Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1882 — FOR THE CHILRREN. [ARTICLE]

FOR THE CHILRREN.

ENTERTAINQJG HER BIG SISTER'S BEAU *BEBT HARTK. “My sister’ll be down la a minute, and sat* you’re to wait, if you please,- T And Bays I might stay till she came, if I’d promise ner never to tease, Nor speak till you speak to me first. Bnt that’s nonsense, for how would you know What she told me to say, if I didn’t? Don’t yon really and truly think sot “And then you’d feel strange here alone' —, 7°. u wouldn’t knowjust where to sitFor that chair isn’t strong on its legs, and We never use it a hit. We keep it to match with the sofa. But Jack says it would be like you To flop yourself right down upon it and knack out the very last screw. “S’pose you try? I won’t tell. You’re afraid to. O! you’re afraid they would think it was mean. Well, then, there’s the album -that’s pretty, if your fingers are clean. For sister says sometimes I daub it; but she only says that when she’s oross. There’s her picture. You know It. It’s like her But she ain’t as good looking of course! “This is me, It’s the best of ’em all. Now tell me, you’d never have thought That once I was little as that? It’s the only one that could be bought— For that was the message to pa from the photograph man where I sat— * That he wouldn’t print off any more till he got his money of that. “What? Maybe you’re tired of waiting. Why I often she's lon ner than this, Ther’s all her back hair to do up and all of her front curls to friz. But it’s nice to be sitting here talking likegrown people, just you and me. Do you think you’ll be coming here often? Oh do! But don’t oome like Tom Lee. “Tom Lee. Her last beau. Why, my good ness! He used to be here day ana night. Till the folks thought he’d be her husband; and Jack says that gave him a fright. You won’t run away,then,as he did? for you’re not a rich man; they say; Pa saysyou are poor as a churcn mouse. Now are you? And how poor are they? “Ain’t you glad thatyou metmell Well, I am; for I know now your hair isn’t red, But what there is left of it’s mousy and not what that naughty Jack said/ But there! I must go. Sister’s coming; but I wish I could wait, Just to see If she ran up to you and she kissed yon in the way that she used to kiss Lee.” WHERE TOBACCO FOB CIGARETTES IS FOUND. A little red-headed Italian boy, who gave his name as Frank Chicabau and who said he was eight years old, was up in Harlem Court yesterday on a charge of being a vagrant. He was barefooted, had on ragged clothing and his head looked as \ hough it had never known a comb nor his face water. He spoke English very imperfectly. The officer said that he found the boy gathering cigar stumps from the gutters and streets and sidewalks, and showed Justice White a basket half filled with the butts of old cigars, covered with mud and water-soaked. “What do you do with them?” asked Justice White. “I sell them to a man for ten cents a pound,” replied the boy, “but I don’t know his name, and they are used for making cigarettes like they sell in all the stores/’ The officer corroborated the boy’s statement, and said that there c were many boys and even girls scouring the city in search of stumps and half smoked cigars which were dried and sold to small manufacturers of cigarettes. The boy said he lived with his father in One Hundred and Eleventh street, but could give no further account of himself. Justice White thought the-case one for the' society for the prevention of cruelty to children to investigate and temporarily committed the boy for examination.— New York World.

SILVER. BY DON MARSH. I will endeavor to tell the boys some thing about this precious metal. Silver is found throughout the West in large quantitioa and in a great variety of forms, the most common of which is the black sulphide (silver two parts to one of sulphur). Another form, called Ruby silver, is very beautiful, and is composed of arsenic or antimony and silver. It is also associated with lead, as in ordinary galena. The refining process of the sulphide is as follows: The ore is crushed into fine powder and then roasted with oommon salt; she chlorine in the salt unites with the silver, forming silver chloride, which is put in a revolving cylinder with water, mercury, anb iron scraps. The iron takes the chlorine up, and the mercury and silver unite and form an amalgrm of mercury and silver, from which the silver is easily separated by washing. It Is separated from lead by melting the alloy and allowing it to slowly cool, The lead solidifies much #ie soonest, and by skimming out the crystals as soon as formed it can be almost entirely separated. It can be profitably separated from lead where it yields but two or three ounces to the ton. Silver is the whitest of the metals. It is malleable and ductile. It expands at the moment of solidification, and can therefore be east into Ibricks. It has a powerful attraction for sulphur, ana even the perspiration of our bodies contains more or less sulphur which unites with the silver coins our pockets, forming a black sulphide. The test of silver is hydrochloric acid, with which it forms a cloudy precipitate of silver chloride. The solution of silver is blue, from the copper it contains. Standard silver is whitened by being heated until the oxygen of the atmosphere has converted a little of the copper on the outside into oxide of copper, which is dissolved by being immersed in dilute nitric or sulphuric acid. Lunar caustic is nothing but nitrate of silver. It is the basis, of photography, hair dyes, and indellible ink. A band of counterfeiters, including “Gopher Bill,” has been captured in Philadelphia.