lame of a furnace. He with-draws it twice or
thrice that it may not heat too quickly, turning the pole rapidly the
while, and when the glass reaches a red heat quickly shoots it into
one of a dozen small baths fixed on a revolving table, and seizes
another chimney. A boy keeps the revolving table always in position,
and as the chimneys come around to him, having been the proper time in
the bath, he takes them out to be dried, sorted, cleaned, and packed.
The bath has to be of just the right temperature, as, if it be too hot
or too cold, the chimneys are liable to explode. In either case the
process of annealing is imperfect. By working the tables at a certain
rate, the baths are kept at the right temperature by the immersion of
the red hot glass. Oil or tallow is used in the bath. Any greasy
substance will do, though tallow has proved most satisfactory.

M. De la Chapelle, the manufacturer, states that he has already sold
$150,000 worth of the chimneys. The toughened chimneys are about 60
per cent dearer than those of ordinary glass. The factory is in
Delavan street, Brooklyn, N.Y.

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ALEXANDER BAIN, ELECTRICIAN.

This ingenious man, whose inventions in connection with the electric
telegraph entitle his name to be held in grateful remembrance, died in
January last at the new Home for Incurables at Broomhill,
Kirkintilloch, near Glasgow, Scotland, and on Saturday his remains
were interred in the burying ground in the neighborhood of that town
known as the Old Aisle Cemetery. Mr. Bain, who was about sixty-six
years of age, was a native of Thurso. He was the inventor of the
electro-chemical printing telegraph, the electro-magnetic clock, and
of perforated paper for automatic transmission of messages, and was
author of a number of books and pamphlets relating to these subjects.
Sir William Thomson, in his address to the Mathematical Section of the
British Association at its meeting in Glasgow last year, said: "In the
United States Telegraphic Department of the Great Exhibition at
Philadelphia, I saw Edison's automatic telegraph delivering 1,015
words in 57 seconds. This was done by the long neglected
electro-chemical method of Bain, long ago condemned in England to the
helot work of recording from a relay, and turned adrift as needlessly
delicate for that." Mr. Bain was stricken by paralysis, and suffered
from complete loss of power in the lower limbs. For some time he had