Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-11-26
Complimentary T. oAnerican Inveas.

No people are so full Of ingenious little
expedients for saving time and material AZ
are the Americans. The force of circtm.
stances has made the Yankee q master in
the: art of extemporizing little I" "dodGes"
in mechanism. Self-help is the great les
son man receives when he sets foot in Z
new country, and it is in the invention of
helps in metal and wood-helps which
need no wages, and which never strike, or
tire, or grow sick-that the New Eng
lander excels.
There is nothing outside Of pantominae
more ludicrouAy clever than some Of the
inventions which have Of late years bean
introduced into this country from the
West. The process OF making common
pals BY machinery is so rapid as to bAfie
the eve, and so comically instantaneous
that the stranger who witnesses it for the
first time laughs over it as most excel.
lent practical joke. There is whizI Of
revolving wheels, a sputter Of light shA:
wings, procession of little slaves chaSiSg
one another in the air, then another whi15
of the collected slaves, and the bucket y
hooped and made. Scarcely leas amusing
is the little mechanical device for pairing
apples by machinery. The machinery =
the veriest toy-simple and cheap-butit
brings off the rind with an almost magical
delicacy, and while it psres the fruit With
an accuracy which seems to bespeak cpe-
ctal sense Of touch, It slices the apple and
takes out the core at the same time. . .'
Success in such small matters has made
the American bold. and has trained him
to habits of innovation. So far from
dreading novelty, he likes novelty for it,
own sake, and to secure it, he often re-.
verses our way of doing things. In his
steamboats, he builds up the cabins tier
over tier upon deck, instead of below, and
he suffers the engine to work high in air
above the many stories Of cabins. When
he wants to put another stor! to great
building he adds the new floor at the
bottom instead of at the top; and be II .
bank. hotel or huge store, he is ready q
your command either to lift the entire
block or to slide it on its travels to more
eligible location. r,
In printing newspapers, he builds his
type upon cylinders instead Of laying it
upon the working table, and he
makes the machine pick up and take of
It's own printed copies with a regularity
and neatness which no number Of trained
hands can equal. His gunboats are
floating martello towers, that can fire fore
and aft as readily as from the sides. His
river steamers are amphibious, and may
20 anywhere where it is little damp. He
is partial to machinery, because it does
not grumble, is not impudent, il not ex.
tortionate and hence it comes that his
crops are gathered with patent reapers,
his linen is washed with wooden hands,
his cows are MIXED by the patent cow
mixer. his potatoes as well as his apples
are pared by one of the queerest little
steel kitchen-malds, who has no "fol.
lowers" and who wastes none Of his
fruit; and even his chairs, his tables and
his cabinet work in general come from
manufactures large as our cotton mills
were they are turned out in parts by
swift-moying machinery.-Durdee (Scot:
LaTid0 Adrertiser. 'I.-' .''.'. .' .'.' 'E.'''-