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tion, and sections of some fifteen inches in length are cut olT^ 

 The clay is tempered, all stones taken out, and a boy places some 

 of it on an endless band, supported by suitable lollers. The clay 

 then passes between two cylinders into a cavity, where, by the 

 constant addition of the clay, it becomes compressed, and is then 

 forced to pass through a mould of the required diameter of the 

 tile In the drawing you see there are two tiles coming through 

 two moulds at the same time ; these tiles, you see, are received 

 on bands of gutta percha or India rubber, running on polished 

 wooden rollers as fast as they eome out to the desired length, a 

 wire of iron, stretched in a frame across the machine, cuts off the 

 tiles, first by descending, then up in ascending. The cuts are 

 very neatly done. This cutting wire can be adjusted to cut any 

 desired length of tile. From the experiments made with it by 

 order of the Minister of Agriculture and Commerce, it is con- 

 cluded that his machine, operated by two workmen and two ap- 

 prentices, relieving one another, can make in a day fifteen hun- 

 dred metres, (about 1,875 yards,) — over a mile per day — the clay 

 being first prepared. Tlie tiles, about one foot long eacli, can be 

 afforded for from four to five dollars a thousand, according to the 

 cost of burning and wages of workmen. 



The principal advantages of this machine are that it does not 

 tear and make holes in the tiles, as piston machines have done. 



DIGNITY OF LABOR. 



Secretary — I extract the following excellent observations from 

 Commissioner Ewbank, and desire such sentiments to be spread 

 through our Republic : 



" It is a singular vagary that men to wiiose genius and indus- 

 try the world is indebted for what is most valuable in it^ should 

 have always been held in low esteem. A habit of modern, it 

 was a passion in former times to look askant at those Avho use the 

 hammer and the spade, under the fond delusion that the less wise 

 men have to do with gross matter the nearer they resemble the 

 trreat Spirit ; whereas God is the greatest of workers — the chief 

 of artificers! 



