Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-06-10

are reported so totally unfit for their husi-
ness that they are at their wits ends TO
know what to do or when to do IT, The
London papers make all manner Of fun Of
the building itself The Saturday Review,
having first christened it tho Dish-coyer
Palace from its shape, now calls il the
"Dripping Pan on account of its unsur-
passed leaking facilities The Critic calls
it "The Great She'd"
The exhibitors complain bitterly Of the
iIl-arrangement Of the interior. Mr.. Rim
mel, the great perfumer, seems to have
special cause for complaint, his finest odors
being stored away in the quarter devoted
to mired pickles The columns Of the
Times are mostly filled with lamentations
of visitors. al" ordered a strawberry
ice, and found there was no strawberry in
It, and the ice was melted His injured
feelings could only be appeased by invec-
tives in the Times. Another indignant
initial called for an American drink"
entitled Ladies Squeeze He says that
" Ladies' Squeeze is IAN atrocious outrage
on the public stomach, and seems 10 con-
slider tia case coming properly under in
ternational law.
A correspondent of the New-YOrk Times
thus pleasantly discOurses Of the machin-
cry department;
The western avenue where most of the
British machinery is exhibited, is indeed q
wonderful place. At tpresent there is a de-
fcieney of steam and in consequence the
! engines have to perform one after another
| like aorobats in the circus. 1t is amusing
enough to see how readily they submit TO
the will of man, and how perfectly they
could keep time 10 a band Of music, if one
were present. The steam hammers, for in
stance, are most agreeable and Obliging
and when Ethiopian Minstrelsy becomes
more muscular, can easily ofhciate as
| bones, or performers on the tamborine.
These affable giants do whatever is asked
of them give them a nut, and they will
crack it without disturbing the kernel; /;
/ give them bar of iron, as thick as your
body, and they viii pound it into flakes in
no time; tickle them in q certain spot and
| with certain crank, and they 90 off as if
they were mad and could never be made to
/ stop until the world had been reduced to
eternal smash; pull them gently up with
another handle, and they stand gaping
with their big jaws like the good Hippopo-
tamus when he opens his mouth and shuts
! his eyes and sees what BarnUm gives him.
always feel that should like toplay with
q steam hammer, and have got to despise
the unromantic mechanic who abuses SO
noble companion by putting him to the
drudgery of pattiRg Jumps of lead into oc-
tagons and then suddenly squashing them
into pancakes. If had such hqmpPr
for my big brother, wouldn't / get him to
come down on my enemies.
One can always find a good contrast in
a show of such proportions; thus when
tear myself away from the stesm-hammers,
it is a comfort to seek minuter handicraft,
and watch how smaller muscle invariably
displays greater mind. Here are some lit
tie time pieces, for instance, so tiny that
you might suck them in with your breath,
like gnets, if they were not guarded with
glass shades, and yet 50 pertinacious that
they run for a week; and 50 clever, that
they can tell you everything about the sec
ond, the minute, the hour, the day of the
month, the age Of the month, the moon, and
generally all else that the calendar reveals
They are of course learned bOres, but we
cannot help wondering how so much know
ledge is contained in so small a receptacle
But the most extraordinary machine in the
Exhibition is beyond question the one fol
plicate his writing a million times smaller
so small, indeed, that it is invisible to the
naked eye, yet with powerful microscope
becomes so plain tlat every line and dot
can be seen. The inventor claims that
with this instrument he can copy the eRtirI
Bible twenty-five times in the space Of al
inch. The Astor Library, Ipresume, coulC
be transferred to a sheet Of note paper
Practically it will be of great service il
preventing forgeries. With one Of these
machines, a private mark can be put OF
bills so minute and perfect that the forge1
can neither perceive nor initiate it, but tn,
bank elsrk or broker knowing where Il
look can at once detect that the bill is gen
uine. The machine is the Invention Of q
Mr.. Peters. .,
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