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» * £ *.. •TAc V?if/oma/on JQwek of Vatican*son.—-This eelebratbd inn chine of which some marvellous, ami as many regarded them, incredible stories nr© ’told, has been broil” bt to-fight, ktii\ was exhibited Ja$t year in this, city, Where we beheld it performing its marvellous feats. .: Nothing can be more authentic thim-4lio—Qlt;?olt;n;m4» -of- tbo owln r-o:about to describe. Wo bnve ourselves been an eye witness, and could have sworn that the duck was a living animal. In the space of. ten minmes we saw it drink, eat, dabble in the water,stretch its wings* shake its feathers, and do n number of: things, all in a manner peculiar to that bird. ThisvvsV.f.duck seemed to. live, and move—die illusion was corriplete.And yet it was only a machine, made up of* counterpfoise^, a'cylinder, levers, and stops which were put in motion by means of dir^uiboS. It was the very machine made by Vaucanson, and con-structed by him in 1738, and which was then seen by all Paris. It was for a long time in the hands of IIuni-oulin, who exhibited it in Russia and Austria; jh 1781 wo hear of it at Berlin, in the possession of a counsellor, named Beireis.. After his death the machine was forgotlcn, taken to pieces, and left for thirty years in a garret, where it was much injured. At length it fell-into the hands of n philosophical instrument maker, belonging to Berlin, who made vbin endeavors to put it together again. A skilful mechanicianbelonging to Hamburg, Ceoige Tietsa, fortuately learned these facts and obtained tho remains of the beautiful machine. By means of great care, per-severenee and skill, this ^rietz has succeeded in restoring the duck, and has even added scwie now movements (a if; hut lie lias been obliged to make nearly the whole anew. Ho showed lig and we beheld them with respect, the venerable- pieces, which date back to the period of Vaucanson and which bad been wroughi-by his own hctndl — Of the original little was left. In aB instances the wood and pastebord havek 1 .been replaced by steel and copper,— Tho duck had been presented by him in a skeleton form* in order Unit the mechanism migtu he better understood, and;combinations better appreciated. M. Tietz has clothed his duck with feathers, and thus rendered its resemblance to tho animal more perfect.This-duck can digest his foodt that is to sav,'be goes through the processVilvraia\IIl\I\►Irtr.\ . . -.. ,Water Cure.—11 is Surprising, tov6b~ serve what great cures have been effected by tho simple use of water, which has now become a most valuable auxiliary lo tlie materia mcdica.r~_ . . * ‘i !•A patient m one of the cold waterasn sylums of Mass.* says, after five months treatment., that lie weighed 127 pounds when he entered tho asylum, and has been relieved of tbiity-ibrce pounds of bad flesh, and now feels that lie lias been made over. The water cure is m resting the attention of our most scientific Doctors.Scientific JJmericati.iIII
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Cherokee Advocate
Tahlequah, Oklahoma, US
Mon, Jun 05, 1848
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