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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1881)
April, 1881. THE WEST SHORE. THE OCCIDENT AND THE ORIENT. Th view which we present on thia page ii Intereetlnj in shoving to Uioee who have never viii ted Asiatio oountriee the afoot produced by planting occidental architecture on oriental oil, something like the soene in the engraving may be observed in many portion theeastooaatol 1 ... i i :M l. KIWI IVIV.U IMWIIUI B1 JfWUini -MIWWa, and established their Government oflloei and trading establishments. Thar is tomething in oongrnoai in seeing bita of Oraoian and Norman architecture, surrounded by people in As .iatio oostumes, and looking down upon waters oovered with Asiatic ahipe. It ii an item of progress of European ideas whkh the designers 01 us oiu olassio AMERICAN TRADE WITH MEXICO. Tuoson, whioh has been the market to supply the HUto of Bonora with all and every class of goods and merchandise will.of oourse,oontiuue to do the same and on a muoh larger soale than heretofore, provided they will not kill the goose with the golden eggs. The prlnoipal complaint of all business in Mexico against American houses is that very mistake, and accounts for the strong hold of European houses all over Maxioo, Central and South America. Various instances havs oocnrred that Mexioan merchants have sons to New 1 ork and made large pur chases fur cash, and alter their return they aaw hv the next steamer tha arrival of an agent sent by the very house from whom they had bought METALLURGY OF COITER. A metaling"! process of piAltit Lupus- anos to oopper miners has been mads by some manufacturers of Saint Etienna and Lyons, France. Everybody knows of the revolution ejected In steel making by the Resssmer pro ooaa. "lllow air into pig Iron)" suoh was the original idea of that Invention. That Idea has been generalised. Home tints ago, in England, it was tried to blow air into molten pyrites, or sulphides of oopper, so that ths sulphur oould he go rid of and at ths sains tints be need as a oombustible. Hut, as it happened to Hlr Henry llesssmer in the beginning, it was impossible to prevent the oooling of ths bath at ths snd of ths operation. Only by a mere aosident a preoiioal 1 :S. - a ,... .-. . - , sVr.iv.i.uq A SEAPORT TOWN IN THE CHINESE KNIflUE. medals oould never havt dreamed of. It is a I fact worthy of nets, that western civilisation baa planted such sightly structures 00 As iatio soil without a return, which oan be regarded ae any equivalent, because although representa tives oi China lor siampls are far more numer ous abroad than are representatives of foreign nations is China, they do not bring anything enduring to ths countries whioh they visit. Their buildinos are of the most wretched oharao- stand even ths wealthiest of them live in squalid and repulsive apartments. The char so ts rutias of the races as shows forth in their styles of living and building havs already fur rushed themes for many Interesting saaaya, A Ahtbomomical Mcsacn. At lbs Obeor vatoira, near ths Luxembourg, Paris, a new seam will shortly be opened, containing pictures relating to Mtroootay, likewise busts of astron omers and other aueaaU of not, and medals, eturrsvinfS and vnoiomuhs will be added to Illustrate the phenomena of ths haaveos. their goods, bringing with him another ship. Bient of the eame goods, with the intention to sell them and to com pete with them before their own shop, selling tbs goods at auction or as whatever pries they would fetch. This sort of proceedings of bouses, which in New York are considered to be of H rst-class standing ia, to say the least, against all ideas of common decency. The only tins of oonduct of our merobaoU, if Tnosoa wishes to keep and inoreese ths trads with Honora, a trads whioh, after ths comple tion of the railroad to Onaymas, might easily be extended down the coast to MaaeUeu, Haa Illas, A os pc loo, and Guadalajara, must be the strict observation of deoaoey and hooaety in their dealings with those eustoowrs, and U they will keep this before their eyes, ws havs not the slightest doubt thai this oty will, la an other decade, be the Urns bnaioees center of this part of ths United 8 UOeu. intone Umtrng Jvurml. Tl electric light baa I ia London. 1 tried with way haa now been found to ovcrooms this treat obstacle. A French correspondent of Iron describee the discovery as follows: lleoently corns old sots pa of oopper wars to be melted la a copper foun dry at Lyons, It happened that a small pleoe of phosphor-broose was amongst theaa. The engineer present at the operation was much aa tottished when be notiosd this particular pieos of scrap becoming heated, under the) InHuenos of oxidising beat, to a far higher temperature than the other eoraps, arriving at last at bright white beat la abort, the phosphorna, by its oombustioa giving an eoormoaa amount caloric melted the enopor. By observing the order of 00m bastion of the elements mixed with the pyrites. It was ascertained that the sulphur wss consumed Hrst, then sosne ether elements, snd Anally the phosphorus. The oosstioa was simply to ald a small qsaatity of pbosphoras la order to prolong ths operation and obtain la the) end good rose-cupper. The) result has been the) formatioa of a company lor treating copper la this way.