d one ortwo cambric handkerchief manufacturers brought out somevery home-made machines which turned out a certainamount of work, and thereby enabled them to eclipse theircompetitors. In aU these cases the machine was confinedto their own use and jealously kept under their owncontrol. About four… … stitching machine yet produced. Having thoroughlytested it in his own factory he commenced to offer it for■ale, and with such success that in a few years about athousand of these machines were in operation, chiefly inIreland, but also in France, America, Belgium, Ger-many, (fee. The fact of…