Machinery And Hard Labor

Not suoh a giet while ago our thread was spun betweeii the finger and the thumb, and all ourcloth woven in the clumsiest of hand-lcoms. Now, bj means ol a spinning-jenny and weaviii machinery, one person will make as much ts two hundi'ed yards of cloth in a day. Btfore the invention of the cotton-gin, one person could not prepare one pound of cotton so easily as he can now prepare oue hundred pounds. Our grandnaothers could bare]y kniE one pair oi socks in a day - now by ineans of a machine, ono litde girl can turn oui a hundred dollars' worth of knitted materials in a day. A few jears ago we wera told it took seventeeu men to make a complete pin ; now the machine is fod with the raw Material, whioh is not touched ogain until rolled up in papers of pins. In Providence, R. I., thero is to-day a machino that takes a strip of metal from a coil, and makcs two hundred and thirty inches of delicate chain out of it in a dav. The metáis aro no longer worked by hand - a slow wearing proce3s - they aro shaved, sawed, bored, nnd hammered, with the greate.st oase aod accuracy, as if they wero of the sof: est pino. An instrument has been contrived and perfected of exceedingly delicate powere, whicb measures tho operation ïtsoli' - tells tho exact time it takes for a sensation from the finger to reach the braia - two teaths of a second ! Go into a certain India rubber store in New York, and you wül tind a hundred different articles-made of that one staple - only a few years ago, good fornothinsrbut to lub out marks and furnish oclive-javved peoplesomething to chew. As wood gives out, coal pits are fourid everywheie. Wo begin to fear for lights with which to illumo our homes, nnd make all things cheerful ; when lol oil is distilled from coul, and we even have streams of it spouting out of the ground for us to fill our lamps with ! Goal tar, once regarded as useless, is now manufactured into many different artick's, somo of thern of great value. -