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NEW YORK, DECEMBER 28, 1867.

Vol. XVII.--No. 26. [NEW SERIES.]

$3 per Annum [IN ADVANCE.]

Contents: (Illustrated articles are marked with an asterisk.)

*Improvement in Hulling and Cleansing Hominy
Nitro Glycerin
*Hisert's Adjustable Cultivator Tooth
Remedy for Cold Feet in City Cars
Getting Your Money Back
Patent Claims
Pending Applications for Reissues
The Last Number of Volume XVII
Commencement of a New Volume
A Change at the Patent Office
Obituary
How to Make Intelligent Workmen--Go and Do Likewise
The SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN as a Medium of Business
*Hunt's Improved Steam Packing Piston
The Iron Clads at Sea
*Improvement in Hand Drills
*Improved Method of Securing Cutters on Boring Bars
Tides and Their Causes
The Great Hoosac Tunnel
Horse-hair Snakes--Wonderful Transformation
Man Proposes, but God Disposes
Extraordinary Effects of an Earthquake
Recent American and Foreign Patents
Answers to Correspondents
Business and Personal
Manufacturing, Mining, and Railroad Items
Patent Office Decision