a. Miiwl If B. P. SOHWEIER, TEE OOISTmmOI-TEE tHIOI-UD TBI EETOIOEXER Or THE LIT. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XXXY. MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 14, 1SS1. NO. 36. BLIGHTED. . The maiden, smiling- la a drum ol bum. Sud: "Gladsome days are eominf; I shall be Hi beat beloved for hla farewell kia spoke of a future fall of lore for me." Bat ere the year wag peased, her hope were down ; She mourned alone ! Toe linnet, twittering on the winter thorn. Said : When the spring cornea, all my song shall thrill The silent woods, and blossoms shall be born. And gladness ail my little life shall AIL" But ere sweet spring-blooms o'er the earth were shed. The bird was dead I The floweret, plntnz for the summer heat. Said : 44 When the ana comes, he will shine on me; And o'er my fragrant cop, with flying feat. Shall pass the butterfly and humming bee.11 But long ere summer came with heal and light. Feu the frost's blight I O, mournful maiden, and poof blighted flower. And little bird that pined for sunny spring, Why were ye born in home, or wood, or bower t Whr thus was checked yoor harmless blossom tag? Why are dear hopes all o'er this aad earth chill ed? And unfulfilled? THE CKl'ISK. Its scene lies iu one of the gayest sea towns of Devonshire; one of those bathing places which, for about three months in every Tear, is astonished at its own gayety. No one more enjoyed the brief dissi pation of her native tow Edithu than Trevanion. The heiress and beauty of the neigh borhood, the darling of her father, (mother she,had none) the delight of her circle, human life seemed to have made an exception in her favor. Poverty she only knew by the pleasure of relieving it. Within the last few months a still deeper liappiuess had girdled her around. She was engaged to a young man, of family and fortune equal to her own; aud, more over, Arthur Raleigh was a very handsome young man. However, wherever there ia any love is the case, there is never any want of a few miseries as welL Arthur was of a jealous temper, and this is a sore temptation to a petted child. Edith Knew her power, and did not dislike using it In the meantime, the War office com bined with fate against the unfortunate lover a regiment was suddenly quarter ed in the town. This was really too much. Poor Ar thur was haunted by red coats. No young lady's head in all the place could run more npon the "officers" than bis own. One day it was the fascinating captain the next it was the handsome lieuten ant: till it even reached the interesting ensign. Edith Trevanion liked the increased gaiety, she liked too the admiration and the attention. But her heart was irrevocably gone, and the very thought of change never catered her head. It was a very hot morning for the summer had been unusually warm and long that they were standing on a ter race which ran on the shady side of the house. They were walking up and down a little to Arthur's discontent, for he had been asking her to ride, which Edith re fused on account of the extreme heat. ' This had caused a auairel, and the name of Captain Delaford had been men tioned. Of him Arthur was (passionately jeal ous, and left her in high dudgeon. That evening there was to be grand dinner at the Trevanion house, to which the officers of the regiment were invited, as well as a number of the leading resi dents. Never had Edith looked more beauti ful than when she paused on the thres hold of the old Gothic library, where the guests were now for dinner, to still a little fluttering at the heart before she expected to meet Arthur. She entered, a little flush on her cheek, and a little sparkle in her clear bine eyes. Her father came towards her and drew her arm in his. He was almost as proud as fond of his lovely child. She gave one qnick glance round the library. Arthur was not there. Captain Delaford came forward with a smile and a compliment. She scarcely answered liim;and it was a positively relief when an old baronet who had been sent into the world to be a bore, and who from his cradle had ful filled hia destiny, can.e forwarJ, and handed her to the dinner table. The longest dinner that Edith had ever known was at length over; but a longer evening was yet to come. She went with a large party from the house to the ball, and she danced the first dance with Captain DeLifonL Still Arthur never came. The party returned to the hall; and it was as much as Edith could do to appear the attentive and well-bred mistress of the house. Generally speaking, the little supper after the uauee, had been so gay; to night it was dull all said they were tired. The visitors took up their can dies, and, as the door closed upon the last, Edith threw herself into her father's arms and burst into tears. Half in sobs, and half in words, her story was told, and Mr. Trevanion was at first very angry at Arthur Raleigh's want of temper. But Edith could not bear to have him blamed, and she now made all sorts of excuses for the jealousy which in the morning seemed to her so unpardonable. It was a lovely night, when feverish and restless, she flung open the windows of her dressing-room. The moon was shining in a cloudless -v- .. 1 l ,, ,. . j, " me e iu me distance was tremulous with light. But there was a weight on Edith's spirits which she could not shake oft The clouds were begining to redden in the east before she went to bed, and the last words on her lips were "Where is Arthur? Where, indeed, was he ? When he left Edith, he rushed in a paroxysm of rage to the seaside, and there, bare-headed, he amused himself with walking np aad down, cursing wo man's fickleness and all good waltzers in his heart. Suddenly a little boat shot round one of the 8 mall capes which so gracefully in dent the coast, a youth sprang out, and approaching Arthur, un perceived, passed his arm through the wanderer's and ad dressed him by name. It was a college friend; and Arthur, between anger and confidence, was soon moved to tell his story. "I will tell you what you shall do; come with me into my boat, my yacht waits me in the offing; we will have pleasant sail, a gay supper, and to-mor row, you, having so shown with what spirit you can act, shall go and beg your fair tyrant a pardon or what is far bet ter, let her leg yours.'' Arthur was just in that sort of mood, when we are ready to let any one decide for us rather than ourselves. He went with his friend, had a gay supper; and did what he could to drown a few of Edith's frowns in cliampagne. He woke the next morning with a headache, and the agreeable intelligence that they were driven out to sea. It was a week before they could land; and when they did, of course Arthur's first thought was to hasten to Edith. For thi? purpose, he was to put in at the very creek which he had left the week before. "You look so handsome in my forag ing cap," said his gay companion, "that you must carry everything before yon." Arthur's step was as heavy as his spirits. He could not disguise from himself that his strange absence must have inflic ted a degree of most cruel anxiety and he dreaded to see Edith again. The sound of a bell tolling for a fun eral did not add to his cheerfulness, He had to pass by the little church yard, and saw a group of people in the one corner. Surely they were gathered round the old vault of the Trevanions. He entered the rattle of the earth on the coffin struck upon his ear the vault was open, and the clergyman was read ing the last sacred words that part the the dead from the living. He asked one - question, and the wretched young man heard the name of Edith Trevanion. His sudden disappearance, and his hat having been found on the sea-shore, led to tlie belief, that he had destroyed himself. This report had been hastily com municated to Edith, and she had broken a blood vessel. Death followed instantly. In the small churchyard, whose old yews are seen at a great distance out at sea, is an old-fashioned monument it is the vault of the Trevanion family. The last inscription is "Edith Treranion, aged 19." Indian Belles in Maine. One of the most interesting localities and one of the latest unearthed in Maine, is the Indian place of execution or tor ture on Fort Island at the narrows, near the mouth of Damariscotta River, some time ago, while Postmaster Gamage and Mr. Phelps were hunting for relics at the above-named place, they discovered, among numerous fish epears, needles and arrowheads, the remains of five skeletons, apparently Indians the skulls showing a very low order of intellect one kull of which they were able to get out nearly perfect, which is now in the possession of Dr. Chapman. They found five under-jaws,one of them near ly perfect, but none of them would fit the skulls. One skull was very large; they judged it to be nearly twice the size of the average, but so far decayed that with the utmost care it could not be moved from the place where it lay. These skeltonsdid not lie in any regular order, but appeared to have been burned at a stake, as a space of six teet square or more was covered with ashes, charcoal and rocks that had been exposed to fire. The skulls were nearly face down and but few other bones could be removed whole. The appearace indicated that there had been nnneroua victims burned at different times and the whole was covered with an accumulation of earth and shells in four distinct layers one foot in depth. They also found pottery, the skulls of deer, and jaws of bears.and ono large stag or elk horn. Tnere is no doubt but that diligent search will re veal further evidence of a place of sav age torture. Big atndgea. Av-nrriinir ti the S,icmtitlc American. the largest masonry arch in the world an arch which forms part of one the most lm aiJiievementa of recent w - r years is the aqueduct by which the city of Washington is supplied with water. The arch id question carries me aqueuuet over Cabin John Creek, with a span of 220 tt Tho hpiirht of the arch is 101 feet. and the witdb of the structure 2 J feet. The arch forms the arc of a ircle. Having a radius of 134 285 feet. When the centre scaffolding was removed, the arch (unlike all other works of the kind) did not settle, the keystone having been set In winter .t ti. nntn struck in summer. The other notable masonry arches of the world are the Chester arcn across tue nra Dee, at Chester, England, with a span of am rxt th famous centre arch of the new London bridge over the Thames, with a span of 152 feet; roM-y-rryuu ura m r'a i ul--i. idi foot? the bruize across the Seine, at Neuilly, France, with live spans, each of 128 feet ; the nine spani i of the Waterloo Bridee of London, each 1 iO feet; and the celebrated marble Rialto Bridge in Venice, with span of 8J feet An Cspkuul Hltek. "I hate to see a hitch in a weddin,' remarked a farmer from out' Jamaica way, as he dropped into the counting room with a nuptial notdoe. "It looks bad and it makes talk." "Anything wrong about this wedding?' asked the clerk, as he made change for the old man. "Nothing positively wrong, but it didn't launch like I want to see things of that kind. You seen by the notice that Buck Thomas was marrin' Mary Biff, and at one time we begun to think they never would get through the cere mony." "What was the hitch ?" 4Why Buck is Methodist and Mary is a 'Piscopalain, and as one wanted ono service, and the other another, they patched up some kind of a scheme to have both. Neither would go to the other's church, bnt each had their own minister, and the weddin come off in the school house. The "piscopal min ister married Mary and the methodist undertook to marry Buck, and there they was takin' alternate whacks at the thing, and neither payin any attention to the other. The methodist brother fired off a sermon first, and the bride sat down and went to sleep. Then the 'piscopalain said as how we'd all drop ped in to see that woman j'ined, but he wouldn't say who to, and wanted to know if there was any objections. That started up the methodist who began to ask Buck if he knew what a solemn business he was peggin' at, and if he really meant trade. All that time the 'piscopalain was howlin around about this woman, and Mary was savin' she'd do this and that and the other. The methodist was marrin' away on his side, and finally they brought up agin a stump. "How's that ?" asked the clerk. "Well, the 'pisoopalian wouldn't rec ognize Buck or his minister, aud the methodist wouldn't have nothin' to do with Mary or her preacher, and there was no way of gittin' 'em together. Everything was all leady except ask in' them if they'd taka each other, and neither one of 'em would do it. Mary and Buck was standin' hand in baud, and the crowd was gettin' hungry." "In what respect ?" inquired the clerk. "Because there was no one to pro nounce 'em man and wife. Buck tried to reason Mary into lettiu the metl-odist do that part, and Mary argued with Buck and tried to persuade him into lis- tenin' to her preacher;but it was no use. That brought on another row, and as it was gittin' nigh on to dark, we all felt that somethin' ought to be done, as we d been there most all day." "Well, did they get married ?" asked the tired clerk. "Yes; we fixed it np. The ministers was gittin pretty mad at each other, but they agreed that they'd each attend to their own flock, so the methodist said 'I now pronounce yon man,' and the 'pis oopalian said 'I now pronounce you wife,' and they let it go at that Then Buck paid the methodist, and the 'pis oopalian wanted to know where he came in. Buck said he'd hired Ids man and paid him, and, as he was not responsi ble for his wife's foolishness before a marriage, her parson could whistle for his wealtn. I guess there 11 be a law suit about it, for the pisoopalian says hell have half of that fi dollars if it takes a leg off to the armpit I don't like to see them hitches at wed din's. It don't look right, and it ain't business." With which reflection the old man buttoned up his change and drove home in deep meditation. Dyeing aad Coloring Flowers. Dyeing is especially used for the red Xeranthemum annum fi. pL, red Asters, and all kinds of ornamental grasses. Mix ten parts of fresh water with one part of goon nitric acid, plunge the flowers in, shake off the liquid and hang them up te dry. In this way Xeranlbemuma, Which should be cut when entirely open will acquire beautiful bright red tint; while grasses only become a little pale red on the tops, but will keep afterwards for many years, and may, if needed, be colored otherwise at any time. Asters generally when treated in this way, are not so fine as if dried in sand, or smoked with brim stone. To color flowers and grasses bine, violet, red, scarlet and orange, use the dif ferent kinds of aniline; for yellow use picrid acid, and for bright scarlet use borax. The aniline dye should be dissolved in alcohol before it is fit for use, in which condition it should be kept in well -closed bottles until it ia required. It may also be purchased in a dissolved condition of any respectable chemist. To color by means of aniline, take s porcelain or any other well-glazed Teasel, pour in some boil ing water, and add as much aniline as will nicely color the water. According to the quantity of aniline used, the color of the flowers will become more or less bright After the water baa cooled a little, plunge in the flowers or grasses, and keep them in it till they are nicely colored ; then rinse in cold water, shake off the liquid and hang them np in the open air to dry. To obtain a One blue, take analine bleu de ban, boil the color with the water for five minutes, and then add a few drops of sulphuric acid before using. For violet use one part aniline violet and one part of aniline bleu de ban ; for red, aniline f uch sin; fer scarlet one part of analine fuch sia and one of aniline violet ; for orange, analine d'orange ; for lemon color, picric acid, which should be dissolved in boiling water and then thinned with a little warm water. Dip in the flowers, but not drain off ih liquid. All kinds of ornamental grassr can be thus colored (especially Stipa peunata and Ammobium alaturn white Xeranthemums, and most other everlasting flowers. Im mortelles, however, as well as the other kinds of Helichrysums, must be treated differently ; their natural yellow color must first be extracted by dipping them in boil ing soap water, made with Italian soap, and afterwards dried hi an airy, shady place. The aViwers generally become closed when thus treated, and should be placed near an oven, and subjected to the influence of a dry beat when they will toon reopen. This is very important if they are intended to be colored; If not they will remain fine pure whi Immor telles. Most Iinmottelles, however, are colored bright scarlet by meant of borax. which gives a beautiful ok; but it does not keep well, aad becomes gradually paler. For this purpose, dissolve as much borax In boiling water as will color it nicely ; when cooL dip the flowers, but do not allow them to remain after they have taken tbe color; if kept in too long, they will not sg&in open their Bowers. The chief point in every mode of color ing Immortelles is to place them first in a dry, warm atmosphere, where they will open their flowers well ; and after coloring they should again be exposed to heat by which means they will nearly always re open them. Very niee looking Immortel les are also produced by coloring only the centre of each flower scarlet which is done very rapidly witn borax, by means of a a ma il pencil or a thin wooden splinter, which is dipped Into the color and after wards applied to the centre. This is gene rally done by little children in those estab lishments in Germany and Fiance whieh surply the trade with everlasting flowers. Finally, I shall give a very cheap and very good recipe to color ornamental grass and moss a beautiful green : u a dark green is required, take two pints of boiling water, oae ounce of alum, and half an ounce of diasolv,d indigo carmine ; plunge the moss or grass into tbe mixture, shake off tbe liquid, and dry the grass or moss in an airy, shady place. In tbe winter. however, they should be dried by means of firehcat. If a Ihtbt green is required. add to the above mixture more or lest picne acid, according at a more or leas light shade is required. IMalnad fleore. First see that the floor is perfectly smooth, clean and dry. Spots of paint may be removed with a hot solution or washing soda; a piece of sandpaper or pumice stone will help to smooth out any rough places, and il tne floor is an old one. tbe cracks and crevices should be filled in with putty, otherwise they will gather dust and finally mar tbe beauty of tbe work. The paint to be used for coloring, comes ground in od and put up ia small cans. Boiled linseed oil, colored with burnt umber, thus prepared, makes a very good imitation of walnut. The staining mix ture can be bought ready mixed in cans, but will need to be thinned with turpentine; it is more economical to mix It yourself. An excellent effect may be obtained by mixing a can of Vandvke brown with one of burnt sienna; this color is to be thinned with turpentine and raw linseed oil, a quart of oil to a pint of turpentine with a little Japanese dryer. 1 be preparation. when complete, should flow freely, tne object being, not to paint the floor, but to stain it and for thiaveason the grain of tbe wood must show through, which it will not do if the mixture is used thick. Too much turpentine will make the stain rub off easily, too much oil will make it sticky and long in drying. When tbe bappy medium is arrived at and the work ready to be begun, see that the floor is thoroughly clean and dry, then provide yourself with a good sized paint brush. two clean, soft woolen rags of a dark color, and a pair of ol 1 gloves. Apply the paint with the brush and don t be sparing of it. then with one cloth rub it into the wood (always with the grain), until all the pores and cracks are well filled, after which rub with tbe other cloth till the stain ceases to come off. The longer and haider the rub bing tbe better, the object being te have the dry wood absorb all the oil possible. If the floor is not dsrk enough when dry spply another coat after which it may he finished with thin shellac Tarnish, mixed witb a little of the staining mixture. It will make a handsome finish to polish the boards with beeswax and turpentine. Shave half a pound of yellow beeswax and soak it twenty four hours in two quarts of turpentine. Apply this mixture witb a woolen cloth until the wood is glossy and smooth, repeating the application at often as necessary to obtain the desired eff'jCt. It is a good deal of work, to be sure, but very satisfactory in the end, at the floor is not readily soiled, and never needs sorub bing. A damp cloth will remove all dust, and an occasional application of the polish ing fluid will prevent the surface from growing dingy. Laburnum Mean Necklace. Graceful necklaces similar to those made in the West Indies can be formed from the laburnum. The seeds should be gath ered when qaite ripe, and getting black ; indeed, it is thought sometimes an im provement to leave them banging on tbe tree exposed to a frost Still this is not necessary, for they may be collected earli er in the year, and, if desired darker, it is easy to soak them in a little ink or Jud son's brown or black dye. Tbe latter process also helps to soften the seeds, and which is of advantage when threading them ; so, if no dye be used, they should De left in water for a few hours, and then be well dried on a toft cloth. The neck laces can be made in several patterns ; and a tine needle, with either black or brown silk, will be found best for stringing. There should be six or seven strands tor a necklace, each covered by the seeds for about two lochia, and then all the threads passed through a large bead. Gold or td- ver looks very pretty; also rainbow may be used with good effect Continue thus until long enough to fasten round the throat and in finishing add a clasp. An other way of arranging these seeds it to cut a few small medallions or strips of cork, ab jut an inch and a quarter long and half an inch wide, covering them witb black velvet Through these narrojr pieces, fcastead of the beads, let each strand be passed separately at a slight Interval. Every row should have a few extra seeds threaded, so that tbe top may measure one inch, and the others graduated until the tbe lowest would be two inches wide be tween the ban of velvet Thus the neck lace will take the form of a series of tiny festoons or scallops. Several strings of the seeds simply twisted In a coil or rope look neat, A pretty necklace niay be formed from several straight saws of seeds and small steel beads, threading about six seeds to every bead. The lowest row should have a fringe, and this can be made by covering the silk with seeds and beads for six inches, and then passing the needle through a bead five inches back. A con tinuation of this will form a good fringed strand, which should be deeper in the front than at the back. When a negligee, to knot loocely round the throat, is desired, it should be made twice as long at a neck lace, and be finished by tassels. These can be firmly attached by being made on the ends of silks used for the middle of the negligee, passing them all through a large bead, threading the seeds, and loop ing into a fringe. Or. the ends of silk can be run through a tiny black wonted ball, and the seeds laced over for the tassel head. Dun Simpson has drummed at sixty annual parades of the Ancient and Hon orable Artillery of Boston, and is 90 years old. A man's best wealth ought to be him-elf, Nana, the Ana oil Chief. Nana 11 not hereditarily a chief, but has probably more influence with the Mezcal leroa, a tribe of Apaches so called irom their fondness far mescal, the American aloe than any other man. He really tried to be good once, I believe, that is as good as an Apache can ever hope to be, but with all hia influence that of the bucks under him was stronger, and he had to obey their behests or lose his power. Like all hit nation Nana It abort of stature, wears a full, round face, eyes that dart fiendish light whenever be looks at you. a slight body, thin arm and well-developed calves, tbe latter peculiarity coming from tbe habits of running early inculcated among all those Indians. I first saw hint at Fort Grant a pott at the junction of the San Pedro and Arivipa rivers in Ari sons, in 1865, and I should judge him to have been thirty-two years old at that time. He and hit Alezcaller. s, witb a lot of Tontos Spanish for fools another tripe of the Apaches, came to the fort vA camped, saying they wanted to be helped and taught to farm. There must have been two hundred of them in all and my men due a ditch to irrigate land fnr them, out they only stayed a while. To aom. further question relative to the Apaches the major replied that in 1863 they were not on reservations and were armed for the most part with bows and arrows, which are not effective at a distance greater than thirty yards, but since then they have se cured the best kind of Winchesters or other magazine guns and seem to have no difficulty in procuring cartridges ad libit um. They are a puny race, filthy as the Diggers in habits and appearance and wear a shirt and belt and moccasins made of an telope or coyote hides snd are utterly des titute of finety of any description. They will eat, steal or kill anything posaijle, aad don't know tbe meaning of the word faith. The Afavajoea, tome of whom are said to have joined the Mezcalleros, are just the reverse of the Apaches to far as physique and appearance are concerned, and are tall, well formed, muscular and handsome. "I will tell you," went on the major, "one incident that came under my person al observation that shows the marvellous endurance and vigor of the Apache squaws. During on ol the absences of tbe band from Fort Grant 1 desired to induce them to return and go to work, and the only messenger I could get was a youn woman, a sister-in-law of Nana himself. She start ed for the mountain camp on horseback riding a la clothes-pin and returned in forty-eight hours, having been successful in her mission. The distance traveled was 160 miles, and during the trip she gave birth to a child, which she brought back alive. The Indians called the youngster L trace, because its mother bad acted as a peacemaker. One more incident, this one about poor Calhoun. He was lying in my tent one day when one of the big medicine men of tbe tnbe came in. '1 am going to play sick,' said he ; see what he will do. Accordingly be groaned as if m great pain, and the interpreter explained to the native physician that ne was verv sick. The aboriginal Esculapius advanc ed slowly to the bedside, made a lot of passes over Calhoun s person and then spat full in his face. The way that pseudo tick man kicked his doctor out of the tent would have made you laugh until sick yourself. " Cheap Tainting. "Where do the cheap pictures come from?" "Oh, they are painted by artists who, having a little skill, are able to make pictures that will satisfy ordinary peo ple. There are many persons who have such a small degree of artistic taste that a painting is to them "merely so many square feet of colored canvas. If the colors are laid on thickly and are bright hued, these patrons of so-called art are satisfied. The trade in cheap pictures ia much larger than a person who is not familiar with the subject would suppose. I know of a man who employs from fif teen to twenty young men and women in copying pictures. The work is done in the top loft of a building on Church street near the corner of Barclay street New York. The specimens that are turned out at this establishment are al most enough to make Michael Angelo rise from his grave to wreak vengeance upon the persons who are bringing dis credit npon an art that he did so much to exalt in his day." A reporter visited the picture manu factory. He ascended the creaking flights of stairs, and when he arrived at the top he was confronted with a notice, which was posted npon the door, and read : ' No admission to the studio without permission from the office." The visitor wondered where the office was located, as he saw no indication of such an institution about the premises. Finally he concluded to rap at the door. A man with a very bushy head of hair responded. "Will yon direct me to. the office of the studio ?" the reporter asked. "Well, we don't have an office now," was the reply. "We formerly had an office on the floor below, but business dropped off a little, and we wanted to save on the rent n(l so we gave it up, and moved the iron safe, books and desk np into the studio." 'Will you permit me to go in and look at your pictures ?" " Certainly ; walk in." The visitor entered and found himself in the midst of a busy scene. A dozen artiste, each of whom was young in years, were hard at work. They were making copies of paintings. One young woman had before her a rural scene, which she was industriously copying. 'Do yon make an exact copy of the original ?" she was asked. 'I usually do," she replied, "but sometimes I put a littlo criginality into my pictures. The proprietor of the studio, who stood near when the young woman made the above reply, said : " Oh, she is original in her work almost too much so for my interests. For instance, Bhe was copying a picture entitled ' The Old Homestead ' the other day. In the original there was a representation of a horse standing under a tree. When I cams around to see how the copying was progressing I found that she had painted her horse with a very chunky body and abort legs. I told her that I did not like the looks of that horse, and that the beat thing she could do was to rub it out and paint it over again. Well, I left her, supposing that she would obey my instructions. In a short time I re turned to make another examination of the work. You can judge of my sur prise when I tell you that a cow bad actually taken the place of the horse under the tree. Upon inquiring I ascertained that the lady artist had put horns upon the condemned horse, thus changing the animal into a fair repre sentation of the creature that furnishes ns with cream for onr coffee." "Where do yon obtain your models for copying ?" "From the artists in the Tenth street and Christian Association building stu dios. When they paint a picture for which they cannot find a ready sale, they rent it to ns, and we make from fifty to one hundred copies of it We can afford to throw these copies npon the market at a very low figure. Many of our pictures find their way into the auction rooms. " "How about prices ?" "Well, we do the best we can; but we have often been compelled to sell pic tures for $2 or S3 that cost ns twice as much to produce." " Does the chromo business interfere with the sale of cheap pictures ?" "Yes, to a certain extent ; but not as much as might be supposed. There are many who prefer a had painting to a good chromo, because they think the latter bears upon its faoe the imprint of cheapness. These persons are like people who are willing to pay a good price for second-class frescoing rather than have their walls covered with handsomely printed paper, which can be purchased almost for a song. I am glnd that this mistaken taste exists among the people for its existence en ables a lot of poor creatures to earn a precarious livelihood. I know of several widows who manage to maintain them selves and their families by copying paintings. There are others who turn an honest penny by coloring photo graphs. It is really surprising how the latter branch of the business has grown up within the last five or six years. Some of the artists who are engaged in the retouching of photographs produce cheap work of a fair quality. They have the 'knack' of fixing a sun picture of a plain-looking person so that it will look really handsome. There are artists ad vanced in years who, in their younger days, could do first-cluss work, but whose right hand has now lost its cun ning. Becoming reduced in circum stances, they are compelled to do "botch' work as a means of keeping soul and body together." How Veneering la Made. The logs are delivered in the mill yard in any suitable lengths as for ordinary lumber. A steam drag cuts them into such lengths as may be required by the order in hand; those being cut at the time of our visit were four feet long. Af ter cutting, the logs are placed in a large steam box,15 feet wide, 22 feet long, and 6 feet high, built separate from the main building. This box is divided into two comportments. When oue is filled entirely full, the doors are closed, and the steam, supplied by the engine in the main building, is turned on. The logs remain in this box from three to four hours, when they are ready for use, This stemming not only removes the bark, but moistens and softens the entire log. From the steam box the log goes to the veneer lathe. It is raised, grasped at each end by lathes centres, and firm ly held in position, beginning to slowly revolve. Every turn brings it in con tact with the knife, which is gauged to a required thickness. As the log revolves the inequalities of its surface of course first come in contact with the keen- edged knife, and disappear in the shape of waste veneer, which is passed to the engine room to be used as fuel. Soon, however, the unevennesa of the log dis appears, and the now perfect veneer comes from beneath the knife in a con tinuous sheet and is received and passed on to the cutting table. This continues until the log is reduced to about a seven iuch core, which is useless for the pur pose. The veneer as it comes rolling off the log presents all the diversity of colors and the beautiful grain and rich marking that have perhaps for centuries been growing to perfection In the silent depths of our great forests. From the lathe, the veneer is passed to the cutting table, where it is cut to lengths and widths as desired. It is then conveyed to the second story, where it is placed in largely dry rooms, air tight, except as the air reaches them through the proper channels. The veneer is here placed in crates, each piece separate and standing on edge. The hot air is then turned on. This comes from the sheet iron furnace attached to the boiler in the engine room below.and is conveyed through large pipes regula ted by dampers for putting on or taking off the heat There is also a blower attached which keeps the hot air in the dry rooms in constant motion, the air as it cools passing off through an escape pipe in the roof, while the freshly heated air takes its place from below. These rooms are also provided with a net-work of hot air pipes near the floor. The tem perature is kept at alxmt 1G5 dg. and so rapid is the drying process that in the short space of four hours the green log from the steam box is shaved, cnt, dried, packed and ready for shipment After leaving the dry rooms it is as sorted, counted and put in packages of one hundred each, and tied with cords like lath, when it is ready for shipment Birds-eye maple veneer is much more valuable and requires more care than al most any other, and this is packed in cases instead of tied in bundles. The drying process ia usually a slow one, and conducted in open sheds simply exposed to the air. - Good Dny." Half an hour before the i'acidc express left for the West yesterday morning a big giant of a chap, lugging a satchel in one hand and leading a big dog with the other, entered the depot followed by a clean-faced, ndy-looking man with a grab-bag and an umbrella. Both reached the ticket office at the same time, and while the giant inquired the price of a ticket to some point in Kansas the other laid down the cash for a trip to Jackson. "Thunder and blarea and wild cats !' shouted the giant as he learned the price of a ticket 'rby, I ham t got no such money?" "Can't help it regular rate," said the ticket seller. "And extra for the dog?" 'Yes. " "111 be hanged if I pay it !" "Very well," and down went the win dow. 'Say, mister !" called the giant as he beckoned to the man ticketed for Jackson "say, see here." "What can I do for yon ?" asked the other as he came up. "Say, I want to go to Kansas. "Yes." "And I haven't irot quite 'nnff monev. I'm bound to go, fur I've left home and sot out and I must raise some more money. Say, do you ever carry a re volver?" "Never." "WelL you orter ." he said as he pulled out an old navy and worked the cylinder around. "Tunes is mighty scrum pshus jist now, and every man orter protect his life. 1 11 give you this old barker for seven dollars. Ill warrant it to shoot blazes out of a hoes thief twenty six rods away." "My friend. I am a minister of the Gospel, and I never have use for such weapons. "Preacher, eh ? Sav, IU knock off a dollar on the price. Say six and take if "It would be useless to me." "Useless? Say, suppose you are going home from prayer-meeting and some rough tackles you ? Click ! click ! biff-bang I and where is your rough ? You may get into a dispute over at the church with one of the deacons. Ee thinks he has the dead wood on you as he peels his coat, but you keerlessly draw this out and wipe your nose on the barrel, and whar s your deacon ? "Oh, but I do not want it at any price. I should never sleep easy if it was in the bouse, even. "Then take this ere, said the man, as he drew out a buck-handled knife with a blade a foot long. "She don't burn any powder nor make any noise, but she's chuck-full of business." "My friend, a preacher does not want such weapons as that" "Thev don t eh ? posen you were over to the boss-race and a crook smashed your plug hat down your shoulders? S 'posen some feller comes along and spits on yer boots ? Say, 111 part with this 'ere home-defender for $5, though she cost me leven and I never stabbed but one man with er." "I couldn't couldn't think of it As I told you before I am a clergvman and have no use for weapons." "Say, take the dog ! A-pieacher can t be throde over the bar for keeping a dog, and if you're looking fur snnthin' about four times as wicked as ab'ar-trap here's the anamile. Say " "I do not want a dog. "Don't ? Great hooks ! but do you let tramps git outer your yard with two hull legs? Do you drive hogs outer your garden with switches? Say, I'll part with old 1 vpboon for Sis, and 1 11 swear on four Bibles that I've been offered $25 more'n a dozen times." "No no. I should not know what to do with him. I hope you'll get to Kan sas, bnt " "111 say $lo, though its a bnrnin shame." "No." "Ill say $12, if youll agree to keep still about it" "No ; that's my train and I must be going. X hope "Say, I'll sell ye a recipe to tame a b'ar. I've tried it, and if it don't tame him hiirher'n a kite in a week I'll chaw sand." " N'o no good day." Chemical Fnradoaes. We are accustomed to associate the idea of combustibility with paper. If it be wrapped tightly around a metallic rod it can be held in a gas-flame with out burning. The metal carries the heat away from it as fast as applied, be coming hot itself. After awhile it will reach a temperature, provided the flame is large enough, at which the paper will burn. The same phenomenon can be more strikingly exhibited by making a vessel of paper, filling it with water, and applying heat No matter how hot the flame over which it is placed may be, it will not burn. Tbe water will boil, and the heat be absorbed, or ren dered latent, in the production of steam. An egg can be boded in a paper sauce pan. A sieve may be made to hold water or to float If the inters ticee are very fine and the wire bright and dry. the water will not wet it, because a nun of air will adhere to the wirea. The lower surface of the water is divided by the meshes into a number of little spheroidal projections, in which the capillary force or internal gravitation and also cohesion come into play. These hold the water together so that some considerable power is required to force the water through the meshes. Thus we can put quite a qnanity of water in a fine sieve, or place one in water, and it will float If the wires are not perfect ly bright we mnv distribute over their surface some powder which water will not wet The dust of bituminous coal is excellent Carrying out this princi ple, needless, if bright, may be made to float without the least trouble, and will float for a long time. Water is to bo made to boil by cold. A flask half full of water is maintained at ebullition for some minutes. It ia removed from the source of heat,corked. inverted and placed in one of the rings of a retort stand. If cold water is poured on the upturned bottom of the flask the fluid will start into a violet ebullition. The npper portion of the flask is filled with steam which maintains a certain pressure on the water. By cooling the upper portion of the flask some of this is condensed, and the pressure reduced. The temperature at which water boils vanes with pressure. When it is re duced, water boils at a lower heat By pouring the cold water over the flask we condense the steam so that the water is hot enough to boil at the reduced pres sure. To assert that water boils by the application of cold is chemical sophism. NEWS IN BKIEF. Disraeli's home, Hughendon, Man or, is to be let for a term of years. Ex-President Diaz of Mexico has become governor of the state of Oaxaca. Germany intends to spend $3,000,000 on the fortifications of Dantzie this falL The carpet mills of Pailudelphia turned out 34,037,000 yards of carpet last year. A bedstead factory at London, Tenn., turned out 75,000 bedsteads last year and 125,000 this year. There arrived in this country dur ing July, 56,670 immigrants, against 38,900 in July, 1880. The thirty-eisrht States of the Union contain 2,299 counties. Texas leads off, having 151 counties. The Minnesota wheat crop this year is in excess of that of 1880 more than 10,000,000 bushels. Americans are said to have spent over $8,000,000 iu France last year for works of art, engravings and books. A new monument has been erected over the grave of William M. Tweed, urennwood Cemetery, in Brooklyn. During the last two years Senator Plumb, of Kansas, is said to have clear ed $3,000,000 in mining operations. The Lebanon Shakers nnmler 350 two-thirds of whom are women and girU and their property is valued at $1,500, 000. A monument to the Enneror Max imilian is to be erected at Queretaro, Mexico, by decree of the State Govern ment There are 324 Baptist churches with about 20,000 members in Florida, connected with w hich are 600 Sabbath- schools. Ex-Governor Washburn has a mill at St- Paul that grinds 3,000 barrels of fleur a day. The Pillsbury mill grinds 5,000 barrels. The oldest son of the King of Greece. George, Duke of Sparta, a boy alout twelve years of age, gives evidence of extraordinary literary abilities. The free library of San Francisco, started two years ago, now contains ver 30,500 volumes, and its readers in July averaged nearly 1.100 a dav. A willow tree in Bristol, N. H., measures 22 feet 8 inches in circnni frence one foot from the ground and is 13 feet 3 inches nine feet from the ground Herr Krupp, the great Gerni&n gnu- maker, is so much pressed with orders that he has engaged 8.0(H) more work men, muking the total force of workmen 13,000. In all mines in Great Britain there are, it is estimated, 378,151 persons em ployed, ami the length of underground tunnelling in which they work is 58,- 744 miles. Lady Borthwick apivored at a re cent London dance attired as a Dresden china figure. The costume was a ier fect imitation both as regards design and coloring. Scotland derives a million and a half of dollars per annum as rental for sporting grounds. The Duke of West minster pays ten thousand dollars fo one tract The nnmlier of new houses bnill in London during 1879 was 21,589, and 401 new streets were opened. Street acci dents resulted in death to 124 persons, and in lesser injuries to 2,950. Railroad travellintr is not verv iipn- gerous after alL Out of one hundred and thirty-nine millions of passengers on French railroads last year onlv twen ty were killed by accident There are 45.000 persons eDiru-.s! in the manufacture of pottery in Eng land and Wales, The death rate among the males is 38 per cent higher than among the male element at large. Over 800 students of various Ger man universities held recentlv a cram! anti-Semitic meeting in the Thnringia Wald. Congratulatory telegrams were sent to Pnnce Bismarck and the Empe ror. The Prince of Wales has ioined the Royal Portsmouth Corinthian Yacht Club, of which Plince Edward, of Saxe Weimer is the Commodore, and has in timated his desire to tuke part in one of their races. There were 10.654 births in Boston in 1880, there being an excess of 210 males. The marriages in the some time numbered 3,973 and the deaths 8.612, no less than 2,004 of the latter being under one year of age. Excavations on the site of a new fort near Antwerp have brought to light a number of curious bones of extinct and living animals. Teeth of the mammoth and an almost complete rhinoceros skel eton are among the number. Drinkers of India tea will )e triad to learn that the area of its cultivation is rapidly extending. About 200,001) acres are now devoted to the plant, and this year's crop, it is believed, wUl not fall short of 58,000,000 pounds. The existing cedars of Lebanon are only 900 years olL The cypress tree. at Montezuma. Mexico, according to a t rench botanist are 6,000 sears old and consequently he makes them out, coeval with the creation of the world. M. Clerget, a painter, who died lost year in Paris, bequeathed $860,000 and a country house to the "Hospice de Severs" to provide a retreat for poor and infirm French painters, draughts men, sculptors, engravers, and archi tects. The statue at Folkestone to the me mory of Harvey, the discoverer of the circulation of the blood, has been un veiled in the presence of a large and dis tinguished company, many of whom were delegates to the Medical Congress in London. An incorporated company for sheep breeding has been formed in South Mis souri, 1M miles from St Louis. They propose to locate 30,000 acres of land on the side of the Ozark Mountains and to start with 4,000 sheep, fenced in at a leas cost than herdsmen can be em ployed. There are 600 building associations in Philadelphia, and 1,800 elsewhere in Pennsylvania, with an aggregate capital of $150,000,000. The State imposed a tax of four mills on each $100, and col lection was resisted, Dnt the Supreme Court has sustained the tax, which amounts to about $500,000 a year. The Main Centennial Exhibition building of 1876 was sold at the Phila delphia Exchange, August 9, for $97, 000. The building originally coet$l, 600,000. In its construction 75,000,000 feet of lumber and 8,500,00 pounds o iron were consumed. The structure was 1,830 feet long and 464 feet wide.
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