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Page 60 - PERMIT me to call your undivided attention to an invention lately made and patented by myself, which is calculated to produce the most beneficial results, and prove of inestimable value to mankind. It is well known that the sewing-machines now so generally in use, are the most important invention and greatest blessing of the age. Every lady considers this instrument indispensable to her happiness; it has completely usurped the place of the piano-forte and harp in all well-regulated families ; and...
Page 32 - George Washington was one of the most distinguished movers in the American Revolution. " He was born of poor but honest parents, at Genoa, in the year 1492. His mother was called the mother of Washington. He married, early in life, a widow lady, Mrs. Martha Custis, whom Prescott describes as the cussidest pretty woman south of Mason and Dixon's line.
Page 60 - ... has a tendency to produce hip diseases and white swelling of the knee-joint, accompanied by nervous complaints of a painful character. The undersigned is acquainted with a most estimable single lady of middle age, who, having procured one of the fast-running machines, was so enchanted with it, that she persisted in its use for thirty-six hours without cessation, and found, on endeavoring to leave off, that her right leg had acquired the motion of the...
Page 33 - Braddock,' subsequently vulgarized into ' deaf as a haddock,' had its rise from that circumstance. Washington commanded several troops during the Revolutionary war, and distinguished himself by fearlessly crossing the Delaware river on ice of very inadequate thickness, to visit a family of Hessians of his acquaintance. He was passionately fond of green peas and string beans ; and his favorite motto was : ' In time of peace prepare for war.
Page 200 - There was the elegant city practitioner, with shiny hat and straw-colored gloves, side by side with the gentleman from the country, who hauls a man all over the floor for two hours, for a quarter of a dollar, and gives him the worth of his money. I observed that forty-seven of them wore white hats, and two hundred and sixty-eight used tobacco in some form. There can be no question that this substance is a preservative to the teeth. I observed, in the rear rank, the ingenious gentleman who invented...
Page 27 - Pike's baby, now lying with a cotton-flannel shirt on, in a champagne basket, in Portland, OT, has just as good a chance of being president of the United States, as the imperial infant of France, now sucking his royal thumbs in his silver cradle at Paris, has of being an emperor.
Page 60 - ... unforgiving disposition, led to great unhappiness in the family, and finally resulted in the melancholy case of Thompson vs. Thompson, so familiar to most of the civilized world. A turn for mechanism, and an intense desire to contribute to the happiness of the female sex, have ever been distinguishing traits in my character. On learning these facts, therefore, I devoted myself to a thorough investigation of the subject, and after a month of !••••••••••••••••••••••...
Page 63 - in operation, that all may understand its powers, and none fail to procure one, through ignorance of its merits. The Attachment will be furnished to families having sewing-machines, on the most reasonable terms, and at the shortest notice. Young and docile cats supplied with the Attachment, by application at 348 Broadway, New -York. Office of the Patent Back- Action Hen-Persuader.
Page 35 - Although, for the time in which he lived, a very distinguished man, the ignorance of Washington is something perfectly incredible. He never travelled on a steam-boat ; never saw a railroad, or a locomotive engine ; was perfectly ignorant of the principle of the magic of the magnetic telegraph ; never had a daguerreotype, Colt's pistol, Sharp's rifle, or used a friction match. He...
Page 132 - ... mouse, the latter is removed, and keeping constantly at the original distance, the machine revolves with great rapidity. The prodigious velocity produced by the rapacity of the cat in its futile endeavors to overtake the mouse, can only be imagined by one who has seen the Attachment in full operation. It is thus that man shows his supremacy over the brute creation, by making even their rapacious instincts subservient to his use. Should it be required to arrest the motion of the machine, a handkerchief...