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India Rubber Hatss=-S@<Se go; there is no end to inventions and improvements of the present day. The following is an extract from communication in the Advertiser, dated at Gardiner, in this State. Verify, when we read it, it essentially relieved the sorrow we begun to feel, that our hat was waxing old- Portland (A1aie) Courier.

 "More than six months ago, Mir Laban L. Macombcr, an industrious and intelligent ma nnfacturer in this place, was led to try the experiment of introducing India Rubber into the composition of hat bodies, and by continued trials he has at last succeeded beyond his eX- pectations. He is now On the point of throw ing these hats into the market, and they will be found to be an elegant article, but this Is by no means their greatest recommendation

 They are exceedingly light, weighing, on an average, abeut four ounces, and are so elastic that they may be folded like handkerchief may be crushed into any shape, and will i'm mediately return to their original form with out being injured in the smallest degree. They may be folded in a trunk by the traveller, and at the end of the longest journey can be re- stored to shape without any difficulty and without sustaining any injury. The substance may be made into caps of any shape whatev- CT; and MT Macomber IS now preparing a few caps for the market in the latest fashion

 Another great cxcellency of this preparation IS, that it may be exposed to rain, and become harder instead of softer by the exposure, and the nap, when dried, will net be injured in ap- pearance. All things considered, l cannot believe but that these hats must oust entirely the old kiud from the markets.