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Miss M. McCormick, of Sacramento, exhibited some pretty crocheted 

 tidies and an ornamental pincushion. 



Mrs. J. L. Sturtevant, of Placerville, contributed some beautiful wax 

 work, chief among which was a cross with trailing passion vines and a 

 crown of thorns. 



Mrs. B. N. Bugbey, of Folsom, exhibited a large and fine crochet tidy. 



Mrs. M. H. Herbert, of Carson City, exhibited a very fine beadwork 

 pincushion and mat. 



Mrs. J. C. Rodgers, of Sacramento, exhibited two pretty and ingenious 

 corn-husk hats. 



Mrs. L. II. Foote, of Sacramento, showed a beautiful seaweed wreath 

 surrounding a cross of the same material, framed. 



Miss Lulu Adams, of Sacramento, exhibited some very neat specimens 

 of plain sewing. 



Miss Agnes Hummel, of Sacramento, aged eleven years, contributed 

 some very creditable productions of her needle, in the shape of a braided 

 and embroidered toilet set, an embroidered child's dress and some appli- 

 cation work. 



Miss Mary E. Clark, of Sacramento, exhibited a prettily arranged bed 

 quilt, which work must have required extreme patience on her part. 



Miss Mary. Denden, of Happy Valley, contributed a splendid raised 

 worsted work pincushion, which attracted much attention from the 

 critical of her own sex. 



Mrs. J. P. Odbert, of Sacramento, exhibited a fine wreath of framed 

 raised worsted work. 



J. L. F. Warren, of the California Fanner, among his interesting 

 collection, exhibited a bag of flour, branded: "Horner's Mills, Union 

 City (Cal), half barrel, forty-nine pounds. Superfine extra. Warranted 

 from pure California wheat. October, eighteen hundred and fifty- 

 three. Horner & Co., agents, San Francisco." We are informed that 

 this was the first bag of flour made from California wheat, ever exhibited 

 at a California fair, a premium having been awarded to its then exhibitor 

 in eighteen hundred and fifty-three. The flour retains its sweetness to 

 this day, bearing high testimony to the qualities of California wheat. 



The Domestic Carpet Manufactory, of San Francisco, exhibited several 

 pieces of rag and list carpet of home manufacture. 



L. Price, of San Francisco, showed a case containing ladies' fancy 

 gaiters of various materials, colors and styles, which are well shaped 

 and gave evidence of good workmanship. 



Thomas O'Xeil, of San Francisco, ornamental glass cutter, exhibited 

 head lights and ceiling sash lights of ornamental cut glass. This was 

 California work and reflects much credit upon O'Xeil. 



Ferdinand Woodward, of Sacramento, exhibited what is styled a 

 " hydropic spark arrester." This invention consists in surrounding the 

 smoke funnel of locomotives and other engines with an inclosed water 

 tank, into which all sparks and cinders are received. The apparatus 

 also disposes of them after they are received. 



Hucks & Lambert, of San Francisco, exhibited samples of their anti- 

 friction axle-grease. 



James B. Parsons & Co. (by R. H. McDonald & Co., of Sacramento), 

 exhibited Bowman's washing compound and a preparation for removing 

 grease and other stains. 



J. W. Kinser, of San Francisco, exhibited the American spring bed 

 The spring of this bed is obtained by slats suspended lengthwise on 

 straps of vulcanized India rubber, the slats being suspended to the rub- 



