Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1857-05-08

into harmony with the rest OF the figure,
and expressed muscular strength and
elasticity to perfection. onee saw even
greater elegance of motion displayed in
connection with boiler plates. IL was in
Lancashire, where they made them in an
enormous smilhy surrounded by furnaces,
with an overpowering steam hammer
standing in the midst. The men, having 4
drawn out a big, shapeless lump of metal
white bot from the FIRE, and having drag /
ged it along the sheel-iron floor to the
hammer, they escaped the myriaas Of
sparks which aes out during he process,
by holding their heather uprses - ena
corner, up to their faces, and turning el-
egani pirouettes, 10 present their backs
as targets for the showers Of shooting
sparks. Nothing at the opera could be
more graceful. Tben-when they drag
ged the still red mass 10 the rolling mills,
through which it was TO be passed, from
wider to narrower, until pressed into such
plates as / had just seen sown together
by the iron stitchers-every attitude Of
the men swaying their bodies back to re-
ceive the red-hol sheet from one roller
and 10 return it through another, was an
admirable picture of power and grace.
, The grotcsque, the diablerie, Of iron
working, is practiced in the Lambsth
. Marsh casling-shop on the frst-hOor: an
! enormous apartment, sand and mould,
very like the carpet trod by the horses at
the Royal Equestrian Amphiiheaire close
: by. Underneath a part Of il, are the
loan and masonry Of which the form ot
>. the article to be cast is made; and, into
= which, the molten metal is now being
= poured from a prodigious Tipped BASIN
/. This form, besides earth, sand, and brick
r. in composed of hay, dung, and othe
combustiblcs; which, when the moltel
metal is run into it, generates a gas tina
would inevitably blow the mould and th
If men through the roof, if il had no vent
A. Tubes, therefore, convey it to the sdr
face, where il is lighted buring i
.r strong, blue, unearthly jets that dim th
- other lights, and cast diabolical hue upo
n, the faces Of the Mulcihers. upon the fl
\ of travelling cranes which support ii
n cauldron, by which it IS passed from Il
.n cylindrical melting furnaces, and, if nees
90 ed, from one end Of the shop to the othe
- Bright and lively sparks fly OFF from Il
.a mouth Of the mould as it kinks IN ii
ha white liquid fire, with a force and pr
fusion that no display Of fireworks couI
.r surpass. The whole scene is 50 gri
Il and hot, and pandemonical, that 4 stranl
Of err suddenly coming on il from the OUT
nd world, could hardly help inquiring, Ill
itb Macbeth, of the intelligent, grim. pc
bic spring artisans energetieally puddlir
w down the molten metal at various ope
etc ings Of the mould
on. Ye black and midnight hays shat isl ys do
5 The answer to that question won
ma certainly be, Casting ten-ion stea
ike cylinder for one of Majesty's marine {
ge, gines :" OF, if the flaming eauldron ga
ul- forth a ghastly illumination OF gre
ron and yellow, and pyrple. with gaseous ,
"a halations hotter, drier, and more sufiol
ing ting, the answer would be, +" Runni
md eleven tons Of brass into the form OF
all screw propeller"