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all the heat which wholesome conditions require can be obtained without difficulty and with great economy.

Reference should here be made to the highly ornamental tile stove exhibited by Messrs. Minton, Hollins & Co., No. 107 of their list, already referred to. It was specially designed for the cabin of a yacht, and was an example of the use of tiles for overlaying metal stoves, or frames, rather than as constituting the body of the stove or chief repository of the heat.

IY. Teeea-Cott a—B rick.

At each succeeding great Exhibition, the importance of the industry of brick appears to be more fully recognized and represented. Always interesting to constructors, it becomes more generally so to the public as attention is more and more directed to ornamental forms and colors. This tendency happily exists, and, as we shall see, has already resulted in Europe in the production of a variety of very useful forms of building brick, of enamelled brick, and of elaborate decorative work in terra-cotta, both plain and enamelled, in colors.

Brick Industry—United States.

An idea of the magnitude of the brick industry in the United States may be obtained from the statistics collected for the last census. According to the reports, there are 3,114 establishments for making brick, with 372 steam- engines, aggregating 10,333 horse-power; 19 water-wheels, 218 horse-power, and 43,293 persons employed. Capital invested, $20,504,238; wages paid, $10,768,853; materials used valued at $7,413,097, and value of the product $29,- 028,359.

Massachusetts has 107 establishments, 2,901 hands em­ployed. Capital invested, $2,435,310; value of materials used, $978,508, and value of product, $2,251,984. Of brick and tilemakers together, 26,070 are reported; and the total value of the products, $29,302,016, against $12,263,147 in 1860.