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by a patented process, by the scorching of oil on thQ surface. If 

 he is a public benefactor who causes two blades of grass to grow 

 where one grew before, very high credit is due to the manufacturers 

 of these rich and permanently elegant goods from such insignifi- 

 cant materials. If the bronze coating is not liable to fail, or other 

 evil to arise through the liability of iron to oxydize, the invention 

 is almost invaluable. We esteem this the best exhibition of chan- 

 deliers. 



Frink's Gas and Daylight Reflectors, No. 786, are a standard 

 manufacture of great merit. These gaslight reflectors are taking 

 the place of chandeliers very extensively, and the daylight reflect- 

 ors are almost equally meritorious. While we are not prepared 

 to certify to any remarkable novelty in reflectors, the principle 

 as applied here is of great beauty and practical utility, and is exhi- 

 bited on a scale commensurate with its vast importance. As we 

 cannot avoid building compactfy, contrivances for difl'using light 

 into otherwise dark rooms are invaluable. These reflectors are 

 the best known to us, both in style and workmanship, and are 

 destined to become an important adjunct in lighting and ventilating 

 public buildings. 



No. 503 (J. K. Kramer) includes four rich specimens of orna- 

 mental lanterns or lamps adapted for burning gas. They are the 

 best exhibited. 



What we esteem the most important display in this department, is 

 that made under No. 545, by Julius Ives & Co. This firm has, by a 

 series of improvemets, adapted lamps practically and safely to the 

 burning of the omnipresent kerosene, with an improved arrange- 

 ment for filling, with convenient and highly ingenious provisions 

 for removing and replacing the chimney and shade, with improved 

 means for adjusting the height of the wick, and finally, adapting 

 lamps to apply on the same chandeliers as are employed for gas, 

 so that a man may arrange his house for gas and light with kero- 

 sene, or vice vei'sa, in other words he may introduce the gas fixtures 

 in advance, and light with lamps attached thereto until the progress 

 of improvements brings the gas mains to his locality. The assort- 

 ment includes hanging lamps, hall lamps, bracket lamps, and table 

 or portable lamps. They are, we say without hesitation, the best 

 in the world. 



Messrs. Bradley & Hubbard, of West Meridan, Conn., are the 

 inventors of an improved device for raising and lowering lamps, 



