The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1871-05-10
BORO. S. c., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 10, 1871,

Mhh ."o'n' !ou KNOW the eEeat CT
Tort OF painters Is to discover mkt
ure that won't fade. Page, of New
York, our great portrait painter spent
twelve years in Venice to find out how
Titan mixed his paints. lie thinks
he has, s,discpvered it.
Sir Joshua Reynolds, of London,
in George the thirds time, was ever
last'ngly engaged IN tho same expert
nment ana II you see IN England to.
Gay hohore4 Portra.ts py or . oshua,
at ieast TWO thiras OF them Will nave
iaded out' thelr Ups sharp one check
,ett II was oad mixture: NOW, 60
look 10 haPhaei' lie has peen III his
grave TWO hunured years Ihe hrst
,no"ght you hsNc IN looking Mt ono OF
us cah'a>ses - 't cant nave been
painted hVc years that Is fresh, that
Is modern. bnf nc IS only boy,
though he has been dead three ccntn-
RES Tor you may 90 down INTO that
S"oterranean palace which Nero built
'enca'h home to shelter hun from its
neat; Inc Danquettlng hnll IS two
,mrus as longas tn'S, ana about as
h,gn' ana It's nuted ceillng Is covered
az over win 'anclfTl designs IN rnr-
pie ana crimson 1t has been iilled
up WIN carth lor hundreds OF years
md cleared out within this century,
hut as the guide holds up the torches
the oolors of the rainbow actually
iame down and yet st. Paul may
have looked up at that same roof. Or
you may 60 into the museum, and
they will show you piece Of stucco
twice as large as that clock desk. 1t
is tho face of Cleopatra with whom
julius Cmsar fell in love; and her
lips are as rcd as when he. laid the
world at her foet. There is tic face
OF an Egyptian princess with whom
Solomon might have talked.
| That buried city of which ] spoke
Is stucco city. All the walls arc
covered with stucco. There is what
the Bible calls Tyrian purple. The
Tyrian purple of the old Testament
is what we call scarlet. You know
mono OF; our words represent tho same
coloro that they used than FOR. IN
deed, yon may not be aware that the
present French theory ia that six hun
dred years ago, the European oye
could NOT distinguish blue. 1t. y
still uncertain whether Roman
couid distinguished blue, as we call
IL TO. Day: at any rate the ancient
walls OF rompeil have been covered
up sixteen hundred years. and a great
'oresI gre" ABOVE tue buried city F.;
yet shoVoi away inc ashes, and color
nashes out ms frcsh ns the last SILK
IRON Lyons: SIR humphrey Davy
TOOK some OF 1t home TO England, and
spent three weeks trying to analyzo
the color, and gave 1t up. l really
think these old savages actually knew
how TO: mix paint a I'm ost as we'll as
we 40 Indeed, huskln, tho great
""tnority on TINS top'c' lecturing to
"h auoialce OF painters, twenty years
ag'' ''pointlng to catholic mosaic paint
ing, on. marble, SAID ""Me cannot
make scarlet Ike that, ana II wc could
IL would not last twenty years, and
tha' IS hSe h"naroo years ola' put
more remarkablo than that, color
! wh'Gh was taken from an Egyptian
tomb where 1t had been buried more
Man Zooo years. was ground and
mixed IN their presence, and when
spread upon the canvas exhibited all
its original brillla,ncy' The French
inan says am tne pest 1yor IN inc
~o' "a j. 'out take nm to tho vale OF
Cashmere where the g'rls make shaWls
wog,h MY Thousand dollars oaoh'
ana inc t9reada arc so hno ana dolicate
~ colored that tho worthy soul not only
cannot make them, put cannot distln,
g"1'n mem ln fo%e' ~ IS sald ,hat
Jew WIZ arrange colofs more mar III,
mohious'y than tho pest leaiiah' Ihe
=. Story ID 'o'o OF p'cc" ot iaco th"1
ssPrea0 upon 'no grass cannot DC seen
II oe% mas deposlted altef IL was
Placco.