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In writing to advertisers please mention House and Garden. 
Russell & Erwin Manufacturing Company 
New Britain, Conn. 
No. 26 West Twenty-Sixth Street, New York No. 1201 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia 
kept for four clays, and under the method 
now used, a sponge is placed in one of 
the dead person’s hands, which is con¬ 
nected by a copper wire with a battery 
and alarm signal; the hand is fastened 
tightly around the sponge, and at the 
least sign of returning animation the 
alarm is sounded and the sentries, some 
of whom are always on duty, respond 
at once. In the last fifty years there 
have been thirty-four persons resuscita¬ 
ted by means of precautions of this 
kind.” 
PHARAOH’S PALACE FOUND 
npHE Rev. Alfred P. Putnam, D. D., 
President of the Danvers Histori¬ 
cal Society, received a letter some 
time ago from F. Petrie, Honor¬ 
ary Secretary of the Victoria Institute, 
England, in which Mr. Petrie says: 
“It will interest you to hear that one of 
the Institute members writes home from 
upper Egypt to announce his discovery 
of a palace of a Pharaoh of the sixth 
dynasty, with numerous valuable inscrip¬ 
tions. The wine jars of the Pharaoh 
were found intact in a long cellar. All 
were hermetically sealed, but on break¬ 
ing the seal of one, the wine seemed 
petrified. ” 
American Empire 
S TRICTLY speaking, only the furniture made 
prior to the war of the Revolution can be 
called “ colonial.” 
“ Late Georgian ” describes the furniture of 
the latter portion of the eighteenth century and 
“ American ” Empire is the correct term for 
furniture made in the early part of the nineteenth 
century. Thus all pieces having carved columns, 
claw feet, pineapple finials, etc., long called colo¬ 
nial, should be classed as American Empire. 
Furniture of this type represented the highest 
skill of our cabinet-makers. It was a movement 
founded on the French Empire, but interpreted 
in an original way. 
Model from Berkey & Gay Furniture Co., 
Grand Rapids, Mich. 
American Empire is marked by a greater 
simplicity than is found in the regal historic pieces 
RUSSWIN 
HARDWARE 
MILLS 
Lancaster Design 
School Elizabethan 
Booklet of designs will 
be furnished on request 
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