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purpose. Weights, springs, and other contrivances have been tried, but 

 they all get out of order in a very short time. Springs turn rusty, 

 valves become loose, and the useless toy is soon ignominiously banished 

 to the lumber-room. 



Mr. Eimmel, of the Strand, the indefatigable caterer of novelties for 

 the fashionable public, has just brought out a table fountain which ap- 

 pears likely to escape the dire fate of its predecessors. It contains no 

 machinery whatever, and acts merely by the pressure of atmospheric 

 air. It consists of a basin and side reservoir, which latter when filled 

 forces the liquid up the jet. It plays for about an hour, and when it 

 has run out it can be made to play again by reversing it and re-filling 

 the side reservoir. The very simplicity of this system, which nothing 

 can disturb, insures its success. 



The fountain represented in our sketch is one which Mr. Eimmel 

 was commanded by the Lord Chamberlain to supply for the Princess of 

 Wales' bridal boudoir at Windsor Castle. It consisted of a chaste statue 

 in Parian supporting a cut glass basin and was ornamented with silk, 

 lace and flowers, to match the gorgeous apartment in which it shed 

 a delicious perfume. After making such a brilliant entree into 

 the aristocratic world there is no doubt that Eimmel' s Fountains will 

 soon be thought an indispensable requisite in all drawing-rooms, and 

 will be called in request to increase the attraction of our fashionable 

 fetes and balls. 



