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SAWYER V. HORN.FEDERAL REPORTER.

grains into a cup of soft water; then stir in the rinsing water.

Prepared by H. Sawyer,
Boston, Mass.
H. Sawyer.
(fac simile of signature.)

On Horn's label is printed, with exactly the same divisions by straight lines, and in almost the same type, horizontally:

Horn's
unexcelled Sifting box
Blue.
Baltimore.
The Standard Blue of the United States.
The quality is unequaled.
Directions:

Pierce the holes of the top with a pin, and sift a few grains in a bowl of water, stir until fully dissolved, then add to the rinsing water.

Prepared by
Jas. G. Horn,
Baltimore, Md.

No one, we think, having the two labels before him, could believe that the similarities were the result of accidental coincidence. And no one having before him the two boxes, with their similar blue labels and red tops, could fail to be convinced, we think, that there was an intentional similarity in their general appearance, well calculated to deceive persons exercising ordinary caution into mistaking one for the other.

The name and place of manufacture on the labels are different, and many of the words, but the color, size, type, and arrangements and divisions are in such exact similitude in all respects as to divert attention from the differences and to produce the impression that they are the same.

The labels, if pasted upon a flat surface, could with less difficulty be distinguished from each other, but when pasted around a small cylinder, in such a way that only about a fourth