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Show It is very seldom that a lonuost fur a patent is refused to a Scottish s,ipll-caut, s,ipll-caut, and when it is tho roason almost invariably U that tho idea has already been patented. Ono of the earliest Scotch inventors in this country was old Hugh Orr, a Locbwlnnoch man, who hail a foundry at Brldgewntnr, Mass., during tho revolutionary timos. He wns well Known in his lifetime to Washington aud tho other American leaders, as from Ids foundry came most of their iron and brass cannon. Orr invented wan agricultural itnplo-. menu. |