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P. T. Quinn, Wm. S. Carpenter, Wm. Field, N. C. Meeker, J. G. 

 Bergen and S. Edwards Todd. 



Brown's Stove Damper. 



Mr. G. S. Adams showed Browni's Patent Double Cone Damper 

 for wood or coal stoves, or for furnaces. It is claimed to increase 

 heat, to save fuel, to prevent coal gas from coming into a room, 

 and to make the oven of a cook stove bake bread equally on both 

 sides. Messrs. Carpenter and Chambers spoke highly of it, and 

 Mr. Todd related the wonders it worked in a worthless cooking 

 range. 



A Mop Wringer. 



Mr. James F. White, Brattleboro', Vt. — This is fastened to the 

 pail and covers it. In mopping the lady can use boiling hot water, 

 and by a device similar to a clothes w'ringer she wrings the mop 

 dry with the pressure of her foot. 



A Bag Holder. 

 Mr. J. V. Henry Nott, Albany, exhibited his bag holder. This, 

 at first appearance, resembles common platform scales, with a 

 square brass frame depending from the end of the bar, which 

 frame is for holding the bag open. The trucks carry the grain 

 awa}^ It is simple, cheap, and must be useful. 



Sash Stopper and Lock. 



Mr. Wm. S. Van Hoesen, Saugerties, N. Y., exhibited a sash, 

 stopper and lock. — This can be a^i^ied to all wnndoAvs, and acts 

 precisely as cords and weights, except in letting down. It con- 

 sists of a simple bolt going through the side of the sash, and regu- 

 lated by a piece of rubber, which holds the sash in place. It can 

 be attached in a few minutes, and costs ten cents. 



Mr. Solon Robinson. — It is one of those simple things which 

 makes one wonder why he could not have seen it himself. 



Substitute for Tile in Draining. 

 Mr. James Laurie, Chalmers, White county, Indiana, gives an 

 interesting and clear account of his method of using poles for 

 draining instead of tile. First he rives or splits them through the 

 middle, then starts the heart with a gouge, and takes it com- 

 pletely out with a tool made like a bent drawing knife. Two 

 halves are then nailed together with sixpenny nails, when with a 

 tool made like a huge pencil-sharpener the ends are worked off so 

 as to fit each other. Joints need not be tig-ht. 



