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 156 Sloan's Architectural Review and Builders' Journal. [August, Dedication op the Soldiers 1 Monu- ment at Doylestown. — On the 30th of May a monument to the memory of the fallen soldiers of the 104th Pennsylvania Regiment was dedicated at Doylestown. The citizens of the village and vicinity turned out in large numbers. Detach- ments of the National Guards, Grey Re- serves, and Washington Grays and a large delegation of Philadelphians par- ticipated. The monument is thirty-four feet in height, and built of marble and granite, a fac simile of Cleopatra's Needle. It cost $2,984. It bears an in- scription to the memory of the officers and soldiers of the 104th Pennsylvania Regiment who fell in the late war, with the names of the battles in which the regiment participated run wreath-like around the shaft. An oration was de- livered by General William H. Emory, and an ode was sung by an amateur choir. General Charles G. Halpine, (" Miles O'Reilly,") who was to have read a poem, was not present, but Gen- erals Patterson, Hoffman, and other mili- tary celebrities were present. ___ The demand for cheap shoes has been so pressing of late years, says the Lynn Reporter, that it has induced the most rigid economy in the manufacture. Hardly a scrap of leather is allowed to go to waste. The wagon-loads of odds and ends made in cutting — the refuse of the splitting-machines — are all worked up again into that kind of leather known as " pancake." This is made by pasting and pressing together the scraps of which we have spoken. This being rolled and dried, is made to do service in the cheaper grades of shoes as inner- sole leather, or as " lifts " for heels. So skilfully are these operations performed that sometimes the substitute is, for some purposes, almost as good as the genuine article. Some firms do a large business in the manufacture of " pan- cake," which is accomplished by power- ful machinery driven by steam. A Monument Erected in the Mam- moth Cave. — The Nashville Union and Dispatch says : About forty members of the National Division of the Sons of Temperance, after leaving this city on their return home, stopped at the Mam- moth Cave to look into its mysteries, wonders, and beauties. After making the usual explorations, Thomas Chub- bick, of Massachusetts, suggested that a monument be erected to commemorate their visit, and to be perpetually known as the " Sons of Temperance Monu- ment." The idea was commenced near the Gothic chapel, a little to the right of the path that leads to the celebrated chapel. The corner-stone was laid with appropriate ceremonies by M. W. P. Robert M. Foust, of Pennsylvania, as- sisted by the brethren. It required three persons to handle the corner-stone. Each member present then placed a stone upon the monument, which is now about five feet high, and it is requested that every Son of Temperance who may hereafter visit the cave shall place one stone on the monument, and only one, so that as many as possible may person- ally engage in its erection. After the work was thus far completed, Mr. Foust dedicated the monument to the princi- ples of " Love, Purity, and Fidelity," and to the Order of the Sons of Temper- ance, after which the members present formed a circle around the newly-begun monument and sang a hymn. On the eastern side of the monument are the letters " S. of T.," and the work was executed without the sound of ham- mer or axe or any tool of iron. If each Son of Temperance will add his one stone to the work, it will in time be one of the " sights to be seen " in the Mam- moth Cave. The guide will show it in future to all visitors. M. Gaudin has discovered a process by which he can produce imitation diamonds, etc., of any color and shape, that will cut glass. This may cause quite a revolution in jewelry.