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shoe ; it is then pressed in a pair of dies to give its sirtaceithe de- 
sired pattern, but previous to pressing, both the piece of horn and 
the dies are to be heated : the piece of horn is to be introduced be- 
tween the dies and pressed in a vice, and when cold, the pattern 
or impression will be fixed upon the horn. 
ut the dies are to be so made that the open ‘ends of the horse 
shoe piece of horn, afier being pressed, shall have at one end a nib, 
and at the other a recess. of a dove tailed form, corresponding to 
each other ; and the second operation in forming this ring of horn is 
_ to heat it and place it in another pair of dies which shall bring its 
open ends together, and cause the dove tailed joints to be locked 
fast into each other, which completes the ring, and leaves no “a 
ance of the junction. 
' In forming the handles ef table knives and forks, or other shinies 
which require to be made of two pieces, each of the pieces or sides 
of the handle, is formed in a separate pair of dies; the one piece is 
made with a counter sunk groove along each side, and the other 
piece with corresponding leaves or projecting edges. When these 
two pieces are formed by being first cut out of the flat horn, then 
-pressed.in the dies in a heated state, for the purpose of giving the 
_ pattern, the two pieces are again heated and put together, the leaves 
_ or edges of the one piece opsing into the countersunk grooves of. 
the other piece, and being introduced between another pair of heated 
' dies, the joints are pressed together, and the two site formed into 
one handle. 
To making —_ for drawers, which have metal stems or pins to 
fasten them into the furniture, the face of the knobis to be first een 
in a die, and then the back part of the knob with a hole in it 
metal disk of plate iron is then provided, in which the metal stem or 
screw pin is fixed, and the stem being passed through the aperture 
in the back piece, and the two pieces of horn put together, they are_ 
then heated and pressed in dies, as before described ; the ed of 
the back piece falling into the counter sunk groove of the front fils 
and by the heat they are perfectly cemented together.—Jdid. 
4. Thunder Storms in France.-—The Count de Triston has made 
observations on the direction of the thunder storms which have de- 
vastated the department of the Lorich for the last sixteen years. 
a following general inferences have been made by him respecting 
progress and intensity of thunder storms in plain countries, inter- 
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