Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1892 — Sources of Beautiful Colors. [ARTICLE]

Sources of Beautiful Colors.

The cochineal insects furnish a great many fine Colors. Among them are the gorgeous carmine, the crimson, scsvlet carmine and pur le lakes. The cuttle fish gives the sepia. It is the inky fluid which the fish discharges in order to render the water opaque when attacked. Indiana yellow comes from the camel. Ivory chips produce the ivory black and& bone black. • The exquisite Prussian. bLue is made by fusing horses’ hoofs and. other refuse animal matter with potassium carbonate. This color wasdiscovered accidently. Various lakes? are derived from roots, barks and gums. Blue-black comes from fee charcoal of the vine stalk. Lampblack is soot from, cerain resinous substances. Turkey red. is made from the madder plant, which grows in Hindostan. The yellow sap of a tree of Siam produces gamboge;, thenatives catch the sap in cocoanut shells. Raw sienna is the natural earth from theneighborhood of Sienna, Italy. Raw umber is also an earth found near Umbria* and burned. India ink is made from burned camphor; the Chinese are the only manufacturers of this ink. Masticis made from the gum of the mastictree, which grows in the Grecian Archipelago. Bistre is the soot of wood ashes, Chinese white is zinc, scarlet is. iodide of mercury, and native Vermillion, is from a quicksilver ore ealWl cinnabar.—£New York Herald.