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frame  firmly  in  its  place.  For  rectangular  buildings,  without ­
  towers  at  the  corners,  angle  bricks  are  specially  made.
The  inventor  Claims  that  the  circular  brick  are  especially
valuable  for  towers,  tall  chimnneys,  light-houses,  reservoirs
for  grain  and  for  water  couduits,  cisterns,  tubs  for  distillers,
  dyers,  etc.  Some  of  these  Claims  seem  fanciful  and
not  duly  sustained  by  experience,  beiug  apparently  suggestions.
  For  example,  a  tall  cistern  is  represented,  built  to
hold  five  metres  in  depth  of  water,  and  warranted  to  resist
the  pressure.  The  walls  are  double  and  connected  at  intcrvals
  Avith  tie-bricks,  leaving  an  air-space  between.  The
bottom  is  to  be  of  sheet  iron  "three  to  five  millimetres”  in
thickness,  Avith  the  edges  turned  up  so  as  to  hold  the  lower
course  of  bricks  and  to  prevent  the  iron  from  draAving  in  by
sagging.
It  is  proposed  to  malte  roofs  and  arches  of  these  brick,
each  brick  with  six  dovetail  joints,  and  0 m, 320  by  ()'“•  190
by  0 m .060.  These,  it  is  stated,  can  be  laid  for  seven
francs  the  square  metre,  including  the  cement  and  fifteen
bricks  at  tAventy  Centimes  each.  The  average  prico  is
about  seventy-five  francs  the  thousand  for  bricks,  twentyfive
  centimetres  by  twelve  centimetres  by  six  centimetres.
The  mean  price  per  square  metre  of  Avall  built  of  a  single
thickness  of  brick  0 m .14  thick,  is  stated  to  be  nine  francs
seventy-five  Centimes;  and  of  a  square  metre  of  double  aauII
with  bricks  0 m .075  broad,  fourteen  francs.
There  was  no  opportunity  of  verifying  any  of  these  Statements, ­
  and  no  references  wcre  made  to  any  constructions
made  in  tliis  manner.

Terra-Cotta  erom  India.
The  Madras  School  of  Art  sent  forty-two  terra-cotta  casts
of  Hindoo  temple  ornamentation,  consisting  of  ornamental
pillars,  scrolls,  runniug  and  bordcr  Ornaments,  peitoiated
panels,  circular  and  star  patterns,  all  of  great  interest  to
art,  and,  at  the  samo  time,  good  examples  ot  the  ease  of
reproducing  architectural  designs  and  details  in  terra-cotta.
Chicago  Terra-Cotta  Company,  Chicago.  Tliis  establishment
  has,  for  the  past  eiglit  years,  been  engagcd  in  the
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