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furniture
Bingham's
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ST. CHARLES HOTEL
s Leading Hotel of McMinnville.
|l and $2 House.
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Single meals 25 cents.
Boom« for Commercial
Men
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ROWLANI),
Business Manager, McMinnville.
M’MINN VILLE
very, Feed and Sale Stables,
Corner Third and D streets, McMinnville
OGAN BROS. & HENDERSON,
Proprietors.
The Best Rigs in the City. Orders
mptly Attended to Day or Night,
ORPHANS’ HOME”
BILLIARD HALL.
A Strictly Temperance Resort.
Koodlt) Church members to the contrary not
withstanding.
‘Orphans’
Home
TONSORIAL PARLORS,
only flrat da»», and the only parlor-like shop in the
city.
irst-clasn
None but
Workmen
LINCOLN’S STORIES.
How tho Great President Managed to
Conciliate Contending raotloiw.
Employed.
rirrt door south ot Yamhill County Bank Building.
M c M innville , oregon .
H. H. WELCH.
B —The Donkey’s New Departure: A
^Icnkey who was tired of Drawing his
Piaster’s Cart about went to the Cow
■or Advice, saving: “You have nothing
■o do Cl dav long, while I work like a
■'lave. Tell me how I can escape this
■trndgery.” “All you have to do is to
■tin away and Smash the Cart,” replied
■he Cow. The Donkey determined to
follow the Advice, and next morn ng
phen he set out to the Forest with th«
r art after Faggots he suddenly Kicked
PP his heels and started off on a g.a'lop.
fOhho!” exclaimed the Peasant ai he
Pot on the wh.p; “I see what the
■Trouble is with you! I am Feeding you
Many Oats. Hereafter your rations
t 1 he Rcauced on« half” Moral:
Ph re ig suCh a thing as being too
■mart— Detroit Free Press.
I. Marblehead (Mass.) young worn -i
I tv.' g,,t np a n;ce hind of a part .
Phpre the young men in attendan e are
F®9mreii to sew across the bottom of an
F^rr,J1- The young women give ’em
peeffies, but no other points.— Boston
President Lincoln knew human
nature. Long intercourse with the
people and with politicians, practice as
a jury lawyer and experience as a
legislator, made him’familiar with the
weakness and strength of men. On
one occasion tho Governor of a North
ern State rushed to Washington, brist
ling with complaints against the War
Department. He had a stormy inter
view with Mr. Stanton, and then went
over to tho White House to lay his
grievances before the President.
In the course of a few hours, the
Governor was seen wending his way to
the railroad station, wearinga pleasant
smile, and only anxious to go home by
the next train
“Mr. President, how did you dispose
of the Governor?” asked a friend. “He
went to you in a towering rage, and
came out smiling. 1 suppose you found
it necessary to make large concessions
to h:s demands?”
“Ono, I didn’t concede anything,”
replied the President. “You know how
that Illinois farmer managed the big
log which lay in the middle of his field’
l’o the question of his neighbors as to
how he was getting along with it, he
replied, T’vegot rid of that log!’
“ ‘Got rid of it? How did you do it?
It was too b g to haul out, too knotty
to split, and too soggy to burn. What
did you do?’
“Well now, boys, if you won’ttell tho
secret I 11 tell you how 1 got rid of it;
I plowed around it.’
“Now. said the President, “don’t tell
anybody, but that’s the way I got rid
of the Governor. I plowed around
him.”
Another Governor, though able, pat
riotic and untiring in raising troops,
always wanted his own way, and was
very exacting in his intercourse with
the General Government. Once his
complaints and protests were so bitter
that it was feared he would refuse to
co-operate. The Secretary of War,
therefore, laid the dispatches before the
Presdent.
“Never mind, nevermind," said Mr.
Lincoln, after reading them. “These
dispatches don’t mean any thing. Just
go right ahead. The Governor is like
a boy 1 saw once ata launching. When
everything was ready they picked out
a boy and sent him under the ship to
knock away the trigger and let her go.
“At the critical moment every thing
depended on the boy. He had to do
the job by a direct, vigorous blow, and
and then lie flat and keep still while
the ship slid over him. The boy did
every thing right, but he yelled as if
he was being murdered from the time
he got under the keel until he got out.
“I thought the skin was all scraped
off his back, but he wasn’t hurt at all.
The master of the yard told me that
this boy was always chosen for that
job, that he did his work well, and had
never been hurt. But he would always
squeal.
“That’s just the way with tho Gov
ernor. He only wants to make you
understand how hard his task is. and
that he is on hand performing it.”
During the war there arose a conflict
of authority between the military and
civil powers. Civil officers would grant
permits to bring out cotton from cer
tain districts in a state of insurrection.
The military officers, however, be
lieving that the cotton speculators in
terfered with army operations, nulli
fied the perm ts issued by the Treasury
Department. The cotton speculators
brought the matter before President
Lincoln, and through one of his friends
from Illinois, asked what would be tho
probable result of the contest.
“By the way. what has become of
our old friend. Bob Lewis?" asked the
President, referring to the clerk of the
circuit court of DeWitt County.
“When Bob became of ago,” said
the President, “he found among his
father’s papers a numb -r of land-war
rants. As tho land was located in
Northeast Missouri, he went there to
investigate, going on horseback, with
a pair of saddle-bags.
•‘Arriving at the locality, he hitched
his horse and went into a log-cabin,
standing near the road. The proprie
tor—a lean, lanky, leathery-looking
man—was casting bullets, preparatory
to a hunt.
•‘ -I am looking up some lands which
belong to my father.’ said Lewis, by
way of introducing himself. ‘What is
the number of this section?’
“Without waiting for the settler to
answer. Lewis exhibited his title-pa
pers and then said:
•• -That is my title. What is yours?’
“The piomr-r pointed his long finger
to the rifle, which was suspended on
two buck horns above the fireplace,
and said:
“ ‘Young man. do you see that gun?
Well, that is my title, and if vou don't
get out of here quick you will feel the
force of it.’
“Lewis put his titlepapi-rs in his
saddle-bags, mounted his horse and
«»Hoped down the road.
“Now, my friend,” said the Presi
dent, "the'military authorities have
th« same title against the civil authori
ties. You must judge what may be
the result.”— Youth's Companion.
_ As it has repeatedly happened of
late that women in men’s clothes have
attended executions in Paris, the Police
Prcfe t has given orders to enforce
Strictly the law of 1835, prohibiting tho
disguise of women in m -n’s clothes.
Exceptions have always been freely
granted, among them being, according
to the Paris papers, an American lady
who is in the habit or riding on hur*u-
back in men's fashion.
PAPER
PAILS.
In'e rest In ¡f Description of the Various
Processes Employed in Their Manufuc*
lure.
Rags and paper waste are steamed in
vats for a few hours, and then thrown
into beating trough? partly filled with
water. The “beating” is done by a re
volving cylinder wilh fifty knives set at
different angl -s. The knives reduce the
rags to a dirty purple pulp, and oliangi
the newspaper wrappers to a soft ma s
About four hundred pounds of mater a
are put under each beater. When p ,
per and rags are each reduced t > pulp
the opening of a trap lets it run into th
stuff chest in the cellar. One part o
rag pulp to three of paper is run inti
the chest. When pumped from tin
stuff chest into the trough of the wind
ing machine, the future pail looks I k
thin water gruel. A hollow cylinder
covered w th brass wire spashes around
tn the trough, and the pulp clings fast
to the wire. After the cylinder has per
formed a half revolution it comes in
contact with another cylinder, corered
with felt, that takes oft’ the pulp. As
the large cylinder goes down on the re
turn trip, and just before dipping into
the trough again, the little particles of
pulp sticking to the wire are washed oft’
by streams of water from a sieve. On the
inside of the cylinder ¡ b a fan pump that
discharges the waste liquid. From the
felt covered cylinder the pulp is paid on
to the forming cylinder, so called. Ii
is about the shape of the paper cone
caps worn by bakers and cooks, but
made of solid wood and covered with
zinc, w th the small end or bottom part
of the pail toward tho workman. The
forming roll drops automatically when
pulp of the required thickness is wound
around it. From here the now promis
ing pad is put in the pressing machine,
which looks something like a silk hat
block, in six sections, with perforated
brass wire upper faces. The sections
move from and to a common center,
and tho frame is the size of tho pail
wanted.
The workman drops his damp skele
ton of a pail into tho frame, touches a
lever, and the sections move to their
center and squeeze the moisture out of
the pail. The pa 1 is still a little damp,
anil spends a few hours in the drying
room at a temperature of one hundred
and fifty degrees. ’The sections of the
pressing machine mark tho bands which
are seen on tho finished pail. After it
is dry, the pail is drawn like a glove,
over a stool forming roll which
is
heated, and is ironed
by
another revolving calender, with steam
thrown on the pail to keep it mo st, as
if it was a sh'rt bosom. The pail, or
rather its frame, is pared at each end,
punched with four holes to fasten on the
handle, and corrugated, or channeled,
for the puttings on of the iron hoops.
A wooden plate large enough to spring
the pail so that the bottom can be put
in, is inserted, and the paper bottom
held under a weight wh ch drops and
knocks the bottom where it belongs.
The factory has a machine of its own
invention for the bending of the hoop
into shape.
After it has been cut to the proper
length and width, the stra'ght strip of
iron is run over a semicircular edge of
steel, on which it is held, and drops on
the door a round hoop w th a fold in the
in ddlo to catch the top and bottom
edges of the pail. After a waterproof
composition is put on, the pail is baked
in a kiln for about forty-eight hours, at
a temperature of two hundred and
three hundred degrees. It is dried,
after its first coat of pa nt, sandpapered,
and then takes two more coats of paint,
with a drying between, and a coat of var
nish which is baked on, before—with its
wooden handle and brass clamps—the
pail is ready for the hand of the dairy
maid, hostler or cook.— Syracuse (N. Y.)
Standard.
Treatment of a Scalped Finger.
A surgeon of Tours. Dr. Thomas, has
recently communicated a very interest
ing fact concern ng the surgery of the
fingers. A man while passing over a
gate lost the whole skin of one of his
fingers, a ring around one of them hav
ing got caught between the g.-i ;ate anil
Iran bar, and the weight of tin te man
while jumping having forcibly dragged
the finger through the ring. The ring
and the skin remained an entire hour on
the gate. Dr. Thomas secured both,
and reintroduced the scalned finger into
the normal envelope, a good part of it
was restored to life: and it is possible
that, if the operation could have been
performed earlier, the result might have
been quite satisfactory.—Science.
—Two morning paper reporters wait
ed the oiher evening in Albany for the
results of a meeting that was being car
ried on in Herman. They were com
pelled to listen to the unintelligible jar
gon for two hours, and then were
coolly informed that a > olution had
just been passed mak;ng «1 of
pro
ceeding’s -e ret.— Y. Mail.
—S x green Shelton people loaded
themselves into a wagon recently ana
drove to New Haven to visit. The
family visited, alarmed bv the number,
got r d of them at night by saying that
a small-pox patient was in the house.
Thev went to a hotel and all packed
into a singlegeom. The officiating old
woman put her shoe over the gas jet to
Ent it out and turned the water faucet,
aving heard somewhere that to put
out gas something had to be turned. In
the n’ght the porter was alarmed by
smelling gas. He found the country
folk all unconscious in the room, and
the door wax flooded with water. They
were saved.
NO. 48
NOSES REMODELED.
LINCOLN S FUNERAL CAR.
A Berlin Surgeon Who Ke pairs anti Ke-
makes Nines of Every Description.
Now Used by tlie beellon>MeD of a Kail
road Company in tlie Far West.
There is on the Marysville & Blue
Valley branch of the Union Pacific road
an old dilapidated car. Its exterior is
in sad need of the painter's brush. Its
interior is rough and dirty. It is fitted
up with rough bunks, and is used to
transport section bauds from point to
point. A close inspection, however, of
its present condition will reveal features
which would puzzle one who hail seen
it years ago. Here and there will be
discovered a trace of gilding. The
woodwork, if you scratch off the soot
and dirt, will I e found to be of solid
mahogany and black walnut.
In short, it is a relic of faded gentil
ity. Although it now “takes in lodg
ers,” like the traditional landlady, it
has "seen better days.” This poor,
old, shabby-genteel common-carrier
was once considered the finest car ever
built in the Un ted States. Mechanics
from all parts of the country, who were
master workm -n, were secured to work
in its construction. It onco shone re
splendent in red velvet and gilding. It
is, in short, tlie famous car “Abraham
Lincoln.”
This car was built in Alexandria,
Va., in 1864. It was intended for a
directors’ car, to run on the military
railroads; that is, the roads which ran
into the section of the country where
the heavy fighting was going on.
These roads had either been seized
from tho Secessionists or appropriated
by the Federal», as the case might be,
and this car was used by the directors
of the roads and by the military offi
cials.
It was at the time considered par ex
cellence. It wore all tho trappings
belonging to wealth and rank. It
shone resplendent in scarlet and gold.
Soft turkey carpets covered its floor,
velvet couches and chairs adorned it«
central reception-room. At one end
were state-rooms for sleeping purposes.
At the other was a dining-room and
kitchen, over which presided a chief of
supreme attainments is his profession.
Statesmen, famous over tho civilized
world, reclined on its upholstered
couches and dined at its tables. The
original cost of this car was something
over thirty thousand dollars. When
Lincoln was assasinated, to this car, his
namesake, was entailed the duty of
conveying his remains to Springfield.
From the performance of this duty
the car attained a National reputation,
and speculators began at once to make
bids for it, with a view to putting it on
exhibition in dime museums. To pre
vent this the ear was bought up by Mr.
Lincoln’s old law partner. Mr. Ward
II. Lamon, now a resident of Denver.
He purchas d it at a Government sale
at Alexandria in 1865. Shortly after
Mr. Lantor had bought it Secretary
Stanton wrote him a letter begging
that the car be kept out of the hands
ot exhibitors, This Mr. Lamon as-
sored him was his intention.
In 1866 the oar was sold by Mr.
Lamon to Mr. Henry S. McComb, of
Delaware, one of the directors of the
Union Pacific, for that road. It then
w s us -d to bring out from New York
Mr. T. C. Durant and a party who
made a trip to what was then the west
ern terminus of the road. At that
time the different tribes of Indians
along the line were throwing obstruc
tions in the way of the further prog
ress of the road, and in this car the
officials met representatives of the
various tr bes to discuss the matter.
On the return of the car to Omaha it
was held there, and was used as an
officers’ car tip to ’69. It was then, on
orders from Sydney Dillon, changed to
an emigrant ear. and remained in that
service up to 1874. It was then sold
to the Colorado Central for three thou
sand dollars, and marked “Colorado
Central No. 4.” It was used by the
road as a chief engineer’s car.
Tho old car hash -en knocked around
from place to place, at every move
descending lower and lower from its
SUCCESS WITH FOWLS.
exalted height, until now, in its bat
How to Make the Egg Business One of tered old age, it transfers the section
Profit and Pleasure.
hands from po’nt to point over the
Success with fowls, kept exclusively road. — Denrca Tribune-Hepublican.
for their eggs, is gained only by con
VITAL STATISTICS.
stant care for their cleanliness and com
fort. They must have a variety of food, Fact« Willi Regard to th« Birth and Death
Kilt«« of Various Nation«.
a good, large run, with opportunity to
Statisticians are bringing out some
exercise, or bo forced to take exercise
in scratching for their feed, as upon a curious facts with regard to the birth
floor covered with chaffed straw. They and death rates of the leading nations
may be kept safely in flocks of seventy of the world. Unfortunately, our
to one hundred, but the larger the flock tables are not as accurate as those
the more danger there is from disea-e collected in the European States.
and from thick es. The free use of car Abroad, there is a careful record of
bolic acid is a great safeguard. It may marriages, births and deaths. These
be applied in sawdust or clay, the dry are collected by us without any
material lx-ing moistened by the car thoroughness, save only when a census
bolic acid thoroughly stirred into it. is being taken. In England and Wales,
The less of the carbolic acid that i it has been found that the birth-rate ig
used the better, provided every partici 35.4, and the death-rate 20.5 per thou
of sawdu-t or of dry elay has its quota sand p -rsons. In
* " Sweden, the birth-
Th s disinfectant thus prepared, may la rate is 30.2, i, against a death-rate of
used in the ne-ts, in the dusting box. 18.1. In the Gimm Empire, birth
upon the floors, under the roosts, sti rate 39.3 and death-rate 26.1. Austria,
lt is fatal al ke to parasites and to ten 39.1 birthrate, 29.fi death-rate. The
dency to disea e in most cases.
It cm official returns state that our aniTual
not be depended upon in dirty house- birth rate is 36. and death-rate IX, but
for fermenting manure, receiving frc-l clearly our birth-rate is much larger,
ad I t ons constantly, will ovi-rpowe as we are grow ng in numbers faster
almost anv disinfectant that could b than any p ople on earth. Our in
safely used.
crease is f illy 10,OtMI.OOO since the last
By spading or plowing up a port'o- census was taken in 1880. Our colored
of the runs frequently, fowls ga
popu'ation have a higher birth rate
healthful exercise and find afewgru
than have the S mthern whites. Am mg
and worms, and w.th breeds of row
the latter it is 23.71. while for the col
which are active by nature, exerc
ored it is 35.08. Although the death
means eggs, and incidentally, perf
rate of the blacks is quite large, still
health. — America i Agriculturist.
they arc increasing relatively faster
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— inc piemspiionc, an instrument than the wliit'-s; it is also a curious fa t
that unites the tones of the violin, that more colored females are born
viola, 'cello and double bass, is a recent than whites, but taking blacks and
invention of a Buffalo musician.- Buf white, together, the births of the males
falo Ectiress.
exceed those of the females
There are some people in this world
who snould carry the’r noses in a scab
bard. If for no other reason than to hide
New
them from tho public gaze.
Orleans is full of such poople. Many
nt them have knotty, lumpy, flat,
twisted and curly noses, which aro a
positive humiliation to the owners and
a source of much mortification to the
rest of mankind. But the ugly nosed
men and women need no longer suffer.
The hour of their delivoranco from un-
ga nly beaks has come, and if they do
not haul out the art llerv and fire a
salute it is their own fault.
A Berlin surgeon has discovered the
art of repairing and remodeling noses
of all sizes and ages. He can take a
nose shaped like an artichoke and by
his pecular method turu it into a beauti
ful and really c'assc snout. He bars
nothing. The fact of the matter is he
invites the hideous and pays aprem urn
for it The man with a nose twisted
I ke a gourd handle or a ram’s horn is
his pleasure. The man with no nose at
all is his delight and joy.
Th s Berlin surgeon, when he gets
hold of a had no-e, puts chloroform un
der it and then grasps it with a pair of
bone forceps and smashes, cuts and
knocks it into a pulp, and then he goes
quit tly to work, and. with the nasal
bone for a foundation, builds a nose
that makes the gods weep with envy,
and which is a real luxury to wipe and
to blow.
Thia discovery is going to be a bless-
ng to the human race, for the reason
that he is willing to impart to his broth
er professionals the knowledge he has
gained concerning noses, and to make
them the beneficiaries of his art This
generosity on his part leads us to be
lieve that a good deal of ugliness now
existing in the human family will be de
stroyed. For instance, the society girl
with a pug nose tilted up at the end,
and which causes her to look as if she
were constantly smelling a boneyard or
a garbage barrel, can have it trans-
foi med into a proboscis ns delicate and
as captivating as that worn by the hand
some girl whose likeness is imprinted
on our silver dollar. The person with
a short nose can have it properly and
artistically elongated; the long nosecah
be judiciously curtailed, and the fat and
warty nose treated in such a manner as
to make it appear thin and muscular.
The greatest benefit to be derived from
the discovery, however, is the fact that
it will make the men of to-day braver
and readier than they are to battle for
their personal rights, for the reason that
if they get into a fight and their noses
are mashed, they can go off and put
them in dock and have them repaired at
small cost. A broken nose will not
amount to much more than a broken
walking-stick, and the dudes careful of
their good looks will be happy.
It is the one ambition of the Berlin
surgeon's life to secure the job of put-
t ng a decent nose on the Duke of Cum
berland.
The Duke was born without
a nose, and a scrub doctor, who pre
tended to know all about such things,
made him a nasal organ out of flesh cut
from his aristocratic arm.
Unfor
tunately, how ver, for the Duke, his
nose looks like a huge red tumor,
wh ch wabbles from one side to tile oth
er when he walks, and trembles and
oscillates in the wind as if it were a
clump of jelly. The Berlin nose-maker
-ift-s that he can remove tho one-horse"
alia r from the face of the Duke and
build h nt a royal smeller that will
stand up against a fortv-mile gale as
s ift' as the bowsprit of a Dutch iron
clad. He will guarantee it not to flop,
shake or to become loose in its fasten-
ngs, and. therefore, we advise the
Duke to take advantage of the oppor-
unity and get a beak w.th some back
bone to it. — A’. 0. Sla'.es.
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PHOTO-PRINTINQ.
Photogravure for Book Illustration« and
Ztnco-Typea for Newspaper Work.
The use of a photographic negative
in connection with a lithographic sur
face has become of such importance
for almost every sort of illustrated
work, from tin business circular to tho
finest books of art. that the name ot
Poitevin, tho French invontor and r al
father of tho process, deserves to be
better known than it is. Louis Al
phonse Poitovin was born at Conllans,
in tho Department of tho Santho,
France, in 1319. His bent towards ap
pt ed chemistry led him early to the
Eeole Central«, in Paris, whore he de
voted himself almost entirely to chem-
i-al and mechanical studies, leaving
the school in 1813 with tho ilipl >ma of
civil engin -er. His first appointment
was that of chemist in the national
salt wo: ks in the east of France, in
which capacity ho introduced many
improvements in tho processes and
machin.-ry used, and also in the manu
facture of potash, sulphuric acid, etc.
When photography camo upon the
world as a scientific curiosity, Poitevin’s
taste for chemistry led him to experi
ment with the new toy. and in 1843 he
published the fa t that it was possible
to proditee an electro deposit of oop-
per upon the whites of the daguerreo
type image. His work in this direction
led to the dis -overy of a method of pho
to chemical engraving upon metallic
plates coated with gold or silver, for
which he received the modal of the
Soviet« d’Encouragement des Arts.
Soon afterwards he began work upon
the study of the u -tion of light upon
bichromated gelatin -, He first applied
himself to the production of molds in
relief, and patented in 1855 his helio
plastic process, wh eh consisted in pre
paring a film of gelatine, which, after
sensitizing by means of bichromate of
potassium, was expos d to light under
a negative. When cold water was ap
plied, the parts unacted upon by
light swelled up and so formed an
image in relief fr nn which a mold in
plaster or other suitable material could
be taken.
His next achievement was the ink
process. He discovered that the sur
face of the bichromated gelatine film
after exposure to light became re
pellent of water, while it permitted a
greasy ink to adhere. In 1856 ho
established a workshop for the pro
duction of pictures by this process.
Some of his early plates are in the
po-session of Mr. Edward Bicrstadt, of
this city, and compare favorably with
much work of to-dav. Poitevin was.
however, too much engrossed in in
vention to prosper in business, and ho
sold out the shop to Lomercjer, who
still carries it on and turnod his at
tention again to experiments. In 1862
In- perfected a system of carbon print
ing. from wh ch tho present processes
are derived. Ho also published re
search- s in connection with the action
of light upon various salts of iron. Tlie
Due de l.uvnes awarded him tho prizo
offered for advances in applied science,
and at the exhibition of 1878 lie was
adjudged a gold medal and an honor
arium of seven thousand francs in
recq tuition of his sorv»-es. lie died at
Conllans, March 4. 1882.
Some of the best w irk dono in this
country with proc sses growing out of
Poitevin’s invention is that known
under the general head of photo
gravure, w Heli is printed directly from
an etc led plate. The plate is covered
with a s -nsitlvc film and afterwards
otelied, the acid a -ting when- the light
coming through a n gitive has fall n.
Front such a plate, usiu ra copp r plate
press, the New York company which
inaki-s a specialty of th s work pro
duces very beautiful results. For fine
books, where cheapness is not sought,
the photogravure answers tho purpose
admirably, for any number of impres
sions can betaken. The same company
also uses th - g latine plate process, as
modified by Mr. C. T. no he. Some of
the large plat-s and reproductions of
sepia sketches, done in this way, are
admirable specimens of the art at its
best.
For purposes of newspaper illustra
tion. especially in colors, zincography
is iniii-h used in Europe and, to a sm ill
extent, in this country. Znc plates re
coated with an asphaltum film and ex
posed under a n -gativo or drawing from
ten to sixty minutes. Asphaltum in
certain conditions is sensitive to light.
Where light acts acid can penetrate Io
the plate, and it is etched in the usual
manner. When it is d -sired to print
in colors, a negative is prepared f >r
i-ai-h color, one allowing no light t >
pass except for yellows, another reds,
etc. Many (lerman and French news-
nap -rs are illustrated bv this process.
I’he C'd'ired plates in the last Christma«
number of th ■ Paris Figaro, so largidv
sold in this count v, were photo-zineo-
I types.—AT. Y. Post.
—A Very Thoughtful Woman: A
man went home the other night and
found his house locked up. After In
finite trouble he managed to ga n an
entrance through a back window, and
then discovered on the parlor table a
not - from h s wife, rea ling. “I have
gone out. You will find the key on thd
s de of the step.”— N. Y. ¡.edger.
—The sweet pcs s now fash onable
It has n-it the gaudy, leonine lieauty of
the sun:lower, and it lacks the tawny,
titanic toggery of the tiger lily, while
as a dollar-jerker to the Jacqueminot
rose the nv -ot-pea is nowhere, but for
neat, unadulterated rem niscnccof tho
b.-u-k yard and vour first girl, w th hor
na r down her b:u-k in two braids, the
i sweet-pea sw <-ps the deck with a whole
royal sequence of the boyish past.—
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