Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1852-07-30

CURIOUS, BUT NOT AGREEABLE-I have no sympa-
thy for machinery; the action of machines of great
power terrifes me by its impassbity. There
some above all, employed for beating ont metals
which do so to au alarming extent. Whatever these
may happen to seize between their iron teeth, once
seized, the thing must pass through hole
less great towards which all fabricable substances
are conducted, OF whatever size the thing may be
when it goes in let it be a beam Of the greatest
thickness, it will come out stretched into knitting
needle cf the greatest fneness. AS for the machine
it mere turns that is its business and its duty
and it matters not to it what the substance may be
which it has to crush and draw You offer it an
iron bar-the monster draws it to itself and devours
it. You don't take your hand back quickly enough
the machine plnches the end of your finger and all
is over You may cry out, but if there be no work
men present with Ratchet cut your wrist off. af-
ter the finger the hand, after the hand the
arm. after the the head after the head The body.
Shrieks, oalhs prayers nothing will avail you the
shortest plan for your friends family is to look
for you on the other side of the machine You went
| in man. you come out a wire-in five minutes you
have grown two hundred feet. 1t is curious but not
agreeable. -Pictures Of Iravels in IKE South Of
France.
AN AUSTRIAN Picture The u. STATEs-Aus.
trian opinions upon the United States al pre-
MUM. but they may be interesting, nevertheless. A
late Vienna paper thus compliments u.s.
Z" Austria is small. insignificant spot on the map
compared with the gigantic greatness of America says
Daniel Webster Yes, on the map, thai is the fact
But in the world in military intellectual and maier-
al relations, in might and influence, Austria is in caI.
ty, gigantic; while, in the same reality America, vast
as it is on the map. is but small spot in comparison
And against this Austria, Daniel Webster proposes 10
make war by sea and land In what does the great
ness of America consist In the tremendous xtent
of its forests and swamps. 2, In the terribly immense
tedium of its monotony in which il resembles the des.
er expanse of the ocean, where he who has seen one
thing, has seen everything. 8. In the gigantic STU
pdity of its concen and wind -bagginess A. In the
tremendous greatness of its humbugs only simple
children and ignorant fops allow themselves 10 be
humbugged But the true greatness of America, how
is it with that =! 1t is humbug.'
THE PEARL FIsHERY>-The Panama Herald of
late date. in interesting oflhe pearl fisher
in Panama Bay. states that the value OF The pearls
obtained varies from $4,000 TO 81 900 per annum
seldom less than one hundred Thousand dollars The
best divers remain under water from iiy.e eight to six.
ty-one seconds, and generally bring up from twelve
to fifteen pearl shells. From $500 to 81 500 are fire.
quenty paid in Panama for single pearls not weigh.
ing more than three sIxteenhs OF an ounce
The Homestead law of illinois, which protected
the head Of every family in the possession of home
stead from executions to the value of 81 OOO was re-
pealed by the called Legislature which has lust adj
journed The law had become very unponular
throughout the State, as it hindered The colectitn
of debts. Ty9s--fY
/ Bishop Henshaw, Of the Episcopal Church died
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