SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
A WEEKLY JOURNAL OF PRACTICAL INFORMATION, ART, SCIENCE, MECHANICS, CHEMISTRY, AND MANUFACTURES.
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]