Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1859-08-10

CLEARFIELD SKILL TRIrMpHAST.-Paten
/ application and careful investigation mns
| sooner or later result in the fruition of one.
hopes, the production of some useful invcn
tion and the increase of the sum total OF hu
man conveniences. Those who have become
| benefactors OF mankind by pushing to a sue.
ccssful end projects. at the outset of their ca.
| reer, deemed the Fagafies of an ovcr-lIeated
| imagination, have invariably met with fierce
and decided opposition but at last genius.
surmounting every obstacle, presented to the
doubling world a spinning Jenny, a-steam en-
| gine or a sewing machine, and a halo of glory
ever after surrounded the name of the fortu-
| nate inventor. Merit never receives it need
of praise until an unwilling people are forced
| to yield it. These remarks have been appli-
cable to all times and places-of late they
seem to have more force than formerly, be-
cause of the many candidates for popular ap-
plause. Our observations had rise in witness
sing the successful experimental trial of a nov
city which ere long will be found on all the
farms and in all the gardens where its worth
becomes known. How trifling circumstance
produces the most astounding results. The
falling of an apple made Newton's name as ia
miliar-to the civilized world as household
words (not Dickens'.) The accidental burn
ing of shanty and roasting alive of a young
porker, introduced and fostered in China, q
taste for that delicious compound of fat and
muscular fibre, if Elias relation is to be cred
tied. And the discovery of so Insignificant a
thing as fulcrum enabled Archimedes to
of olr
the seasons four months, il we have not mis-
read the ancient authors. y wallow on Mar
ket street, one of our most public roads, has
long been an eye-sore to our community and
stencil in their nostrils. To fill it would re-
quire few loads of dit and some manual la
Dor. This would involve outlay of money
and be work Of time-perhaps of 10 or 20
ing men to labor under boiling sun 2 Hap
py thought, Whilst some murmured, our
Borough fathers, regardless of their COM
plants, kept their own councils, perfected
their plans, removed the only obstacle by re-
pealing tine hog law and last week the expert
ment was tried, Immediately in front of the
council room, (which demonstrated beyond per-
levelled without the expenditure of money,
manual labor or those mechanical forces usu-
ally employed. So successful was the trial
that we doubt not on farms the bar-Shear and
sub-soil ploughs will be abandoned-in gar
dens the spade will be thrown aside and this
unique pulverizer and mover of the soil will
be substituted. Our lack of mechanical knowl-
edge and terms prevents us doing justice by
description of this novelty. We can only say
it requires no manager or oyerseer to direct it
the less it is nterfcrcd with the more thor
oughiy it does its work. Even a ssself-sctting
dog'' is not necessary, any common dog can
keep it straight or set it in motion. Those
who desire to avail themselves of il had bet
ter examine before purchasing. One doz-
en- or more can be seen at any time upon
our streets, in operation. 1t is called the
ssself-acting- ivc-quadrapcdal-road-
cleaner-ground-pulver bleroot-raiser-
grub-exterminator-a d-porcine-sod-turn
Long may it flourish, monument of the skill
and wisdom of Clearfield Borough.