The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1885-04-08
Our Exposition Letter.
[From our regular correspondent
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much as two-third, Of the machinery ex
hibit including implements, are directly
devoted to the various operations of th,
farm, saying nothing Of the many useful
helps for the housekeepor aud her work.
There are great blocks Of space occupied
wholly with plows, culdvotors, planters,
reapers, threshers, and farm mills shelters
grinders aud feed perpetrators, all more OF
less useful in the multiform labors Of the
farm. There is recently patented potato
planter, which takes the entire tuber, cuts
it into suitable sizes and plants eight acres
per day, dropping and covering the seeds,
without any other aid than a horse and his
driver, and it's inventor claims that j, viii |
more than repay its cost i'm one seasons |
saving Of time and labor aud Of corn and |
wheat machinery there is So much and |
such variety as would seem to almost make |
the labor of the husbandman u luxury in |
stead of drudgery.
In the patent Office exhibit, taken in
comparison with the more modern devices
exhibited outside, one can see the wonder
full strides that have been made, not only
in the improved farm, but in all other
classes of machinery. There is seen the
original model of the reapiug machine,
quaint and odd in construction and appear.
ance, but which finally revoluGonized
wheat culture, and without which it would
seem impossible now to supply the world
with bread. Here also the cotton planter
may see the model Of the original cotton
gin, which led to the development of this
great industry, and is believed by some
people, curious in such speculatons, to
have exercised no ittleinhuence in shaping
political and social questions, affecting the
country This original gin was patented
by Eli Whitney, March II, 1884, nearly
century ago, and was the invention Of his
leisure hours while engaged as school
teacher in the South. Compared with the
many improvements now exhibited in gins
of the present day, it is much in the cate
CORY as the old wooden mould board Of
, antiquity But, if there had been no Whit
3 ney, there would have been no Pratt, with
3 his rapid manipulation, as without a Robert
, Fulton without his slow, awkward bout,
there would have been no palace steamers,
I blowing river, lake and ocean. How little
do the busy rushing throng think Of theil
y obligations to the patient, anxious pioneers
4 of art and invention 1t is of interest tC
4 note here, that IL fire destroyed the paten
. Office Dec 2G, 1886, when 1000 models
q we're burued another similar disaster
4 Sept "a, 1877, destroyed $1,000 models Oh
q which letters had been granted and 27,OOJ
o models of applications pending. The tota
v Of models lost foots up TO 12l, 200, anC
there are now in the Office las, 500 models
n occupying a space of G3, sos superficial feet
a a striking evidence of the activity Of th
% American brain.
% Two large excursion parties from Bostoi
, have at different times been here The
n left the Hub and proceeded straight to ST
+, Louis, where they chartered one of tn
7 Anchor LINES magnificent boats, cam
- down the father of waters to New Orleans
,r stayed one week and lived on their boaI
az Few people appreciate the fact that such
IN magnificent line Of steamers as the Anchc
ID Line now ply on the muddy Mississippi.
,t The States are vieing with each other ne
,e only in the extent and magnifcence of e7
ri hibit, but otherwise attracting public after
n, ton to their respective merits. Hon. Rob
A. W. Furnas, of Nebraska, commissioner fJ
p his State, not satisfied with making one
Of the greatest exhibits on the grounds, hi
,t- called to his aid the art preservative, and
5o handsome little book portrays the va
n resources, advantages and promises Of th
10, great commonwealth. From his little boz
nd we learn that since its first settlement
of 1866, the increase in population as cor
be pared with neighboring States, is in Il
ava ratio of $40 per cent; she has aschoOl fun
HE valued at $50, 600 600; she has nearly 30
nat miles Of railroad lines and nearly so
m miles of telegraph; she raised in 1884,
ler corn lG9, OOO, 600, and of wheat AZ, 200, o
,,5 bushels; and her live stock are valued
,t over 878, 600, 600, aud thousands Of intel
AS gent and enterprising people are aocki
emf to and finding rich aud cheap homes amo
genial and progressive people, with
-. the social advantages Of our older CONN
L.t mites.
| It would not be fair TO omit some m
w tion in this connection Of the exhibits
- various kinds in the interest Of the hou
~. keeper, for she has by no means been
@ gotten by the inventor. There are chu
sH' g. very cheap, which reduce the labor Of L
'I ter making to a matter of O few minut
80 80 not exceeding ten; porers which take
20 ne. hide" of an apple, or potato quicker Il
~ % you can say Jack Robinson, and rem
~, the core from the former, leaving the ap
80 whole for baking; irons, which dress
the washed clothes, without heating; ch
- and small refrigerators that can be used
my the table as well as larger ones, ha
little bath cabinets, which can be mo
" into any room, and every house she
N have one; there are lightning needle thr
srs for blind people, or others, and a Il
want 80 s-.r.-. g. 1rur.,, tIa D.. Ir