Connecticut western news., 1875-12-10
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 WHAT PAYS

It pays every Manufacturer, Merchant, Mechanic, Inventor, Farmer or Professions al man to keep informed on all the i'm provements and discoveries of the age.
 It pays the head of every family to intro duce into hls household a newspaper that IS instructive, one that fosters taste for lnvestig gatlon, and promotes thought and encourages discussion among the members.
 THE SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, winch has been published weekly for the last thirty years, does this to an extent beyond that of any other publication, III fact it is the only weekly paper published in the United States devoted to manufactures. mechan- lcs, in inventions and new discoveries in the arts and sciences.
 Every number is profusely illustrated, and Its contents embrace the latest and most interesting information pertaining 10 the industrial, mechanical and scientific progress of the world; descriptions, with beautiful engravinRs, of new inventions, new implements, new processes and i'm proved industries of all kinds; useful notes, recipes, suggestions and advice, by practl- cal writer's for workmen and employers, in all the various arts, forming complete repertory of new inventions and discover ies containing weekly record not only of the progress of the industrial arts lD our own country. but also of all new dts coveries and inventions ia every branch | of engineering, mechanics and science | abroad.
 TIE SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN has been the l foremost of all industrial publications for | the past thirty years. It is the oldest, lar gest, cheapest and best weekly illustrated paper devoted to engineering, mechanics, | chemistry, new inventions, science and in dustrlal progress published in the world. | The practical receipts are well worth ten times the subscription price. Aud for the | shop and house will save many times the | cost of subscription.
 | Merchants. Farmers, Mechan1cs, Enai- neers. Inventors. Manufacturers, Chemists. I T ATn Sl NIa r1I siens will find the SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN | useful to them. It should have a place In every family. library, study. office and counting rooW; in every reading room. col l lege and school. new volume commen- | ces January 1st, 1875.
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