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Mr. Lund, to whom the public are indebted for so many ingenious im- provements in letterclips, corkscrews, bottle-rests, and other household implements, has patented a new mode of covering umbrellas, which vir- tually strikes one-half off their cost by doubling the time they will last. Like all Mr. Lund's inventions, this contrivance is as simple as it is effec- tive. The silk of an umbrella, as every one knows, wears into slits at the folds long before the rest of the texture has become unsound or un- sightly. Mr. Lund prevents this premature decay by using silk specially woven for his purpose, with stripes of an inch wide and of a double thickness ; and these are arranged on the frame of the umbrella at inter- vals corresponding to the folds, so that they may sustain the double wear and tear at those parts. The stripes, being of the same colour as the rest of the silk, are invisible except upon close inspection.
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