THE WISCONSIN FARMER.

   aftnoon. It Wa doubtful. Sousetimst the hat-rive  and all of them are
of respectable dimensions,
   needle evidently tald the. again in icudi  even according to an English
estimate.
   wotrketd aglasgained. Bat Iron and laeel armere en
   during,* eventhana housrewe'seurage. And though for
   any single hour the hand ould prepare hater than the usR SCIA        STATISTICS.
       olde  a id   xec Wyet. taking the day through, Wheeler _ _ _ _ _ _
__ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _
   & Wilson bad the advantage, and cm  out at dark ded-
   edly ahued. That setted It. There we a revolution in    Interesting  tatiaties.
   thie housebold Our Miriam sounded her Uimbrl and tri-
   umphed over the cruel Pharsoe of the needle, whaoe dy-  Mr. B. F. Rindge,
of Heart Prairie, Wis.,
   nsaet and deapodanm were ended.
   Now, sewIng Ia the family amusement. Our Wheeler & sends us the following
memoranda of import-
   Uileon in played on a great deal more than our 114einwmay
   pia-a IO the Canue. toi, of more real music  than is ant events, affecting
the lives and property of
   eerw get out of that Instrument ; for two Canaurybrd
   perched on either side of the bookcase, underetand te first thpeople of
all Christendom, from  184W to
   o Ik of the mewing machine to be a chaflenge. and wle uary st. 163.  ow
 accurate the figures
   the maphine saigs satccato, they warble ad libitum, andJaur1t.86. ow 
cuaethfirs
   betweei the soltfegio of the one and the cnstabale of the may be we have
no means of knowing, but the
   other, we go crasy.
     After all this testimony, who wonders that figures are certainly as
large as they outgk to
  we selected this from all the machines in the be.  In view of the wars
that have committed
  world as a suitable prize to be awarded our their ravages since 1848-including
the Revo-
  enterprising, hard working agents for large lution of '48, the Crimepn
War, the Italian,
  lists of subscribers'  Farmers, or whoever the Circassian, the East Indian,
the Mexican,
  else wants the best sewing machine of which and the American-the number
"230,792"
  we have any knowledge, now is your chance to of lives lost by shipwrecks,
earthquakes, and
  get one, vithout a cent qf vioney!             battles looks rather small.
Probably one-half
                       --------------- *~~       of that number have been
lost by the batttles
            Cotton Spinning in Russia.           on this continent alone,
within the past two
    Every Russian peasant, male and female, years.    Mr. Rindge is, doubtless,
a careful
  wears cotton clothes  The men wear printed noter of such events, however,
and the follow-
  shirts and trousers, and women are dressed ing are his statistics:
  from head to foot in prinid cotton also. When No. fires of onslderable
extent, .5.133
  it is remembered that Russia contains some- No. buildndls desropycd by
lires and earth  6
  thing like 33,000,000 of serfs, besides other  quakes,............... .......1.........
  199,019
  classes amounting to 20,000,000(, all using this No.vessaelwrecked .........................
 .473
  article more or less, one can estimate the de- No. lives lost br hipwrecks,
earhquaks a ndr'.. .'
  mand for cotton goods. But a calculation is   battles ........................230,92
  not to be made from data afforded by free and Ain't of iose by fires, shipwrecks
and earth-
  more prosperous countries. The peasantry are  quakes .................................
$1,Oe0,91r7,oe
  poor, the cotton prints are dear. Hence there
  is not a tithe of the right amount of consump-  FLAX COTTON.-The legislature
having ap-
  tion. Still, the cotton trade in Russia is a propriated the sum of $2,000
for the machine-
  large trade, and it is supplied chiefly by native ry to test the experiment
of manufacturing flax
  labor, in mills containing machinery made in cotton, to be expended under
the direction of
  Oldham and Manchester, and superintended by the State Agricultural Society,
the Executive
  Englishmen from   the same and neighboring Committee would call the attention
of those
towns. There may be five or six millions of interested in the culture and
preparation of
spindles at work spinning this cotton; togeth- flax to this subject. The
object of the legisla-
er with the weaving and printing of the same, ture was undoubtedly to secure
a preparation
that forms a large item, perhaps the largest of flax as an economical substitute
for cotton,
among the mnnufacturing processes of Russia, so as to be used on cotton machinery.-Jour-
and employs a capital of thirty millions ster- nalN.l 1. S. Ay. Soc.
ling. The largest mills are in the neighbor-.
hood of St. Petersburg. one of these having   PETROLEUM FOR OIL-STONEs.-A
correspond-
some one hundred and twenty thousand spin- ent of the Scienlqfic American
says:-'    I have
dles, and a few others are of seventy thousand an old stone very much soaked
and gummed
and sixty thousand, but the great bulk of the up with oil, so much so that
my plane iron
trade is in the Moscow district, and scattered would slip over it without
sharpening. I took
about the land in that direction. The number to using petroleum oil on the
stone, and it seems
of spindles there may not be so great in any to work first-rate. It draws
the oil out of the
individual mill as in some of the large St. Pe- stone, and has a tendency
to make the iron or
tersburg establishments; but the mills are chisel cling to it, which greatly
facilitates the
more numerous, some of them   nearly as large, whetting.