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" Here allow me to inject a few words upon the idea of a sloping 

 or sliding cut about which some have ventilated their ignorance. 



" A sliding cut may be desirable, but does not appear to be attain- 

 able, on account of the natural law referred to. If our knives had 

 parallel edges, our present arrangement would, in conformity with 

 that law, produce just that kind of cut. But parallel edges and 

 our present arrangement are incompatible. 



" Now, Uncle Joe, I have told you and your neighbors these things 

 so that you will not only buy good machines, but will know how 

 to run them, and understand the importance of taking care of 

 them, and keeping them in order for work. I need not tell you 

 that rain and sun and dirt are not to be allowed on them, or that 

 it is folly and cruelty to lash up your horses to make your machine 

 cut; you can't make it cut any oftener to one revolution of 3'our 

 drivers- Its law of motion was established by the maker of it. 

 But I say to you, care for it; watch it as you do your purse or 

 your expense account, and for the same reason. Watch it for the 

 sake of the hard-worked, brain-tasked manufacturer, who has begot- 

 ten you such a wonderful assist;mt hi your toil and sweat; watch it 

 for the sake of your dripping, panting team, and if 



* Mercy to him that shows it is the rule, 

 And righteous limitation of the act 

 By which Heaven moves in pardoning guilty man,' 



I exhort you to take care of it for the sake of your own future 

 peace and well being." 



At the conclusion of this paper the thanks of the Club were 

 tendered to the author. 



TO PREVENT BRICK HOUSES SWEATING. 



Mr. David Goodall, St. Johnsbury, East Vt. — A brick house in 

 this climate, with a solid wall, makes a most uncomfortable abode — 

 cold and damp in winter and hot in summer, and none are so built 

 of late times. I built a one and a half story brick house eight years 

 ago, carried up two brick walls four inches apart inside, tied 

 together with twelve-inch pieces of thin hoop-iron laid in with the 

 brick, each wall four inches thick, the width of one brick. This 

 vault opens into the cellar, and is carried up to top of chamber 

 rooms, and ventilators put in so that I have a circulation or draft 

 of air constantly from the cellar through this vault. I have double 

 windows in part of the house, and that part is almost impervious 

 to the heat of summer and cold of winter, and perfectly dry. 



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