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Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 488, 27 July 1850, Page 87

Machine for. Joiners. — A machine for morticing, boring, &c, has recently been patented in this country, by Mr. William Furness, of Lawton Street, Liverpool. It is the invention of Mr. J. A. Fay, an eminent American engineer, and has recently been brought to a state of perfection. One has been made by Messrs. E. F. Bellhouse and C»., of Maaekestcr. According to our informant, it is on the principle of the slothing machine for iron, but with a power of adjustment of the point of the tool which enables a great variety of work to be done by it. The chisels employed are of a peculiar shape, not being solid like the ordinary mortice chisels, but flat, like the common joiner's chisels, with the edges turned up at right angles, so that the chips are drawn out of the mortice, after the hole has been cut The machine can be used with any kind of chisel from an eighth of an inch up to two inches ; it will also set out and mortice naves for wheels not exceeding ten or fifteen inches. Pins and dowels are made by it. It can be made to operate either by foot or steam power, and one machine, it is said, will perform the work of eight men. The cost of the machine is about £20. The inventor of this machine has also invented a machine to make tenons, and execute rabbiting, sash scribing, and boring in any kind of wood. — Builder.

Aromatic vinegar applied to soft corns three or four times, to moisten the part, will speedily cure them. A pennyworth of the vinegar will be found sufficient to remove a score.

Toothache.— A correspondent of the Monthly Magazine says — " Although lam unacquainted with anything which gives immediate ease in that severe pain, yet I can inform you how the toothache may be prevented. I was much tortured with it twenty years ago. Since that time, however, by using flower of sulphur as a tooth-powder, I have been wholly free from it. Rub the teeth and gums with a rather hard tooth-brush, using the sulphur, every night ; if done after dinner, too, all the better. It preserves the teeth, and does not communicate any smell whatever to the mouth."

A Life Preserver.— Mr. J. R. Wilson, of Gateshead Fell, has contrived a simple preserver for fishermen and others. It consists of two tin bottles, japanned in order to resist the action of the sea water, and costs about four shillings. One of the bottles is tightly fastened beneath either breast, and thus equipped, the men who have tried it declare themselves perfectly secure for any length of time.