Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-11-26
zpmehburo 2'ir0intdn.
We'd esday Morning. Nov. rs. 1876.


A late number OF the SeifHfiF1 SmeffeH" o""-
tains picture of the latest patent harvester-n
machine which exeels all of its kind in the ease,
certainty and rapidly of its mechanical eSecu'
ton. and which adds to other improvements the
advantage of gig top. which shelters the dri-
yer in an elegant and gentlemanly manner from
the fierce heats of summer and thereby reduces
the heretofore arduous task Of harvesting To- a
refined and lofty pastime. We forget how many
acres this delightful invention will traverse in a
day, but Judge the extent of its powers TO be such
as to justify any gentleman, possessed Of mod
crate property, in doing his harvesting, un-
aided by more than few boys to tie up the
leveed stalks into sheaves aud afterwards 10
arrange them in shocks.
We imagine some Congressman or member OF
the Legislature, stated with politics and city life,
returning 10 his rural patrimony and the bosom
of his family. We him Diminishing thnt
clumsy invention of nature, called horse, upon
which he had been accustomed to ride his
fields and TO watch his hands as, with lengthy
strides and measured sweep. they land low the
golden grain. Solitary aud alone he mount. his
Gig TOP Harvester, the interior Of which is
fitted up library like Nnpoleon's earriagc-
with small shelf for cigars and jug of ready
made juleps convenient to his hand Thu, he
drives 1.-The iocund team aield," md thus he
spends the heated term" economically, dis
pensing with hired labor lnxuriously. smoking
cigars and drinking juleps; prohtably, instruct
ing himself in history, travels, politics miscclla-
neous literature, and perhaps, theology.
1t is a captivating Scene, ind far from being
altogether imaginary.
But while Yankee ingenuity is doing thus
much to economic out door labor and to render
il attractive, the same fertility If invention has
been busy employed in abrldging the petty IN
convenenocs attending life within doors. The
papers tell us Of an apparatus exhibited Mt the
reoen, Fair of the Franklin Institute in philadel
pbia by which a gentleman is spared the worst
part of rhc extreme labor OF undressing. Tho
charming machine in question pulls off man's
boots and pantaloons in the twinkling of an eye,
and holds the man up while doing so--thus "a
surng the spinal column against the undiguiGed
liabilities of STOPPING.
The contemplation Of SO excellent an invention
fills the mind with think fnlness and wonder aud
the inventor of il, while he may bc denied the
iron crown that adorns the head of Morse or
Mccormick, may well lay claim 10 the phlan
thropic wreath which enei1elcs the hrows Of
Howard and of Wherefore II is painful. how
ever to reflect that man-the - lord Of creation"
is still under the necessity Of pulling off his
coat il is reflection upon the age that he must
tie his oravat and be shaved by the ruin
artihce of human and often Of African hnnls.
without the aid Of steam even SO much Ms hor,c
power; it is crying shame TINT he must use
his own pocket handkerchief without the len-t
extraneous assistance; and II is II STA TINT ihRt
combination of springs, levers, and cog wheels
has not yet been achieved by which the image
ofhs Creator" may be rescued from the unheraio
operaii IN of cleaning his teeth
But let us not despair, The morning ligh, is |
breaking of that day when the fruits OF the ca,th
shall be harvested TO the sound of Beclhoycu'-
Symphonies. executed upon patent Rrnpug
Machine when the treasures OF commerce shah
BE- waited above the clouds III electrical balloons
whose shapes and plumage shall excel the most
gorgeous OF the oriental feathercd tribes; when
the semi intellectual operations of merchandising
shall be done by metallic Proxies; when the Gun
ming of thousand lawyers, the diplomacy Of
whole Cabinets and Congresses shall find happy
exponent in small brass pocket instrument;
when the art and science of medicine shall he
condensed into Homeopathic pellet, when
moral window blinds and aesthetic hat racks, shnll
be as common as impiety in New England or
duplicity in the Democratic party: and when
man, no longer subjected TO the unhallowed dis.
eases of labor and of thought, shall subside into
voluptuous and complete nonentity. living toy
machinery and dying according to tho latest
patented Improvement.