Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1877 — Sympathetic Pictures. [ARTICLE]

Sympathetic Pictures.

The following simple directions for making a picture which will adapt itself to circumstances, and also for making inks of various kinds are from the Journal of Commerce: A quarter of a pound of logwood, boiled with an ounce'of powdered alum, and the same quantity of cream of tartar, with half the quantity of water, to which add, while it is warm, an ounce each of sugar and gilm arabic, will make a cheap red ink, although Booth adds crystals of tartaras and cochineal. Solutions of indigo, with pieces of alumina and mixed with gum, will make a blue ink. Verdigris distilled with vinegar and mixed with a little gum will make green ink. Saffron, with alum and gum water, will make a yellow ink. The muriate of cobalt, when diluted with water so as to form a pale ink solution, will be invisible unless subjected to a gentle heat, when the writing appears a beautiful blue. The salt of nickel added will turn the writing green. A dilute solution of chloride of copper, treated in the same way, will turn a bright yellow under heat. We suggested some vears ago an interesting experiment. Take an ordinary simple landscape picture printed in black on a white ground, representing a winter scene, With bare trees and a dark, somber turf. Copy this in india ink, or, if the paper Is suitable, use it as it is. Over this paint a sky with the salt of cobalt, the application of which when cold wili scarcely stain the paper. Then add the salt of nickel, and carefully paint in the grass upon the brown, frozen earth, and adorn all the trees and shrubs with foliage. This, too, when dry, will be wholly invisible. Take a dilute solution of chloride of copper and paint in daisies and marigolds, using the last above named for the' stem and leaf. Frame the picture without glass, and it will furnish a neverfading surprise for visitors.. In the cold it is a winter landsaapb; bold it to the fire, and the hear brings out a blue sky, green and foliage,, bright yellow daisies, etc.; it warms into a summer picture. Removed from the heat the colors fade at once to the desolateness of the original design. The cobalt may be used for blue flowers as well as for the sky; the copper for a golden sunset, and any skillful child can try the experiment. The Univertalitt Almanac for 1877 says that there are 22 Slate conventions; 69 associations; 880 parishes, embracing4l’029 families; 656 church organizations, having 82,947 members; and 640 Sunday Schools, with 59,463 teachers and pupils, connected with the Universalis! Church in this country. There are 756 church buili ings, the church property amounting to $7,465,495, and 706 ministers, including licentiates and the superanuated. Massachusetts is the stronghold of the denomination, having 5,841 members, against 5,442 in New York. A San Francisco woman, hearing how much the manager of the benevolent society was doing for the poor, appealed to him for a few things. She said she would like half a pint of cream every day for her tea and coffee, one gallon of the best port wine, and a little change, so that whenever she returned from a theater she could have a few plates of nice Eastern oysters. She was also in need of a few pairs of twelve-button gloves and aome perfumery, a nice bronze drop-light, and apiuo. . ,