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No. 39. RAILROAD NEWS. . New Railroad (Jarl.
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IMPROVEMENT IN
from the factory of Eaton , G i l b ert H arlem Railroad.
and handome Railroad Cars
AiJI8Fulton Street, New York (Sun Building,) and
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
New York, have just be.en introduced on the These cars have the Pa
&- Co. Troy,
13 Court Street, Boston, Mass.
The Principal Office being at New York. Barlow &t Payne, Agents, 89 Chancery L ane, London
By Munn
& Company.
tented Window Blinds, of which D. Hart &
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a year-Sl In advance,
and
h. remainder In 6 montha.
They ar e con. Gilbert & Co. the ass i gn ees . structed �a. to cover the whole of the window inside, and to lold up alld slide into a c asin over the window, entirely out of sight and They can be lowered at out of the way. pl ea su re to cover the whole or any part of the glass, which is in two large lights. Survey 01" a Rail Route o California.
Co. are the inventors, we believe, and Eaton,
SCIENCES.
When Adam first in Eden stood, How glad she made his solitude, Nor kisses sweet den ied b im . With blushing Eve beside him,
ance to be made from Fort Smith to the
Few cares
And went with j oy at set of sun,
Th e y p l ucked their fruit and eat it,
h a d they, and troubles n one,
G ovemm en t has ordered a reconnois Bay of San Francisco. Lieu!. Simpson, of the Topographical Engineers, a<8isted by Lieut. Hagen, have been ordered upon this service. The This reconnoisance in connection with those
heretofore made by Fremont, will ena ble Con way. gress to deCide upon a route for a Pacific Rail columbus Dnd CleVeland Railroad.
Their moss�grown couch to greet it. Their apples ripe, where'er they hung, Nor stay ed they till their kettle sung, . Nor waited till they stewed They gat he red when they viewed them,
them.
on the fall.
There are a great number of b ands to work
Columbus and
Cincinnati Railroad
which is intended to be in
full o p era tion this
But soon a change came o'er their dream; I I)an't tell what the date isBut 'tis the origin of Steam-
They buil their first potat oes ! If dressed she looked more
Ere l ong Miss Eve began to find
And then forthwith she ga ve he r m ind To l e a rn the art of Spinning!
winning,
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months ago. and
apparatus ill thIi invention of Mr. war ren S. Bartle, of Newark, Wayne Co. N. Y.. . and tor which a patellt was issued a few This supply of water is rfgulated to the force pump. The same letters on both figures refer to lik e parts, and the drawings are the same
By wh i ch to make the outward mail Ap pear the more becoming. ' The plan was this, and 'tis a�fae! He made, and that with ski ll
Poor Adam too, struck out a plan , h Wit h thr e ad and n eedle t ru mm ng ,
fig 2 a transverse vIew showing how the
Fig. 1 is a p erspective view,
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The receipts of the New York and Erie comparison with a short rigid lever which ses the power of most /loats to operate RaIlroad, for the last month were $66;066,67, surpas and is ve r y easily derange d. N, is the connec showing a n increase of 163 per c en t over tion of the suction ripe with the fountain of supply. The /loat is described to shut off the yet.
respect to other float feeders,like opera miles. ting with balance leve r. wheel and axle, in
to the Harlem Railroad, a
The Committee of the Connecticut Legisla ture have reported favorable on an applica tion for a charter lor a raUroad fr o m Danbury di s tan c e .of nine
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May, 11548.
This is going to be Gall EXp10810n.
a great ro ad
as those on the specification with the excep-
tion of the f(lrm of the float chamber. A small cylinder to the right is erected and attached to a convenient part of the boiler, communi cating with it by the upper and lower hori lower one the water p i p e. water line. zontal pipes-the upper one the steam, the
and tact, A pair ot doe-skin breeches!
Which Ancient History teaches,
I clearly make it out Beyond a chance of failure, That Adam was, without a doubt, And thus The first and earliest tailor! Old Tu b al Cain-we all do know,. That nolest of fine fellows, The firijt good Smith that gave
S, is the section
B, is a float placed in the cylin
rate correctly. Tbe float by rising and falling is made to turn a c ock to hut off an d open the suction pipe of the force pump E, to regulate the supply according to tbe depth of water to start and stop the working of the force pump entirely. The float therefore, is attachin the boiler and also by another combination
der and th us unaffected by the foam to ope �
To anvil or to bellows!
a blo w
taIling to the fl oor, he broke the l eft kn e . pan A and was much bruised. The walls of the better arrangement than that represented. in rooms we,e s pread and prostrated . _._. ------------the drawing is employed by the patentee where The London Eledric Telegraph Company he has it lD o p e rati on. Various modifications has comm unication with olle hundred aad fif might be presented, such as a clutch, as well ty towns. It has a centra l office, a n d five as a free pulley to gear and ungear the pumps. branch offices in London, employing 60 per on the shaf t D, to stop or set in motion the pump according as the float rises or falls. When the current of the water through the pump is required to be continuous, and is to
at Williamsburg, an ex passes freely through the standard, a single plosion of gas took place at the sa Jre J' atus man arm, on which are balanced two cl icks BI seen u factory owned by Francis, in Tent h � st. A at N, in communion with the arm of the float you ng man na med George Sy I vester, 17 y ea rs to move with its rise and fall the two ratchets of age, incautiously applied a l u ci t e r match which are also adverse like H H, and moves to the ventilator of the carbonizing rooms, a rack bar to operate by M F, the band, hy when a violent explosion took place, which fingen from the fast to the free pulley at K, hur led him to the top of the building, whence There is attach cd to the rocking shaft which
operation of the pump entirely, as follows.
On the 6th inst.
Old Noah built the spacious, ark. And when he launched his gallant bark Was surely the first Shipwright! 'Twere vain, though And shew how His family to keep tight,
FIG. 2.
T he rise of Art and Science,
e asy,
be admitted to, or diverted from the boiler by a three way cock, the cock should be placed sage f r om Liverpool to L ondon, costs about 8s above the valves, and when it is required to 7d., to Glasgow 14s. ._----start and top the current through the pump by the admission of air into the pump, the Culture of TODl.atoes.
sons. The wires are 9,800 miles in length. are passed through iron pipes under the city. and are suspended upon 61,800 pos ts . A mes
thus to trace
first the human race With both made close alliance. . ed bY a rod sen 10 sect' lon, t0 the arm G, which passes through the steam.tight bearing
We come to modern times and shew How human skill now ran ges, And prove how great in thIngs below,
Tomatoes may be sown in January and by cock shJVld be plared between the Talves. the 1st of March may be transplanted in More information respecting rights, &c. troughs four feet i n length and six inches may be obtained by letter, post paid, to the square, which may be pJaced tier above tier inventor. on racks, in a room of m o d e rate warmth ;. and A Good Sa1"e.
The st. Louis Reveille says,-We terday, in the ruins of the that has effectually resisted Although unprotec ted by a ed to the heat of a burnil)o"
How strange, how vast the change is.
times its flowery heights We climbed astride on asses, And now we take more d ari ng /lights, And steam o'er steep Pranaslus ! In ancient
box C. T he wire F, connected wI'th the float I'S finely balanc e db0 th a t the shou Ider near G, on a right angled arm, and is attached belw to two a dve rse ratchets H H, as seen fig. , wh ic h are also accurately balanced on pi� are connected by the l i nk P. vots in the small upright standard, and they As the /loat B flses and falls in the cylinder these ratchets
cupied by f)f essrs
Woods
All ready t h ere I -away
S mal l wonder if your verses flow
we go, With boilers hot and lizzing
the suctIOn passage the flo at IS at
turn the ratchet wheel J, which shuis or opens
In strains 1i0 shrill and whizz ing !
Ere long we'll see things stranger far P.-oj e cted ant! 800n got up, A tra m way to some distant star, Or railway to the moon up !
Its low est line and it can he ' . sh t up enll e ly when the /loa t IS at a c ertain height. ThIS manner of openIng and clo ing f' the supply passage of the force pump requlre,s . but a very small amount of power, In fact I
passage is opened to its greatest extent when
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Tomato cuIture IS b ut a part of what may � . . ,. h be accom Is ed In thIS way. It is indis pe n_ Pl sa ble t0 have many boxes twelve feet in length on t he wooden shelvlOg had not even been ' by tour wl e and two deep- making as per'd melted. We were told by a hy-s tander that it , lect a M ushroom bed as possible. If by the . " IS ca11ed a " Sal amand r Safe. . fi rst af January the said beds are properly ' [We s houId 1 I ke to know the name of ItS fi lled WI . 'th manure, you can raise on thIS all
after the conflagratIOn, the papers, &c., which . . . I t contaIned haTe since been taken out p e r � fectly free of injury.� The paint and varnish
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by th e first of May the): will be in heiKht at saw, yes- least eighteen inches, and so forward th at th e tore fo rmerly oc� fi rst w i ll be prod u ced a month or six weeill l� Violet, a safe ear I ier than usual. Th ree thousa n d p lant s the test of fire.will fill 375 b oxes. They are transplanted . . vault, and exposfour feet apar t, requlflng one and one� eight h pile for two days acres of land.
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the Tomatoes wanted; by Which time the in the Mushooms will begin to appear, and if proritish Empire is aDGut 30,000,000 of quarters perIy �filled and managed, wIll bear plentifully I for one year. . In a year. A quarter i. eight bushel.. T he entire consumption of wheat
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