{"newspaper_name": "Mobile register and journal.", "edition": "01", "page": "p2", "byline": ""}
{"character_count": 1775, "word_count": 318, "ccnet_language_score": [0.9739000201225281], "ccnet_perplexity": [744.2999877929688], "fasttext_language": ["en"]}
We see 1t stated in the Report of the Commission CT of Patents that a new mode of cutting and rigging the sails of square-rigged vessels by making them in two parts, each half extending from the mast Io the end of the yards, patented last year. They hung to the upper verde by rings that slide on

 rod called "iack yard" attached to the middle and ends of the yard, and are set and fuled by means of ''ou' and in" hauers. This arrangement

 s said to be decidedly superior tn ihe mode at pre- sent practised. the vessel Ike worked with greater case, and will sail nearer to the wind.

 We learn fl om the source that improve ment has been made in cauking the seams of ships, which is equally applicable to the floors of cellars and other woofen structures. The improvement sists in the of series of wedges, made width wise alternately wider a the point than at the butt and vice versa. When they are driven into the seams they wedge lengthwise we'll as wdthwiSe

 ILLUsTRIoUs SHoEMAKERs.-S St. Crispin, it would appear, has highly favored ssme of his follow CTS. Clifford & Drew were both shoemakeTs; so vas Holcrsit, whose dramatic works have done him much honor. Robert Bloomfield a shoemake or when he wrote hIs "Farmer's Boy" Dr. Cary. PrO- lessor sf Sanscrit and Bengalee, in the College of Port William, Calcutta, was in early life a shoemn ker. So is MT. Strothers. the author Of the "Ponr Mans Sabbath, ," the "Peasant's Death," and other poems Roger Sherman, of Connecticut, one of the able siRners of the Declaration of American lnde- pendence, was a shoemaker He worked at his trade ill he was 2T years of age. at Newton. near Boston. whence he migrated to Connecticut, and by assiduity in civil employ gradually to be Judge, Legislator. and an eminent Statesman.