The weekly Butte record., 1863-10-31

to fortify myself, beceuse l may miss
my dinner to-day
Sir Captain Darrar =
"Let me ring for it. There, now be
seated, and III tell YOU all about it. |
was lead to it entirely by that copper
headed fellow, f. Pickett.
pickett ~
"E. Pickett, F. G. S. Hark you
Three weeks ago, Mrs. Darrar came to
me and said, Peter | replied, 'Su-
sannah.' She said, look at Bishops
clean shirt She showed me shirt
folded neatly, with its front covered
with red stains, and holes, and indent-
ations. Mercy l cried, what Is the
cause of this ? Bishop was at school
round the corner, YOU know-Hunt &
Denson's day and evening school. 1
wish to show you, Captain D., said my
old girl, Bishops linen drawer Fol
lowed my wife, looked in the drawer,
found it filed with stones and dirt. In
the drawer below that, found clay, sand
and old shells in his Sunday jacket.
Caused the dirt to be instantly carried
TO the dust hole. Further examined the
drawers in Bishops room, and under
meath all found sulphates of copper, and
a book entitled, Advanced Text ook
of Copperology, Descriptive and Indus
trious, by E. Picket, F. G. So
" That's what has done it, Peter
said Mrs. D. That's the book I've
seen him reading evenings He shall
shall read no more of it, said |. 'The
book is confscated.' When Bishop
cam home to dinner, We had great
disturbance.'
Here Darrar violently threw down the
pipe, mot the stove-pipe) and we f9lt
painfully nervous. He went on:
"'Bishop,' said l, shall never more
look on that book put it on my own
library table. l peeped into into it; l
looked into it; read bits oft; l read
more Of it; I liked it; l studied it; l
threw myself heart and soul into it; l
comprehended it ; bought a magnify
ing glass and a Lammcr-I invested in
copper claims
Here Darar caught his hammer up
and dourished 1t again. He was evi-
IDENTIFY stone mad.
"With this hammer, my boy, I break
my way into the treasury Of nature"
Here Darrar brought his hammer
down and smashed our meorschaum
pipe.
''Ah, good!" he cried, taking up
fragment. A lucky accident. Look
at the crystalline fracture. What's
here? Clay. What makes the clay
CRYSTALLINE in its fracture Fire. The
ory of the igneous roc&s. Thickness of
the ponderable crust of the globe, eight
hundred miles. Depth at which most
of the rocks ordinarily found at the
surface would exist in a molten state,
say five and twenty miles. Undercrust
Of the globe, granite. Then comes the
copper. The Frost claim has struck it.
Here's piece
Our excitable friend took from the
writing desk a handsome paper-weight
of polished stone.
Some ass of a man has polished this
fine specimen of primitive rock" With
one tap of his hammer, Darrar broke it
in two. Observe he said, "the ex-
quisite fracture"
"EXquisite-confound-"
''Never polish fine specimen. The
gvologist, my dear Jones, is most par
ticular to show you clean fracture and
nothing else. He breaks stone, and
takes pains not 50 much as to dim with
a fingers touch the brilliance of the
broken surface. Now fractures are of
various sorts, conchoidal, or shell-like,
even, uneven, smooth, splintery, hackly.
Only look in this beautiful bit Of gran
ite, at the silyery CLEANS Of the mica
and the suety bits Of quarts speckling
like the solid padding of the felspar.-
Quartz IS, Of simple minerals, one Of
the hardest. l knock out a little chip