. Scientific American Volume 03 Number 17 (October 1860). m the pen, be-comes thick and causes the pen to write bad. It isobvious that the cleaning of the pen can be accomplish-ed with the greatest ease and perfection in liquid whichdissolves the ink. To effect this purpose is the object ofthis invention, which consists in the arrangement ofa bottle of peculiar form, and provided with a brushwhich is firmly sprung into the bottle in such a mannerthat some suitable fluid may be introduced into the bot-tle, and the pen may be thoroughly cleaned. The in-ventor of this ingenious device is Jonathan


. Scientific American Volume 03 Number 17 (October 1860). m the pen, be-comes thick and causes the pen to write bad. It isobvious that the cleaning of the pen can be accomplish-ed with the greatest ease and perfection in liquid whichdissolves the ink. To effect this purpose is the object ofthis invention, which consists in the arrangement ofa bottle of peculiar form, and provided with a brushwhich is firmly sprung into the bottle in such a mannerthat some suitable fluid may be introduced into the bot-tle, and the pen may be thoroughly cleaned. The in-ventor of this ingenious device is Jonathan Warren, of Brooklyn, N. Y. m itl — THE LAST COTTON New York Shipping List makes up the accountof the cotton1 crop annually on the 31st of August. Itappears that the crop ending August 31, I860, amount-ed to 4,675,770 bales, distributed as follows: — n - Bales. New Orleans 2,139,425 Alabama 848,013 Texas 252 4M Florida ...... 11*8^794 531,219 South Carolina 4. 610,10A North Carolina k, 41,104 Virginia. 5fi 987 Tennessse, 108,676. Total 4,675,770 Taken for home use north of Virginia, bales 792^21 Taken for home use in Virginia and south and west of Vir-ginia, bales 185,522 Total consumed in the United States, including burned atthe port*, bales, , 978,043 ISSUED FROM THE UNITED STATICS PATENT OFFICE FOB TUE WEEK ENDIflU OOTOliKB 9, I860. [Reported Officially for the Scientific American.] »* Pamphlets giving full particulars of the mode of applying forpatents, size of model required, and much other information use-ful to inventors, may be had gratia by addressing MUNN & CO.,Publishers of the Scientific Amkoican, New York. 30,282.—F. B. Abbott, of St. Louis, Mo., for an Im-proved Quartz Crusher and Amalgamator: I claim, first. The use of the heater, R, in combination with theboiler and crusher, when arranged in the manner described for thepurpose specified. Second, I claim constructing, arranging and operating the amal-gamator, substantially in the mann


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