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Show AN IllO.V HOUSE. An ingenious mechanic in Auburn, N. V., says the Xews of that city, for nearly a year past has been employing ! his leisure hours in studying out some 1 plan to make a self-supplying chemical I power to t ike the place of steam, and ' to make it move a piece of machinery I having tho motion of a horse. He j claims to have brought that also io u degree of success. That he has discovered dis-covered a motive power in certain alkalies al-kalies and acids, which has never been brought into practical u.-e for agricultural agricul-tural implements, there is no doubt. Whether he can make it work his machine ma-chine horse over soft and uneven ground seems ic be the only puint to i bo t's:cd. He appears to be very . iiffl, nt himself that it will do so. We itive his description of the machine a- he has furnished It to us tor public in TUiaiion, no! to advertise it, but a: a mailer of news : Tlio machine does not go on wheels like an engine, but walks like a horse, on lour hgs, wliioh rise e:ght inches and make a lorward move of eight. -en. at even- revolution of a eeiilie shall which works them. The shaft s ten feet long, the lonj'.h of the : machine. The logs are ton loot apart. I, .re and aft. and sidewi.-e live leet aa.l. which enables the miohiue to pioseivc its balance on uneven crouud. h i-so eo'L-trueted that it .il go up and ujwn a heavy gia.i" w.ih the .u alost oa-o, and i o ul.itc 1 to . .,.k ai.d draw uii soft a:i 1 t.. It i land wi:h uii. re case than a y toa:n ol hois. s. U turns r.-uni i:i i: own leii--;h to any p int net icJ. A- M spt . .1 it will to al any u mou tcrcc to li::ceu miles per hour. The concern ,an I o revel sv i. It can I-' clupl.-yc-J tr a'! tho' purposes tha' a team v' I,. rsi - are u-ctul f.r. -u.'l. as pluiich-i;i pluiich-i;i :. r. :v.'irg or dniw-.no; w i -on-. -treci-o . s ::n i c;in.il-bais. |