Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1847-01-16

Large a. feather bed - .r.sr.. ..
at has the gift Of speech, ] hear;
But sure it cant be human ~
MY amiable friend" said I,
"That's what We call woman"
Eternal powers, it cannot be-"
Sighed he, with voice that fatered
loved the women in nv cay,
But Oh they're strangely altered"
showed him, then, a new machine
For turning eggs TO chickens, ....-..
A laborsaving hennery .....
That beats the very dickens
Thereat, he strongly graspsd my hand,
And said, y" 'Tis plain to see
This world is so tron,mogrifed,
Twill never do for me-"
Your telegrarh,, your railroad trains.
Your gas lights, friction matches,
Your hump backed women, rocks for coal
Your thing which chickens matches,
Have turned the earth upside down, ..
No peace is left within it,
Then, whirling round upon hi, heel -...
He vanished in a minute.
Forthwith, my most veratiouS pen
Wrote down what had heard.
And here, dressed up in doggrel rhyme,
You have il word for word.
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ELkcrRIcirr.-.A pleasing erperiment-Not-
wi,hs,anding the effects of the wonderful power
Of electricity are continually before us, and we
are constantly witnessing its wonderful phcno.
mena with all the mysterious developments ard
results which il produces, we can scarcely real.
ize how inseparably connected it is with all the
various and ramifed working and changes of the
natural world, aud its consequent connexions
with our own vital properties and powers. The
Mechanics Magazine relates a simple and plea.
sing experiment, illustrative OF its sing ulsr effect
from q simple sheet Of fuolscap psper. The
Magazine says:
'Place an iron. iapannsd tea tray on dry, clean
bcaker glass; then take a sheet of foo|scap pa.
per- and hold it close TO the fire unit! all its hy
grometric moisture is disspated, but not so as TO
seorch it in this state il is one of the finest cleo
tries we have. Hold one end down on table
with the finger and thumb, and give i, about
dozen strokes with large piece Of India rubber
from the 1eft TO the right, beginning a, the top.
Now take il up by two Of the corners and bring
it over the tray, and it will fall down on il like
a stone if one finger be now brought under the
tray, a sensible shock will be felt Now lay a
needle on the tray with its point projecting out.
wards remove the paper, and a star sign of the
i l. L.
per, and the positive brush will appear. In fac,
it forms a very extemporaneous eleetrophorus,
which will give spark an inch long, and strong
enough TO set FIRE TO some coubustibe bodies,
and TO exhibit oil the electric phenomena not re.
quirng coated surfaces. II four beaker glasses
are placed on The floor and book laid on them,
q person may stand en- thera insulated; if ne
then holds the tray vertically, the paper will ad.
here strongly TO il, and sparks may be drawn
from any par, ofhis body, G, he may draw sparks
/ from any other person as the case may be or
he may set fre TO some inhammable bodies touch,
ing them with piece Of ice"
WORKING roR A L,vISo, The following es.
ccllen, article in the 'Oferng,' edited by the
/ factory girls of Lowell, bresthes the right spi.
! rit - .. ...... ...-..
Whence originated the idea iha, il wss dero
gatory to lady's dignity. or bio; upon female
! character, 10 labor and who was tie firs,to say
sneeringly, oh she works for living ! Sure
/ y. such IDEAS and expressions should not be
heard on q republican soil. The time has been
when ladies Of the first rank were accustomed
I to busy themselves IN domestic employment
Homer tells MS of princesses who used to draw
! water from the springs and with their own
hand. wash The finest of the linen of their res
! pec,ve families. The famous lucrctia used tc
spin in tho mids, of her n,,endants-and The
W fe of Ulysses, after he sege OF Troy, employ
ed herself in weaving unti. after her husa,ut
returned from Ithaca.
French coal alNEs--The report oil the ensi
neer, appointed by tie administration of roads
and bridges in France, states tina, that country il
in the third rank as regards the production o
rosl England and Belgium being the 6rs, ans