Out of Sussex Co., Eng., William Penn took seven hundred of the best mechanics, millwrights, carpenters etc., and brought them to the United States. The first county he struck, at the mouth of the Delaware, he named in their honor Sussex County.

Glass paper or cloth is made by powdering glass more or less finely and sprinkling it over paper or calico still wet with a coat of thin glue; the powdered glass adheres as it dries. Glass paper is very extensively employed as a means for polishing wood-work.

It was only one hundred and six years ago that a committee was appointed in Philadelphia to inquire into the process of coloring leather as practiced in Turkey and Morocco. They paid an Armenian whom they found £100 and a gold medal to give them the information.

The largest anvil known is that used in the Woolwich Arsenal, England. It weighs sixty tons. The anvil block upon which it rests weighs one hundred and three tons. Altogether six hundred tons of iron were used in the anvil, the block and the foundation work.

The process for making Bessemer Steel was invented by Sir Henry Bessemer in 1856. It converts fused pig iron into steel by blowing air through it and clearing it of carbon, and then adding enough carbon to make steel. Another kind of Bessemer steel is made from inferior pig iron by a modified process and is termed Basic steel.

The telephone is an instrument designed to reproduce sounds at a distance by means of electricity. Professor Graham Bell's articulating telephone was produced in 1877. Communication by telephone between New York and Chicago (1,000 miles), was opened in 1893, between Paris and Marseilles (563 miles) in 1888, and between London and Paris in 1891.

The gimlet-pointed screw has produced more wealth than most silver mines, and the Connecticut man who first thought of putting copper tips on the toes of children's shoes, is as well off as if he had inherited $1,000,000, for that's the amount his idea has realized for him.

The largest bells in the world are the following, their weight being given in tons: Moscow, 216; Burmah,117; Pekin, 53; Novgorod, 31; Notre Dame, 18; Rouen, 18; Olmutz, 18; Vienna, 18; St. Paul's, 16; Westminster, 14; Montreal, 12; Cologne, 11; Oxford, 8; St. Peter's, 8.

The Chicopee works near Springfield, Mass., started in 1829, and began to manufacture cutlery, and also cast the first American statuary, such as the gates of the Capitol at Washington, the statue of Washington in New York, and that of De Witt Clinton in Greenwood Cemetery.

French ingenuity has contrived an improved stone-cutting saw of remarkable efficiency - a circular saw having its edge set with black diamonds in the same way as the straight blades; but as the strain on the diamond is all in one direction, the setting can be made much firmer.

Umbrellas commenced to be made on a large scale in this country in 1820 by the Wrights, who are still at it, and who were four brothers, all from Oxfordshire, England. For ten years they made only one hundred umbrellas a day, and by the time of the civil war made three thousand a day.

A hot water fountain is in operation in Paris. The water that feeds the fountain passes through a coil of copper tubing three hundred feet long. By dropping a sou in a slot jets of gas are turned on and ignited. By this means the water is heated. For each sou one is entitled to eight liters. It is expected that this fountain will be of great assistance to the poor.

The catamaran is a raft formed usually of three pieces of wood lashed together, the middle piece being longer than the others, and serving as a keel; on this the rower kneels or squats, and works a paddle. These simple vessels are used by the natives of Madras to maintain communication between ships and the shore, ordinary boats being rendered unsafe by the surf.

Many things we used to have in perfection we see no more. For instance, paper collars in 1853 were being manufactured by the million. Bismarck says that as late as the war of 1870, Burnside came to camp with another American, who wore a paper collar. But celluloid has replaced paper, and linen and cotton have become so cheap that it hardly pays to wear the poor article.

Vellum is the name originally given to a fine variety of parchment, made of calfskin. Vellum is prepared from the skins of kids, lambs, and young calves. Some of the earliest printed books were done on vellum, and some of the best of the early miniature portraits were painted on a specially fine quality of vellum prepared from the skins of calves prematurely born.

The Union arch of the Washington Aqueduct is the largest in the world, being two hundred and twenty feet; twenty feet in excess of the Chester arch across the Dee in England, sixty-eight feet longer than that of the London Bridge; ninety-two feet longer than that at Neuilly on the Seine, and one hundred feet longer than that of Waterloo Bridge. The height of the Washington arch is one hundred feet.

A diamond cut at Antwerp is, with one exception, the largest in the world. It weighed 474 carats, but has lost 275 in the cutting. It will still, however, hold its place as second largest cut stone, being exceeded only by the Persian Great Mogul, which weighs 280 carats. The Koh-i-noor weighs only 1021/2 carats. The Antwerp diamond is about as large as a pigeon's egg, and measures .786 inches each way.

The pretty trinkets called Bog Oak Ornaments are turned or carved from the trunks of the black oak, which is especially suitable for the purpose, the yew, fir and other woods, which are often found, of a dark color and well preserved, in the peat bogs of Great Britain, Ireland and other countries. The trade originated in the reign of George IV. The annual value of such goods sold in Dublin has been estimated at $100,000.

In shipping the caisson is an apparatus for lifting a vessel out of the water for repairs or inspection. It is usually a hollow structure, sunk by letting water into it. There is an air chamber inside, which allows it to sink only to a certain depth. In that state it is hauled under the ship's bottom, the traps or openings are closed, the water is pumped out, and the caisson rises with the ship upon it. Pontoon is another term for the same apparatus.