Show A AN N INGENIOUS PIECE pince or woric WORK mr nicholson a journeyman carpenter of philadelphia has just completed a fac in minia minla miniature t ure of the national washington monument the miniature contains pieces of wood of american trees it is built on a scale of one eighth of an inch to a foot and completed it stands five feet eight and three quarter ua ter inches high the base is composed of 3 pieces arranged t as a tess elated pavement the wood in this portion of the structure includes white oak walnut oak from the frigate alliance red cedar and ash the me pantheon is composed of pieces consisting of live oak walnut cherry red cedar boxwood from the paterson farm of new jersey I 1 maple mulberry buttonwood elm treaty elm gum walnut locust spruce plain maple birdeye bird eye maple paper mulberry red cedar poplar white pine yellow pine white oak live oak mulberry and wood from the charter oak the treaty elm wood from the fri frigate ate alliance the ship constitution ution wa wood od fr from om fort du quesne th the tha e star at the top of the obelisk is made of a piece of the old independence bell the whole is most neatly joined over three years having been occupied in the work As the model now stands it carries out the same de design ign in wood as is proposed to be carried out in in marble by the erection of the national washl washington wl monument it if the scie scle scientific n 1 americans merican Ime ricans r s definition of ingenuity is right viz that it 13 is a very complicated combination of devices to produce a result that is not very useful ly mr nicholsons Nich olsons piece is very ingenious philadelphia ledger |