Tub First Saw Mill

tice iu niakin boards waa to split up the logs with wedges; and iu convenient as thc practica was it waa uo easy matter to persuade tho world that the thiug could be done iu any bet ter way. Baw-miila wero lirst used iu Europe iu the fifteeutb centurv ; but so lately aa 155fc, an Etiglish cmbassador, having seeu a saw-mill iu France. thuught it a novelty wliich desurvod a particular deseription. It is aiuusiug to see how aversiou to labor-saving iuaohiuery haa always agitated Englatid. 'i'he' first saw-miU was e.stablished by a Dutcliuiau, in lüüii, but the public outcry agaiüct tlie new-fangled machine was to violent that tlie pvoprietor as torced to deoainp witli more expeditiou thau ever did Dutehman before. The evil was thus kept out of Euglaud for several years, or rather geucratious ; but iu 1798, au unlueky ümber merehant, hupiug that after so long a time, the public would be lesa watchful of its interesta, mado a rash atteiupt to construct auothcr mili, The guardians of the public welfare, however, were on the alert, aud a conscieutious inob at once collected and pulled the mili to pieees. (3F Noble spirits rejoiee in the consoicjuaae.-ss of a motivo - buso oosb de üght only iu u pretest.