Artificial Ice.-A machine has been completed at Cleveland, Ohio, capable of producing a ton of solid ice in twenty-four hours and to sell ice at five dollars a ton-It was done in an apartment where the mercury stood at eighty degrees-We, ourself, had conceived the idea of making Ice in winter, at any given places, by ejecting spray from hydrants and fountains so as to freeze readily as it rested in their wettings on a prepared floor.

Last Log House. The last original Log House, is out Spruce St. South side, near Willow St. and near to Schuylkill River—It is a two storied, white plastered house, on its Spruce street front. Such a house was originally built, from using the forest trees, once near by.

"Social and Fireside History."--Daniel Webster, in one of his speeches,-said, as if to commend our kind of notices-" There is still wanting a history which shall trace the Progress of social life-We still need to learn how our Ancestors in their houses, were fed, lodged and clothed, and what were their employments-We wish to see and know more of the changes, which took place from age to age in the homes of first settlers &c.,-We want a History of Firesides!"

N. W. corner of Ninth and Green streets.-This place where is now a Tavern and Freight Depot of the Railroad Co.—was in former time a brickkiln pond-fifteen or sixteen feet lower than the general surface now. And at the next square above-from Tenth to Eleventh Sts. and from Spring-Garden Sts. up to Wallace St. was a very fine apple orchard-as still remembered by the Ancients.

Log Prison and Ancient Group of Houses in Germantown.

The picture which we here give of the last of the oldest houses, still remaining in Germantown,-now belonging to the family of John Green, present a very picturesque groupe, and stand in interesting contrast, with many modern houses, built there. They would seem to have been built at several intervening periods-The front house on the right of the picture, now faced with white mortar is the original Log house-It was brought and placed there, as the dwelling house of John Adams Hogermoed, who had before passed a night in it-for some occasion of intemperance, while it occupied the Market square as the prison.-When it was afterwards sold, the same Hogermoed, became the owner. One of the higher houses in the rear, it may be scen-is diagonally boarded--The whole groupe seems to be formed of four different constructions-a part is of stone.-All such remains of the primitive times, are fast fading from the things that be!

The Aged Mrs. Maddox.

Having before noticed several of the remarkably aged of our country, we feel here inclined to notice, one, who besides her advanced age, had also, characteristics of mind and person, which made her a peculiarity in her day-" the observed of all observers."-We

allude to Mrs. Mary Maddox, who died at the age of one hundred and two years, on the fifth of August, 1783, at the country seat of John Wallace Esq., in Somerset County, N. J. She was the daughter of John Rudderow of New Jersey; and had lived in Philadelphia, from her early life, till the period of the Revolutionary War, when she moved to the banks of the Raritan. During her long life, she enjoyed uninterrupted good health; and preserved to the last, a freshness and clearness of complexion, with scarce a wrinkle on her visage, which made her the wonder of the sitters at Christ Church, where she was a long approved communicant-never missing an attendance in thirty consecutive years. Her mind, memory and enlightened conversation, were strong and vigorous, even to the verge of her last illness and death. She was the wife of the Hon. Joshua Maddox Esq., one of the Provincial Judges of Pennsylvania.-Both of these persons, now lie buried in Christ Church ground, at the S. E. corner of Fifth and Arch Sts.-very near to the grave of Franklin.

Anthony's House,

In the fast changing construction of houses in Philadelphia, as residences of the respectable inhabitants, it is a satisfaction to give the present picture of a house, once respectable for its size and indwellers therein-It stands at the N. E. corner of Gray's Alley. and Second St.-below Chestnut St. It bore for many years the name of "Stephen Anthony's house," who died in 1763. In truth, it may have been originally built by him, for on page 223 of this Volume, it may be seen, that it was built so near the time of Blackbeard's career, who was killed in 1717, that when Stephen Anthony was having the cellar dug for it, about the year 1729, his black mau Friday, then working there, came to a pot of money, which might have been hidden there by Pirates. The name of the Alley, was perhaps received from Gray, who had a large brewery on the North side of Chestnut St. between Third and Bank Alley. In contemplating the House, we must mark its superiority in its early day, because it is ornamented with drops under its eaves-and its superior form of dormer windows-As a dwelling house, it shows the marks of where once ranged an entire extension all round it, of pent house we must remove present store windows, and set before the house its former street porch-The bricks too, now all painted red, were originally regularly intermixed with the blue glazed bricks,—a token, only belonging to the grades of best houses. All the three first houses in the Alley, were also marked with the drops under the eves, and were also built with the alternate intermixture of blue glazed bricks-Probably, one of them, built for, and dwelt in, by Gray the brewer; and so early too, as to have given the name to the Alley. Such Alleys as that, and Carter's opposite, and Norris' near there, were at first chosen and dwelt in, in preference to wide main streets; because free from general travel, and therefore not liable

to be cut up, by wheels; and they were easier swept clean, at a period, before the existence of paved streets. Norris' Alley, was always remarkable, for its very notable cleanliness. Another thing to be contemplated in the picture is, that the frame house adjoining on the left side was once the residence and home of the subsequently renowned personage, Robert Fulton-when an apprentice to Duffel a Silversmith. There he probably lived as unconscious of " the divinity that stirred within him," as it rested before his time in another City visitor, who came in time to be equally famed, in Benjamin Franklin. The whole group, and their spontaneous associations, furnish much of ready consideration to the thinking and excursive mind. Such a house as Anthony's, and the Lætitia house of William Penn, in Lætitia Court, present the best, last remains, of what was the original feature of Philadelphia.-Now, successful traders, far surpass them all, and live in costly luxury. Tempora mutantur!

The Willing House.

We give a picture of this once respectable family residence of the Willing family, at the S. W. corner of Third street and Willing's Alley, taken down " to build greater," for the Reading Railroad Co. in 1856. It was originally built in 1745 for Charles Willing, after the pattern of the former homestead in Bristol, England. It was afterwards occupied as the family residence of his son, Thomas Willing, a member of the Congress of 1776-and afterwards the President of the first Bank of the United States. When first erected it was on "the hill," so called, "beyond Dock Creek:" and was then deemed a Rural home "outside of the Town,"-having connected with it, on its southern aspect, a large enclosure of Oak trees, of forest remains, with ample space of grass ground, extending from Third to Fourth streets. While in its prime, it was a fine specimen of rural elegance and family affluence;-A pleasant retreat from the throng and bustle of the carly City avocations. Now, its location, has come to be a thronged place, of many genteel residences.-Near by it, southward, was the large enclosed grounds, and elegant mansion of William Bingham, Esq., who was a senator of the United States, wnile it held its session in Philadelphia, in 1800. That house, of two elevated stories of brick, of double front-most elegantly adorned, with door and window embellishments, was in its day, the wonder of the mass of passing travellers;-and Mr. Bingham, having married the elegant daughter of Mr. Willing, made the whole area along Third St.-to Spruce St, a kind of family distinction of both families for many years-Now all the same grounds, are fully filled with blocks of many dwelling houses.

The Early Emigrants to Pennsylvania.

These have been recently noticed, and all named in a book published by J. D. Rupp, at Harrisburg-Such a book, should be pecu