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Show VALUABLE INVENTIONS. It seems as it the era of inventions had just commenced. Everything in the age moves fast. 1'iog.ess is stamped on the inventive powers ot the generation; and daily announcements announce-ments are being made of important discoveries in things useful. The dispatches dis-patches a few days ago had an account of a new invention tested on Friday on an eastern railroad : that of tilling locomotive tenders with water while the engine is at full speed. We noticed lately in an exchange an account of the transit of a car from broad to narrow guages on rallpa U, tls.tt was on its way to tlu Pucif; ' .: from the At-antie, At-antie, pas.-iag over J.'.ilrettt guages and adapting itself to each with facility. These are valuable and a licet the ln- erests of commeie", and we may look nith confidence to a few years placing l.e oiviiiz.'i wor.d iu possession ot j. .any uch inventions, that w.ll revulu t Ionize commercial and social interests : I a manner now but faintly imagined. |
