Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1851-05-28

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tural machines. Some ,feW lalheu, = y
planning machine, and other articles
of engineering mechanism, well An
ished, and in all other respects adapt
ed for their several uses, lie scattered
about here and there. Grouping with
the agricultural nipple ments, a small
steam-boiler and engine, a few
American house stoves, and a num-
Ter of pots, pans, and other cooking
utensials. By the way, of these
American house stoves, hint might
well be taken by our own stove ma
kers. They combine in very small
space--not larger than that occupied
by an ordinary parlor CRATE or cottage
range-a complete kitchen appara-
tus-ovens, stewpans, boilers-all in
the most minute fireplace, or fur
mace, with which the whole is heated,
it would seem that economy of fuel
had been a primary consideration in
the original design.
But the article which attracts most
attention in this compartment is
grindstone for hand working, of re-
markably fine grit, and moving by
the aid of anti-friction rollers. The
curiosity of the observer however, is
excited, not because of any extraor-
binary peculiarly in the machine,
but by an inscription which it bears,
informing in that it is a present for
Lord Stanley, from Massachusetts,.
Whether the Massachusetts, machin-
lists (Messrs. Lombard and HalD
consider the great wear and tear
which Lord Stanley's keen edged
satire undergoes while leader of the
opposition in Parliament require the
application of the grindstone occa-
sionally, or what other meaning at
taches to this strange present, must
be left to those who are clever in solv-
ing enigmas to discover.
Turning to the space on the oppo-
site side of the avenue, we find Sc
veral objects ofinterest. That which
first strikes attention, both from its
extent, the completeness of its ar
rangement, and the correctness of it's
elias sfcation is Dr. Feuchtwanger's
collection of American minerals, ex-
traneous fossils and fresh water shells.
Here we have specimens, arranged
in their order, of mineral productions
of the states-copper, iron, lead, gold,
silver, zinc, native cinnibar, and al
most every other known metal. Some
of these specimines are of extraordi-
nary richness. There is amongst
them a block of copper ore, brought
from Algonquin, on Lake Superior,
weighing 2,544 lbs, and ninety per
cent pure metal; block of native
cinnibar, from California, weighing
thirty pounds; several pieces of ar
} gentiferous lead, containing silver in
the proportion of 100 OF. to the ton,
and 20 per cent of lead-these are
from a vein in New Hampshire, said
to be very extensive, and which it is
proposed to work. Besides these,
there are some crystals of gray cop
per, a number of specimens Of Cali
fornia gold generally adhearing to
: quartz, but of extraordinary richness
the quartz in some being scarcely in
the proportion Of one fourth to the
pure gold,
There are also in the collection
some very fine specimens Of Georgi-
an diamond-the berryl, and the to-
IPaz- every vaEiat1f
land amongst the exa11IS1 iose| -
several perfect teeth all other re-
mains of the Mastadon, from the
mammoth caves in Kentucky. The
shells, of which there are several va
rieties, from the fresh water rivers
and lakes, are curious only for their
comparatively large size. At a short
r remove from this stand, there is pre-
pairing what promises to be an in
= teresting botanical display of dried
r flowers, the growth of the western
!, districts Of New York, preserved and
: framed, but retaining their natural
hues. Then we have a quantity Of
: bar iron and steel, several huge
l blocks of iron and other ores; and a
, little further on large pyramid Of
! curious shaped yellow canvass pack
: ages meets the eye, which, from the
inscriptions they bear, inform us that
we have arrived at the counters
where are to be shown mot tasted)
some of the delicacies peculiar to the
) tables of our transatlantic brethren.
5 These yellow parcels, of which, at
= distance, we had been specializing
whether they were the policemen'a
| slaves, or the gaudy and awkward
g war-clubs of some tribe Of aboriginea
1--we now discover to be spiced Ameri-