machine.  Then another workman puts them through the O-G. cutter which forms the shape of the front of the case.  The next process is the glueing on of the veneers—­the workman spreads the glue on one piece at a time and then puts on the veneer of rosewood or mahogany.  A dozen of these pieces are placed together in hand-screws till the glue is properly hardened.  The O-G. shapes of these pieces fit into each other when they are screwed together.  When the glue is sufficiently dry, the next thing is to make the veneer smooth and fit for varnishing.  We have what is called a sand paper wheel, made of pine plank, its edge formed in an O-G. shape, and sand-paper glued to it.  When this wheel is revolving rapidly, the pieces are passed over it and in this way smoothed very fast.  They are then ready to varnish, and it usually takes about ten days to put on the several coats of varnish, and polish them ready for mitering, which completes the pieces ready for glueing in shape of the case.  The sides of the case are made much cheaper.  I used to have the stuff for ten thousand of these cases in the works at one time.  With these great facilities, the labor costs less than twenty cents apiece for this kind of case, and with the stock, they cost less than fifty cents.  A cabinet maker could not make one for less than five dollars.  This proves and shows what can be done by system.  The dials are cut out of large sheets of zinc, the holes punched by machinery, and then put into the paint room, where they are painted by a short and easy process.  The letters and figures are then printed on.  I had a private room for this purpose, and a man who could print twelve or fifteen hundred in a day.  The whole dial cost me less than five cents.  The tablets were printed in the same manner, the colors put on afterwards by girls, and the whole work on these beautiful tablets cost less than one and a half cents:  the cost of glass and work was about four cents.  Every body knows that all of these parts must be made very cheap or an O-G. clock could not be sold for one dollar and a half, or two dollars.  The weights cost about thirteen cents per clock, the cost of boxing them about ten cents, and the first cost of the movements of a one-day brass clock is less than fifty cents.  I will here say a little about the process of making the wheels.  It will no doubt, astonish a great many to know how rapidly they can be made.  I will venture to say, that I can pick out three men who will take the brass in the sheet, press out and level under the drop, there cut the teeth, and make all of the wheels to five hundred clocks in one day; there are from eight to ten of these wheels in every clock, and in an eight-day clock more.  This will look to some like a great story, but is one of the wonders of the clock business.  If some of the parts of a clock were not made for almost nothing, they could not be sold so cheap when finished.