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COD KNOWS 4 Letter iu le Button. How Etetoinot Are Made.
• A most untrue relic of the late war in
.rekliu,om and tfirs in morning light-.
rose that yesterday was whole;
ltAh, whither, on the whid of °tuts
4/ borne the fragrance of my soulf"
It slabs upon the ocean zone-
wInd that mole the tender rose;
"41), whither luta the fragrance Sewn,
And what shall give Iny soul repodet"
It breaks upon the rocky slime,.
The vast, tumultuous, grieving Bes;
never, never, never more
eau love and peace come hack talent"
It sobs Loup the lonely sky,
it faints in regions of the blest --
Vie endless, hitter human cry-
4ed only Clott cast tell the rest.
-William Winter.
No branch of art witidn the past few
possessed by boos Clutch, of Coltun- inn 0 etaaing. eate art of etching al
retio, •Inch It is a button, off a priVate not as is popularly suposed, a am ea,
eoldier's uniform. During the latter art
of the war Mr. Clutch's brotheron- aw, ,
'ti but therevival Of an art in which
J. F. Gallaher, whose home is in Ohio, nerahrodadt end Albert Duro excelled.
hud the minfertnne to bo captured by the The proccea by which an etching lowed°
Confederatea and confined in Libby is both delicate anti difficult. It is eta
- prism, Aftei, Mr. oaliallor had been cOmplished by coating a copper plate
there some time ho begatato feel thawed with a preparatiOn of wag, upou which
the mad trace& with. a sharp instrument, I
of money, which .would enhance his
prospect of reaching the Union linos called the needle or pia, the lines of
should he succeed in making his escape, his picture. The plate la then immersed
A surgeon of his reet,iinent, who was in in acid, which ee.ts. into the lines laid
the prison, was about to be exchanged, barebythe noodle and the acid. befit is
Ho out off ono of the large brass buttons b.ropeated. The lines whoa sufficiently
from his uniform, and separating the , e:eteenieffia stPPPed uP with'tine Film°
two parts of it, made a cavity by taking
out the filling. Ho then wrote on a slip This process has eon tep a more
b * e tett
white wren Tootapieue. of blank paper, in a small but distinct than fifty times in flame plates before
t ie. proper effect of light and shade was
A toothpick factory is one of the floor,. hand, the following note to hie wife,
which he inclosed intim cavity and ngaia obtained. Etching is really a drawing
tiling wood working establishments at
sealec14110 button together: on a plate,. thus giving the genuine work
the largest ftwtorien of the kind in the , levee taosex. painting. It is this absolute quality of I
of the artiet as much effect as in en oil,.
Harbor Springs, tlich., and it is one Of
oountry, White birch is exclusively used 1 PIR weirt;iif,:X.3.. soot exchang1 ey pet
a art posseesod by etchings, as distinguished
in the manufacture of the toothpicks,
bsi e!vial camuned ue in elnel3oPignm=8...bi.... from the purely mechanical raothode of
girl about 7,500,000 of the handy little: bore= a„d it ea a box of proviwo'„, engraving, which gives to thern their .
ere sawed up into bolts each twenty- i a n. amen -nu. , value. The ink used in printing is thick;
solintere aro turned out daily. The logs :
This note is veell preserved, and was • the plate is warmed by placing i t on a
eight inches in length: then thoroughly . am resting snugly in its place in the heated marble slab, so that the ink will
steamed and cut up into veneer. 'flee button when Shown today by Mr. Clutch. t flow freely enough to fill up all the lines,
veneer ie out into long ribbons, three To continue the story, the button was . After inking the plate is rubbed clean,
inches in width, and these ribbons, eight made tatake the place of another on the leaving the igle only in tho lines, except -
or tett et a time, aro run, through the uniform of thaexchanged surgeon, who ing where certain °Sects of light and
toothpick machinery, coraing nut at the reached home and delivered it to M. shade may be desired, not represented by
ether end, the perfect pieces falling into Gallaher in due time. It could not ha,ve the lines.. These eau be obtained by the
ono basket, the hrokeo. pieces and refuse escaped the close scrutiny of the officers skill of the printer, who can produce
pscked into boxes, 1,500 in a box, hod it been. conveyed out of the prison beautiful effects by his manipulation of
falling into another, The picks are
hY in any, other manner, as the °Teem wore the ink 011 the plate. There as a great
girls+ mostly comely looking young particular to search all of the exchanged difference in plates in this respect, some
squaws, and aro then peeked into cases, prisoners, including the surgeon, most requiring much more skill to print than
and finally into Li boxes, ready for ship- minutely. Mr. Gallaher did not have others. After the plate is ready the
anent to all parte of tho world. The . much hope that his scheme would elle- Palm, having fust been dampened, is
white birch toothpicks aro very r.eat and' coed, even should the note reachbis wife, Placed on it .and then covered with felt.
clean in appearance, sweet to the taste, but he was surprised, for the fruit ar- The press consists of an iron bed, per -
end there is a wide market 'for them. rived in a short time, and although • fectly true .and level, for the plate to
The goods sell at the factory at $1.90 a, closely inspected by the prism: .0fficens rest on, and en- iron. roller which passes
ease of 150,-Timberman. they failed to discover thwvial contain- ' over the plate, exerting great ressuro,
ing tho money concealed in ono of the
=sects oe rising tho Teteptione. jars of thick preserves. Soon . after re -
At the m.eeting of the American Oto- oeivithe' money Mr. Gallaher sue. -
legion' society in Washington, Dr. Oar-. ceedediiii making his, escape from the
once J. Mina of Boston, read a paper ,• prison, " '•
o ng one or the chief partica-
ts in the great tunnel expedition. He
op the influence of the uca of tho tole- P
1-.enttud the bo of
in. so_. novel .a
phone on hearing power. He thinks
manner to .grCaL service. to him in
that tine infiueuee mud be ihjurious, be-
cause tho extremely low intensity, as _Itching the Union lines.-eClaitago Her -
demonstrated by experiment, of the
sounds to be caught from the telephone, j How Barber Shops Aro Managed. •
oompelled a strain of tho ear which soon I
fatigued it, and made it especially liabl ' Tho proprietor of a boxber shop pays
ne -8 tho rent, puts in the furniture and fix -
to injury bv tho accidental sotmcls of , tures,
•comparatively high intensity, which combs, brushes, pomades and
other uteneils. Tho man at the chair
wore constantly liable to be heard. Dr. furnishes hi te own razors and topics for
O. II. Burnett said he had aeon several conversation. Owing to the custom of
petiente who believed that the continued as- signing the employes oldest in the ser -
WO of tho telephoto had impairedttheir
hoexing. Dr, O. D. Pomeroy gave -the vice and presumably the best men to the
front chairs a graded wage is paid. The
oaso of a patient who said the use of •the chairs nearest the door, and consequently
telephone fatigued her .very much, and,
she thought, had made her detidedlY the most aooessiblo are the moat lucra-
sho Tho trensient ouetonaer usually
worse.--iecionee. takes the first chair within, reach. The
nroneut rum to Time. . I of tho line. He may be the ' most com-
., new barber is given the chair at the foot
.
rani hoe littreoted such univereal att.e.n.
It was getting pretty' near the end of potent artist in the place, but he has t�
leap year and .Amarantha was becoming begin at the bottom and work his way
agitetod forward as the barbers in front of him.
so that the paper is •forced into tho hoe.s
of the plate. After • each impression tho
plate is cleaned and inked again, and the
samo process gone through with, so that
the printing of etchings cannot 'be hur-
ried, To insure uniformity, a sample
print is before the printer to Took at.
This is either printed by the etcher or
superintended by him. So great is the
skill required to properly print etchings'
that less than half a dozen printers ran
the country have won a reputation as.
being first class.
Etchings are quito expensive, and often
bring. as high as $1,000. -New York
Evenms. Sun. A STOCK OF
A Dog That "I31inkecl."
It is it queer psychological fact that
highly bred setters and pointers, with FOR
their instincts well developed, often be-
come frightened at the first real opera-
tion of the pointing instinct and never
recover from it. A local sportsman had
a well bred, fancy pedigreed setter which
he raised with due regard for his future .
usefulness in the field, and at maturity
started out to give him a trial on game.
True to his nature the doe; galloped over
the fields in the merry style of his trained'
"Charlie," .she said with a sigh, as she quit their employment. This arrange-- ancestors, and coming suddenly upon a,
raised her dere fritteee from the shoulder ment has one of the virtues of civil ser- large covey of birds he stopped at the
of his Tewksbury mills all wool easeiniere 'Vico regulations. The foreman is the =pot, of ,the biras Obedienceeto hia.
lour button cutaway, "I've thought or as oldest employe and works in the chair pointing instinct.''
conundrum: Why are you like groon next that of the proprietor, who has the , The dog had never seen a game bird,.
Cern?".
fine. and the odor of tile covciarosoeo thickly
"I don't know, I'm Buell, Amexantha- In Chicago more than half the barbers. about him that he was featly Intoxicated
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0, it's because I'm co sweet." aro profit sharers. The plan in opera- with the delightful sensation of the
"No." replied Amaxantha, whose octal tion in each large down town shop de- ., "poi,nt." Ile shivered intliis excitement,
nation was conanleted at the Athens Of ponds on its locetion. Where a large mid so pronounced was the effect upon
.Amcrioa; "it is becauseno degree of amount of the custom is transient the hien .that his hair rose with his Emma-
warm.th causes you suddenly to expand, commission plan is the favorite. A shop tions. Presently the birds began to rise
into a desiclerated efflorescence." having a steady trade as a rule pays the • with a noisy whir, and the unexpected
Then there was faience for the space of regular wage and a percentage. Out of sight of quails and the noise they made
several minuteawhile the significance of; town shops pay a weekly stipend. Tho getting away co alarmed the dog that he
tho answer was working its waythrough average wages for. ba,rbers is 115 a week. turned tail and ran of to hide in -the
lais nerve centers to his occipital vacancy, An extra good inanneay get $14, but as bushes. Since that time the dog's fear
end then he popped. -Springfield Union.. many get $12 or less. -Chicago News. of birds had been so great that lie always
runs away from them. Ho Will hunt
Lincoln on Jeerson. The Ctu•e for-Ileart Neuralgia. diligently to find birds, and he will make
George N. Street, of Nebrashe his point after they aro found, but „the
aitYe Angina peetoria (agony of the chest)
has an autograph letter written by Abra- carries oft manypeople, ono of whom., moraeoe he stops to point he recollents -
ham Lincoln 1853. rt is an answer to his file t birds, mid with the most aitct.
accordion. to the. newspaners, was the
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Fine French panting, Ilitioteds eqd Oirercoathigs,
an invitation to attend a banquet in Bos- expoteeion he ste.als away fromS, he
novelist,°the Rev. E. a illoe, who ex- ob3ect he has wcaked so hard to find.
ton on the anuiversary of the birth of pired in one day became of it crualaine. This peculiarity is by to means unopme
Thomas Jefferson.. The letter concludes anguish. Ma. Gen. George B. ZICCler- nano esid vortsmen have named thiaaet
with the following tribute to the author ba, according to the published reports
of the immortal Declaantion, of Inds- . of that time, likewise succumbed after 0
-blinknot. -Chicateo Tribtuip. ,,
pendence:
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"All honor to Jefferson, to the man Tuet how these patients Were treated I
twenty-four hoursof uncontrollablepain.
who, in the concrete pressure of testate, Besides black: the followinglarn used '
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rhe for independence by a single pee am tumble to say; but Dr. Rieharditon,
as a, sign of grief for -the dead, Black
la, of London, long before Geo. MeClellen'o
• had the coolness, forecast and capacity death, hell received a prize of C,5,090 and white 'stoned to empress sorrow and
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to introduce into a merely r . ong %a South. Sea Howlers.
document an abstract truth, applicable
avointionall fran.cs from tle,c .0.cademy of Medidnein hoP3 aell
Grayish brown, the color cf. tha•earth to
Paris for haviug dicconered 011 aLmost
to all encl all times, and so to em- susemme remedy for „nine pectoris sy which the dead return, in teEthiopia.
ban). it there that today and in all oxen- the administration, in the smell -doses of •Polo brownethe color of withered leaves,
hi tli• mournin of Porde, Sky blue to
stumbhng block to the hart ingera of re- . bei onetiVZ tho one -area hope that the de -
This discovery entitles Dr. Iliehard-
every etifferina man woman or child ceased Ira -gone to heaven; eThis i, the
znotuniotol. Seria,.Capadeeitt and Ar- •
son to tho never ending gratitude of
appearing tyranny end oppression,"- • 1
not:ruing co1ors. •
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tug days it shall be a rebuke and a 1-100 to 1-25 of g-raiu, of nitglyeer- •
'Wonderful Masons.
afflicted with angina pectoris. rzenia. cep blue ea okhara. Purple
The old tee-I'd:ens wove neater boneoes I know a number of pereons who end violet t, on -press "hinge and queens
ni tad " 7113 C0102 mournine for
than those ciftho present day. there aro
blocko of stones in the pyramids which
vettigh three or four times as much as the
pholtik cn the London embankment.
There is ono etone, the weight of which
is eztimitted OCO tons. There are.stonee
thirty feet in length which iit so closely
together that a penknife may be .run,
over the eurfaco without dieeovering. the
break between them. They are Oct laid
with mortar, .either. We have am ma-
chinery so peeeeet that two
surfaces thieey feet in. health whichwill
meet together aathesc..ettones intbepyroe
anide meet. It is supposed that they were
rubbed bac:rem:1 nod forward upon
each other tratil the enrfaceswereaseimi-
lated. rialtiag theta the world'e-wondota
in meeiratfical *W. -London Budget.
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to -tile West Virginia elonntateis.
arrays cars.7 tablets of nitro -glycerol° ,
eartuntos and hinge of Prance. The
with them, and Tara equally certain that
coke of mourning in Turkey is violet.
all these people: by the use of nitro -
White (emblem of hoza), the color of
glneerine, are Iivmg. in comparative coni- • meneneless in ataitet teenry VITT wore
fort, who would otherwiee have fellen
ttader the insupportable tort -aro of that ..white for Anne Boleyn. Vito ladies of
form of heart neufalesia, the moat dread_ ancient Rome and Sparta wore white.
fril a all paine.-liontrcso A. Pallea, It was the color c2 Lamming in Spain
M. D., in Belford's Magazine. ••• till 1403, Yellow (the sear end yellow
, leaf), the color of mourning in Egypt,
and in thirraelo Arno Boleyn evore •
'tow to itis tho areolumicai Arts. ; yellow nice:Attu for Catharine of Ara-
Wo have seen how the literary educe, ' gon.-•--Notes and Queries.
tion. which we now consider co esseohal
was regaided in England -as ungentle-
leanly. It is not so long since the play -
Don't Vowing° .C.oro 32ye8.
eueteen, prevalent. tenon pherel-
sician or leech was, as Hallam eaye, "an chins as Wa. Ss. too o..
inerhanetlIele theme of popular ridicule." bandoning or -tying tp the eye as seen: as
The barber'e, pole, so eaten= in ,our it becomes inflattledtor sone le a bad one.
street:a recall; a time, not so long past, The effect upon -the oyes is a bad. • It pee-• •
when the Ino.ber practiced bloodletting •cludes• the free access and beneficial
.
"There ia ',touch ionoranee in many a end other medical arts. it le evathin our . Sheets of the co, liar, and it .. e sam
thcee ototintuite eau/it/et " redd a Ilaptist Ma memery that the dentist stood on a : tittle preveate or greatly retards the free
orater et Clarksburg, V; Va. "A man level wi Ili the barber; indeed, flutter° were es;rese of tho bot ti',..ziri.1111(1. raorbid eecre-
wee ritling throunli McDowell county CM OP.iell tilf; SUMS p3r3011: HOW id it thattans all of filo inflamed. cottjunctiva or
Lto ig via5, tho urart hotaxa Ito I.net Itti fail is chantsedathat literature, medicine 'cornea, or both. In thane casco,. too,
dd Indy and adted her •the way to the and dentietry have beecurtegentlemartly where a foreign tullstance hal; got tints
county seat. UP.o replied: 'I did not occupations? Simply, t think, because the eye, the handaem (which is usually
krestv that tho eltearey linif arler coat. Y " th0:1. aro WV' taught ecientifically and (dapped on the iiret thing) prate the
'Alen lie added: "Tlatt raminds ieu) 1:13titiltlons have lbeeie eetablighed for lido mom (lady eeninst the leellvend
al man whet; w.1.; tho - /:73.111:1•it..Id II% ,a -»l will texat benomereepeotabie and the ioreign body. Thi.; eottnot fail to be
Lee:Asa ea on..• ,fl.: . r , 41,1,,,„.: it is ibruviy, while that winch ie pi a..ed harmful. In thoee ceene eaten the liejtt
tette eet rf„...., •.,..;.,• ---. „i'...,;....i,-..,.....1 ••*d• ti't le the home or the workshop will. al- it peinful fuljtant over tilt1 t1;;;2;int a ire:if:iv
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Wan •ree-ai ' te., o .:1 . g. evert:led as meniel.-itrotegeor iltt fao the: 0, s„ e;',,,I, %-. '.1,.!!'',,, ;,'+ t•-•:',..Imii;)
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or an r tlettugh the that pnrpone. Inity bo laid clown 011 11 'then intreit-N the pain end dieeon.fort
et ate7 ova s N.. ked rArierA ride that tvhatever Se Intent in by attearaliting thCLL,n', iara entrottliy
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