Indianapolis Sentinel, Volume 34, Number 11, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 January 1885 — Page 11

THE INDIANAPOLIS JA1LY SEN TUTEL, SUNDAY MORNING JANUARY 11, 1885

FAITH. With coniUnt fuh surpAMlnx dooU I Uod snd watch th tiJ- go out Th 'till tvrne trk I y to you 1 do not know, anl jet 1 do. Al-TetttM I the dy Put otf ht on ruri trJ go wir. Will rtionrnjr. crm th mist to woo! I d Dot knoj arvl yrt I do. X e the Mr thst luturn brin;r. Will verdu come with wakiDj? spring? Mt fith ton can nwr tru 1 do not know, o i v-t I do. - Wo our loTi on droop on J di. Hath H eaten brihtr hO on high 1 deth the tit that d thereto? 1 do not know; and jet I do. A Tallied Confidential Clerk. At'inU Coitin:tioa J I heard of a clerk once in a dry goods store who was smart and quick and a gplendid manager, and all that, but he ftupplty'iini.biggoty, and put on consequents! wire until he was very disagreeable, tnd he took occasion to say to his associates that the concern couldn't jossibly get along without him. So th old gentleman' who was the senior .partner, called him in th office one day, and says he;."Mr.. Jenkins, you have been ery eGcient, and we appreciate your tarticcbnt ,1 hear that you have repeatedly asserted that if you were to die the concern, could n't possibly survive it, and this has worried me no little, for you, like Jl aen, are liable to die very unexpectedly, and so we have concluded to experiment while - we are in health, andere if the concern will survive. So on will ; please consider yourself

dead for a year, and we will try it." ' It1 XXII V AIL It is a common failing of mankind to rebel at the sphere which fate or Providence has assigned and yearn for another lot. The . carpenter think if he were ecly a mason he would t lead a happier life; the lawyer wishes he had studied medicine; the comedian feels that tragedy ia his tree forte; and the tiller of the soil in his though tlessnesa wishes he were an editor, exercising the capacity he know? he has to v mold the sentiment of the world, and furnish all the news for a jiven number of pennies. This inot a. new discovery. Horace cade it' some centuries ago and it has been . incidentally referred to by aome thousands of writers since his time. But there is a cognate principle notso generally understood. While it is true that many men regard themselves as eminently fitted JÖT something better than they are doing and are mistaken in such re-gard-rthere are .others who think them-aelveft-at-j their best in the vocation to which they have been called, hut who really are capable of something infinitely better and more meful. The "mute, icjloriom Miltous" who really are Miltons are not. numerous; but there are come of them. ' " Ttie Prlee of Dlvoree. Philadelphia Tress.) "We will suppose that the hu-band i bringing the suit. His lawyer immediately strike him for a $50 bill. This i before anything ia doue. No money, no divorce. T Theu . as , soon as the papers have bevn served on the wife her lawyer applies to court for h rule compelling the busband to pay him $50, too. The court accedes to this as a matter of course, and the rule is always made absolute. By this time the proceedings have cot' the libelant $100. Formerly the legal fee on each side was $35, and he could have got thus far for $70; but thank Heaven, under the new rules the price has bean 1 raised. Then the court appoints a, master or examiner to take testimony., He hears all the witnesses and gets at the facts. His fee i $25 for the first xnettisg and $10 a meeting after that, v Two or three meetings usually suffice, o - I forgot to aay that before this the Sheriff had had his dig at the litigant." in the shape of $3 fee for serving the papers a the respondent. Iben, when the de cree ia made, the libelant pays $10 for it And the whole thing is made a matter it record by the Prothonotary, who, for that little service, gets $5. This makes $140, provided that the master has but one hearing. , Two would usually be necessary and . this makes the grand total of $153.1 . "How about contested divorces, you suk? Ah," said the lawyer, rubbing his hands with glee and putting on his best smile, "now you strike a rich vein. Ln fortunately, for. us, the majority of di vorceaare not contested, as both sides are only too wiling to get clear of each other. But a good cou tested case that involves a jury , trial ot several days, and perhaps a week or two, will run the husband, perhaps, into, a few thousand dollars.',,, .j 1 UOtt HUN COTTON IM XAUE. ' fNew York Times. J It is ndi generally known that there i bat oue place in the United States where gun cotton is manufactured, but such i the case. This ii at the torpedo station in Newport Harbor. In the manufacture of gun cotton the beat cotton waste and the strongest and purest nitric and sulphuric acids are ued for the, explosive. The cotton ivate, after it has been hand picked for the purpose of removing the dirt and grit, U placed iu boiling tank, where it is allowed to re main for four' hours. It i afterwardsubjected to. a thorough warhing and i reboiled. o This operation removes all oily natter and leaves the cotten harsh and stiff. It-is then dried in the rooms heated with the waste air from a drying box. ' After undergoing this treatment the cotton rolls up into snarls and bunchrs and in order that the acid may have a freer access to it i passed through a c!irtdderand concerted into adutfy stale. It is afUrward exposed in an air tight box forravjtal hours to a temperature of 200 drrtsa, .which practically deprives it of all cottars From the air-tight box it is removed lo the dipping room, where there are iron troughs filled with oue part nitrio acid and two parts of sulphuric acid. l$lo ihese troughs the cotton is plicsdc" bandleat a time, and allowed .to ren-3 cbsut ten minutes, long enough f CT it to t5 tbaroughly soaked. The acid ia hand-rrcs?ed from the cotton, which is thea pJ?;di In ; covered earthen jars, trhtra it.rcsatns twenty-four hours crds-clrj chemical transformation. Ia fnwf tjtr'sct that n.ucli heat is crclvci 'dcrS-iLe 'rvaciin, it is found czzzzz f!:ra thj jars in pets and Crrz w)i ';uXb3 rater, which

nerves to keep them col. The cotton ll now nitrated and is. practically gun-cot-, ton, but the acid, still mechanically held, rnufrt be wholly removed or it would be apt to quickly deteriorate and become extremely lanjrrjni. The charges, therefore, are taken one by one and placed in an acid wringer and pluneed into a large tub which is kept filled with running water, in which a large wheel is rapidly turned in order to subject the cotton to a thorough washing. This latter process is continued till no acid is perceptible to the taste. It is then ubjpcted to astill further washing and boiling in an alkalire mixture, thi being necessary to remove every trace of acid. The cotton is now in long hrf ds and balls, which can bended or stored without danger, the proce?es of conversion and clerfnsing being completed, but for .military ue it rouu be put into a more compact form. For this purpose the gun-cotton in charges of 30Ö pouuds . is thrown into a pulping tub, where, mixed with water, it is ground by steel cutters into a tine pulp. The grinding and breaking up of the cellular tissue of the cotton has made it luore or less dirty, and it is neceary, therefore, to expfe it to frequent wahincs in the pe aching tubs, from which, after treating it with lime water to make the nioi.-ture slightly alkaline, it is drawn up into a large iron tank, where it is fed to the molds, which under a moderate pressure, press hp water from the pulp and trim out cylinders of cotton about eight inches high and three and a half inches in diameter. Thej-e cvlinders are

then placed under a hydraulic press and exposed to a pressure of abmit -1,700 tiounds to the qua re inch or about eight tons on each. . The cylinders are preyed into hard dakes or dicks, tome two inches high and three anil a half n chfs in diameter, with a sjiecific gravity a little greater than water. They are then packed in boxes of fifty pounds each and kept in magazines for general use. Gun-cotton is, from its great explosive iower and the conditions of safetv attached to its storage, superior to any other known ex plosive for naval warfare. An Analyst of narrlaxe. John Iluakiu, in Nineteenth Century, says: mere is anotuer ainerence iu me woof of a Waverly novel from the cob-, web of a modern one which depends on Scott's larger view of life. . . , . ; Marriage is by no means, in his conception of men and women, the most important busings of their existence; nor iove the only reward to be proposed to their virtue or exertion. It is not in his reading of the laws of Providence a necessity that virtue should, either by love or any other external blessing, be rewarded at all; and marriage is iu all cases thought of as a constituent of the happiness of life; but not as its only interest, still less its only aim. And upon aualyzing with some care the motive of its principal stories, we shall often find that the love in them is merely a light by which the sterner features of character are to be irradiated, and that the marriage of the hero is as subordinate to the main bent of the story as Henry V's courtship of Katherine is to the battle of Agincourt. Najr, the fortunes of the person who is nominally the subject of the tale, are of ten little more than a back-ground on which grander figures are to be drawn, and deeper fates foreshadowed. The judgments between the faith and chivairy of Scotland at Drumclog and Bothwell bridge owe little to their interest, in the mind of a sensible reader, to the fact that the captain of the Popin jay is carried prisoner to one battle, and returns a prisoner from the other; and Scott himself, while he watches the white sail that bears Queen Mary for the last time from her native land, very nearly forgets to finish his novel, or tell us and with small sense of any consolation to be had out of that minor.circumstance that "Roland and Catherine were united in spite of their differing faiths." Neither let it be thought for an instant that the slight and sometimes scornful glance with which. Scott passes over scenes which a novelist of our own day would have analyzed with the airs of a philosopher and painted with the curiosity oi a gossip, inaicaie any aosence in his heart of sympathy with the great and sacred elements of personal happiness. An era like ours, which has with diligence and ostentation swept his heart clear of all the passions once known as loyalty, patriotism and piety, necessarily magnifies the apparent force of the one remaining sentiment which sighs through the barren chamber or clings inextrica bly round the chasms of ruin; nor can it but regard with awe the unconquerable spirit which still tempts or betraya the sagacities or selfishness into error or frenzy which is believed to be love, Tbe Way Nome Do Dnslnesn. Oue of the Rothschilds was once upon a time playing cards, when one of the plavers, a noted miser, let .fall a . small piece of money, and insisted upon stop ping the game while he took the candle and looked for it. Whereupon the great banker, taking a bank note from his; pocket, lit it, and handing it to the mi- . mm m serly player, Dade mm nunt ior nis money with. that. A Connecticut shoe maker, the other day, carlessly laid down a $5 bill that one of his customers had handed him on his bench bv his side. Gettinc readv to light the gas, he picked up a pice of paper, twisted it into a taper, used it and threw away the unournea remnant. When his daughter called his attention tn th fact that his tsner was his $5 bill. the resemblance to a Rothchild did not make him feel like one; but he hastened tn forward the charred remainder for redemntion to the United States Treasury. with a sworn affidavit to the circum-. stances, ine swearing came very easy, to him. A Ltw SJtory. Merchant Traveler J The next one is on Mr. Johnson. He was arguing a case beb re Judge fctorer, and there arose tosr.e interruptions and the talking became general. "There's to much talking in the court room." faid the court warningjy and niiK irritation. "I haven't leen fying snv thing, Your Honor, replied KJgar, taxing ue cen sure to himself. 'T heir vonr nardon. Mr. Johnson re the JuoVe nolitelv. hit I have been aware of that Uct for the lust hour or more. Tha ar-ucMat elczzi shortly after.'

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D?3n? hi flock h splcsrrtth jnorAnd f r It wr; At home wrth miTT ftt ierj door. Hp rslmlj Ift. TJi eongreaation ti)C'U2t.t: "How good a mm!" Anl h.'r-d t r : II rs chsritT it went n fanner than TY.f p-o!- s rsrs. A V oiiiMit MiiimII llonse. lEIls Rodmn Chürch The small houses that men build are not tasteful; they always build a row of. them which look as if they had been cast In a mould, and are utterly lacking in the way of . finish. A woman's small house would be sure to have a fine en trance, to which a diminutive houe has quite as good a right as a large one; it would also be convenient, and pla.pnt, throughout its length and breadtK; dainty, unexpected touches that would make it a sort of poem in brick ani mortar. Penty of people are craving just such a house a, this; and, therefore, victorv seems perched in , advance on the ban ners of the woman who shall dare and do it. A CJocd tning-. Exchanee On one occasion Mr. Ch.isles Dickens was upholding the theory that whatever . j j;n?. .Iii.. .1 :.. trials ana uiuicuiiie unguiMunu m u man's path there i always something to be thankful for. "Let me. in proof there, of," said Dickens, "relate a story: Two men were to be hunc at Newgate for murder. The morning arrived; the hour approached; the bell of Ft. Sepulchre's began to toll; the convict- were placed; tbe proeffsion was formed; it :dTanced to the fatal beam; tbe ropfj. were djuted around the poor men's recks; there were thousandsof motley nphtseet? of both sexes of 11 ages, men, vomen and children, in front of the t.uYM; when, jut at that second of titne, a bull which was heii.g driven to h'mithfield broke his ron, and charged the mob right and 'left. scHtttrir.g te people everywhere with his horns W hereupon one of the condemned men turned to his equally unfortunate cmpunion. and quietlv observed: 'I say J u-.k, it's a good thing we ain't in that crowd.'" Our sieiiii-ArquuintHiiee. II utoti Courier. These are our acquaintances whose names we do not know; the many persns with whom we are more or less concerned, day after day, week after week, or even ,year after year, yet in whose places in the great circle of humanity we have not sufficient interest, even for a moment to have considered by what names they are known. Let any man reflect a little and he will become conscious that a goodly porportiou of all those with whom he is upon nodding or speaking terms belongs to this category or but just escape it. We have all ot us our strong likes ana dislikes in regard to countenances which are familiar, yet really are those of absolute stranger. We ride day after day in the cars with a man whom we would gladlv order to execution eimply from the ot)jeetionability of bis personal apearaiice; or we pas on the street every afternoon a woman whoe physiognomy entitles her, in our opinion, to canonization. In either cne the sentiment in regard to the face i so definite and genuine as to exercise an influence upon our character and temperament, yet we in reality. know nothing whatever concerning these 'people who thus change our lives. A third class of semi-acquaintance are the many people v horn we know, more or less well, through report; of whom we have heard anecdol- nd facts of different sorts, and forwh.m we have built up a character from a single characteristic, as a comparative anatomist constructs a skeleton fron ;i single bone. Iliis host of beings is pit-ay largely imaginary, yet in each there is something ot truth and reality which binds I. im to earth and cla.es him with mortal?. The human' farr.il v is large, but each of us is exposed to influence from all the other members of it. NIIOKT i AtHM Willi THE HOYS. Fifteen or twenty of you boys get on your old clothes, and come with me iuto the paint factory, and we will learn some secrets worth knowing. ' To begin with, what is white lead, which is the basi of nearly all paints? "Don't know." It would be odd if you did. Now and then you may find some one to tell you that the same lead you mold into bullets is the white lead you see in the paintpots, but you will a.-k a great many people before you find one to explain the process of manufacture. Let us follow it out. Iron is melted into what is called "pigs" for shipment, and for convenient ue. It is the same with lead, only the ''pigs" are not as large and heavy. The first step in the manufacture is to corrode the lead. We will take what is called the "old Dutch process," because that makes the best article. The "pig"" are tossed iuto a melting furn tce, and when reduced to a liquid state the metal is drawn off into molds which are called "buckle molds." The lead thus molded U called a "buckle," being a little round cake nearly- as large as a saucer but not so thick, and perforated in many places. These "buckles" are carried by an endless belt and dropped into earthen jars of various sizes. At the bottom of each jar is a small quantity of acetic acid. When a jar is full of "buckles," which have been dropped in without rpgard to order, it is removed to the corroding house. Here tbe jsrs are placed in a row, covered by boards, the boards covered by two inches of tanbark, and then another course of jars is added until all the room is taken up. There is nothing more to do for ninety days except to wait. The acid at once begius its work on the "buckles," and corro-ion is the result. It isn't the acid direct, but'in fumes, and the: perforations of which I spoke permit the fumes to get at all part of tbe little cake. At the end of . ninety days the lead should be corroded. The "buckles" are then bleached out until they look like cracker, and will crumble to pieces at fbe touch, - Tb? sme acjd which has befriended us id ths corroion cue our worst enemy, and must be got rid of. Haven't ' you rubbed your hand along 1 the clapboards of a bout and found if

smeared with a white powder-?. -Well,

that h'-u-e was painted with lead from which the acetic acid was not thoroughly ir:ih?d out, and the paint killed sod powdered ii p. The jar are taten to the washing trough and their content emptied in, and the water is then let in and the batch i sluiced until we have a mixture the color of milk and scarcely heavier. After a deal of washing the water is drawn off and the lead is found at the bottom of the troughs. If the acid has been taken out it is shoveled into jars again, and tries are carried into a hot-air room and left for the water to evaporate. When thii has been accomplished the contents of the jars are emptied on copper drvingpans heated by stesm. The stuff now looks like ia cream, but soon dries until it is as fir.e and almost as white as flour. To make paint it simply has to be ground in oil. Let me a9k you if that wasn't a curious di?covery? Who could have got the idea into his head as lie looked at a bar of lead that it would preserve and beautify the building of the world? And the process requires so much time that men must have spent years in experimenting to get the right acid and the proper method of using. Now to prove to you that this white paint was once metal, we'll take this piece of charcoal, dig out a email hole in the center, and fill the cavity with paint. Now light your coal and put the blowpipe at work, and what is the result? A ragged button of lead! Acid made it paint fire furns it back to its original state. Tbe corroder ships to the paint factories by the barrel. At thefacories the dry stuff is poured into a paint mill, oil added, and the stuff is ground through three different mills belore it comes out as you see it in the paiut can. If the prdnt man i making pure lead he adds nothing. If he so desires the lead is adulterated while grinding. There is a species of quartz rock called barytes. When this is pulverized ii closely resembles lead, aud is largely Used to adulter ate it. Did you ever call a boy a "puttyhead?" Well, you did it without knowing anything about putty. Here is where it is made. So many pounds of whiting are placed in this great iron basin, so much oil added, ami then the machinery is set in moiion. Iron knives kept mixing the stuff up and turning it over and over, and a grind -stone, weighing 4,000 pounds and faced with iron, rolls around the basin twenty times a minute. This stone is called a "chaser," and it mashes the putty down as fast .as the knives can fling it over. Pure putty is made almost entirely of whiting and linseed oil, although a mall quantity of cotton-seed oil is ued iu every grade to prevent it from drying too eoon. The next grade contain about half marbledust, and the poorest grade, which is good enough for all outdoor' work, is five sevenths marble-dust to two of whiting. "But what is whiting?" Ask your father that question and see if he can come uithin forty reds of a correct answer. I've many a time been told that it was clay. It is chalk thevery same chalk vou use on the blackboard, only ground to a fine jowder. Now, about other paints. Red lead is the white lead burned on the copper pans I spoke of until it is red. Yellow ochre i a mineral, black is made from lamp black, which is simply soot, and there are heveral kinds of paint which are simply a ininfral clay purified and burned. Much of the colored paints as blue, green, pink, etc. have white lead for a basis. Inmates of Our Almshouses. Octave rtiäiitt, .i Ailanuc The popular impression about the pauper class is a queer mixture of indiffer. ence and sentimental pity. While not one in a thousand has ever taken the pain3 to sxje the inside of au almshouse, there is yet a prevalent idea that almshouses, for the most part, shelter the un happy and guiltless poor, whom unmercilui disaster has followed fat and followed faster uutil it has chased them to this last refuge, jeople who have come, fn-ni vine-covered cottages, or tidy rooms up one flight of stairs in tenement hou.-es, wi'.h a big Bible on the table and a pot, of flowers in the window, or even from luxurious homes desolated by commerce i panics. a As a matter of fact, the great majority of American indoor paupers belong tu what are called the lowest classes, and set k the almshouse not because of unmerciful disaster, but because of very common vices. Between half and two thirds of thein are of foreign birth. Any one who has visited many almshouses or talked with the men who know most of paucrs will recognize the same old story. "Paupers," said a plain-spoken almshouse keeper to a convention of Pennsylvania directors of the poor, "p:nipers, though not criminals, are, so far as my knowledge extends, largely from ih?. lower clashes of society ; most of them being ignorant, and many of them posse-sod of all the low and mean instinct of human nature, with scarcely a redeem inequality." The writer once asked the steward oi a large city almshouse if he had many persons come to him who had formerly been prosperous, and had, through diseae or some other cause not their own fa'ilt, been reduced to seek public help. He said, "Never;" then added, "Well, yes there wa one man: he had seven horses, and he was taken sick, and sold one horse after another. And there was another man who was S3id to have had considerable property, but he drank." I asked him if he had many applicants .who had been decent, industrious, labor-, ing people and had come there from any other cause than disease or old age. lie answered emphatically, "ot one' This man srko trom an experience of nineteen veanj. Probably it is a liberal estimato to put down one tenth of the paupers as people deserving of sympathy; the other nine tenths arc in the almshouse, because they have not wit enough cr energy enough to get into prison. Such people do not nave a hard life in the almshouses. The squalor does not disturb men and women who have known nothing eli the immorality Ija temptation; and even in the worst Kept houe there is usually plenty to eal tnd little to do. A deaf family in New Hampshire has ben traced to the fourteenth century in England, and in all that time ha regUi l.rlv shown a ueceiori of deaf mutes, Iu Maiue iheie ia family in which there are ninety-five deaf mute, all of then connected "by blood or marriage.

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(Babyhood Msrsnn. A woman of fortune recently had all her child's slipt, skirts and tiny shirts made of Chinese whing-ilk and jionir'e fabrics, but not an article of the outfit was in any way trimmed. The fabrics used were all of the est. but no fripperies were allowed, with the exception, however, of , the christening robe of ursh, the barrie coat, and the long cloak of white cashmere, ail of which were handsomely embroidered. . - lirtorts A Cat and an Irishman are always ready. If puss falls from auy height, she lands on her feet, and Pat never sees a word coming that he does not 'counter" it with a . better One. " What are you building there?'' asked a stranger iu London of an Irihman making mortar in fron of Cardinal Manning's Pro Cathedral. ' 4IA church, ver honor." "Oh! a church? Of what denomination?" ''Of no denorainatin at all yer honor; it's the holy Roman Catholic church." "I'm very sorry to hear it." "Yes, sor, that's what the devil says," answered Pat, as he resumed his work. "I'll hot give you anything, but I'll lend you a shilling," iu gentleman to an Irishman who had just driven him to the station., "Ah thin, may yer honor live till I pay ye," was the quick answer. A beggar woman, with a mas of r?d bair, was soliciting alms from a stagecoach full of passengers. Some rude persons called out then, "Foxy head, foxy head!" "May you never see the dyer," she retorted. ' Go to the devil!" shouted an irate passenger, as another woman persistently asked for a penny. "Ah, -thin it is a long journey yer honor is sending us; may be yer going to give us something to pay our expenfes on tbe road." , The Rellfrlonft Dditor' Sipree. (Brooklyn Eagle. 14 You're looking pretty fresh this morning," observed the managing editor, as the religiotw editor strolled . into the sanctum and put his foot up on the desk to tie his shoe. "Don't feel very good!" growled the religious editor. "I got off with some of the boys last night and we had a racket; now you hear me shout." "Who was the party?" inquired the managing editor, enviously. "A lot of clergymen were showing a stranger around' replied the religious editor, stretching out full length. "We went from one church to another to see how the prayer meetings were getting on, and then we called on several old fellows who were too superannuated to ' get around with us. They all set 'em up " ' Set up what?" demanded the managing editor, rather startled. "Lemonade aud biscuits and doughnuts," continued the religious editor. "By that time it was 9 o'clock, and all hands were getting excited, and somebody said he knew a man who had cider in his cellar. After we had downed a quart or two of that we began to get reck-, less. So we went to the bouse of one of tbe brethren and sAngj hymns till half past 10. I got a notion how things were coming out and wanted r to jump the game, but they wouldn't have it, and the most hilarious man in the crowd said if we would come around to his house he would cut a pie." 'That made 'em all fairly wild, and away we went. After the pie we had some" more hymns, and, finally, to wind up the whfde business, I sent out and bought a watermelon! That busted the racket." - They tot to throwing seeds at each other, and they laughed so loud that you cöiild almost hear them in the next room." . "Anything eN-?" inquired the managing editor, dryly. "No," resfmied the religious editor. "When we bad finished the melon we all went home, but you xt some of those dominie haye got a head on 'em this morning." ORIUIN Of Tit. i.O.M)U TIKES. The starting of mi jivut newspaper, one hundred years ago, was a mere accident in the devrl pir.ent of another business. - Almost everv o:ij wh has stood in a printing office watching compoaitor set type mut h ive sunetime asked hiinseif, why not have the whole words cast together, instead of obliging the printer to pick tip each h-tter scparatelyl öueh words as aud, the, but, it, is, and even larger words like although, and notwithstanding, occur very often in all compositions. How esy it would be, inexperienced pers .n- think, t take up a lon word such as extraordinary, aud place it in position at one stoke. In the year 1785 tht-re was a printer In London named John Walter, well established in buiues, who was fully rt solved on giving this system atrial. At great exjiense and tnmblo le had all tbe com taonest word and phrases ca-t together. He would give hi ly(e-founder an order like this; "Send me a hundred weight, made up in separate jounds,cf bent, cold, vet. dry, murder, fire, dreadful robbery, atrocious outrage, fearful calamity, and alarming explosion." This system he called logographic printing biographic being a coinbiuatioti of two Greek words signifying word writing. In order to give publicity to the new system, on which he held'a patent, a-- weil as to afford it a fuller trial, he started a newspaper, which he called the Daily Universal Register. . The newspaper had some lite succes from the begiunjng; but the logographic printing intern would not work. ' Not only did the compositors place oKstachs in the way, but the system itself prea cied difficulties which neither Johu Waltor nur any stibscquf ut experimenter has been able to surmount. , .The whole English language," said Mr. Walter, iu one of his numerous ad-, dresses b the public, "lay before me in a confuted arraugement. It consists of about 90,000 wards.' Thu multitudinous tuaii I reduced to ahou? 5,000, by aeparating the paj-cel, and removing "the obsolete words, technical terms, and common terminations."., After "years of labor, this most resolute and tenacious of men was obliged to give it up,4 U wj.Si too expensive, too cqmbersi'uit too iHUa!t it required a vast aniuupti? pace;; andia nhort it was a syiteia which could not, and cannot be worked to profit. But though the logographld printing was a failure, . ths

Uaily Uiiiters.d Jlegisier proved more and mote ?ucceeful. It was a dingy little sheet, about twice mm large as a sheet of foolscap, without "leader," and containing a small number of well-selected paragraphs of news. It bad also occasionally a short notice of the plays of the night before, and a few items of what wenow?'call, "fashionable intelligence." Tbe advertisements, after the psper had been in existence three years, averaged about fifty a day, most of them very short.' Its price was threepence. The paper upou v. Inch it was printed was coarse and cheap. In the third year of

its existence, on the first of Janoarv, 178?, the name was changed to t lie iimes. From this period the newspaper appeal to have gone forward, without nnr interruption, to the present day. In du time John Walter withdrew ' "from the mariMvrentelit, and CHVe li ip to bis i 'dr-t on, John Walter the second, who sm io have possessed his father's resolution and energy, with more knowledge of the ivorld and a better education. It w.n Iv v. h took the first ' ileciiv"- step toward placing the . limes at the head of journalism. Until the year 1814. all the printirg In the world was done br hand. :md the Time could only be struck off at the rate f four hundred and fifty copies an hour. Hence, the circulation of the papr, when it had reached three or four thousand copies a day, had attained the utmost development then supposed to be possi ble; and when such news came as that of the battle of Austerlitz, Trafalgar or Waterloo, the edition was exhausted lung before the demand :n supplied. There was a compositor in the othee of the Times, named Thomas Martyn, who, as eariy as leOl. conceived tbe idea of applying Watt's improved tteam engine to a printing press. H showed his model to John Walter, who furnished him ith money and room in which to continue his experiments, and perfecthis machine; büt the pressmen pursued tbe inventor with such blind hate, that the man was in terror of his life from day to day, and the scheme was given up. Ten years later another ingenious inventor, named Konig. procured a patent for a steam press, and Mr. Walter determined to give his invention a trial at all hazards. The press was secretly set up in another building, and a few. men, pledged to secrecy, were hired and put in training to work it. On the night of the trial the pressmen in the Times building were told that the paper would not go to press until very late, as important news was expected from tbe Continent. At six in the morning John Walter went into the pressroom and announced to the men that the whole edition of the Times had been printed by steam during the night, and thenceforth the steam pren would be regularly used. He told the men that if they attempted violence there was a force at hand to suppress it; but if they behaved well, no man should be a loser by the invention. They should either remain in their situations, or receive full wages until they could procure others. This conduct in a rich and powerful man was no more than decent. The men accepted his terms with alacrity. The Times is still chiefly owned and conducted by Mr. John Walter, tbe grandson of the founder. RED 11 OT SKETCHING. the Artistic Work That Can be Dom With h Poker. IN. Y. Tribune. "In 1845," said a New York art dealer to a reporter, "there lived in tbe City of Boston a worthless vagabond named Halden, a man who had seen better days He was an artist had wonderful talent, and during his periodical sprees would devote himself to bis peculiar work, though he was never known to do anything while sober. Halden's portraits were the best specimens of. his art, and they were marvels of correctness. They were generally burned on a thin board of bird's-eye maple with a red hot poker of the ordinary shape, after which they received two coats of varnish which was put on to preserve them, and set in deep, heavy frames. "He called them 'Poker Sketches and on the back of each was burned this inscription: 'This sketch was burned with a poker Halden, sculpsit "His likenesses were striking, and the three ot them now in existence, allhouch executed from memory, are perfect in every respect, tie had seen U ebster onlv once in his life, but the portrait which he burned with his hot poker has been pronounced one of the truest likenesses ever seen of the great statesman. .Webster's strong features and dark complexion admirably suited the character of the work, which has a peculiar brown appearance when finished. "His picture of Clay is owned by his banker friend, who aU once owned the other two, but presented them to some Southern friends. One of them, Shakspeare, is in the ossessin of Francis Fontaine, Commissioner of Emigration of Georgia. Webster was presented to n humorous writer of the same State, and now hanirs in his parlor, an object of wonder and admiration to visitors. "Poker sketches are durable and will last for centuries. In doing them it is literally a case of 'bum white the. iron is hot.' One mistouch of the poker ruins the board; there is no erasure, no wiping out.. A board sosjoiled, the only remedy is to begin on another and do the whole thing over again. "It h wonderful to ec the variety of shades and colors which may be produced by this burning process. After the application of the varnish it uiore resembles oil work than anything else, and the deception is so complete that a touch of the tinjrer is required to remove it. The indentures may le plainly Mt with the hand. It may seem strange that this art has never developed, out probably there are few people who would care to sit over a fire-pot all day and wntirucllv gutter from burned lingers for the sake of art alone." ' Ai4 iiiMueu ' crrllorj'. " Rus-ia ha a continuous territory unparalleled by any other l.ite iu the world. Stretching from the B.-diie t Behring Straits, it is a f vv h urs journey from Berlin or the one hand, and on the other almost touches the territory of the United States. The Czar's empiie teaches nearly half round the world. Humboldt, to preseut it fairly to the im;"c'ir.s.:ion of his readers, hüd to go to the heaven for bi parullvi, for. he eouipr.rrd iis extent to that oi the vi-ible face of the nuon. Tbe editor of the Kentucky State Journal requests correspondents to address him as colonel instead of equire. Mr. Dittoe is right. Every sensible man should go with the majority. fArkxntaw Trateler,

A Day of Snpro. IkrJotte J "Mr. Smariman, tht wretched dog oi yours digs and ?cratcheg in my girdes : all day, chases my hens till they cafa'l lay and then howls and barks the lire- I long night." ( "Oh, well, tie him up, then, if he tonoys you. I don't bear him. Havert ? time to look after him myself, but if ha bothers you, tie him up." Three" days later, Mr. Sinartman hu been hunting hich and low for his dog the past forty-eight hours. "Slowboy, I can't find my dog any 1 where. Has he been about your place V "Certain. He's in my barn now. You told me to catch him and tie him up." Smartman poes into the barn and finds his dog "tied up" to a rafter fourteen feet from the floor by a piece of rope five feet long. Tableau, with red fire and slow curtain. The Gift of KxpresAioa. j American Home. Every grade of intelligence, from com . mon dullness to talent of the highest and most brilliant order, depends for Its degree upon the possession and use of thu power the gift of expression. Expression is commonly associated with speech; we use it, however, in the more general sense of whatever tends to make public the inner life. Conversation, public speaking, all writings, paintings and songs, inventions of every kind, and every act, public and private, which goes to make up life's history; all these are channels for tbe expression of human nature. Genius, to be real, must give forth true expression; and it is sot genius unless it meets with tbe stamp ef public approval. - i All may not be able to tell wbst is in them, bnt all can recognize the truth of what is told. The utterances of genius may fall temporarily upon dull fars, and ' tbe utterer sink, discouraged, into an ob--scure grave, for genius cannot live with-; out its compliment of appreciation; but in the progress of the race, a point ia reached where the truths his uttertr.ee crystalized are seen to shine forth in all their beauty, and thenceforth his name . U canon izejL A lleiiiiiilcencc or Carlyl. Ii (Contemporary Review.) It was amusing to see how impatient ' he was of correction from his wife, sad yet he would take correction from jain ' like a lamb. He was talking on ose occasion with a distinguished noblemin ' about Herat. He pronounced it wrong . ly. He'rat. Mv wife was an active list-

ener. I was conversing with Mrs. Ca lyle about a paper of mine that had recently appeared in Household words, on "The Buried City of Ceylon," when I heard Carlyle say to my wife, "You seem interested in our conversation." "I can not quite make out what city you are talking about," said ehe. "Why, do you not know He'rat, on the western confines of Afghanistan and the eastern of Persia, that diplomatists are so much interested in just now?" "Oh, you mean Herat'," said she; "that's quite a different thing. Nobody calls it He'rat." He accepted the correction without a murmur, and for the rest of the evening spoke of the city as Herat'. un another occasion lie quoted wrongly from the Bible: "Is thy servant a . dead dog to do this thing?" "It is not i a dead dog, Carlyle," said his wife aba spoke with a burr on the r, KaVrlylt; It is not a dead dog, Carlvle, but ft . dog "Is thy servant a dog to do this thing?" Carlyle beard her pa- ' tiently to the end, and a little after took occasion to repeat his misquotation , auite gravely, "Is thy servant a dead aog to do this thing?"" His wife, like a ': prudent woman did not hear it. Science. A Swiss naturalist maintains that there is only one coloring substance ia . plants, and the various colors of flowers ure only due to the modifications pro- j duced ii iui ?ubstance by the acids or alkalies contained in the plants. ; On some occasions M. Colladon has obferved that two or three seconds after hailstones had fallen to the ground they tpraug into the air again to a height of . from eight inches to more than eleven I inches, as if theythad been struck upward J by the earth. It ought to be remembered that a cov- J ering of felt nicely put on pipes prevents j the water from freezing in them, and all : the train of evil consequences which I frozen water pipes entail, unless the cold is unusually severe, or the spell of frott ' unusually protracted. What seems to be a really useful appliance has recently been added to the old-fsshioned but often most efficient type of life-buoy. Inside the buoy there is a circular brass reservoir filled with . oil and so constructed that so long as it : i i i i .i . . is su-penueo. on snipooaru in me cutomary style none of the oil can escape, j hut when the buoy is cast upon tbe water ! and assumes a horizontal position the oil j reauwv nows out oi ms reservoir ana, spreading film-like on the surface, in ; luces a sort of a calm for a considerable ; distance around the person to whom the life preserver is sent, thus making it ' easier for a refcuing crew to pick bim up. lho reservoir micht also contain some phosphorescent substances which could be serviceable in case of an acct dent at night. The comiosition and properties of tbe light emitted by insects of the Pyrophore eenus received lately the attention of M M. Aubert and Rorb. Dubois. When examined under the microscope the spectum of such a Iizht appeared verv beautiful. It was continuous, and deitute alike of very bright and dark binds. It occupied about seventy-five divisions of the micrometer, extending on the red side to the center of the inter val separating the A and B rays of the solar jvctruin, and on the side of tbe blue a little below the F rav. When Its intensity diminishes the red and orange disappear altogether, the spectrum being ir.en rexiucea io ine creen, wua a nmc yellow and red, the preen persisting longest. The reverse takes place when the insect bjrins to glow. Thus tbe ioast refrangible rays are the last to be emitted, a result hitherto olserved in the spectrum of -uo other luminous body, except to ii limited extent in that of the tulrJiide of strontium. Examined to &ceit:iin its. pho'.oehoriiral properties, this life'ht showed a feeble display of the posplli. rerencc of the sulphide of calciuni the substance which imparts brigbinef in thj dark to the so-called luminous pniat, :J