Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-08-14


peril from man. beast or disease and
often with scanty and uncertain reward,
our inventive genuses have substituted
ease, comfort and certain profit. Who
wouldn't dig for the shining metal when
it can be done in dressing gown and
slippers, and in the bosom Of ones fam
lily ? What better paying employment
could man ask than one which pays
him $50 to $40 per day without either
large investment on his part
or injuring his constitution by overwOrk !?
l greatly regret my inability to furnish
the names of the authors of these I'm
provements in Mining, for beside being
of considerable interest to your readers
as matter of curiosity, it would great
ly oblige our sub Treasury officials who
are very anxious to make the aequaint-
ance of these talented men.
PHILADELPHIA, August D.
Everybody has seen some reproduction
of Landseer's picture, dignity and I'M
pudence," large grave looking hound
lying in the door of his kennel with a
wee mite of Scotch terrier, all hair and
eyes peeping out from his side. Well, the
same title might have been appropriate
ly placed over the left center of Machine
ry Hall the other day. About one of
the corners of the platform in which
stands the great Corliss engine swarmed
crowd of eager spectators, stretching
their necks and peering over each others
shoulders for glimpse of the centre OF
attraction. Just what this was no one
at the first glance eowld have told; but
closer inspection revealed the motions Of
complete engine, so tiny that magni-
flying glass was necessary to observe its
operation fully and even to discern the
different parts. To give some idea to me
chanically inclined readers | will give /;
few dimensions of this powerful machine
In the first place its foundation is
gold quarter of dollor, which it onl
comfortably covers. The materials o
which it is composed are gold platinum
and steel. The stroke is one twenty
fourth of an inch and the cutoff on
sixty-fourth of an inch. The weight {
the engine proper is three grains, and
the whole apparatus, Z grains. l did NJ
learn the rated capacity, but shout
Judge it to be not far from three fl
power.
The contrast between the two engin'
thus placed in juxtaposition was too o.
vious and too rich to escape the dulle
: bystander, and many were the witticism
good and poor, which it elected. The
stood the great black iron monster tur
ing the ponderous fly wheel. thirty fe
through. with its massive ten-foot ste
arms, doing the work of a thousal
horses without the least apparent effo
and there by its side its little embr
companion, clad in silver and gold,
= slight that fingers pressure would cru
it, but no less perfect steam engi
than its prototype, whose every motion
initiated with amusing fidelity. III
infant machine is not part of the {
:. hibiton, but was set in operation as
curiosity by the visitor who owns it, a
after allowing the crowd to feast tn
:, eyes for few minutes, blew out
IL little spirit lamp which ran the bel
Il and pocketed the whole affair.
~ They say that Glove laughs at 10
st smiths" but it is my private opin
b that jail-breaking Cupid would not f
NJ much to amuse him in the c
IS. play of the Yale Lock Manufacture
On Co., an exhibit both useful and or
ed mental in the highest degree. III
ts laeonic metto ''Security "-familiar
- all your readers through its uniyer
~ appearance on their characteristic Ii
ut fat keys which almost everybody use
In tells the whole story of their work
ed this department.. Accurate, dural
IDS and unpickable, these locks afford
- most perfect protection to property I
human ingenuity has been able to
a wise. Their vault and safe locks wo
The have driven Hobbs or Chubb to suic
III Not satisfied with having given IL
- the utmost strength and unapproaC
bility OF mechanism, the company
yes introduced a continuance for guard
IN, the contents of these receptacles f
nee friends as we'll as from enemies. I
70. continuance is their famous ''timc 10
which absolutely forbids the openin
the door before certain hour.
u arrangement, although calculated to
vo- cit much profanity from would-be disl
in est clerks and the gentlemanly cracks
the who have been in the habit of persr
ing cashiers to aid them by pla,
0"e pistols at their heads, is the most va
in- bic protective invention of many yea
ZEN, Another interesting feature of
too, company's display, is Post Office
end boxes, windows, and all complete, 1
-, ing only clerks and letters to 20 int
O'A tive operation. No two Of its humid
sam of lock boxes and drawers can be Cd.
ell. with the same key. The putting U
an such offices is one of their impor
:. specialties.
Besides all this, the Yale Lock
pose show magnificent specimens of Q
'ant mental brOnze builders hardware,
-Oye goods of this description being by