A single page from The Textile Mercury containing three short items. The first describes a newly patented high-speed spinning spindle (the Stockton Bates spindle) with two bearings, an oil chamber and a removable holder, followed by an editor's skeptical comment. The second is E. Lindenger's article on dyeing cotton hosiery yarn so that colours are fast to both washing and rubbing, combining vat blue, catechu and substantive dyes. The third reports Dr. Otto N. Witt's azo derivatives of beta-naphthohydroquinone, which form lakes with metal mordants.