three quarters of an inch long set half an inch apart with square iron pins in a wooden shaft three inches with a wooden about five dollars one made all of iron same size cutting apparatus costs double that sum there is another a six inch about two inches thick made to screw on the edge of a table and fed by the hand at the side which is a very convenient little machine for cutting up meat for a family breakfast the cost is not over four or five dollars next in order comes the this is a tin barrel four and a half inches twelve inches long with a of the same length this is hung on a upon a wooden frame so as to turn up for convenience of filling it is then laid back in its place and the case slipped on the and held fast a on the end of a rack is forced in by turning a that a and in five seconds the whole contents of the are discharged into the case if it is long enough and large enough to hold all this sized costs five dollars there is a smaller size for three dollars on the same principle only the lack is moved by an miscellaneous farmers tools upright handle and a circle the latter is a very nice article more compact and convenient than those with a and big enough for any family what a saving of labor compared with the mode of in our days when the ease was taken in the lap and one end drawn over a little basket split to form an opening and the meat put in bj hand after having been cut with the knife there are any number of apple machines some of which are very ingenious labor saving tools taking off the cutting out the core and the a almost as fast as the can pick them up and them on the fork under the knife a few rapid turns of the dies the work throwing the skins one way and another and dropping the quarters into a tub o is a convenient fruit in the department a long pole is armed with a wire fixed upon the upper end which takes hold of the stem of the apple upon a twenty feet above the ground and by a little turn of the hand is off and di into a cotton cloth and conducted down to the or deposited in a basket on the ground but of all things in the fruit line the most interesting in the exhibition or out of it is a case of models of fi apples c done in a substance principally plaster as hard nd as stone this work is done by only one artist in this country an amateur by the name of of n y this case seems superior to any of the k ever before exhibited by this gentleman who has probably received more cups and high for his work than any other amateur artist in america tlie composition is plaster and the apples c are from the article to be represented and the is so perfect as to deceive the very best judges it is well worth the great attention which it it may be found in the south west t of the agricultural gallery of patent bee there are a sufficient number in the the exhibition to satisfy the after certain of that great of the the bee all the which we have ever seen for keeping out of are utter failures and now the minds of those who contrive n w seem to be turned to the best method of getting them in instead of them out of the hive the plan which we like best is one where the are set upon a box covered over with wire the of which are too fine to admit a miller to pass through this is about twice as wide as the hive and may be of any length to hold fifty stands if you like under each hive there is a drawer into which dust and from the hive falls this drawer is open to the and here they deposit their eggs and the worms that in due time are to be transformed into of course the bee keeper must destroy them before they arrive at that age in the back part of the box there is a drawer so arranged that in winter the bees being shut in the hive can go down under the wire screen and exercise and eat the food provided for them which they will convert into honey the of this hive claims a great many advantages ia the peculiar arrangements of his and honey boxes which we do not care a fig about but we do think the wire screen a good one and sec no reason why any common box hive may not be used upon it to good raw and raw and is no manufacture � which has more to what are called the of life than that of which we are now about to treat possessing the united of splendor and comfort we find in it all the conditions supplied by cotton and wool while it those useful materials in the richness and of its surface and the round and of its folds if it the of the rich it occasionally the wounded pride of the poor the silk gown is in fact the only true of social d among women the s wife in her sunday finery feels herself to return with interest the contemptuous stare of the lawyer s lady � while in spite of her affected the latter is frequently envious of the superior good taste and even elegance of her neighbor s attire in a philosophical point of view the history of the silk manufacture some curious subjects for reflection owing its origin to one of the most 