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reason the scroll of foliage beneath has also been 

 introduced. A very cheap holder has been made of 

 pipe-clay, and is not deficient in quaint fancy. The 

 example we select comes from the prolific pipe- 

 factories of France, and costs but a penn}^. 



In Berlin, a few years ago, an ingenious pocket- 

 knife, entirely of steel, was fabricated for the use of 

 cigar- smokers, of which we here give an engraving. 



It had all the strength of the usual knife, but the 

 spring was so constructed that it did not shut down to 

 the edge of the blade ; the cigar-end being placed 

 through the aperture at the end, the point of the 

 knife, on being pressed down by the finger, cut off the 

 end of the cigar. On one side of the handle was a thin 

 flat box, with a division ; the longer one (open in the 

 cut) contained fusees, the smaller (represented closed) 

 held German tinder; the fusee was lighted by rubbing 



