Litchfield enquirer., 1855-09-13
THE DEsTIs1-s 4I1AcHInE.r

Dr. Tushmaker was never regularly bres
 as physician, or surgeon, but he possesset
 naturally strong. mechanical genius and :
 fine appetite; and finding his teeth Of greal
 service in gratifying the latter propensity
 he concluded that he could do more good 1T
 ihe world and create more real happines.
 therein ny putting the teeth of Its inhabi
 tants in good order. than in any other way
 % TushmakeF became deniist He wa.
 the man that first invented the method Q
 placing small cog-wheels in the back teeti
 for the more perfect mastication of food
 and he claimed to be the original discovers
 of that putty. which becoming hard direct
 ly. causes the tooth to ache 60 grieyousi,
 that it has to be pulled, thereby giving th. dentist two successive fees for the sams job.
 Tushmaker was one day seated in hi. office. in the city of Boston, Massachusetts
 when stout old fellow named Byles pre- scented himselfto have tooth drawn. The dentist seated his patient in the chair ol torture, and opening his mouth, discovered there an enormous tooth. on the right hand l side, about as large, as he afterwards ex. prrssed 1t, "as small Poiyglot Bible. "- 1 shall have trouble with this tooth. thought 'fushmaker, but he clapprd on his heavies. forceps. and pulled. It didn'icome. Then i,e tried the turn-screw, exerting his utmost strength but the tooth wouldn't stir. "Go away from here," said Tushmaker to Byles, and return in week, and I'll draw that tooth for you. or know the reason why. .''- Byles got up. clapped handkerchief to his jaw, and put forth. Then the dentist went to work, and in three days he invented an instrument which he was confident would pull anything. It was combination of the lever, pulley, wheel ant axle, inclined plane, wedge and screw. The castings were made, and the machine put up in the office, over an iron chair. rendered perfectly stationary by iron rods going down into the foundation of the granite building. In . week old Byles returned he was clamped into into the iron chair. the forceps connect ed with the machine attached 6rmly 10 the tooth, and Tnshmaker stationed himself in Inc rear, and took hold f lever four feet in length. He turned 1t slightly. Old Byles gave groan, and lifted hts righ. leg. Another ,ufn; another yroan, aud up wen, the leg again. "What do you raise your leg fnri" asked the doctor. "i cant help it." said the patient
 "Weli," rrioiaed Tushmaker," j" that tooth is bound to come now" He turned the lever clear round, with sudden jerk, and snapped old Byies' head clear aud clean frosn his shoulders, leaving space of four inchcs between the severd pastss They had a post psorfeM examinatian--the roots of the tooth were fouhd extending the right side, through the right leg. and turned up in two prnngs under the sole of the right foot! :. No wonder" said Tushmaker, "he raiscd his right leg" The jury thought so too. hat they found ,l,e roots much de- cayed. aud five surgeons swearing that modification would have easaed in few months, Tushmaker was cleared on verdict of "jns,ifahle homicide" He was shy of that instrument for some time afterward ; hut one day an old lady, feeble and daccid, came tn to have tooth drawn, and thinking it would come out very easy. Tashmaker concluded, just by the way of variety, to try the machine. He did 60, and at the 6rst turn drew the old iady's skeleton com pletely and entirely from her body. leaving her a mass of qnivrring jelly tn her chair 'rashmaker took her home in piliow-case. She lived seven years after that, and they called her the s India Rubber Woman. "-- She had suffered terribly with the rheuma. tism. but afler this occurrence never had q pain in her bones. The den,ist kept them in glaA ease. After this. ihe machine was sold 10 the contractor of the Boston Custom Housr, and It was found that a child of three years of age could by . single turn of the screw, raise stone | tt i were made, on the same principle, and sold to the keepers ofhcieis aad restaurants. They were used for boning turkeys. There is no moral to this story whsscvef. and ii is possible that the circnmsiances may have become slightly exaggerated. or course, l there can be no doubt of the truth of the main incidents.
 WHAr ! NEwsrArxs Dsxs WlrHour RtwARD.-The result ofmy observation en- abies me to state as . fact, that publishers of newspapers are more poorly rewarded than any other class of men in the United States who invesl an equal amount of labor, capital and thought. They are expected te do more seFsice for less pay, to stand more sponging and ..dead heading" to puff and defend moro people, and sorts of people without fee or hope of reward, than any otI,. CT class. They crrdi, wider and longer; ge, oftener cheated. suffer more prcuniary loss and are ofiener the victim of misplaced con. fidenca, than any other calling in the com. manity. People pay prin,er's bill nor, reluctantly than any other. It goes hardel with them to expend dollar on . valuable newspaper than ten on . useless gewgaw; yet every body avails himself Of lLe servi ces of the editor's and prin:er's ink. How many professional and political repaia,ion' and fortunes have thus been created and sus
 sained by the friendly, though unrequiied pen Of the editor How many embryo q
 ties and towns have been brought into no tices and pulfed into prosperity by the press
 How many railroads, now iu successful op
 era,ion, would have foundered but fer th,
 assistance of the T leye. that moves th,
 world ;'' in short, what branch of American
 industry. or activity. has not been promoted stimulated and defended by the press An,
 who has rendered il more than . miserabl I piltancs for its mighty services The ba xars of fashion and folly. the haunts of ap r