacted and this time he did
neither. Her anxiety may be imagined. Our
readers, we presume, will understand that he went