Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1838-11-01


Paper.-Paper, when bleached, il the chic
ride be not removed, or permanently neutral
lied, produces effects of the most disastrous
kind, and oftentimes, where the cause is lit
tie suspected. The delicate blossoms of
plants, folded up 10 our herbaria, lose their
colors; colored silks, especially delicate
tints, as violet, mazarine blue, lilac. &C. be-
come eventually bleached when wrapped
up in white paper. A silk manufacturer
once bitterly complained to me of the loss ne
sustained from the difficulty in preserving
ohite paper, and the evil was cured. The
manufacturers of paper hangings and STAIN
ed paper, had lost hundreds, if not thousands
of pounds, before the cause was discovered.
Gilt buttons, to the amount of two or three
hundred pounds, have been returned unsafe
able to the manufacturer, because folded up
in white paper--chloride having the proper
ty of acting chemically on gold, and form
ing a chloride of that metal. 1t is easy to
see what would be the effect of allowing del
icate colored silks, muslins, &c. to remain in
boxes or chest of drawers lined with SINH
lar paper. 1t might be supposed, that the
chloride of lime employed to bleach the
'half stuff or the paper pulp, was ruinous
enough, but in this inference, we should be
mistaken; to complete the work of destruc.
ton, some paper, after it is manufactured,
must be bleached by being exposed to the
nascent gas, such paper is called by the trade
'doctored.' The typographer. photographer.
engraver, all complain of the difficulty Of
| working particular kinds of paper, and the
shreds of the wool and hair will sometimes
perplex them. I have been informed, that,
with some paper, not more than hundred
impressions can be taken by the lithogra-
pher, before the impression on the stone is
almost DESTROYED, while with the best quail.
ties of the paper, some thousands of copies
NAV be obtained before it is sensibly altered.
Fatal and Melancholy Mistake.
Akeen one.-The Baltimore Transcripts states that
one merchant in that city having received nforma-
ton that another would fail the following day. pro-
ceeded his house in evening and requested pay.
q saS s c,sdor
at the bank as it opened the next morning -
The check was dishonored, on the ground that the
chant INQUIRED how much was wanting and was told
Si5O. He then handed the cashier $50, requesting
that should be put to the credit Of the drawer This
DONE the check was presented and paid. Of course:
This little the keenest practice we ever heard Of
and the operator must have been yankee.--N. York
San.
lately occurred Of Haden Baden: A young Austrian
count, having had uncommon good luck az roulette,
brought home and carefully locked up 5000 forms,
(sbout 65e0O f.ncs) When he rose in the morning,
not only bis cold was gone but 20 hs asionishmenI
his old faithful servant Fritz, was missing also In
about weeks time, 70 his euTprise Fritz made his
sppes.snee And Were Dc you cone s from 2. said
been there Cor. and what's become Of my money r"
"Why, cir. thought yeu would play again, and lose
your money; % Took Il home. and here's your faith.
er's Feeeiptfof e"
CAuwoN.-Three personsliving In Glenham. Ouch.
e@ Co and working in tho factory. poisoned on
Tuesday last, BY eating tsadssOOls for mushEooms the
father. mSshsF. and daughter; they were al dead in
. few hours aflsr eating !hsm-Nsss.g TssAgrapA.
Five Sub. Treasures have run swsy wi.hin the las.
four weeks. Thsss ere the times thss nv subTsss.
suseu' SOlss Wig