The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1878-10-09

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gauges and steam whistles very
beautiful and very useful no doubt.
I have no particular antipathy to
steam gauges in fact, I have al
ways said if I was going to be
blown up I should like, if possible,
to have few minutes notice of the
circumstance, but the steam whistle
Ilook upon in the light of personal
and public enemy, and time and
again I have execrated the memory
of the man who perfected that,vil-
famous invention. The frights it
has given me, and the nights rest 1T
has destroyed, have left a heavy bal
ance on my moral ledger for com
pelling me to use language which
may po 'sibly have endangered my
salvation. SO I must, therefore, be
excused if I do not share in the
general hallucination which looks
upon execrable invention in the
light, of a public benefactor. IF
compelled, however, to carry a
steam whistle in my vest pocket, I
must admit that I should prefer
the whistles of Nathan & Dreyfus
to any I have ever seen.
The Auburn Manufacturing Co.,
of Auburn, New York, have an as
sortment of agricultural tools, not
only very useful but very beautiful
The farmer who recollects the hay
fork of forty Or fifty years ago
weighing something less than a
hundred, would be delighted with
the elegant phythings made by
the Auburn Manufacturing Co.,
light but strong and handsome,
they are the most perfect models I
have ever seen Of what agricultural
tools should be. The magnificent
case exhibited by this firm is the
same they exhibited in Agricultural
Hall at the Exhibition at Phila-
delphia in 1875, and if it we're not
that it lacks the imposing sur
roundings, one might suppose him
sell transported back to the Ex
position of two years ago.
Connecticut, which may be called
the Belgium Of the United States,
is here with number Of in7en-
tions. I am not aware that the
modern Yankee is a particularly
beligerent animal, and yet there are
some Of these New England cases
which seem to bristle with fight.
The Gatling Gun Co., OF Hartford,
have here couple of their muir
derous mitrailleuses, which look as
if they could NOW down a whole
battalion. A gentlemanly looking
person is there to show you how
| they shoot and he looks as though
he would blow the top of yonr
head off with the greatest Of pleas.
ure and without any extra charge.
One of the guns is a very elaborate,
and.speaking from a military stand
point, a very handsome piece,
though I never look at these grim
Gatlings, but I think Of heads and
legs and arms flying in the air as
thick as snowfakes in a storm.
They certainly are remarkable guns:
and they look as if it might do one
good to be peppered by one OF
them. AS far as I am concerned, ]
trust, I may be able to hold that
pleasure in reserve till George Fran
els Train is elected Dictator over
the American Union. Who would
have imagined, a few. years ago.
that Yankee doodledom would have
invented a process for boiling the
meat of Europe's hungry millions:
and yet it is so. The Wilson
Packing Co., of Chicago, have here
an exhibition of boiled tongues:
hams and corned beef, which is pro
nounced by judges (and I am one
of them) equal to the very best
they have ever eaten. The extent
of the trade in cooked meats by the
Wilson Packing Co., is one OF the
most astonishing Of modern enter
prises. You see it sold in all the
little back towns of Germany and
France. Scarcely shop where gro
eeries and eatables are sold but has
it in it's windows. At Pesth, i'll Hun
gary, you can find it in all the Biel
Halles; through Russia, Norway
and Finland, it is as well known as
Caviere or Schweitzer kaese. Al.
the restaurants of Paris serve it
and it is as common in Berlin ano
| Vienna as it is in Milwaukee OF