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 752 Ihe Architectural Mcvicw and American Builders'* Journal. |_Juue, A CO UN THY CHURCH. HERE is a neat, and not unpictur- esque. little edifice well suited to a small village or hamlet. It might be constructed in rough hammered stone, or in brick with hammered free-stone trimmings. It might be moulded in concrete or in Beton. And in a wooded country in any of the "arious modes of construction in that material, such as frame, plank (vertical or horizontal) log hewn on the inside — sawn and squared log. All these latter modes would be excellent in back settlements, thickly wooded. Value op Hollow Brick. — A mason employed on some repairs to a chimney ol a house in Paris, while at work, broke up a brick which he found loose in the chimney, and, to his surprise, discovered that it was hollowed out, and contained a bank-note for five hundred francs. The workman honestly communicated the fact to his employer, who called to mind that he had written his uncle at Amsterdam, for mone}', and had received nothing but the brick in question, which he indignantly threw into the chimnej-, and wrote his uncle an angry letter, to which no answer had been given. In Holland, it seems that hollow bricks are made on purpose to send small sums of money, as making a more secure package than others. We suppose that Dutch uncle was thereafter considered by his nephew, to be a perfect brick.