ENGINEERING INVENTIONS. A stuffing box has been patented by Mr. Erastus G. Medrick of Middletown N. Y. It has wedge-shaped packing rings held in a gland and oper ated on by a piston fitting steam tight a ring surround ing the wedge-shaped packing rings the invention being especially adapted for steam cylinders and steam chests. A safety water gauge has been pa invention covers a construction whereby the valves connecting a boiler with the glass sight tube will close automatically and prevent the outward passage of steam and water in case the sight tube should be accidentally broken. A railroad rail has been patented by Mr. Samuel M. Jacobs of New York City. It is designed more particularly for street railways and is made with a lengthwise groove and with lower or bottom recesses at intervals into which the groove opens forming a guide to peripherally toothed or flanged car wheels and being practically self-clearing or dirt. A ear brake has been patented by Mr. Edward B. Warren of Plankinton Dakota Ter. Com bined with the brake levers is a swinging gear plate a gear wheel on the axle and means for throwing the gear plate in and out of gear and other novel features the brake being controllable from the locomotive and being efficient when the train is moving forward or backward in a straight line or on curies. The patent embraces the large number of twenty-four separate claims. AGRICULTURAL INVENTION. A combined plow and harrow has been patented by Mr. William P. Clark of Elberton Ga. The invention covers an implement having interchange able parts which may be bolted together to form an A or V harrow a right or left side harrow or a cultivat ing plow. MISCELLANEOUS INVENTIONS. A button has been patented by Mr. Pierre A. Raymond of Grenoble France. It is a spring buttond esigned especially as a glove fastener the invention covering an improved construction of a similar button formerly patented by the same inventor. A perfumed artificial flower has been patented by Mr. S
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