THE CRYSTAL SELF-ACTING TABLE FOUNTAIN. Nature's ornaments are the standard of beauty ; and the more closely art copies her ever varying forms the higher and purer does it become. A spray of ivy creeping over a cornice a handful of flowers not imbedded in a stiff mass but allowed to rest loosely in a simple vase a jet of crystal water dancing and playing like a shower of diamonds in some sunny corner are far more exquisite than the most ela borate decorations or gorgeous fittings that the most skillful of workmen can produce. But nature may be assisted by art so that her handiwork may exist in places where it would otherwise be absent ; and tne ingenuity of the inventor is not at a loss to find a way of bringing into our parlors the beauties which we admire in the garden. Such indeed is the object of the ornamental little device to which our engravings refer and by which we are enabled to place a miniature fountain with its floral ac companimentg in the center of our dining tables if we so desire it. Apart from its beauty as an ornament it may here be noted that a jet of water in the room tends toward moistening the atmosphere and relieving it of the dry na ture especially due to furnace heat while besides this the fluid has a tendency to absorb the foul gases due to respira tion. Hence the invention is deSirable both from an [esthe tic and a sanitary point of view while it has as we are in formed the further merit of being within a moderate limit of cost. In our illustrations Fig. 1 shows the apparatus entire and Fig. 2 is a vertical section. There is a pedestal which may be of imitation bronze or any other desired material and made in any handsome design. In this is a cylindrical space in which fits a heavy plunger A. Through the latter is an opening into which passes a rubber pipe B of smallerdiam eter and which terminates below in a flap valve. The valve however is pierced so that the opening from the water be low through the pipe and to the spout above is clear
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