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 FINISHING OF COUNTRY INNS. 695 might be used as a committee-room, at which times the balcony would be a suitable place from which the candidates might deliver their opinions to the electors. The out- side entrance staircase will be found a very convenient means of access to the club-room, and will prevent company from being annoyed by those who may be enjoying themselves on the terrace in front. If this building were situated in a district where there were no scientific institutions, the clul)-room might be occasionally used as a place for delivering lectures in to a small company, on mechanics and chemistry, and other branches of experimental philosophy ; and, in this case, the room over the bar might be used as a reading-room or library. It would, however, be preferable to have a regular mechanics' institution, that would accommodate a greater number of persons, if the inhabitants could afford to support such an institution ; and the possibility of this being made a lecture-room is oiily suggested in order that refreshments for the body and mind might be supplied in the same quarter, to suit the various tastes of various individuals." This Design, and the preceding description and remarks, have been composed by Mr. Robertson ; and we think tlicy do credit to his judgment in arrangement, and his taste in composing elevations. Its general appearance, fig. 1S26, reminds us of the very beautiful nine- house and pleasure-garden, in the Swiss style, at Silberberg, near Stuttgard. Sect. III. Of the Finishing, Filtings-iip, Fijctures, and Furniture of Cou7itry Inns and Public Houses. 1455. Tke Finishing, Fittings-xtp, and Fixtures of Inns differ from those of private houses chiefly in the extent of those belonging to the kitchen and its offices ; and the peculiarity of those required for the bar. We shall take in succession the bar, the kitchen, and the store-room, larder, and other offices. Si'BSECT. 1. Of the Finishing, Fittings-tip, FLi-tures, and Furniture of the Bar of an Inn or Public House. 1456. The Finishing and FUtings-up of the Bar include, in large inns, an ii-on safe or chest, for books, valuable papers, and money ; pigeonholes, marked with the letters of the alphabet, for letters, accounts, and general purposes ; and other pigeonholes, marked with the numbers of all the different apartments, for letters or other articles left for, or belonging to, any of the guests. In small inns, there is a cupboard for glass and china, together with drawers and shelves for tea and coffee urns, tea-pots, coffee- pots, and punch bowls, and a variety of miscellaneous articles ; there are also vertical divisions for tea-trays, waiters, and similar things : and, in public houses, there is a supply of hot and cold water from cocks over a sink ; and, as we have seen. Design V, § 1443, a complete system of tubes or pipes, for drawing liquors from casks, either in the bar-room, in an adjoining room, or in the cellar beneath. In presses and drawers in the bar are also kept, in the smaller inns, the table linen, napery, and plate of every description. Some years ago, an invention was exhibited in London, called a domestic telegraph, which was considered to be well adapted for very large inns. A dial, with a face like that of a clock, but with tjie names of the articles most in use in coffee- rooms inscribed round the plate, instead of the figmes of the hours, and with a hand