FACTS WHITTLED DOWN. OREGON has imported a number of singing birds from Germany. 70 per cent arrived safely, and it successfully acclimatized, as is hoped from the similarity of climates, more will be imported. THE dye house of Washington mills, Gloucester, N. J., has closed, and it is reported that the whole mill will shut down. THE Camden, Me., woolen mill is putting in a lot of new and improved machinery. WALT Whitman was 70 years old May 31st. THE Hamilton Woolen Co., Southbridge, Mass., began drawing water from the Holland reservoir this year about 5 months earlier in the season than usual. THE Underwood Mfg. Co., Rockville, Conn., shut down May 29, for the rest of the week to make repairs. Business is booming with them. NEW machinery is being put in the bleachery at the Print works, Manchester, N. H. JOHN Boyle is overseer of dyeing in Mayo & Son's mill at Foxcroft, Me. ALLEN PATENT BOILER CRATES. These grates are interchangeable, each grate being independent, as seen by cut; when it is necessary to repair fire box, a blind man can take the grate and bearing-bars out and put them back. They will not clinker up; are free at the ends. The fireman does not need to crawl into the fire-box Sunday with cold chisel and hammer to clip out clinkers, as is the case with rigid cast grates. These grates will suit any draught or fuel. Have run them over nine years without replenishing, with the leading manufacturers. Send for price-list. ALLEN IRON WORKS, Adams, Mass. CLEVELAND MACHINE WORKS, MANUFACTURERS OF WOOLEN MR. Besse, a former employe, is to be over- 54 seer of spinning at the Lewiston, Me., mill. THE Logan Silk Co., at Auburn, N. Y., have secured a lease of a building recently occupied as a shoe manufactory, and will utilize it as an addition, to their present works. Loss on Mineral Springs Mfg. Co.'s mills, Stafford Springs, Conn., recently burned was $30,000; insurance, $16,900. They will be rebuilt. THE TEN TRAVELERS. Ten weary, footsore travelers, Sought shelter at a wayside inn One dark and stormy night. "Nine rooms, no more," the landlord said, "Have I to offer you; To each of eight a single bed, But the ninth must serve for two." A din arose. The troubled host Could only scratch his head, For of those tired men no two The puzzled host was soon at ease- And so to please his guests devised ABCDEFG|H| I| In a room marked A two men were placed, The fourth to C was then assigned, The fifth retired to D. In E the sixth he tucked away, In F the seventh man, The eighth and ninth in G and H, Wherein the host, as I have said, Then taking one, the tenth and last, Nine single rooms, a room for each, -Pittsburgh Bulletin. "HOORAY!" cried Cadley, "I feel like a new man." "Oh, please don't," retorted Bromley, "Don't be any newer than usual, Cadley. You are too fresh, naturally.-Bazar. MRS. Doogan-"Dat's a foine dog yez have, Marie. Is it a Black-antan ur a Grayhound?" Marie "Mrs. Doogan, bein' as it fell us, we do call it a sky terror."-Siftings. STERN parent to a young applicant for his daughter's hand-"Young man, can you support a family?" Young man (meekly)-I only wanted Sarah."-Boston Post. A scrub race-washerwomen.-Hotel Mail, 1 HE 19 crea meries in New Hampshire pro duced in 1888 about 1,250,000 pounds butter. SHELDON'S Dry Goods Price List with buyers' reference book, $5 per annum. Published by J. D, Sheldon & Co., 115 Worth St, New York, N. Y. "ONCE, none were for a party, and all were for the state; MACHINERY FOR CARDING, SPINNING, TWISTING, AND FINISHING. Jackson Street, Worcester, Mass. SPIN YOUR FILLING ON RING FRAMES, WITH ARKHURST BURR PICKERS BURRING MACHINES, BOSTON FINISHING WORKS, Room 42, 612 ATLANTIC AVE., BOSTON, MASS. WORKS AT SOUTH BOSTON. Being fully equipped with the GROSSELIN - MOSER PATENT FRENCH NAPPING MACHINES, Are prepared to produce any degree of NAP on all weights of Cotton or Woolen Fabrics. Samples and particulars sent J.A.GOWDEY & SON, 40 Clifford St.. Providence, R. I. "GOLD MEDAL" REEDS -FOR Cotton, Silk, Woolen and WORSTED WEAVING. AMERT INSTITUTE ALSO SLASHER AND STRIKING COMBS, AND MILL SUPPLIES. ESTABLISHED 1884. JOHN HETHERINGTON & SONS, MANCHESTER, ENGLAND. Then the rich men helped the poor, and the COTTON SPINNING MACHINERY. poor man loved the great."-Macaulay. STONE, Atwood & Co., of Flint, Mich., have put in 3 self feeds for cards, and have started Saturday half-holiday. Sole Makers and Patentees of the SHORT STAPLED COMBERS FOR COMBING SHORT AMERICAN AND EGYPTIAN COTTONS. Also Makers of the HETHERINGTON REVOLVING TOP FLAT CARD AND PATENT SELF-ACTING MULE. WILLIAM FIRTH, 220 Devonshire Street, Boston, Mass. AMERICAN SUPPLY CO. MANUFACTURERS OF LOOM HARNESS REEDS, Oak Tanned Belting, AND DEALERS IN COTTON AND WOOLEN MILL SUPPLIES. Office and Salesroom, 10 Exchange Place, PROVIDENCE, R. I. THE Woonsocket Machine and Press Co. Call Attention to their New THE MILLER DOUBLE STEAM CYLINDER ROTARY CLOTH PRESS. FACTS WHITTLED DOWN. JOHN Berryman will not rebuild the woolen mill at West Buxton, Me., on account of ill health. E. Hapgood & Co., of Lowell, have pur5chased 4 sets of cards. Wrought-Iron Loom Crank Shafts, forged by We apply the McCarty cylinder friction motive Send for Circulars to Covel Machine Co., Fall River, Mass. Reynolds' Finishing Mills, DAVISVILLE, R. I. Have facilities for finishing SPINNERS of the Metacomet mill, Fall River, Mass., struck work June 1. They claim a week's allowance of fifty cents extra on account of short mules. FREDERICK Almy & Co., of New York, have assigned; liabilities, $350,000. It is said that assets will not realize more than 20 per cent. MOROTOCK cotton mills, Danville, Va., employ 350 hands. THE Nashua, N. H., Mfg. Co., has declared a 5 per cent semi-annual dividend, and the Jackson Co. one of 3 per cent for the six months ending April 30. MR. R. S. Clark, of the Old Colony Machine Co., Plymouth, Mass., who has had an office in Fall River for some time, has moved there permanently, so as to devote his whole time to increasing business. GOOD, the more communicated, the more abundant grows.-Milton. sole is going to be married. MARRIED Female-I hear that Miss Upper Unmarried Female-Miss Uppersole, eh? Why, she's no chicken. Married Female-No, she's a goose.--Judge. THE Lowell Hosiery Co. commenced on full time May 27, in their carding and spinning departments, which have only been run Worsteds, Fancy Cassimers, Dress ning 4 days a week for past few weeks. 132 Machines Sold since 1885. IMPROVED Capacity 1000lbs to 6000 FOR PARTICULARS ADDRESS JOHN HEATHCOTE, Sole Manufacturer of the Heathcote Improved MISS Carrie Golden, a colored woman, was recently graduated from a Chicago medical college. "OWNERS of dogs must register them by the 10th of May, or they will be shot by the police.-Western Paper. ABOUT 40 men are at work on the new woolen mill Flander's mills, Dexter, Me. It is expected to be ready for machinery by early fall. SECRETARY Windom has sustained the classification of imported worsteds as woolen goods, subject to a 35 per cent duty, with 35 per cent ad valorem. Mr. Kelly, of Warren, R. I., leaves for Europe, to be gone 2 or 3 months, in the interest of his patent on a knitting machine. THE Cayuga, a 10 set woolen mill, Auburn, N. Y., idle for years, has started up, and is sending out samples. ABBOTTS' Woolen mill, Dexter, Me., has shut down for 2 weeks to allow finishing department to catch up. THE Merrimack woolen mill, Lowell, is being rebuilt, of larger capacity than it was before the fire that destroyed it. THE mills of Lowell did not stop for Decoration Day. CITIZENS of Spokane Falls, Washington Ter., have subscribed $30,000 towards a woolen mill, and invite correspondence from capitalists and men of experience. Mr. Charles Schrebler, of Methuen. re TENTERING AND DRYING MACHINES turned from Europe May 28. He first learned COR. EDDY AND FRIENDSHIP STREETS, PROVIDENCE, R.I. 1329 is a Loom Fixer or Second Hand Weaver. He has worked on ladies' dress goods, cotton and wool warps. Understands repairing different kinds of machinery, and gene al repairs about a mill. Address as above, care Wade's Fibre and Fabric. 1083 is a WOOLEN FINISHER. 37 years of age and married. Has been overseer ten years. Used to fancy cassimeres, tweeds, doeskins, and union goods. Excellent reference. Address as above, care Fibre and Fabric. 1357 is a Boss Finisher on fine all wool tweeds and unions. Would like a position as second hand in the finishing room, or take charge of fulling and scouring, Is 40 years old, can furnish good references, and is a man of good experience. Address as above, care Wade's Fibre and Fabric. 300 LOOM A Competent man is wanted for master mechanic of cotton mill repair shop. Address, stating experience and references. Box 134, Lowell, Mass. WANTED. By a young lady, position as sewer. Has had experience on plain and fancy Worsteds, Cashmeres, Woolens, etc., can sew on all grades of work. Address, Box 504, Stafford Springs, Ct. SHEARER wants position. One who understands his business, is an experienced hand on Worsteds, Cashmeres, Kerseys, etc., can make himself generally useful in a finishing room. Address Box 504, Stafford Springs, Ct. 470 is a BOSS WEAVER or SUPERINTENDENT on ginghams, turkey reds, upholstery, and curtains. Could take charge of a cotton duck mill, a flax hemp, and twine mi 1, or one making jute bagging. Would take the carding, spinning and weaving in a bagging mill. Is 38 years old, and can furnish excellent recommendations. Address as above, care Wade's Fibre and Fabric. of his son's death while in Worcester. MR and Mrs. John Sykes of North Adams, Mass., parents of T. T., D. A. and George Sykes of the Hockanum mill, Rockville, Ct., recently celebrated their golden wedding. THE Woolen mill, Camden, Me., is rushing the foundation of its new factory. THE Nonotuck Silk Co. will increase the capacity of the finishing department in its wooden mill at Florence, Mass., by the addition of a story. RICHARD Kempl has closed work in Lebanon and will work in the new woolen mill in Tilton, N. H. IT is said that a cotton mill will be built at Historic Falls, Montmorency, near Quebec. "LAST year's production of wool in Oregon and Washington amounted to 10,000,000 lbs. THE Middlesex Co., Lowell, Mass., is now Print Cloth Millin want of a position as SUPT., DESIGNER running 5 days a week. First-class condition, now running on contract, offered on easy terms. Full particulars of A. B. PITKIN, 4 to 12 Cove St., Providence, RI. WEAVER. Has had 12 years experience in the above 1356 is a Designer and Supt. on fancy cassimeres, dress THE Cocheco Mfg. Co., Dover, N. H.. has declared a dividend of $10 per share. J. H. Clark, formerly with the Starin Silk Fabric Co., Fultonville, N. Y., expects to have his new mill at Argusville, N. Y., running by June 1. FACTS WHITTLED DOWN. KNOX Woolen Mill, Camden, Maine, has all that it can do to fill its orders. IT is said that the new Woolen Mfg. Co. at Notre Dame de Laterriere, Quebec, will put in cotton spinning machinery. THE Laconia Co., Biddeford, Maine, will build a new cotton mill and re-arrange machinery in the old, increasing to 90,000 spindles. A fire in Winsted, Conn., last week, was extinguished with a few gallons of milk, a milkman getting there ahead of the hose company.-Fire and Water. F. Littlefield of Winterport has started a pants factory at Brewer, Maine, principally for the Boston market. PRESIDENT Diaz, of Mexico, has been invited to visit the Atlanta Exposition in Oc tober. "THE young man who forged his way to the front is now in the penitentiary." MOSES C. Strong has secured an overseer's berth in spinning room, in the Oldtown. Me., Woolen Co.'s mill. C. H. Hobbs, retiring mill superintendent of Slatersville, R I., was presented by fellow directors in the First National Bank with a silver cake basket and butter dish. "TIME waits for no man-when his subscription is due." E. H. Sprague, Pembroke, Maine, is in charge of a movement to establish a large woolen mill there on the site of the old iron works property. DOHERTY & Wadsworth's silk mill, Paterson, N. J., was burned June 3d. Loss, $75,000; fully insured. THE fact is, as Sydney Smith has well said, that in order to do anything in this world that is worth doing, we must not stand shivering on the bank and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.-Common Sense in Business. MOUNTAIN Dennison is at work in the Franklin (N. H.) mills. JUDGMENT has been entered against the Berkely (R. I.) strikers evicted from the Co.'s tenements for non-payment of rent. THE town of Huejutta, Mexico, has been inundated. Many lives were lost. NEW spinning frames are being put into Ponekin Mill at Lancaster, Mass., to replace the old mules. MR. Oldback (aged 50)-Will you be my wife? Miss Oldmaid (aged 40)-Yes, my love. I'd rather be an old man's darling than a young man's slave.-New York Weekly. THE Agawam mill, near Springfield, recently burned, is to be rebuilt, increasing from 3 to 6 sets of machinery. OUR pleasures and our discontents Are rounds by which we may ascend. -Longfellow. THE strike at O. N. T. thread mill, New ark, N. J., has not been settled. THE National Mfg. Co., Nashville, Tenn., have decided to shut down until they dispose of a large accumulated stock of checks, plaids etc. SAMUEL Pine, late supt. of the Agawam, recently burned, is about starting a dress goods mill at Springfield, Mass. "TAKE hold of instruction-for she is thy life." GEORGE "Amelia, I have a question." "His excellency" Robert L. Lincoln is the way the English papers designate the new American minister. WOMEN are employed as horse car conductors in Chili. AT Johnstown, Pa., registry offices have been opened; of 34,000 people registered, 25,000 were missing June 4. MRS. Taylor, an El Paso lady, fell 30 feet from a Memphis elevator on her bustle and escaped unhurt. Old newspapers for sale at this office.-Tombstone Epitaph. SAYLES & Nichols, Pascoag, R. I.. made an assignment to creditors June 4, but are still running in full. The devil makes the strong March wind. But angels send the whirling dust That blows in the bad man's eye.-Life. FOR SALE. I two-sett Woolen Mill, situated in Woodstock Valley, with good water power privilage, 17 feet fall. Two-setts of ca ds N. A. Lombard make; 7 broad and narrow looms, Crompton make; 2 operators, Davis & Furber make; hand-jack, 1 card grinder, 1 bur picker, 1 shear. 1 press, 2 1 dresser with 2 copper cylinders, 1 spoo'er, I warper, 1 fulling mills, 1 felting mill, 2 flax grinders, 1 washer, 1 brush, 1 gig, 2 laths, one 35-horse boiler, mill heat by steam; 3 ice house. Most of the machinery has been but little used tenement houses, office, blacksmith shop and bleach house, The mill has been making Roller cloths, Slash r cloths and Linen Warp. The above property mill be sold cheap to settle an estate. For particulars inqu re of 1355 is a boss spinner, or carder and spinner. He has had experience on cloth for rubber linings, jersey cloth. tract, and shoddy. Understands Davis and Furber mules, glove linings, jacket linings, all wool cotton and wool exand can do his own repairs. Can furnish excellent refer ences as to character and ability. Has been in present situation seventeen years. Address as above, care Wade's Fibre and Fabric. Has had several years experience as warper, loom fixer goods. Also a former pupil (in designing) of the Philaand boss weaver, on woolens and worsteds, and other delphia Textile School, Philadelphia, Pa. Good reference as to character and ability. Address G. F. Hill, Philadelphia, Pa., P. O. "General Delivery." Situation Wanted.-As Designer or Boss Weaver. RUBBER LINED SEAMLESS COTTON FIRE HOSE. Any responsible firm or ccrporation desiring to comlearn of something advantageous upon personal applicamence or improve the manufacture of the above goods may PRESCOTT BARTLETT, Putnam, Conn. Wstands the manufacturing business, with some capital, ANTED.-A responsible business man who underto take charge of and run a mill, comparatively new and in first-class condition, of twenty-four jeans looms, and everything else needed. Fine power, brick building, etction to P 72, at this office. situated in a city of 10,000. Owner will furnish mill against services and time of such a man for one-half profits, or will sell interest. Inquire Wm. B. Myers, Carthage, Mo. FULLING MILLS. CLOTH WASHERS. WOOL SCOURER. situation Wanted. A good steady wool sorter wants position at once. Address, Box 51, Millville, Mass. Knitting Machinery for Sale with lease of small mill, within 10 miles of Boston, Body, Sleeve, Pocket, Trimming and Sewing Machines. Steel Lathe. Not used over three months. Address, Knitting, this office. WANTED.-Situation of superintendent of hosiery mills Can do work in any department, or would take knitting room or finishing room. Twenty years' experience as foreman and superintendent. Satisfaction guaranteed. Address 1207, care Wade's Fibre and Fabric TO MILL OWNERS AND SUPERS. One having twenty years' experience in woolen mill in all its various departments, as manufacturer and salesman, Open Washers for worsted Goods, Fric-wishes to correspond with the above parties to secure a tion Clutch Pulleys, Friction Clutch Consisting of about 43 acres. Cottage with 6 rooms and attic, a good wells of water, carpenter shop, 2 hen hou: es and barn. Timber encugh for fire wood and building purposes. For further particulars apply to Mr. Joel Neet, Shirley, Mass. 261 is a Boss Woolen Dyer, has worked on cotton warp goods, and all wool fancies. Is a dyer of good experience. Would take a position as second-hand in a large room. Address as above, care Wade's Fibre and Fabric. FIVE KNITTING LOOMS FOR SALE! Advertiser has five German and one English situation as assistant superintendent or salesman. Would accept a position as super. Am engaged at present. Good references sent if required. Address 724, care of Messrs Jos. M. Wade & Co. WANTED.-A situation as overseer of beaming and warping either long, chain or warp dressing. Steady and reliable. First-rate references. Address 1034, care Wade's Fibre and Fabric. 1331 is a Superintendent or Designer, or would take a position as traveling man for some good concern. Has worked on medium and all wool cassimeres and shoddy. Has had twenty years' experience in the mills. Age 42, and married. Address as above, care Wade's Fibre and Fabric. 1345 is a Boss Wool Sorter. Has had a good expe rience on domestic and foreign wools. Can furnish the best of references. Address as above, care Wade's Fibre and Fabric. 1276 is looking sor a position as Agent or Sup❜t in a cotton mill. Cemmenced in the picker-room as a boy and has worked his way up to the top of the ladder. For 20 years he has been agent or superintendent; age 45, and married. Address 1276, care Wade's Fibre and Fabric. 1169 is a Repair-Hand. Has experience in all kinds Wade's Fibre and Fabric. of Looms (Ketten-Stuele) on which as Knitters mill work. Age 36, married. Address "1169," care are aware, an endless ariety of plain and is an Engineer of good experience. Is 36 years figured goods in either Silk, Wool or Cotton, old, married, and a smart energetic man. Address "1111," plain, mixed or plated can be made. They care Wade's Fibre and Fabric. are from 7 to 20 Needles to the inch, forming 1138 is a young man seeking the position of Spooler a good working set, and they are in good and Warper. He is 22 years of age and single, has igan work for which we cannot use the looms, Wade's Fibre and Fabric. condition. As we are now engaged on Card-worked principally on sheetings and is willing to work for the interest of his employers. Address as above, care and our Space being limited, they are for Sale. Further particulars at Standard Knitting Mill, 253 & 255 Church St., New York. ROBERT CARRUTHERS, 1229 is a Loom Fixer. Understands Crompton looms, and has been overseer for eight years. Address 1229, care Wade's Fibre and Fabric. Wanted.-Situation as overseer of cot on cloth room by a competent, temperate, experienced man with good reference. Address box 120, Warren, R. I. May St., Lawrence, Mass. SILK, COTTON, WOOLEN, CARPET, WIRE AND HAIR CLOTH REEDS AND TAPER COMBS. THE CURTIS PRESSURE REGULATOR FOR STEAM, WATER AND AIR, HAS been the STANDARD now for six years; is unapproachable for simplicity and reliability, and is used by the best posted steam-fitters and engineers in all the large cities of the Union; also in England, Germany, Austria, and Russia. CURTIS REGULATOR COMPANY, Office and Manufactory, 89 Beverly Street, Boston, Mass. GENERAL AGENCIES: CHICAGO, 218 Lake st. NEW YORK, 109 Liberty st. PHILADELPHIA, 2035 N. Front st. ST. LOUIS, 511 Walnut st. MINNEAPOLIS. 210 S. Third st NEW ORLEANS 21 Union st. LATEST IMPROVEMENT IN CARD CLOTHING | C.R. ENGLISH, "NEEDLE-POINTS" equalled without grinding. Wire perfectly smooth. 35 Boston, Mass. W. B. FRANKLIN, Vice-President. F. B ALLEN, 2nd Vice President. 1305 is a Rosa Weaver or Designer, understands TECHNOLOGY OF TEXTILE DESIGN. By E. A. POSSELT, One Volume Quarto, over 300 pages, Handsomely bound in Cloth and Gold. JOHN W. BARLOW, Spicket Mill, Holly St., Lawrence, Mass. MANUFACTURERS OF BARLOW'S IMPROVED SCOOP PICKERS, ARTHUR A. 186 Devonshire Street, BOSTON, MASS. GALLUP BROS. TEASELS MARCELLUS, N.Y. 1294 is a belt maker, apron maker, or roller coverer; is twenty-five years old, and a man of good experience. Address as above, care Wade's Fibre and Fabric. Comb Circles, Fallers & Gills, and all kinds of -Gill, Comb and Card Pins, and Picker Teeth.- WILLIAM CRABB & CO., Newark, N. J. BRICHAM, Boston, Mass. COTTON MACHINERY OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. SPECIALTIES. Taylor, Lang & Co., BALE BREAKERS, S. A. MULES Broadbent's Conical Drum Winders. OCTOPUS GLOY SIZE. FACTS WHITTLED DOWN. HON. John W. Wheeler is making improvements at his mill, Salem, N. H. E. H. Johnson has resigned as overseer of carding at Pondichery mill, No. 2, Bridgton, Maine, to take a similar position with the Home M'f'g Co.. Lewiston. MR. Chas. E. Phillips has given up his position as superintendent of the Owasco Co., Methuen, Mass., and is spending a vacation in New Hampshire. SEATTLE, W. T., was entirely destroyed by fire, June 6. Loss over $20,000,000. LIPPITT Woolen Co., Woonsocket, propose building a new mill on land bought from R. I. Hospital Trust Co. THE old office of Putnam (R. I.) Woolen Co. is being torn down. A brick block will replace it. JAMES Hulton, dyer, of Perry's Mill, Perryville, Mass., has sailed from New York on a two months' visit to England, as a surprise to his family who are visiting there. ALLEN PATENT BOILER CRATES. These grates are interchangeable, each grate being independent, as seen by cut; when it is necessary to repair fire box, a blind man can take the grate and bearing-bars out and put them back. They will not clinker up; are free at the ends. The fireman does not need to crawl into the fire-box Sunday with cold chisel and hammer to clip out clinkers, as is the case with rigid cast grates. These grates will suit any draught or fuel. Have run them over nine years without replenishing, with the leading manufacturers. Send for price-list. ALLEN IRON WORKS, Adams, Mass. CLEVELAND MACHINE WORKS, THE new chimney at Marland's mill, An- 54 Jackson Street, Worcester, Mass. dover, Mass., is 137 feet high; finished June 3. THE York Mfg. Co., cotton m'f'rs, Saco, Maine, have declared a semi-annual dividend of five per cent., which on their capital of $900,000 amounts to $45,000. SQUIRE Sharpe has resigned his position with the Globe Woolen Co., Utica, N. Y., and goes to the British Hosiery Co., Thornton, where he takes charge of the worsted dept. THE Johnstown Woolen Mills, Ralph Bolton, proprietor, were burned on the 6th inst. Workmen were burning debris, from which sparks were blown, causing the fire. GEO. H. Gardner of Passaic has accepted the position of supt. of 1renton Woolen Co., Trenton, N. J. SAMUEL Weeks of Rockville is going to Bristol, Conn. Draper's Evener, Rabbeth Spindles, Draper's tors, Speakman's Lever Screws, and THE Westminster Woolen Mills Co., New GEO. DRAPER & SONS, Westminster, B. C., have placed a new blanket loom and a new fancy work loom in their mills. PAPER became a staple of commerce about the fourteenth century. A new system of universal telegraph language has been proposed. It is to be used in cable lines and international communication. JOB S. Bailey, for 10 years boss weaver for Blackstone (Mass) Mfg. Co., has resigned and was presented with $75 by Michael McGinley, second hand. on behalf of the help. THE Corticelli Silk Co., St. John, Que., are erecting a new wing to their premises, to include a capacious dve house and store-room. SINCERITY will always win against deceit. THE greatest flow of natural gas in this country is from the Harg well at Findlay, O. There the flow is 12,000,000 cubic feet in 24 hours.-Age of Steel. THE Montmorenci Cotton Mfg. Co., $200,000 subscribed capital stock, have applied for HOPEDALE, MASS. ARKHURST BURR PICKERS BURRING MACHINES BOSTON FINISHING WORKS, incorporation, with headquarters at Montreal, Room 42, 612 ATLANTIC AVE., BOSTON, MASS. and propose erecting probably the largest cotton mill in Canada, to make goods for China and Japan markets. Do well and right, and let the world sink.— Herbert. SOME men are smart because of what they say, Others are a great deal smarter because of what they don't say.-Merchant Traveller. MR. T. J. Claxton, President of the Globe Woolen Mills, Montreal, has recently returned from a trip to the Rockies, greatly improved in health. DR. H. C. McCook, the entomologist, says that parts of New Jersey will struggle with the 17-year old locusts this year. E. W. Holbrook, West Boylston, Mass., is WORKS AT SOUTH BOSTON. Being fully equipped with the GROSSELIN-MOSER PATENT FRENCH NAPPING MACHINES, Are prepared to produce any degree of NAP on all weights of Cotton or Woolen Fabrics. Samples and particulars sent on application. P. O. Box 2125. Telephone 2475-2. SCOTT'S TEXTILE DESIGNER'S POCKET MANUAL This is a small practical work of about forty pages by Walter Scott, of Philadelphia, Pa. It is written for the practical worker putting on a 3-story addition to the west side in the weave room. The tables &c. are to the point, and loom of his mill, 80x11 feet. The first story will be used for warping, the second for carding, fixers, overseers and. designers will find it a very valuable work. and the third for spinning. ON removing the bark from the young shoots of mulberry trees, a fiber is found, which in fineness and tenacity is not exceeded by silk. ENVELOPES were first used in 1839. SUNSHINE is like love-it makes everything PRICE, $1.00 SENT FROM THIS OFFICE ON RECEIPT OF PRICE. grades of worsted. Understands slubbing and preparing 1364 is a BOSS SPINNER on all wool, cotton and |