Monongalia mirror. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1855, 1853-11-05
THE CRYSTAL PALACE.
EXTRACTS FROM "a GENERAL VIEW OF
TIE MOST PROMINENT ARTICLES
ON EXHIBITION"


We have in the American department
a good collection of bells, one weighing
2,ol5 lbs.; and close beside are two Of
Wheeler, Wilson & Co.'S Sewing Ma
chimes, and lady at one ofthem with
her foot upon freddie, not unlike IN
the days of yorc, when our grandma
mas were young women, and the Jtar
was to spin, Take core, ladies, the old
time is cunning back, and y"u will have
to 60 at the wheel again. Bnt you may
congratulate yourselves on the change /;
the old spinning. wheel is exchan ged for
q machine that will sew a seam three
feet loug in minute, aud put in twenty
FIVE stitches to the inch. While you
rest your arms leisurely on little table
or stand, and draw the article through,
you are sewing, working the foot at the
same time to keep it going. The ope'
,ator informs me they (the machine,not
the operator) can be supplied at SIPS a.
piece. One Of ,hem will not occupy
more room in house than an ordinary
candle stand. J. NJ. Singer has pa
tent sewing machine near the above; |;
price Sl00. am not able totell which
is the best +; the FIRST is rather the neat
est, aud don't make quite as much noise
as the other. Either Of them makes
more noise than spinning.wheel, (per-
haps if l were to say cAsrn it would be
better unders.ood).
A very fine marble coffin may be
seen, with glass lid, through which
the corps msy be.seen after it is entire
ly sealed up.
In the production of cloths, carpets,
calicoes, and such things, Uncle Sam
stands rather in the rear. The French,
English aud German surprising him IN
tqnality.iftaossin quantity. ~
There is also an army and navy dc.
partmcnt. All the requisites for killing
men are herei cannons, guns. swords,
and pistols, in profusion. 1t is surpris-
ing to see the degree of perfection that
they have attained in making things to
cut peoples heads off, blow out their
braius, and make bullet holes through
them. Col,'srcvolving pistols are here
some hundred different kinds are exhib'
tied, of al! lengths. from 8 inch barrels
up to one foot in length. Some with
revolving barrels and others with sim
ply revolving breech with sufficient
barrel to hold the loads, which will al
be thrown through one barrel.
Sharp's breech loading rife is also
here, and rifles upon the principle ofths
bleech revolving pistols, Ivy which nine
churges may be discharged as fas' as
the trigger can be drawn. The loads
are deposited in cast steel wheel, il
holes that enter like those for the spnkes
in the hub ofa carriage.wheel; in these
holes, which are the exact size of tha
in the rife barrel, nine loads are depos
tied, and each une has it's own percus'
sion cap. The whee! revolves ver'ica!
: ly with its circumference in connexlo'
with the posleror end of the rifle bar
rel; as the hammer is raised the whee
turns SO as to bring lnad to the end u
the rifle barrel, from where it may bt
shot ou,: some of the wheels turn hor
izontully. Had | as much interest ii
sowling as some men. would wan
such a rife. Another rifle has reposl
tory for abou, sixty loads, that dues moi
make its size equal to that of a double
barreIed gun, and these sixty loads ma.
ulI be discharged in two minutes and
half.
There are some beautiful carpets ii
the French departments one thirty foe
square and nearly half an inch thick, i
lowered with richness that exceed
the bounds Of description. 1t lisa rea
floral kingdom red, yellow, green,blue
all mingling in harmonious assoeiution
aud representing every part of the flow
er with the freshness of life.
The Germans exhibit some very fin,
cloths also much iinery work for ladic
tha, shall not attempt to describe.
Tho Swiss have very richly colore'
calicoes, with plain aud gaudy figures
A little gold watch in thcir part dc
serves especial notice; it is less thai
half an inch in diame,erycr ticks ava
with all the exactness Of town clock.
Tho Auslrinns show US some fin