Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1845-05-09


history OF many ri or comm NEST comforts
| The boy with his seal skin cap is content 10 feel
IFS warmth in the bitter breath of winter, with.
out rejecting upon the tale that cap could tell,
| II it were gifted with speech. Its original own
or was born and nursed upon an Arctic shore.
| where winter Iolds an almost eternal dominion
| There, amid fields Of ice, and in daily famllall-
| ~ with the whale the walrus, and the white
bear, it pursued its joyous and sportive career.
! Diving in the depths Of the sea. or migrating on
| floating fields of ice, it seemed forever happy in
corpanonship with its fellows, and gave even
to the CHASTITY scenes of the Arctic world, an
aspec, OF chcerlulncss. AT length il was slain
by the spear Of the Esquimauy, or the club Of
| the scaer the SKIN was stripped off and trans
ported TO Europe. Having undergone a pro-
cess Of dressing, II crossed the Atlantic passed
under the hammer Of the auc,ioneer, reached
the shop of the furrier, and after due conforma-
ton from the sheers and needle, arrived at its
ultimate destination on the school boys pate.
Extent OF AGRlcuLTuRE-If we reflect
that ahon,
S0000000 of human beings,
5n00O00 domcstcatcd horses, asses g. mules,
1500o0OO0 dnmesica'cd cattle,
100000 600 dnmes'ca'ed sheen,
10000 600 domestcatcd swine,
12,00O0O0 domesica,ed goats,
are to be fed, every day, by the industry Of man,
we shall have some faint conception OF the vast
sca'e upon which the operations of agriculture
are conducted. il we conceive that the sun, in
its daily course, wakes up the whole human
race to their labors, and imagine ourselves as
accompanying his morning rays in their fight
over the world, we may easily fancy the special
Giles of activity we should witness, on the hills,
and in the valleys, and spreading out from the
arctic to The antarctic circle
WONDERS OF THE CoTToy MANurAcToRY.-
| Nor Will our wonder be abacd, when we con-
slider the results Of these establishments. A
single cotton factnrv-'hat Of Merrimack at
Lowel-prodnces 250,0O0 yards of cotton cloth
a week. or l2,50O,000 yards year. There are
about 5000 yards Of thread in yard of cloth /;
thus every working day, this factory spins GOO
millions every working hour, and nearly one
million every minute! Thus, cord of +uc
ent length to belt the world at the equator, is
produced by a single factory in two hours
| Ihis is the work of one es' abllshment, and is
not more than two hundred'h part Of the whole
| manufacture OF the United States The length
OF thread, drawn ont by the cotton fact ries Of
the world, cannot be less than fifteen millions of
feet every working second, or every time the
bcart beats Such is the bewderlng magni-
lude of the scale upon which this single branch
OF human industry is conducted.
WONDERS OF THE Iron MANUrAcToRY.-
| The amount of Iron Annually produced in the
United States, is 100000 tons, all of which, and
much moro, is consumed in this country. The
amount vi nails alone, is supposed TO bt $1,000
tons. Forty thousand casks, or four millions
pounds, are annually made by the Boston Co..,
on the mill dam. Ii we suppose that the nails
will average 100 TO pound, the number here
produced each working day, would be nearly
two millions! This Is supposed 10 be bat the
iwenty-hilh part 81 the nail manufacture Of the
Cdi'ed States. II seem, incredible that about
% millions oi nails arc made bought, sold and
used. every day, in the United Saies--yel such
seems TO he the fact.
After these extracts, we hardly need pro-
coed TO recommend the series of volumes, of
which this we have jus, noticed, is one. We
are glad to learn that they are largely pat
roniZrd, and are alike favoritrs with Young
and old. Mr.. Goodrich is doing an essen.
lial service to the public in lssnine these
works, inasnuch, as be is furnishing COM
pact family and school library, of substantial
reading which is delightful in point of style,
and wholesome in its moral, social and re-
liclous tendency.