Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1857-01-23


That's just twenty-onc cents per
day utterly wasted. !" said Peter. ''and |
will own up to wasting twenty-five per
day. How is it with you, Johnp
"Tll say twenty-five"
And you, Walter? p
Just about the same
Lyman?"
"The same"
"Billr'
"The same"
Now look at it. Here we are, a
little worse than wasting dollar and
half per day. But let us put our loss at
a shilling each"
No, no." cried Sam, who saw thro
the whole plan, let's give honest mea-
sure. I'll own up to the twenty-five.
Lets go the whole, if any,"
!" Very well, z returned Peter s'thcn
let us each lay away quarter Of a dol
lar every night, and al the emu Of week
we'll put our savings all together, and
then go on our mission. What say
you 7"
With one voice, the other five joined
in the plan. The novelty Of the thing
may have pleased them; but the real
incentives lay deeper down in the natural
goodness Of their hearts. There was no
written pledge, but they took more
sure method.
| * " X
At length it became known that the
poor families in Missionville had found
friends. People were wondor-struck
when they discovered how happy and
joyous these once miserable wrctches had
become; and more still, when one Sun
day, they saw Uncle Israel and his wife,
and Mrs. Manly, with her two older
children, enter the meeting.
OF course the truth leaked out, and
we can imagine where the public eye of
sympathy and appreciation was turned.
Before month was out, more than fifty
people had engaged indirectly in the
work by placing money, food and cloth
ing in the hands Of the original six, for
them to dispose of as they deemed pro-
per
II was a glorious day for Missionville
when those six young mechanics met in
their village bar-room and concocted
their plan. How many professed Christ
ian churches are there in our land which
would be benefited, and even Christian
lied, by following the example Of the six
noble youths who still stand at tho head
Of the lNtssionvitle Benegoleace.
| A New CALCULATING MAcHINE.--Thc
French Moniteur gives some interesting
| particulars Of q new calculating machine
from which We extract ttiie following
passages -" M. Thomas, Of Colmar,
has lately made The finishing improve
ments in the calculating machine, called
the arithmometer, at which he has been
working for upwards Of thirty years.
Pascal and Leibnitz, in the seventeenth
century, and Diderotat later period,
endeayored to construct machine which
might serve as substitute for human in
telligence in the combination Of figures !;
but their efforts failed. M. Thomas's
arithmometer may be used without the
least trouble or possibility of error, not
only for addition, subtraction, multiple
cation, and division, but also for much
more complex operations, such as the ex-
traction Of the square root, inyolution,
| the resolution Of triangles, etc. A null
1 DUPLICATION Of eight figures by eight 9th
crs is made in eighteen seconds divis-
| ion of sixteen figures by eight figures, in
twenty-four seconds and in one minute
4 and quarter ono can extract the square
root Of sixteen figures, and also prove the
accuracy Of the calculation. The arith-
mometer adapts itself to every sort of
combination. As an instance Of the
wonderful extent Of its powers. we may
state that it can furnish In few seconds
products amounting TO 900, 999, 800, 900
999, 800, 999, 900 1893, 800. A marvel
lous number. comparable to the infinite
multitude Of stars which stud the firma-
mont, or the particles of dust which float
in the atmosphere. The working Of this
intrument is, however, most simple. To
raise or lower nut-screw, to turn q
winch few times, and, by means Of a
button, to slide off a metal plate from left
to right, or from right to loft, is the
whole secret. Instead of simply repro
ducing the operations Of mans intelli-
gence, the arithmomcter relieves that
intelligence from the necessity Of making
the operations. Instead Of repeating re-
sponses dictated to it, this instrument
linstantaneously dictates the proper an
swcr to the man who asks il question.
| 1t ID not matter producing material eff
fecfs, but matter which thinks, reflects,
reasons, calculates, and executes all the
most difficult and complicated Arithmetic
cal operations with repidity and infal-
libilify which defes al tho calculatorsin
the world. The arithmoinetcr is, more
over, simple instrument, Of very little
volume, and easily portable. II IL al
ready used in many great financial os-
Establishments, where considerable ecopo-
my is realized by its employment. It
will soon be considered as Indispensable,
and be as generally used as clock.
Which was formerly only 10 be seen In
! palaces, is now in cottages
AMArRInoNTAL ALLdAscE.- Fashion
able folks have ceased TO marry Now,
according to jenkins and his imitators,
.they form matrimonial alliance" upon
which Susan Jane writes to inquire s'if
such an alliance Is to be considered Of
fonsiye and defensive n Mr.. Punch
ventures to reply Offensive, when mis-.