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Lifting a 40-inch Water Main.--With engraving.
The Inter-oceanic Canal Question.
The Mersey Tunnel.
Improved Revolver.--With 4 figures.
Cement Paving.--Composition made by the Wilkes' Metallic Flooring Company.--Other compositions.
A New Bleaching Process.--The "Mather-Thompson" system.
A New Photographic Apparatus.--With engraving.
Frew's Improved Pyrometer.--With engraving.
The New German Bookdealers' Exchange in Leipzig.--With engraving.
Fruits and Seeds for Dress Trimming.--Origin of the use of Fruits and Seeds.--Preparation by MR. COLLIN.
HON. HIRAM SIBLEY.
Hon. Hiram Sibley, of the city of Rochester, a man of national reputation as the originator of great enterprises, and as the most extensive farmer and seedsman in this country, was born at North Adams, Berkshire County, Mass., February 6, 1807, and is the second son of Benjamin and Zilpha Davis Sibley. Benjamin was the son of Timothy Sibley, of Sutton, Mass., who was the father of fifteen children--twelve sons and three daughters; eight of these, including Benjamin, lived to the aggregate age of 677 years, an average of about seventy-five years and three months. From the most unpromising beginnings, without education, Hiram Sibley has risen to a postion of usefulness and influence. His youth was passed among his native hills. He was a mechanical genius by nature. Banter with a neighboring shoemaker led to his attempt to make a shoe on the spot, and he was at once placed on the shoemaker's bench.
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