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 FITTINGS-UP OF VILLA DWELLING-ROOMS. 10.^3 Mi / i ' I U' ' ^ is for the cards of tradesmen, which are generally large, and the upper for those of private persons. On the small projecting shelf between them are placed the cards oi persons who have called in the course of the day, or of persons whose names and addresses it may be desirable more particularly to impress ou the memory. 2062. Sylvesters Fireplace exhibits one of the last improvements in this mode of gene- rating heat. It pre sents a return to the primitive simplicity of making fires on the hearth, but it has joined to that sim- plicity a beautiful ap- plication of science. One of the greatest novelties in the ap- pearance of this fire- place, fig. 1844, is, that it has no fender. Fig. 1845 is the plan of the fuel-chamber, and a vertical profile of the hearth ; in which the latter is shown composed of radiating spokes of cast iron, the narrow extremities of which serve as the bottom bars of the o-rate. Fig. 1846 is a section through the centre of the fireplace, in which a is the broad part of one of the spokes mentioned ; h, the narrow 6 F