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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-10-04
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
THE ENGLISH sEwNG-MAcHINE PATENT.

THE ENGLISH sEWING-MACHINE PATENT.
TO the RdttOr Of The Tribune.
SIR: | have seen an editorial item in re-
cent issue OF THE relation 10 SAINTS English
patent for sewingMachlne. No. LIZA, dated July IT,
1900 careful examination OF the patent in the files OF
this Office leads believe that the case does not In
any way anticipate 1.-THE American sewing-machine,
although IL is mechanical curiosity and the wonder Is
that having gone the inventor should have stopped
short OF success.
Saints machine does not use an eye-pointed needle,
but an aw % punch the hole, followed by forked NEE
die which hru!ts the thread through the fabric where it
Is ooped by a device something like the prcsserfoot OF
somo OF our modern sewlngmachines, and held until the
next loop is thrust through t-making cbatnstitch
The feai was obtained by moving the work platform
forward by screw the work being attached to the plat
FORM No reference is made to a tension device The
whole affair very crude, and patented along with
spinning and weaving machne-evdently intended as
an accompaniment to these latter rather than an indie
pendent and complete machine Probably no mechanic
would be able construct sewing machine from the
specification and drawing-therefore no American sew
ing need fear thing from this Saint
patent (Which the brief description foregoing has been
construed in the light subsequent invention must
remembcr but nevertheless the affair Is enlueny suS-
gcstive, and the OF the inventor who might have
achieved the fame OF Elias Howe should not be lost
Washington, Oct l, 1873. Examiner.
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THE AMERICAN NASAL TwANG.

To TIE Bdttor or The Trtoune.
SIR: The theory offered by a correspondent
in THE TRIBUNE, in attempting to account for what he
calls the "nasal twang" OF New England, appears err
roneous for reasons first that this popularity not
confined to New England but is common TO all native
Americans and exists in the State OF New-York and
other States as well those OF New England and
ond that nothing like the American nasal tone prevails
or ever has prevailed England. To Englishman, on
his first arrival IN the port OF NewYork It is very per
coptble and quite different from anything he has OBJ
served in his country.
Different parts England have their peculiar dialects
and modes speech. such the drawing tone Of Som
ersetshre and the singing tone OF Cornwall the nhab-
tants OF the latter county being descendants OF the
ancient BritOns and although they have now lost all
traces OF the Celtic language, still retaining the ntona-
ton peculiar IT, Other counties also have their pecu
nares OF speech, but part OF England has there
ever been anything similar to this American way OF
speaking through the nose.
A TO what your correspondent about an Ameri.
can shOeblack being correct IN the use or the
than educated gentlemen from any part OF England,
except the counties, this IA certainly great
mistake. No people In the world are more correct IN
the OF the than the educated higher classes or
England. IL an Elton or Rugby schoolOOy was TO omit
the where required 70 be pronounced. or TO aspi-
rate word beginning with vowel, he wonld be ridi-
cued by schOOfelioWs and punished by the master
III baister5 pleading In Westminster Hail, OF clergy
men addressing their congregations from the pulpit,
were TO commit this fault they would starte their hear
era it would be considered most extraordinary aud
objectionable oense ana would IN al Probability send
them 10 Coventry.
and that css composed Of radosmou, shOpGeepcrs
chsnios and aborug men, the latter never pronOuncng
H. while lta omission by the former would exclude the
offender rom respectdDie HoolelJ' i'll
brooklyn, n. L., Sept. IL, 1919
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would be held in DIR. Adams's Church on Madison
square. The Conference then adjourned until evening
THE EVENING SESSION AT ASSOCIATION HALL
Long before the hour of meeting large
crowd gathered around the building of the Young Mems
Christian Association and after the reserved seats had
been filed wore admitted into the seats Of Association
Hail. which was soon filed, large number OF persons
beng unable to obtain admittanoe The platform was
occupied by eminent divhes from all parts of the world
ana was called to order few minutes before o'clock.
After the singing OF the hymn. al love Thy Kingdom,
Lord IA which all present united with fervor the fol
lowing elaborate paper the present condition Of re
gion IN various parts Of Chrstendom read by the
eUthOr:
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INVESTIGATION DEMANDED OF ACTUAL RAIL
ROAD EXPENJES.

To the EdtEOr Of The TrtoHHe.
SIR: The TRIBUNE has rendered the Farm
ers Movement very important service by disspatng the
erroneous that had obtained at the East
In regard 10 IT, But it might render still greater
service to farmers aud in fact to both parties in the
controversy, by calling the experienced railroad
managers Of the West mentioned by your correspond
ent in a letter from Springfield Ill Aug Is, to make
good by facts and figures their assertion that from
competing points in the West to the great Eastern Cities
freghts about low they could be made. and
yield any profit u capital Invested in railroads honestly
built and managed"
Now. r. II. Ferguson OF Troy, N. Y, in paper pub
ished in The Industrial Age of Aug. 3d. puts the entire
cost of hauling train Of cars carrying SOj gross TONS
distance of 1000 miles at s22i s2-not 81 per ton Mr..
Ferguson further that the lowest rate charged
fourth-cass freight was - per ton from Chicago to
NewYorl. Again, j. c. Abbott, Deputy of the National
Grange the Patrons OF Husbandry reported in The
saying that he had tho authority OF railway
officials for saying "that all freight and passengers
could be transported by railways at ono-fourth the
present cost and he had papers show that 10
cents per bushe would pay fair dividend upon the
actual capital employed for transporting from
Iowa to NewYork."
Now either the assertions of those experienced rail
road managers Of the West untounded those Of
Mr. Ferguson aud Dir. Abbott Now, IL there not
some way of getting at the truth Of this matteri All
that the farmers OF West ask is justice. We do not
ask railroads to carry freight and passengers at
rates 70 themselves. Let THE TRIBUNE call upon each
party TO make good it's its columns and believe
we shall soon get at the truth OF what road, honestly
economically built and managed can afford to carry
freight and passengers for. THE TRIBUNE should do
this-hrst, account OF its extensive circulation
throughout the whole country; second, because 1t has
heretofore always taken the lead in advocating the
cause OF truth and justice.
Arotua Ill Sent. IL 1873.
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Mis-. D;mmock surgeon at the New England

Miss DmmOCk, bUIBVUH dV VHo NVW -EsIISItIIu
ro,,to for Women and Children. In Boston. recently
orfrmed rather an extensive series OF operations
pa,n, from the neck little girl not less than II
egg To that " q hen
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-10-04
MAKING BUTTE


The tenants are of different nationalities Ameri-
cans, Swedes, Germans Irish, and Portuguese. A
tenant needs about $4,000 in money to undertake
one of these dairy farms the system seems to sat
iSfy those who are now engaged in it, The mixers
or farm hands receive $50 per month and found |"
and good mixers in constant demand. Every
thing is conducted with great care and cleanliness,
the buildings being uncommonly good for this Stato
water abundant and many labor-savIng contrivanoes
used AT one end of the corral yard in which tho
cows MIXED is platform rooted over on which
stands large tn with double strainer into which
the milk is poured from the buckets 1t runs through
pipe into the milk house where it is again strained
and then emptied from bucket into the pans ranged
on shelves around. The cream is taken OFF in from
SO to 40 hours and the milk keeps sweet 50 houns.
even in Summer. The square box churp is used en-
tlrely, and is reyolyed by horsepower. They usu-
ally get butter | was told, in half an hour Tho
butter is worked on an ingenious turn-table, which
holds 100 pounds at time aud can, when loaded. be
turned by finger; and lever working upon uni
versal joint is used upon the butter. when ready 1t
is put mp in two-pound rolls. which are shaped in
hand-press and the rolls not weighed until they
reach the city Ii is packed in strong obong boxes.
each OF which holds IS rolls. 1hete Is usually aStoyo
in the milk house but was told that il is used only
IN very foggy or rainy weather, 10 dry tho house.
The cows are not driven more than mile u be
MIXED the fields being 80 arranged that the corral
is near the center When they are mlked they stray
back of Themselves 30 their grazing places.
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-09-03
At. Stewards Wealth.

The precise amount is beyond his own
calculation, and 1t is probable that he
could not get within u million of it. No
one can tell the precise value of piece
of real estate until it be sold, and hence
an owner cannot easily attach an esti-
mate which shall match the market. He
owns two churches in New York, one
of which has been transformed into a
theatre, and the other is the stable for
the horses connected with his establish
ment, his private stables being up town.
He owns the Depeau row in Bleeker
street, and some other property in that
vicinity, and also few buildings in Elm
street, near his chief warehouse. His
Broadway property consists of one
church Ito which have referred), two
warehouses and the Metropolitan Hotel.
His largest warehouse, which has no
equal in the world in space and ele-
gance, and which covers nearly three
acres, is built entirely on leased land,
the fee belonging to the Sailors Snug
Harbor. This plot would readily bring
at auction three millions, and its rent,
at the low rates of long leases, is lit
tie under $50, 600 year. All the proper
ties thus named are worth about six
millions, and to these is to be added
the Saratoga hotel, the Hampstead
lands, and the farm at Tuckahoe, and
the palace in Fifth avenue. The girls
lodging house, which is worth million,
being a charity, is not to be reckoned.
Mr.. Stewards stock of goods in New
York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Europe
may be estimated at eight millions and
his personal estate, such as bank stock
and similar securities, may be million
more. If you take round numbers, and
place the available estate at twenty
millions, you make a liberal estimate
of real value, and this is enough for
any man.-7roy Times.
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-09-03
Elephant Tusks.

The problem how to get tusk from
the head of an elephant may have, per-
haps, puzzled many a reader of African
travel. What other dental process
would be possible. save to anchor the
head, and with a capstan and compound
pulleys to pull the tusks out by main
strength? Such modern appliances
being impossible in Africa, the negro
buries the huge head until decomposi-
ton takes place. when extraction is per-
formed without much trouble; the
tusks are then creased and allowed to
dry in the native huts. About one-third
of the tusk is hollow, and about one-fifth
of it is imbedded in the elephants gums.
One reason alleged why pair of tusks
are rarely seen alike is, that when the
elephant falls to the ground, the chief
claims that peculiar tusk on which the
animal falls, and so the pair go into
different hands; but from some slight
experience in such matters, we should
be rather inclined to say that the tusks
are very rarely alike in the elephant, one
tusk being generally much shorter than
the other.
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-09-03
Mechanical Labor.

Mr.. Robert Dale Owen a6t4 4hat in
1885 his father put down the a9greg gate
of mechanical force as equal to the labor
of four hundred million adults, and ss-
Inmates by recent English statisticians.
brought up to the present time, vary
from five hundred to seven hundred
millions. We may safely assume the
mean of these estimates six hundred
miilions-as closely approximating the
truth to-day. But the population; Of
the world is. in round numbers. twelve
hundred millions and the usual esti-
mate of the productive manual labor of
country is that it does not exceed
that of number of adult workmen
equal to one-fourth of its population.
Thus the daily labor of three hundred
million adults represents the productive
manual power of the world. 1t follows
that Great Britain and Ireland's labor
saving machinery equals, in productive
action, the manual labor power of two
worlds as populous as this. 1t follows,
further, inasmuch as the present pOpu-
lation of the British Isles is less than
thirty millions, that seven millions and
half of adults represent the number of
living operatives who control and man
ipulate that prodigious amount of
animate force. Thus, in aid of the
manual labor of seven and half mil
lions of human workmen, Great Britain
may be said to have imported, from the
vast regions of invention, six hundred
millions of powerful and passive slaves
slaves that consume neither food nor
clothing slaves that sleep not. weary
not, sicken not; gigantic slaves that
drain subterranean lakes in their mas
ter's service, or set in motion, at touch
from his hand, machinery under which
the huge and solid buildings that con-
tain it, groan and shake; ingenious
slaves that outrival, in the dellcacy of
their operations, the touch of man, and
pnt to shame the best exertions of his
steadiness and accuracy; yet slaves
patient, submissive, obedient, from
whom no rebellion need be feared, who
cannot suffer cruelty nor experience
pain
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Official POstage.Stamps.

The new postage-stamps of the Post
Office Department are pretty things, as
postage-stamps go, and pretty mainly
because they are plain. A large nu-
neral in the centre, instead of por-
trait head, denotes the denomination,
and the words "ofiicial" above and
stamp" below show its exclusive pur-
pose. The words "Post-office Dept" "
above this oval centre, and the denomi-
nation repeated both in letters and fig
ures, with the initials q. s. below, com
plete the stamp. 1t is pleasant black
and white in color, made neutral by
finely engraved lines.
This new stamp Is exclusively for the
Post-office Department, and is only a
specimen of great variety of them, de-
signed of all denominations for all the
departments. A great variety of stamps
of many denominations have been de-
signed for all the departments, but diff
fering for each.
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-09-03
The Harz Mountains.

Whoever has formed his idea of the
Harz Mountains from Goethes oval
purgis Night" will be most agreeably
disappointed as he wanders through the
dark woods and fragrant meadows. They
have not the idyllic, pastoral air of
Thuringia, but as the hills are rougher
and more broken, the valleys are cor
respondingly richer and more beautiful.
There are three distinct forests in the
Harz-the under woods, formed entirely
of shrubs, that are cut every five years
and used for faggots the middle woods
or composition forests, which are grown
for frewood, and composed of beech,
birch, spruce, pine, and fir; the high
forests, that are reserved especially for
building purposes, and composed OF
only one kind of tree, either oak, maple.
fir, or spruce. Here, also, you will find
some magnificent lindens of great size
and beauty. The most of the woods
being planted by hand, and the high
forests cut every thirty years, they have
an unpleasant regularity and detor-
nifty of size thst scarcely deserves the
name of forests.
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-09-03
Poetry.
Hearts Content.

There is an isle far troublous seas,
Above whose valleys bluest skies bent
Where sweetest flowers perfume the pleasant leas-
Men call it Hearts Content.
And every PROV that rides the of life
Toward that dear, distant isle is turned for aye,
Through treaeherous calms and stormy shoals oi
strife
Holding its doubtful way.
Oft in the midmost ocean bark msets bark,
And ss they pass from each the challenge sent
Comes back the same across the waters dark:
I'VE steer for Hearts Content
FOR many al isle there Is so like so like
The mystic goal Of all that travail sore,
That oft the wave-worn kesls strange sand,
strike
And find alien shore.
But the anchor drops and sails
FROM Of the storm-strained yards are all unbent
From the tall masthead still the watcher halls:
"Lc yonder Hearts Content"'
And So once more the PROV is seaward set
Hearts still hope on, though waves roll dark
around,
And on the stern write the name "Regret,"
And fare forth outward bound
-ADIls,ou' g Journal
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THE JUNIATA SENTINEL is published every
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No subscriptions discontinued until all srrearages
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Wards New Statue of Putnam.

He has chosen for his subject an at
titude simple, natural, every .day-but
one IN which the characteristics of the
man are shown as they must be in every
spontaneous movement. Putnam has
Just been summoned, he has grasped
his sword which, with the belt and sash,
is held against his breast in one hand,
while the other holds the beaver
chapeau straight down by the side. He
is advancing, the head erect, with its
slightly shaggy hair falling over the
collar, the right foot firmly pressed
against the ground, the left resting on
the ball of the foot, but resting only
for an instant. There is in the move
ment of this somewhat heavy man Of
fifty odd, inclining already to fullness,
an easy elasticity of motion often seen
in men of his temperament whose bodies
move with a certain joyfulness to follow
the quickspringing mind. To have
seized such a character as this in full
activity, a man must be in sympathy
with his subject, and the spectator feels
that the life infused into this clay
comes from life in the sculptor. 1t is a
work to inspire patriotism not by SYM
bols, nor by dwelling on anecdote and
popular attributes, but by keeping in
perpetual presence the living image of
a good and true man, one of Words
worth's.
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-09-03

The little things which proverbially
go to make up life are just now mosquito
bites,
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"Glad souls without reproach or blot,
Who do Gods will, aud know il not"

Such was Israel Putnam, and if Ward
has not chosen, as some would have had
him, to represent his hero as he may
have looked on that day, when, hearing
the news from Lexington as he was
plowing in the field with his son, he
quickly unyoked his team, left his plow
in the furrow, and sending his boy to
the house with the message that he was
gone, mounted his horse in his working
dress and rode away with speed to the
camp-it was perhaps because he wished
to avoid for his hero any suspicion of
melodrama, and to represent in more
universal way his constant readiness to
serve his country.-.Scribner's Monthlg.
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DRAIN

The attention Of the citizens Of Burlington and
the adjacent towns and villages is called to the
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CAWPHORINE.
ra.OOO,OOO ACRES.
HEAP FARMS

CHEAP FARMS
The Cheapest Land in Market, for sale hy the
UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD CO..
In the GREAT PLATTE VALLEY.
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BLIss.s SELECT GARDEN SEEDS
$500 IN PREMIJ " =.
1870. ,,rx Dnr.roY-E

EXTRA EARLY VERMONT Ten DAYS carrier
thrn FarIv Rose Enormously productive and 9i
excellent laver. 81 per pound pounds by ma b.
post paid. for $3.50.
COMPTON'S SURPRISE --6 bushels % tAc 'e. r.
little later than Early Rose. Equal ia qu1-ty-
- per pound. hy mall postpaid.
sj1s VIII be awarded as Premiums tp those who
produce the largest quantity from one pound De
.riItive crcuars OF the above. with list % SID va
riet,es Of Potatoes, free 10 all-
Illustrated Seed Catalogue, 90 pages " -th cNlorel
Chrome, ~ cents. ,
A New Tomato, the ARLINGTON Early, solid
and productive Price, - cents per packet. L'u
packets for g.. b. IA. BLISS a SoNH'
Mar l,-fd&iw % Park Place, Ne" i oih
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HEAR. =r
. DzsEAs1'

Is becoming very common in every community, and
the sudden deaths resulting warn US to seek some
relief. This disease assumes many different forms
among which We notice Papitation, Enlargement
Spasms, OssifeatOn or Bony Formation Of the
Heart, Rheumatism, General Debility. Water about
the Heart Sinking Of the Spirits, Pains in the side
or Chest, Dizziness, Sluggish Circulation Of Blood
and Momentary stoppagc Of the Action Of the
Heart
These forms Of Heart Disease have been cured bv
DR.. GRAVES HEART REGULATOR, and we do
not hesitate 10 say it will cure them again. Any
form Of Heart Disease will readily yield TO its use
and we have yet to learn Of any case where the
HEART REGULATOR has been taken properly
and the party not received "a marked benefit.
Our agent on application, will furnish you with
circular, giving full description Of the disease
and also a number Of testimonials Of cures; and If
you would like further proof from the parties who
have given the testimonials, write them and see
what they say. We have sold many thousand bot
ties Of the I1EARr RE6U LATOR, and the demand
is still increasing. We are confident we are doing
the public benefit, and not trying to impose on
them worthless preparation.
The Price Of the HEART REGULATOR is ONE
DOLLAR per bottle, and can be obtained Of our
agents, VINCENT & TAFT, Druggists,
Burlington, Vermont.
March 2O-Wly