CHAPTER XXIY. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Umbrellas. Parasols. Bank notes. Portable picture frames. Transparencies. Money belts. 

 Tape measures. Wheel-barrow tire. Wheel-barrow shoulder-straps. Covered iron furniture. 

 Umbrella frames. Bedstead castors and shoes. Chair .shoes. Cartmen's wallets. Ox-buttons. 

 Nose baskets. Grafting bandages. 



The articles which are described in this chapter are such as 

 are considered not to belong to any particular class of articles 

 more than another, for which reason they are described as mis- 

 cellaneous. 



The diagrams which are given of some of these articles are 

 interspersed among the different plates, as noticed in the descrip- 

 tions. 



UMBRELLAS. 



Umbrellas were made of muslin coated with India rubber, by 

 the Roxbury Company, as early as 1837; but owing to the ad- 

 hesiveness and decomposition of the unvulcanized gum, the 

 manufacture was abandoned. 



The writer has ever considered this as one of the most ap- 

 propriate uses of gum-elastic, and for years past has occasionally 

 made an umbrella for trial, and at every trial he has been con- 

 firmed in hi^ opinion of the utility of this invention, though 



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